Two buttons into same form

Question

I'm writing a form and this is its structure:

HTML:

<form method="post" action="script.php">
    <input type="text" name="nombre" >
    <input type="submit">
    <input type="submit">
</form>

PHP:

<?php
    if(isset($_POST))
    $options = array();
    $options[] = "";
    // here I use the value input in "name" text input, 
    // so I need to get it from the form
    for ($i=0;$i<=count($buscar)-1;$i++) {
        $options[] = "<option value='{$i}'>{$dato}</option>";
    }
    echo '<select class="" id="articles" size="1" name="articles">';
    echo implode("\n", $options);
    echo '</select>';
?>

Is there any way to tell the first submit to let the php be executed (because it creates a select item)?
Then, when the select is selected, click on the second submit and send the complete form?

possible duplicate of [One form with two submit buttons and different actions for each button](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14765170/one-form-with-two-submit-buttons-and-different-actions-for-each-button) — ctwheels, Aug 26 '14 at 21:35

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 26 '14 at 21:34

You can do in two ways:

Different Naming:

<input type="submit" name="sub1" />
<input type="submit" name="sub2" />

And you can check it using:

isset($_REQUEST["sub1"])
isset($_REQUEST["sub2"])

Passing Value:

<input type="submit" name="sub" value="Submit Here" />
<input type="submit" name="sub" value="Submit There" />

And you can check it using:

($_REQUEST["sub"] == "Submit Here")
($_REQUEST["sub"] == "Submit There")

Two buttons into same form

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