Make A Form Handle Two Submit Buttons

One of the things that amazed me is the creativity in programming..!!

Whatever someone take you on, you can come up with better idea, how? Here is a question, how can I use two submit buttons on my form to be processed with php.

Simple! I will go straight to the answer...!!

Assuming your form looks like this,

<form action="register.php" method="post" class="login_form">     

    <div class="login_form_input_container">   
      <label for="email" class="login_form_label">Email</label>
      <input type="email" id="email" name="email" class="login_form_input">
    </div>

    <div class="login_form_input_container">  
      <label for="password" class="login_form_label">Password</label>
      <input type="password" id="password" name="password" class="login_form_input">
    </div>

    <a href="forgot_password/" class="forgot_password_link">Forgot password?</a>

    <input type="submit" id="login_submit" name="login_submit" value="Log In" class="login_form_submit">

    <input type="submit" id="register_submit" name="register_submit" value="Register" class="login_form_submit">

  </form>

 As we can see, it contains two form submit buttons; 

 Then on your php, why can't you just have

<?php

    if (isset($_POST['login_submit'])) {
         require 'login.php';
    } elseif (isset($_POST['register_submit'])) {
        require 'register.php';
    } 

?>

The first form submit button will use the if statement and the second form submit 

can now use the elseif block of code.

oOch..!! We just solve an headache with 5 lines of code..

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