[OT] Re: HTML Form/Page and Navigation with multiple buttons

mosscliffe a écrit :
I am struggling to find a python example of the scenario - I have.

I have a python script, which generates a page with a search button
(actually an input field).

The data from the above submissions is interrogated and the same
script produces a new search option and the a page of results from the
previous search request. - as done by Google's Main search page.

The user then has the option of a new search or navigating to a
different page of results with the usual Start, Previous, Next and
Last Buttons.

How can I identify which button has been pressed. Do I need a
separate form for each button and hide all the relevant session fields
in each form or is there a way of identifying which button has been
pressed on the page.

This is not really a Python problem - would be the same with any server-side techno...
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You shouldn't use buttons for navigation, but links. The simplest solution is to pass all the relevant data into the query string (the ?key=val&key2=val2&etc=etc part of the url). In your case, this would be something like resending all the search params, and adding the current page and the action (ie 'action=next' or 'action=first' etc...)
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