Fellow Monks,

I beg for a favour again. I am learning cgi, and have created a few forms at this stage, and everything seems alright, but I've hit a problem. I know its possible to have two buttons in a cgi form 

$co->submit(-name=>'edit', -value=>'edit'),
$co->submit(-name=>'preview', -value=>'preview'),

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At the top of my script I have tried this, as suggested on some nodes: 
my $name=>$co->param('name');
if ($name eq 'edit'){
    $string="http://mywebserver/cgi-bin/edit.cgi";
    }
elsif($name eq 'preview'){
    $string="http://mywebserver/cgi-bin/preview.cgi";
    }

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And where I specify the start of the form I use this: 
$co->start_form(-method=>'POST', -action=>"$string"),

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The two buttons appear alright in the form, I was hoping that they would each call the different scripts as outlined in the if/elsif statement, but they webpage just seems to refresh. If anybody could point me in the right direction, I would appreciate it a lot.

Thanks,
Jonathan

In reply to Two cgi buttons in the same form by Anonymous Monk

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