Hello. I making a buddy list feature for my website. Its a online teen community and I'd thought it would be neat to have a buddylist feature.

I have a text box, select multiple list, and 2 images. The images are submit buttons. (input type="image") One image says "add buddy" and the other one says "delete buddy." The add buddy would add that buddy typed in the text box and delete buddy would delete the buddy/ies in the list.

The form uses the POST method and action calls to buddylist.cgi.

Now how would I distinguish wether the user clicked the add buddy image to get to buddylist.cgi or delete buddy to get to buddylist.cgi? 

<select multiple size="15" style="background-color: #FFC666; color: #0
+066CC; font-family: verdana,geneva,courier; font-size: 12;" name="bud
+dies">
EOF

open(IsF, "<$buddyfile");
@buddylist = <IsF>;
close(IsF);
foreach $buddylist (@buddylist) {
chomp $buddylist;
print "<option value=\"$buddylist\">$buddylist</option>"; 
}

print <<EOF;
</select><br>
<input type="text" value="" name="buddyname"><br>

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<input type="image" src="http://www.teen-reality.com/images/manav/bl/a
+ddbuddy.jpg" name="bloption" value="add">
<input type="image" src="http://www.teen-reality.com/images/manav/bl/d
+eletebud.jpg" name="bloption" value="delete">

[download]
</form>
EOF

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Thats the form printed out from the CGI.
I tried this for the PERL code to distinguish wether the user wants to add or delete a buddy. 

$bloption = $INPUT{'bloption');


if ($bloption eq "add") {etc.
}
else {
delete buddy}

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In reply to two submit buttons in a form by perleager

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