How do I use two submit buttons, and differentiate between which one was used to submit the form? [duplicate]

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Give each input a name attribute. Only the clicked input‘s name attribute will be sent to the server.

<input type="submit" name="publish" value="Publish">
<input type="submit" name="save" value="Save">

And then

<?php
    if (isset($_POST['publish'])) {
        # Publish-button was clicked
    }
    elseif (isset($_POST['save'])) {
        # Save-button was clicked
    }
?>

Edit: Changed value attributes to alt. Not sure this is the best approach for image buttons though, any particular reason you don’t want to use input[type=image]?

Edit: Since this keeps getting upvotes I went ahead and changed the weird alt/value code to real submit inputs. I believe the original question asked for some sort of image buttons but there are so much better ways to achieve that nowadays instead of using input[type=image].

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