[ic] problem with images for buttons in account.html

Mark Bryant mark at vwe.net
Fri Dec 19 13:37:24 EST 2003


At 17:57 19/12/2003, you wrote:
>At 05:24 PM 12/19/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>>At 16:54 19/12/2003, you wrote:
>>>At 12:17 AM 12/19/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>>>>Hi Folks,
>>>>
>>>>I'm working on account.html and I'm trying to use images in pace of the 
>>>>standard buttons as provided by the browser. I'm using IC 4.8.7 and 
>>>>Perl 5.6.1 under Linux.
>>>>
>>>>At the moment I have the "save account info" button as an image and the 
>>>>"save and checkout" button as a standard submit button using the 
>>>>following working code as found on the google archives:
>>>>
>>>><INPUT TYPE="image" VALUE="Save Acct. Info" 
>>>>src="__THEME_IMG_DIR__saveaccountinfo_button.gif" border=0 name="mv_click">
>>>>
>>>>[if items]
>>>>   [set Save and Checkout]mv_nextpage=ord/checkout[/set]
>>>>&nbsp;<INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT VALUE="Save and Checkout" NAME=mv_click>
>>>>[/if]
>>>>
>>>>I've tried using the following code on the INPUT tag for the "save and 
>>>>checkout" button to use an image, but it doesn't work and I end up with 
>>>>a search results page when clicked. As a side issue the user data in 
>>>>the form isn't being saved either when the image is used.
>>>>
>>>>[if items]
>>>>   [set Save and Checkout]mv_nextpage=ord/checkout[/set]
>>>>&nbsp;<INPUT TYPE=image VALUE="Save and Checkout" 
>>>>src="__THEME_IMG_DIR__checkout_button.gif" NAME=mv_click>
>>>>[/if]
>>>>
>>>>I can't work out why this doesn't work, or why I end up on a search 
>>>>page. Does anyone have any ideas what I'm missing or of another way to 
>>>>achieve this? I've looked at using the [button][/button] IC tag, but 
>>>>all attempts with that have also failed.
>>>>
>>>>Many thanks in advance
>>>>
>>>>Mark
>>>
>>>The [button] tag would be the correct way to handle this, and it should 
>>>get the job done.
>>>
>>>
>>>- Ed L.
>>
>>Hi Ed,
>>
>>Thanks for your reply.
>>
>>As I said above I've tried various flavours of the [button] tag with 
>>little success :(
>>
>>Would it be possible to give me a working example that I can tweak?
>>
>>Many thanks
>>
>>Mark
>
>You need to add 'name=account_change' to the opening <form ...> tag. Then 
>all you need is:
>
>[if items]
>   [button
>                   name="mv_click"
>                   src="__THEME_IMG_DIR__checkout_button.gif"
>                   text="Save and Checkout"
>                   hidetext=1
>                   form=account_change
>           ]
>                   mv_nextpage=ord/checkout
>           [/button]
>
>   <br><br>
>   <A HREF="[area ord/checkout]">[L]No change, go to checkout[/L]</A>
>[/if]
>
>
>Note that the [set Save and Checkout]...[/set] is no longer needed.
>
>- Ed L.

Ed, you're a star!

Although the button code you've given is exactly the same as what I'd come 
with, the missing component in all this was the name="account_change" in 
the HTML <FORM....> tag.

I guess it helps if IC knows which form to handle :)

Many thanks

Mark







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