Submit form to php function.

[President Obama]

Is it possible to link action in the form to a function thats included from a functions file? Like so:

 
        <form action="<?php add($text); ?>" >
        <input type="text" name="text"   />
        <input type="submit" />
        </form>

What I want to do is add a block of text to the database. The add function does that. So ideas? I have like 9 of these forms on the same page they all do different things though but all involve modify the database.

[PFMaBiSmAd]

The action="" attribute is the URL that the form data will be submitted to. Forms only exist in the browser/client and the only thing the client can do is make HTTP/HTTPS requests to the server. You cannot 'call' php functions from the browser.

 

You would need to specify, either by using completely different URLs/pages for each different operation, a GET parameter on the end of one URL, or using a hidden form field value what you want the php code to do when the form is submitted to whatever URL you put into the action="" attribute.

[President Obama]

So could I say, put a hidden value on each form, then have the action go to another page which then checks that value and assigns the appropriate function to that form?