I have a typical Yii2 form for updating my model with a typical submit button. Next to it, I have a "Delete photo" button, that appears, if there is any photo to delete. The piece of view looks like that:
<?= Html::submitButton('Save changes', ['class' => 'btn btn-primary', 'name' => 'edit-button']) ?>
<?php $image = isset($page->photo) ? $page->photo->getImageUrl() : null; ?>
<?php if (isset($image)): ?>
<?= Html::a('Delete photo', ['delete-image', 'lab' => $lab->id, 'kind' => $page->kind], [
'class' => 'btn btn-danger',
'data' => [
'confirm' => 'Do you really want to delete this photo?',
'method' => 'post'
],
]) ?>
<?php endif; ?>
When there is a photo attached to this model and these two buttons appear next to each other, I must comment out ‘method’ => ‘post’ part in second button code. Because, if I don’t this this, the second button is… submitting the form (just like the first one) instead of calling lab/delete-image route.
This is the first thing, that I don’t understand. The entire code is either generated by Gii or copy-pasted from some Yii tutorials. Not even a bit of my invention and yet it works strangely. What am I missing?
It seems, that normal Html::a link (only styled by Twitter Bootstrap to look like a button, but not being a button at all) is submitting a form, instead of calling its action, when it contains data-method="post" attribute in element code. Is this a bug in Yii2 or am I missing something?