Laravel Request facade isn't detecting multiple submit buttons - laravel

Question

I have two submit buttons within a form, and I need to detect which one is used to trigger a certain action. Unfortunately, my check isn't detecting which submit button was clicked:
Form:
<button type="submit" name="complete">
<span class="btn-label">
<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-save"></i>
</span> Submit Audit
</button>
<button type="submit" name="pending">
<span class="btn-label">
<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-save"></i>
</span> Save Audit
</button>
Controller:
public function updateAudit(Request $request, $id)
{
....
if ($request->has('complete')) {
$auditCompleteCheck->completed = 1;
$auditCompleteCheck->save();
}
}
If I output $request, I can see the complete submit button as: "complete" => "", and similarly with pending: "pending" => "".
But, if I dd($request->has('complete'));, it always returns false, even though I can see it in the request bag.
Why isn't the ->has check working?
Many thanks.

Answer 1

Try setting the same value for the attribute name for both button elements and a different value for the attribute value.
HTML part:
<button type="submit" name="submit_audit" value="complete">
<span class="btn-label">
<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-save"></i>
</span> Submit Audit
</button>
<button type="submit" name="submit_audit" value="pending">
<span class="btn-label">
<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-save"></i>
</span> Save Audit
</button>
Now in your controller, you can do the following:
if ($request->submit_audit === 'complete') {
// Do something
}
if ($request->submit_audit === 'pending') {
// Do something else
}