Form POST and GET problem w/ PHP4.0.0???

[Anon]

Is this a bug? or a problem on my part.

I have a form ...
<form method="post" action="/whereru/searchw.php>
<input type="text" name="lname" size="35">
<input type="SUBMIT" value="Search" name="lookup">
<br>
<input type="radio" name="ncp" value="1" checked>
books, or
<input type="radio" name="ncp" value="2">
magazines</form>

the PHP script checkes to see if the submit button is clicked and processes a script.

e.g. if( $lookup ) { do stuff }

Problem is I have to click on the Submit button twice to see a result when the method is POST.

Just for debugging purposes i changed POST to GET, and experienced the same problem. However, i noticed that the submit button value was not present in the URL after the first click of the button but all the other variables were there. On the second click the submit button value appeared.

Can anyone shed some light on this. i have spent the past couple weeks trying to figure this out.

I've read all the posts on the mailing list but cannot find a problem similar to this.

My config
Apache 1.3.12
PHP 4.0.0
MySQL 3.23.32
Linux 6.2

Seeking any help possible.
David

[Anon]

you have to click twice??? hmm, thats a new thing to me.

but anyway, you are declaring the submit button to be, name=lookup and value=Search. but of course its still a submit action, anyway, i am not sure if it will detect that just by using if($submit) { ... }

try doing,
if ($lookup="Search") {
...
}

that will work, as i am using it too. if you have a button, with name=submit, then only if($submit) {} is fine.

and secondly also do close the ""'s at the end of the ACTION tag in the FORM, wouldnt make any difference, but its always good to have everything in order 🙂

regards,
Daarius...

[Anon]

I have the same problem.

For example, I have this form:

<form name=form1 method=post action=result.php>

<input type=text name=text1 size=10 maxlength=10>

</form>

and the code of result.php is...

<?
echo "The variable submitted is: ".$text1;

if ( !isset($text1) ) 
   echo "Why \$text1 is NOT set???";

?>

$text1 is an undefined value in my PHP. Do you understand why????

My configuration in this work is really complex...

I'm using...

Microsoft Windows 2000 Advance Server
PHP 4
DB2

[Please... forgive my english and W2K+PHP+DB2 =)

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