Posting from a form w/php 4.2.1

nigel_belanger

Ok, Register_Globals=off - I'm new to the whole $HTTP{GPC THINGS}VARS scene

My forms do not post like they used to, what gives?

Normally, this works:

and passes the name "Login" as True. This then wil work after it sees the Login variable to be true. Now, with the new version - I don't know how to get this thing to work.

I need an example of a "POST" form using GPC's and also a reference of the GPC would be great for future reference.

Thoughts...?

Anon

in "login.php" you can refer to all of your form variables as $_POST['whatever'].

for example your submit button would be $_POST['Login'] = 'Log In'

nigel_belanger

Here is the form ('test.php')

<form action="login-test.php" method="post">
Name: <input type="Text" name="<?php $POST['login_name']; ?>" size="25">
Password: <input type="Password" name="<?php $POST['login_password']; ?>" size="25">
<input type="submit" name="<?php $_POST['submit']='submit'; ?>" value="submit">
</form>

Here is the validation page ('login-test.php')

<?php
if ($submit)
{
echo "got the login info";
} else {
echo "no login info";
}
?>

This was working fine. What is going on? Am i losing my mind?

I tried to submit the above without <?php ?> tags - not go, tried to echo them, no go - I'm just not familiar with the whole GPC thing. What are your thoughts?

Anon

Use this:

if ($_POST['submit'])
{
echo "got the login info";
} else {
echo "no login info";
}

Starting from PHP4.1.0, you don't use $HTTP{GPC}VARS anymore. Instead, you use $GET, $POST, $COOKIE, $ENV and $SERVER. It's not hard - just instead of using $age, you'd use $GET['age'] or $_POST['age'], depending on where it comes from.

Diego

Anon

I am having a similar problem: every time i use the POST method in a form, i get an error "Page not found". However if I use the GET method, the form works as it should. This seems to be a problem new to version 4.2 as I did not have it in version 4.0.4.

How do I fix it?