ENCTYPE problem in my html forms when using php

maff63

Take a look here
http://dev.noumenaut.com/testme.php

this is the html source of the form

<body>
<form name="form1" method="post" action="testscript.php" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input name="testtext" type="text" value="type some text in me to echo" size="35">
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
</form>
</body>

Note the enctype="multipart/form-data" tag - now if i remove it the form works. It calls a script called testscript.php and echos the text entered in the form - HOWEVER with enctype="multipart/form-data"> included no data is passed to my script and nothing gets printed out.

What is wrong - ive tried a lot of things you can see the phpinfo by going here

http://dev.noumenaut.com/phptest.php

I need to be able to include this tag since my forum uses it everywhere and at the moment its out of operation - please HELP !!

Thanks

Matt

notionlogic

Can you post the code you're using to read the form data passed through?

maff63

sure the testscript.php file looks like this ...


<html>
<body>
Test script text was : <? echo $testtext; ?>
</body>
</html>

notionlogic

I would suggest that you check exactly what information is passed through...

for example:
print_r($HTTP_POST_VARS)

That should at least tell you if the information is getting passed correctly - if so then I would use the following:

<html>
<body>
Test script text was : <? echo $HTTP_POST_VARS["testtext"]; ?>
</body>
</html>

Although that still doesn't tell us why it won't come out normally! 😕

maff63

I tried your code the script is now

 <? echo $HTTP_POST_VARS["testtext"]; ?>

but it didnt work - remember that this script works if i remove the enctype tag - would be anything to do with my php.ini file and allowing uploads, or get or post or something like that ?!?

please help my site is useless without the forum :mad: - my server uses php v 4.1.2 would an upgrade sort it out ?? 🙁

notionlogic

Well that's confusing then... I just tried the following code on my server without any problems which would seem to indicate it's something to do with your server PHP config...

<?php
print_r($HTTP_POST_VARS);
?>
<HTML>
<body>
<form name="form1" method="post" action="<?php echo $PHP_SELF?>" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input name="testtext" type="text" value="type some text in me to echo" size="35">
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>

What do you get (if anything) when the code I've shown here is run on your server?

maff63

OK ive used your code and its online at

http://dev.noumenaut.com/testme.php

It still doesnt work - however - Once again removing the enctype tag it works.

I had a feeling it was to do with my php settings but what do i chnage in the ini to get it to work !?!

TRJ

I have also tried your script on my server and it works fine. I noticed that in your phpinfo, your file_uploads variable is set to "No Value". Mine is set to "1".

Maybe this is the problem?