Problem with form-posted characters

lemming_ie

Hey guys,

I have php 4.2.3 installed (register_globals "off" as per default installation), and I'm having some very strange issues with php's form behaviour.

If I put in the '+' character as part of a string, and then attempt to echo the variable output after the form has been submitted, the '+' is missing and has been substituted with a white-space character.

Since I'm trying to validate passwords (alphanumeric, upper/lower, etc. - eg. "aB($2+q!" ) this is a rather serious problem. I have had no problems under any previous versions of php and the code is the same as in previous installs.

here's the code:

<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit']))
{
        echo "Code: ".$_POST['gmscode']."\n<br>\n" ;
        echo "Pwd: ".$_POST['gmspwd']."\n<br>\n" ;
}
?>
<html> 

.....

<form name="test" action="<? echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] ; ?>" method="post">
        <b>Code: </b><input type="text" name="gmscode" size="20">
        <br>
        <b>Pwd: </b><input type="password" name="gmspwd" size="30">
        <br>
        <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Test">
        <input type="reset" name="reset" value="Reset">
</form>

...

</html>

Anyone got any idea how to fix this or do a work-around? 😕

dalecosp

Do you have the 'magic_quotes' setting the same as in your old install? Sounds like something is getting encoded strangely, slashed, urlencoded, magic_quotes, something....

HTH?

lemming_ie

Originally posted by dalecosp
Do you have the 'magic_quotes' setting the same as in your old install? Sounds like something is getting encoded strangely, slashed, urlencoded, magic_quotes, something....

HTH?

Unfortunately, I'm flying "slightly" blind as regards my old install.

I only managed to transfer the app. files to the current machine before the existing machine's hard-drive crapped out on me, so I had no chance to check the phpinfo on it 🙁

surfer

I tested your code with PHP 4.2.3 and it is working well. Here is how the configuration looks like

magic_quotes_gpc On
magic_quotes_runtime Off

Hope it helps
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