Problem with Post method

BadAzz

After hours of surgfing the forums I finally decided to ask myself.

My problem is:

Form variables transmitted by POST method will not work. the variables remain empty on the page they are sent to. And I do use the $_POST['variableName'] to retrieve them. GET seemes to work fine.

I know had this thing working before, but since my IIS decided to crash on me and failed to start again, I had to reinstall lots of stuff.

My system is:

WinXP, apache, MySql, PHP 4.2.3.
I have registered_globals set to off, and it won't help if I set it on (it shouldn't help, I know).

This is my home pc and I run the site on localhost.

Here is some example code.

once I submit the form, it goes to search.php but
$_POST['search'] remains empty.

Thanks for your time.

cyclops

eehhhrm

should be :
<form name=quickSearch action=search.php method=POST>

POST and GET method need to be written in UPPERCASE in your form-tag

BadAzz

Doesn't that post/get only determine how the data is sent to the receiving page and thus it is language independent. When coding ASP it does not matter whether method is written upper case or lower case. Anyways I went and tried that and it did not solve my problem.

thanks for the try anyways.

tsinka

Hi,

this might be a bug in php 4.2.3. But it might be solveable. Or you might try the latest php release.

What apache version do you use ? How did you set up httpd.conf and php.ini ?

BadAzz

Apache version seemes to be 1.3.27.

I downloaded a packet called phpdev423 if I remember right. I installed it and copied the php.ini (the one for winxp users) to my system directory aca c:\windows.

httpd.conf I am unfamiliar with. I am gonna check it out.

What concerns me is that I am pretty sure my code did work a few weeks ago.

TruckStuff

try the following code on your target page and see what happens:

foreach ($_POST as $name=>$value)
  echo "$name = $value<br>";

If you don't get anything from this code, THEN you have a problem.