Can't use METHOD="POST" with PHP

ihenman

I have a script I am installing on a particular hosting provider. It uses HTML forms to accept data input from the user and then inserts it into a MYsql database. This script works A1 on a half a dozen other hosting providers but there is trouble with this one..

Here's the issue.

You enter the info into the Form and click submit and the form just refreshes without the data in it... from a little bit of trial and error the only thing I can attribute it too is the face that the server isn't allow the form to pass the variables by METHOD=POST b/c if I change it to GET the variables show up in the URL.

ANy ideas? Could this be because GLOBALS are turned off on the server?

I'm not a big fan of using get for these scripts so would prefer using POST...also I can see issue in the future if I ever ant to collect email addy's or antyhing via a form for an auto responder.

Plasma

If this web host happens to be running IIS, make sure your form tags are properly formed.

The item to note here is that action="index.php" - You must specify a filename (not a directory, and not nothingness) for IIS to accept form POSTs.

action="?page=contact" is also invalid. It should be action="index.php?page=contact"

ihenman

PLasma

thx for the reply this is a linux based server not windows... also I did check the tags as I thought that could be causing an issue it wasn't sure what to do with the command...But long behold it was all ok (FOR ONCE my code can be horrible sometimes ;-)

Any other ideas?

Plasma

Do you happen to use $_POST['varname'] to retrieve variables? Or $varname directly?

If the latter, your right in saying the host may just have register globals off.

Either you can fix your scripts so they reference the $_POST bit, or place at the top of your file:

extract($_POST);

Which will turn $_POST['varname'] => $varname

ihenman

Thx for that...I'm referncing the variabls just $varname not $_POST['varname']

If I reference extract($POST); at the beggining of each page can I then reference the variables without the $POST in front of them?

Thx for all the help Plasma!

Plasma

Read http://www.php.net/extract

Heres a hint, you can quickly jump to the php manual page for a php function by just visiting php.net/function_name

extract($_POST);

(It returns nothing) will loop through the array and change $_POST['varname'] into $varname - Try it.

laserlight

Of course, you should try and avoid using extract() in that way as it brings back all the problems associated with register_globals

ihenman

So my longterm solution is to use $_POST['varname']