field named "email" won't post value

[Hammer65]

I'm having trouble with a form (actually several forms) in a commercial PHP based mortgage application system. The problem is that the application worked fine when first installed but since changing a few templates (smarty) and switching the site over to SSL, forms that have a field called "email" will not transfer their contents to the server. I have done some Javascript tests onsubmit to check the value before submission and the email address typed into the field appears. However when doing a print_r($_POST) the value is blank even when placing print_r at the first possible line in the script.

The weird thing is, that in order to make it work I only need to change the name to "email_address" and it works fine.

What in the world is happening here! It makes no sense to me at all but I have had to alter code for all the forms that use such a field. Has anyone heard of this happening? I know that some browsers will do this if tags are incomplete but this isn't the case here.

[thorpe]

If its a commercial application, you may want to contact the creators.

[etully]

Check to see if there is a cookie called "email". It might be getting set in some other page on your site that has nothing to do with this mortgage application.

Of course, that wouldn't explain why the value isn't in $POST. If it's not in $POST, it could be that the mortgage application is including a Javascript that alters the contents of that variable when the form is submitted.

As a very basic test, just make a simple form (outside of the mortgage app) and a simple PHP script to print_r the $_POST variable. This will confirm whether the mortgage app is interfering with the post.

Then, try posting to the mortgage app from an HTML form you built yourself.

Then trying using the mortgage's Form to post to your own simple print_r script.

By isolating each part, you should be able to get a better idea of where "email" is losing its value.