$POST Problems

[SFDonovan]

I broke this out from my index.php that used to be within a function and made a separate question.php

Here is what I have.

//Save Question
if ($op == "SaveQuestion") {

$title = $_POST['title'];

if (isset($_POST['title']) && !empty($_POST['title'])) {   

	echo"Question has been saved";
}else {
    echo "<h1>Uh Oh! I think you have a problem!</h1>";
}

$sql = $db->sql_query("SELECT * FROM comment_queue WHERE cid = '$cid'"); 
while ($row = $db->sql_fetchrow($sql)) {
	$title = stripslashes(check_html($row['title'], 'nohtml'));
	$comment_text = stripslashes(check_html($row['comment_text'], 'nohtml'));
	}  

	OpenTable();   

echo "<form method=\"POST\" action=\"" .$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] ."\">\n";       

    echo "<b>Title:</b><br />"
        ."<input type=\"text\" name=\"title\" size=\"50\" maxlength=\"80\" value=\"$title\" /><br />"   

    	. "<b>Text:</b>You can use HTML to format your question.<br />"
        ."<textarea cols=\"50\" rows=\"15\" style=\"background:#EFEFEF\" name=\"comment_text\">$comment_text</textarea><br />";   

    echo "<p>If you included any URLs or html, be sure to double check them for typos.</p>"
        ."<p>Allowed HTML:<br />"
        ."</p>"
		."<p>";
    while (list($key,) = each($AllowableHTML)) echo ' &lt;'.$key.'&gt;';
 	echo "</p>";  

		echo"<br>";
		echo"<a href=\"question.php?op=DeleteQuestion&cid=$cid\">Delete</a>";
		echo"<br>";
		echo"<a href=\"question.php?op=PreviewQuestion&cid=$cid\">Preview</a>";
		echo"<br>";
		echo"<a href=\"question.php?op=SaveQuestion&cid=$cid\">Save</a>";
		echo"<br>";	
		echo "<input name=\"cid\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"$cid\" />";								
    	echo "</form>";			
    CloseTable();  	  

It is a simple enough form that I have had many problems with.

I could not read anything out of the $_POST array

As you can imagine all I get back is --

Uh Oh! I think you have a problem!

Envirnoment is a MAC OSX server running PHP Version 4.4.4 with registered_globals off

[laserlight]

To test, try something even simpler, e.g.

<?php
if (isset($_POST['submit'], $_POST['title'])) {
    $title = trim($_POST['title']);
    if (strlen($title) > 0) {
        echo '<h1>' . htmlspecialchars($title) . '</h1>';
    }
}
?>
<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post">
Title: <input type="text" name="title" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>

[SFDonovan]

laserlight wrote:

To test, try something even simpler, e.g.

Your example works like a charm. Just have to figure out why mine wont.

[SFDonovan]

Anybody have any idea why this wont work. I've stared at it for days now. I've got opening and closing form tags and form elements such as

name=\"comment_text\">

and

name=\"title\">

but neither get put into the $_POST array.

I really need help as I'm supposed to show this to my boss on Monday.

I really didn't think coding with registered globals off would be that big of deal.

[i-keng]

1st Debugging you can use this way

echo "<pre>".print_r($_POST)."</pre>"; 

to debugging your $_POST variable

if you don't see anything, you can use $REQUEST in place of $POST and try again..

[SFDonovan]

Using

 echo "<pre>".print_r($_POST)."</pre>";

returns

1

Array ( )

[Weedpacket]

The only form elements your form contains are a text field, a text area, and a hidden field; there's nothing that actually submits the form.