POST being destroyed?

condoug

I am building a small site (or trying to!) and my index.php page is actually an include file which is included by every page on my site. My index page initially detects different POSTS from different scripts and runs some redirects based on the rules I have written which works great so far when the POST action of my forms are set to be action="/" as you would expect.

However, I have a new page now that has a form, again it includes the index.php file at the top of the script but I have set the form action to be the path to this script via the URL as such:

action="/path/to/script"

At ths top of this script I have created some POST detection script but it never seems to be executed:


if (!empty($_POST['searchbox'])) {
 // do something
}

Why is this? What am I missing here??

Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you.

condoug

I found what i believe to be causing the problem. I had this bit of code in my index.php script..

	
if (preg_match('/(\/searching)/',$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],$matches)) {
		include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/searching.php');
		exit();
}

..which includes my searching.php script if the URL contains a specific word.

Off the back off this, can I ask, does this bit of code therefore destroy and POST data because when it was running, I could not echo any POST variables from my form.

Thanks for any advice.

NogDog

By itself that code does nothing to $_POST. If the preg_match() returns true, however, we have no idea what the searching.php file that it includes might be doing. Then after it does the include, it does an exit(), so no further code in the script would be executed after that point.