why the heck doesnt this work

sorak

ive been staring at it for several hours... probably something stupid.

<?
  print_r($_POST);
?>
<html>
<body>
<form name="test" method="GET" action="test.php">
  <input type="text">
  <input type="submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>

i cannot get a form to pass values using POST or GET at all. this is very frustrating as ive done this a number of times before... quite basic...

NogDog

Probably the main problem is that you need to give your input element a name attribute if you want it to show up in the $POST array. Also, make sure you use a post method if you wan to use $POST, or else $_GET if you want to use the get method.

sorak

ugh, thats it. it requires a name. i tried setting "id", to no avail. thank you. 🙂