so looks like _POST vars don't come through an ErrorDocument - YUCK - help

sfullman

in my .htaccess file I have our old friend:

ErrorDocument 404 /appliction_404.php

I have a file with a form, whose action is to a VIRTUAL file, and for reasons I won't get into, I have to do it that way. In other words

Again, process_page.php doesn't exist, but instead it is picked up by application_404.php.

the problem is that the _POST collection is gone!

I am running PHP5 with PHPSuExec, when I print out globals I see this var:

REDIRECT_REQUEST_METHOD] => POST

but again, there IS no post showing in globals.

Is there any way around this - quite frankly I am disappointed in PHP as I have been in needing flash to upload a file with a progress bar - does anyone know how to overcome this one?

Thanks,
Samuel

bradgrafelman

I haven't tested this, but have you tried opening and reading "php://input" to see if the POST data is still there? See this manual page for more information: [man]wrappers.php[/man].

sfullman wrote:
for reasons I won't get into, I have to do it that way.

Sure you don't want to get into them? :p Is there really no way around this, e.g. you can't use mod_rewrite to redirect requests to a valid PHP script?

EDIT:

sfullman wrote:
quite frankly I am disappointed in PHP as I have been in needing flash to upload a file with a progress bar

Well you don't need flash (you could use jQuery, for example; try Google searches such as "php upload progress apc" or "php upload progress jquery" or "php upload progress ajax" etc.), but you do need some sort of client-side scripting done, simply because PHP is a server-side language. Being disappointed in PHP for that reason is like being disappointed in a can opener because it doesn't compose catchy Jazz songs.

EDIT2: Also, if the POST data isn't in $_POST or "php://input" (might check "php://stdin" too, if for some reason it ends up there instead), then I would hazard to say that the culprit isn't PHP, it's your webserver (or your file hierarchy/design :p). This wouldn't surprise me, really... if you're redirecting a user to an error document because their requested target for processing the data wasn't found, why should you (the webserver) have to pass around the data?