_POSTnot working??

chrissyperry

Hi .. I'm really new to PHP but I've done a ton of research and I can't seem to find the answer to WHY the _POST is NOT working?? It keeps returning empty values.

The HTML for the form is as follows:

--register.php--
<html><body>
<form id="signup" method="post" action="signup.php"> 
  <p>Name: 
    <input type="text" name="name" id="name">
  </p>
  <p><br>
    Email: 
    <input type="text" name="mail" id="mail">
    <br>
  </p>

  <p> Click here for Enzyme Replacement Therapy 
    <input type="checkbox" name="ert" value="checked">
  </p>
  <p> Click here for Clinical Endurance Measures 
    <input type="checkbox" name="cem" value="checked">
    <br>
  </p>
  <p>
    <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Sign Up">
  </p>
</form>

</body></html>

This is the signup.php file

<?php

$username = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['mail'];
$choice1 = $_POST['ert'];

//the data
$data = "$username , $email , $experience, $choice1 \r\n"; 

//$data = file_get_contents('php://input');

//open the file and choose the mode
$fh = fopen("users.txt", "a");

fwrite($fh, $data);

//close the file
fclose($fh);

print "User Submitted";

print  $data;

?>

My data.txt file looks like this:
, , ,
, , ,

YET, the
$data = file_get_contents('php://input');

Will return :
name=Chrissy&mail=chrissy@abc.com&ert=checked&cem=checked&Submit=Sign+Up

So I know that the info is available .. but the _POST is not assigning it to the variables ... so I can't parse it out with commas..

ANY suggestions? My thought is that perhaps something is not right in the php.ini file ... but I'm not sure what to look for?

I'm running this client side using TinyWeb and php version 5.2.1 on Windows 7.

thanks in advance .. I've been banging my head against the wall for a week and can't seem to figure it out!

NogDog

First thing is to see what's actually in $POST, so you know whether it's really a $POST problem or something in your code.

<?php
echo "<pre>".print_r($_POST, true)."</pre>";

chrissyperry

Thank you for responding ..

This is what is shown:

Array
(
)

So I'm guessing .. that the post is not getting anything?

NogDog

Try the same thing with $GLOBALS instead of $_POST, and let's see what that has to say about things.

chrissyperry

Oh my ... quite a bit of info ... 🙂

Array
(
    [GLOBALS] => Array
 *RECURSION*
...
    [_POST] => Array
        (
        )

[_GET] => Array
    (
    )

[_COOKIE] => Array
    (
    )

...
    [_ENV] => Array
        (
        )

[_FILES] => Array
    (
    )

[_REQUEST] => Array
    (
    )

[username] => 
[email] => 
[choice1] => 
)

But still lookes like the fields are being returned empty....

(Edited to remove data you might not want people to see. ~ NogDog)

NogDog

I think we've confirmed that (a) PHP is not receiving the form data and (b) you are not running an archaic version of PHP from before it started using $_POST. Off-hand, I don't know of any PHP configuration issues that would cause this. Probably the next thing I'd do is run the form page through the HTML validator to make sure there isn't some typo or malformed mark-up in the HTML that might be causing the problem.

bradgrafelman

Maybe try using something other than TinyWeb as your webserver, e.g. Apache?

EDIT: Also, out of curiosity, can you do the same thing with the $_SERVER array and post the output here?

NogDog

bradgrafelman;10980424 wrote:
Maybe try using something other than TinyWeb as your webserver, e.g. Apache?

EDIT: Also, out of curiosity, can you do the same thing with the $_SERVER array and post the output here?

FYI, The $_SERVER stuff was originally included with the $GLOBALS data, but I deleted it as a lot of it had user name info and such it it. (I didn't notice anything weird in it, but I didn't look really closely at it, either.)

bradgrafelman

I was mostly interested in what $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] had to say.

Derokorian

FYI when I put the form on my server as is, and just print the $_POST array it works just fine, so i would suggest downloading and installing WAMP http://www.wampserver.com/ and seeing if it still doesn't work.

johanafm

I'd have a look at the variables_order setting in php.ini

http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.predefined.php wrote:
If certain variables in variables_order are not set, their appropriate PHP predefined arrays are also left empty.

More about ini directives.

chrissyperry

YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY! Wampserver was the magic trick!! THANK YOU so much ... I've been going back and forth with this and now it is working ...

THANK YOU!!!!!!!