strange problem with forms

Anon

i'm facing what i consider to be a strange problem with html forms:

I have 2 pages with html forms on both.
on the first page a user input data and the info is passed to the second page.the form on the second page has it's action set to itself and the variables from page 1 are used for an sql inset query.
The problem is:
The form on the second page will only work if the action on the first page is set to 'get'.the form on page 2 has an action="post".
anyone any ideas.I used <?php echo($HTTP_POST_VARS)?> everwhere and got 'array'.
what the hell is the problem.
thanx in advance

Anon

Well, the reason you got 'Array' when you echo'ed $HTTP_POST_VARS is because $HTTP_POST_VARS is an array containing all of the posted variables. Try the following:

while(list($key, $value) = each($HTTP_POST_VARS))
echo "$key: $value<BR>";

that should show a list with the variable name: value for each of your posted variables. You then access these simply through $(variablename), for example, you need the info posted from a text box called "mytextbox", simply type echo $mytextbox ... this is basic stuff but I'm not sure if you were understanding it. Hope that helps!

Chris King

Anon

Or try the print_r() function.

Anon

thanks chris and agt,
I used to use asp but have recently moved to php(which i like a lot).I do know most of the basic stuff.I solved my problem by adding an extra page which the second form pointed to.I'm not sure why but it worked.
thanx again.