Posted by rynato on 05/11/07 14:53

I ran into an interesting problem while working on a form:

I have a drop down list (think <form><select><option>...) of 'open
sessions' which a user can choose from to continue entering data.
There is a small bit of javascript which, when the 'onChange' event
occurs, triggers a 'submit' which reloads the page and displays the
stored values for that session using a session ID variable named,
'$existingSessions'.

Even though the form's method is set to "GET", Safari insists on
seeing this as a "POST" as a result of the javascript submit call,
while all other browsers I tested (Firefox/Mac, IE/Mac, Firefox/PC,
IE7/PC) interpret this as a "GET".

So at the top of the PHP script, $existingSessions =
$_POST['existingSessions'] will ONLY work with Safari while all other
browsers (which I tested) require $existingSessions =
$_GET['existingSessions'] in order to retrieve the values.

Has anyone else run into this issue? I handled it with a simple
HTTP_USER_AGENT request and an if...else statement. Still, I'd like to
know what's up with this! Is it just because Safari is a semi-sucky
browser?

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