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Posted by Leon Poon on 01/10/05 04:36
When you access /foo, the server will redirect the client to /foo/ (because
it is a directory). At the redirected page, the post data will not be sent
again by the browser thus there are no _POST values.
Try using action="/foo/". That may work.
----- Original Message -----
From: "James (IFMS)" <jamesk@ifm-services.com>
To: <php-general@lists.php.net>
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 10:04 AM
Subject: [PHP] PHP form POST question
>I just narrowed something down about forms and POST and would like
>education. In the following scenarios, all work except #4. $_POST is null.
>Why is that?
>
> Setup:
> 1) Running on localhost
> 2) /foo/index.php has the following:
> <? var_dump($_POST); var_dump($_GET); ?>
> 3) /index.php contends vary per scenario (below)
>
> Running RHEL 3, all updates (PHP 4.3.2).
>
> SCENARIO 1:
> /index.php contains the following:
>
> <form method="get" action="/foo/index.php">
> <input name="foobutton" type="submit">
> </form>
>
> In this case in /foo/index.php $_GET has the right value, i.e.
> array('foobutton' => '');
>
> SCENARIO 2:
> /index.php contains the following:
>
> <form method="get" action="/foo">
> <input name="foobutton" type="submit">
> </form>
>
> In this case in /foo/index.php $_GET has the right value, i.e.
> array('foobutton' => '');
>
> SCENARIO 3:
> /index.php contains the following:
>
> <form method="post" action="/foo/index.php">
> <input name="foobutton" type="submit">
> </form>
>
> In this case in /foo/index.php $_POST has the right value, i.e.
> array('foobutton' => '');
>
> SCENARIO 4:
> /index.php contains the following:
>
> <form method="post" action="/foo">
> <input name="foobutton" type="submit">
> </form>
>
> In this case in /foo/index.php $_POST is NULL.
>
> HUH? Why is $_POST empty? Is Apache doing something to kill the form's
> post information when it has to resolve /foo to /foo/index.php?
>
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