Posted by Jon Pike on 09/03/06 09:36

Andy Hassall <andy@andyh.co.uk> wrote in
news:m5vjf2pdso3jflg4sefea1cm0nsm7f8j7b@4ax.com:

> On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 20:07:21 GMT, Jon Pike <anonomoose@spamless.com>
> wrote:
>
>>if test.php is this file:
>>
>><?php
>> $lang = $_POST["lang"];
>> print $lang;
>>?>
>><form method=post action=test.php>
>><input type=image src=engFlag.jpg name="lang" value=en>
>><input type=image src=fraFlag.jpg name="lang" value=fr>
>></form>
>>
>>Why won't it print $lang; after having one of the images clicked?
>
> Does here on Firefox.
>
> But on Internet Explorer it only posts "lang_x" and "lang_y" for the
> coordinates of the click.
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.4.1
>
> The "." from the standard is transformed by PHP into "_".
>
> IE's behaviour here is very unhelpful, and probably a violation of
> the
> standard; it says the x and y are included in the submitted data, but
> doesn't say to eliminate the original name/value pair.
>

Ah, very clear, thank you!

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