Posted by Berislav Lopac on 07/14/05 17:12

Dave Smithz wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> A PHP application I built has a section which lists a number of
> members to a club whose names each appear with a check box beside
> them that can be ticked.
>
> These check boxes are part of a form which amongst other submit
> buttons has a one particular submit button that if checked will send
> the form data (using GET) to a script that will email all the checked
> members.
> The client today phoned to say that when the check a few members on
> the form (only about 10 actually) and pressed the submit button it
> done nothing (In fact all submit buttons on form stop working). A can
> verify this behaviour and also note that if I reduce the amount of
> checked members I can then make the submit button work again!
>
> This is bizarre. My initial thoughts are this may be something to do
> with it being a GET post and there being a maximum length, but really
> I moved the form to a GET method because I wanted the users to be
> able to use the back button on the browser to come back to the page
> (I had trouble doing this other ways).

This is exactly what I thought. Have you even tried it with POST? Also, why
would there be a problem with POST?

Berislav

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