Bug #17897 Updated: POST form variables are empty

ID: 17897 Updated by: philip@php.net Reported By: hofmann@isl.org -Status: Bogus +Status: Open -Bug Type: Apache2 related +Bug Type: Apache related Operating System: Linux PHP Version: 4.2.1 New Comment: Confirmed designer_7@yahoo.com example, of action="foo/" vs action="foo", and lost POST values for the latter. With Apache1 and GET working both ways. I'm not sure about the apache2/post bug. Is this a php-dev, phpdoc, or apache bug? Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-07-08 19:51:42] designer_7@yahoo.com I believe I can reproduce this problem. However, if I am correct, I don't know if this is "intended" to be or if it should be considered a bug with PHP4 or Apache. suppose you have a file http://server/somedir/index.php and you've configured apache to use index.php for the index page. if your form looks like: <form action="http://server/somedir/" method="post"> it DOES WORK. However if you have a form like: <form action="http://server/somedir" method="post"> Even though Apache knows to pull up the /server/somedir/index.php page, the POST variables don't make it to the page and $_POST is completely empty. If using GET, both forms above work fine, i.e., http://server/somedir/?key1=val1&key2=val2 and http://server/somedir?key1=val1&key2=val2 behave identically. Would this be considered an Apache problem then? Or does it have something to do with PHP4 interaction with Apache? I don't know where this should be fixed... but I struggled with this for a several days and this is my finding. Hope it's of some value... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-06-21 08:57:44] hofmann@isl.org This bug is well known and has been reported earlier! But as it seems it has been removed from the databse, maybe it was not possible to make it Apache 2 related! The information reported is enough - I am sure you can do a small test yourself: <form method="post" action="test.php"> <input type="text" name="test" value="123" /> <input type="submit" name="submit"> </form> test.php <?php echo ":" . $_POST["test"] . ":"; ?> there is no result echoed! Just fix it - because I don't want to report this a third time - others have reported this also! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-06-21 08:44:52] cynic@php.net Not enough information was provided for us to be able to handle this bug. Please re-read the instructions at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php If you can provide more information, feel free to add it to this bug and change the status back to "Open". Thank you for your interest in PHP. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-06-21 08:40:57] hofmann@isl.org The POST[] and REQUEST[] arrays are missing all fields from the HTML Post form - Tested with Apache 2.0.39 GET works fine! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=17897&edit=1