#48890 [Com]: $_POST not working properly

From: Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:27:40 +0000
Subject: #48890 [Com]: $_POST not working properly
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ID: 48890 Comment by: sjoerd-php at linuxonly dot nl Reported By: kwoznik at poczta dot onet dot pl Status: Open Bug Type: *Programming Data Structures Operating System: vista PHP Version: 5.3.0 New Comment: Thank you for your report. I could not reproduce the bug you describe. How do you test whether $_POST is empty? Could you please provide a complete code example? Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-07-11 22:18:44] kwoznik at poczta dot onet dot pl Description: ------------ when in at least two fields of the HTML form are entered identical data and the register_globals is set to off, sending the data using method POST gives the $_POST array empty. There is no problem when the data are different. Reproduce code: --------------- <form action='login.php' method='post'> <input type=text name=login size=15 maxsize=10> <input type=password name=password size=15 maxsize=10> <input type=submit value=Login> </form> Expected result: ---------------- 1. first example as login entered "test" as password eneterd "test" expected $_POST['login']=test $_POST['password']=test 2. second example as login entered "abcd" as password eneterd "efgh" expected $_POST['login']=abcd $_POST['password']=efgh Actual result: -------------- 1. first example result - incorrect $_POST is empty. 1. second example result - data are correct $_POST['login']=abcd $_POST['password']=efgh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=48890&edit=1

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