#17897 [Com]: POST form variables are empty

ID: 17897 Comment by: Boris@CrazySnowBoarder.com Reported By: hofmann@isl.org Status: Bogus Bug Type: Apache related Operating System: Linux PHP Version: 4.2.1 New Comment: this helped me... LoadModule php4_module php4apache2.dll AddType application/x-httpd-php .php this doen't work #LoadModule php4_module php4apache2.dll #<FilesMatch "\.php$"> # SetOutputFilter PHP #</FilesMatch> Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-09-06 14:05:20] Boris@CrazySnowBoarder.com <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Untitled</title> </head> <body> <form name="form" action="t.php" method="post"> <input type="text" name="x"><input type="submit" name="submit"> </form> </body> </html> <? echo $_POST["x"]; echo $x; ?> both echo are empty... oh yea and file is called t.php... and i have gloabal = on and populoating varibles with post data... help... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-07-09 18:22:00] sniper@php.net Not really bug (in PHP). If '/' is not added, then a redirection is done to the / address..and of course the post data is lost. Using that kind of urls in "action" field is not very wise.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-07-09 14:09:09] mrjones@email.it This workaround works: Sending the value called a from a form: $string = $_POST["a"]; Apache 2.0.39 & php 4.2.1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-07-08 22:32:31] philip@php.net 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? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/17897 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=17897&edit=1