#17958 [Com]: <input type=file> loses $_POST vars

ID: 17958 Comment by: php at vta dot com Reported By: ddp at deakin dot edu dot au Status: Closed Bug Type: Apache2 related Operating System: Linux 2.4.18 PHP Version: 4.2.3 New Comment: Hi all, New here, big fan of php. Dunno if this has been covered already, hoping to help. I had this same problem all day long, until I landed here, and read the history. With some careful grepping in the php4.3.1/NEWS for 'form-data' i found mention of the 'variables-order' directive. Taking that over to php-ini, I found the directive 'gpc-order' uncommented, and noted as depricated in favor of the 'variables_order' directive. Lo and Behod, when I removed 'gpc-order', <multipart/form-data> began to work. friendly sugestion to comment out the gpc_order directive in the distribution file 'php-ini' if not done already. (Also possible that it was overlooked in the *.tar.gz file and not the *.bz distribution, I use fetch:// to fish for a *.gz distribution because even tho I love PHP I hate pointy-mashy dowmload tools on unix boxes, generally, and the website only shows *.bz2 . :) ) My build information follows, to help anyone who may need it, just in case this is not the only solution, or if this turns out to be a red herring because something else I did fixed it: Host OS: FreeBSD RELENG 3 PHP version: 4.3.1 build date 2/19/2003 8:21 EDT Apache build 1.3.27 build date: same ( slightly later :) ) Static module --with-mysql client OS MAC OS-X 10.1 Browsers: Netscape 4.75 Mac And: I.E 5.1 for mac Problem: Pretty much as previously described. Reference code sample: "PHP4 developers's guide" McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0-07-212731-7 page 84 (Pretty much same as sample code posted by others.) Cheers, HTH < php at vta.com > Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-01-10 11:06:34] harry at ilo dot de I'm sorry, the bug still appears with PHP 4.3.0. --- System Windows NT localhost 5.1 build 2600 Build Date Dec 27 2002 05:28:00 PHP API 20020918 PHP Extension 20020429 Zend Extension 20021010 Apache Version Apache/1.3.24 Apache Release 10324100 Apache API Version 19990320 SERVER_SOFTWARE Apache/1.3.23 (Win32) PHP/4.3.0 mod_gzip/1.3.19.1a mod_ssl/2.8.6 OpenSSL/0.9.6c User-Agent Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461; .NET CLR 1.0.3705) --- It doesn't matter if I use Mozilla instead. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-12-29 05:03:53] derick@php.net Thank you for your bug report. This issue has already been fixed in the latest released version of PHP, which you can download at http://www.php.net/downloads.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-12-28 19:17:07] mati at poczta dot pl When I change in (php.ini) register_globals = On and restart Apache everythings looks to work OK Ps. Sorry - my english is terrible but I want help :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-12-23 12:07:30] harry at ilo dot de @sorry@aol.com No, it doesn't. The problem is that the whole $_POST-Array is empty if the data is submited as multipart/form-data. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-12-12 21:27:38] sorry at aol dot com Use $_FILES to access the the file specs. Use $_POST for all others. -----taken from phpinfo()---------------------- $_POST["user"] (gives me) ryan $_FILES["userfile"] (gives me) Array ( [name] => Test.class [type] => application/octet-stream [tmp_name] => /tmp/phpyXUyr7 [error] => 0 [size] => 444 ) ---------------------------- PHP Version 4.2.2 Apache/1.3.12 Hope this helps ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/17958 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=17958&edit=1