#33104 [NEW]: POST Method on HTML form performs GET Method

From: paigrande at yahoo dot com Operating system: Win 2003 PHP version: 5.0.4 PHP Bug Type: *URL Functions Bug description: POST Method on HTML form performs GET Method Description: ------------ Just learning PHP. I have simple HTML form performing a POST to a PHP script which retrieves the posted values from $_POST variable. I get no results. If I look in $_GET without changing HTML form, I have values. See example code. My setup: Windows 2003 Enterprise Apache 2.0.54-win32-x86-no ssl jakarta-tomcat 5.5.9 jakarta-connectors jk 2.0.4 win32 apache 2.0.49 PHP 5.0.4 win32 Reproduce code: --------------- <HTML> <head> <title>Test Search Form</title> </head> <body> <FORM ACTION="post.php" METHOD=”POST”> <table> <tr><td>Date: <input type="text" name="eDate"></td></tr> <tr><td><input name="Submit" type="submit" value="Search"></tr></td> </table> </FORM> </body> </html> post.php: <?PHP print_r($_POST['eDate']); ?> Expected result: ---------------- I expect the date I enter on the HTML form to be printed. Actual result: -------------- This URL: http://localhost/test/post.php?eDate=1999-09-09&Submit=Search Error message: [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Notice: Undefined index: eDate in C:\\Program Files\\Apache Group\\Apache2\\htdocs\\test\\post.php on line 3, referer: http://localhost/test/test_form.html -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=33104&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (php4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33104&r=trysnapshot4 Try a CVS snapshot (php5.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33104&r=trysnapshot50 Try a CVS snapshot (php5.1): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33104&r=trysnapshot51 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33104&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33104&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33104&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33104&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33104&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33104&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33104&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33104&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33104&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33104&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33104&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33104&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33104&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33104&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33104&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33104&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=33104&r=mysqlcfg