Re: Bug #10533: empty POST variables when file uploads disabled

The way PHP works right now is that multipart encoding is rejected if file uploads are disabled. We should either change the name of the INI directive to reflect that it really disables multipart POSTs, or ignore the file entries in a multipart POST. Thoughts? At 06:08 28/4/2001, nolan@peaceworks.ca wrote:

From:             nolan@peaceworks.ca

Operating system: Windows 2000 Server

PHP version:      4.0.4pl1
PHP Bug Type:     Variables related

Bug description: empty POST variables when file uploads disabled I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature, but I came across it while thinking that having GET and POST variables together were causing a problem. Turns out it was POST variables not being passed when file uploads were disabled and the enctype was multipart. Here's my synopsis: If I have these two files.... testform.php: <form action="testout.php?q=1" method="post"> <input type="text" name="f"> <input type="submit"> </form> and testout.php: <? echo "q: $q<br>"; echo "f: $f<br>"; ?> then, say I request testform.php in a browser and type "hello" in the field. I get back this when I submit... q: 1 f: hello looks good so far, but if I then change the form to look like this: <form action="testout.php?q=1" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data"> then I re-request the page and type "hello" in the field, and submit...I get this: q: 1 f: *oops*...looks like the multipart/form-data encoding type makes the form variables go away. Interesting...but changing the POST to a GET seems to work. What if I don't want the variables in the query string, though? I check the php.ini and discover that file uploads are disabled. I enable file uploads and voila! it works!!! now I get... q: 1 f: hello regardless of whether I use POST or GET. Since file uploads were disabled, I assumed that file widgets would not be allowed to pass data, but I didn't think that having a form with multipart/form-data as the encoding type would disable POSTing in general when file uploads were disabled. So...is it a feature, or is it a bug? -- Edit Bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=10533&edit=1 -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net

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