Re: Re: Help please: Unable to get $_POST["variable"]; to work in a form.
| From: | David Scott | Date: | Tue, 10 Dec 2002 18:54:11 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Help please: Unable to get $_POST["variable"]; to work in a form. | ||
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I have corrected the typo and had hoped this was a simple solution, yet
$_POST still doesn't work. Any ideas?
"Craig Thomas" <craig@januzzithomas.net> wrote in message
news:LEELKFJHHCMMHLKJLLOBMEPOCFAA.craig@januzzithomas.net...
> Using $_REQUEST[""] works because the vars are in the http request, but
> $_POST[""] contains nothing as the other poster noted: mehtod="post"
>
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: David Scott [mailto:dedoleo@hotmail.com]
> >>Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 1:20 PM
> >>To: php-general@lists.php.net
> >>Subject: [PHP] Re: Help please: Unable to get $_POST["variable"]; to
> >>work in a form.
> >>
> >>
> >>Using $_REQUEST["variable"] causes the script to work.
> >>Why is this? And, why can I not use $_POST?
> >>
> >>"David Scott" <dedoleo@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> >>news:20021210165617.2237.qmail@pb1.pair.com...
> >>> I am going through the introductory tutorial on
> >>http://www.php.net/ and am
> >>> stuck on this page:
> >>> http://www.php.net/manual/en/tutorial.forms.php
> >>>
> >>> I have been able to get all of the examples up to this point to work.
> >>>
> >>> The form is simple: it asks for a text "name", a text "age"
> >>> and has a
> >>submit
> >>> button. The information is submitted to action.php.
> >>>
> >>> Action.php contains this code:
> >>> Hi <?php echo $_POST["name"]; ?>.
> >>> You are <?php echo $_POST["age"]; ?> years old.
> >>>
> >>> I saved action.php as a text file with only the information above.
> >>>
> >>> When I enter JoeBob into the name field and 27 into the age field, I
get
> >>> this for output:
> >>> Hi
> >>> Notice: Undefined index: name in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\action.php on line
1
> >>> . You are
> >>> Notice: Undefined index: age in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\action.php on line
2
> >>> years old.
> >>>
> >>> What can I do to remedy this?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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