Re: textarea posting duplicate text

It's definitely on your end: http://www.orourke.ca/test.php I verified your issue on your server and could not reproduce it on mine. Our phpinfo data looks the same. Here's a hunch. Try calling output buffering at the top of your page: ob_start(); I have this on my site to allow for mid-page redirects. I have no idea if this is the cause. Just an idea. Perhaps an Apache 2 issue? Can any one else confirm this on Apache 2 / PHP 4.3.10? Dan T On Mar 1, 2005, at 7:43 AM, Elizabeth Lawrence wrote:

Thanks, Dan. I copied your code exactly and posted it here: http://www.tidefans.com/test.php I pasted a large part of O'Henry's "Gift of the Magi" into the textarea, and it gets repeated, as before. Thanks for any help, Elizabeth -----Original Message----- From: Dan Tappin [mailto:dan@orourke.ca] Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 6:59 PM To: Elizabeth Lawrence Subject: Re: [PHP] textarea posting duplicate text Create a new file: test.php with this exactly in the contents: <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>TEST</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <FORM ACTION="test.php" METHOD="post" NAME="test"> <TEXTAREA NAME="textarea" ROWS="4" COLS="40"></TEXTAREA> <P><INPUT TYPE="submit" NAME="submitButtonName"></P> </FORM> <P><? print_r($_REQUEST); ?></P> </BODY> </HTML> Load the page, enter some text and hit submit. Rule out some strange issue with your page. Confirm it's a PHP issue not a coding one. Dan T On Feb 28, 2005, at 8:03 AM, Elizabeth Lawrence wrote:

Hello. I have been asked to look at a PHP issue for someone, and I can't figure out what the problem is. I'm hoping one of you experts can help! They are using Red Hat Linux / Ensim Pro 4.0.2, PHP 4.3.10, and Apache 2.0. The problem: When a lot of text is entered into a textarea on a form, the text that shows up in the $_POST['textarea'] variable has the text that was entered, but it is duplicated. This is causing problems for their forums. Here is a very simple script I placed on the server: www.tidefans.com/textarea_test.php (code below) When I place the same script on another server I have access to, the textarea text is "posted" fine. Is this a PHP setting somewhere that I'm missing? Here is the code for the PHP script mentioned above: <html> <head> <title>Test PHP Script</title> </head> <body> <form method=post action="textarea_test.php" name="Form1"> <textarea cols=50 rows=20 name=textarea> //[a bunch of text goes here] </textarea><br> <input type=text name=text size=20 value="This is some text"><br> <input type=submit name=Submit value="Submit"> <?php if ($_POST[Submit] != "") {

      echo "<h1>_POST values</h1>";

      echo "<p>Textarea submitted:</p>";

      echo "<pre>" . $_POST[textarea] . "</pre>";

      echo "<p>Textbox submitted:</p>";

      echo "<pre>" . $_POST[text] . "</pre>";

      echo "<p>Submit submitted:</p>";

      echo "<pre>" . $_POST[Submit] . "</pre>";

} ?> </form> <?php phpinfo(); ?> </body> </html> If anyone can point me in the right direction, I would appreciate it so much! Elizabeth Elizabeth Lawrence elawrence@nsggroup.com

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