Re: [PHP4]: Problem with Form not putting Data in Post Request

Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:

maddog1169 wrote:

The one that does not get accepted is <Group> including the "<>"

You have something like this? <input type=text name="<Group>" /> It should work. Make sure you have quotes around it, of course, or weird stuff will happen.

IIRC technically the < and > should be HTML entity encoded. depending on browser/server/doctype combination that also may be giving the OP a problem? e.g. <input type="text" name="&lt;Group&gt;" /> ... looking into this a little further I discover the following information at w3c: (here: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#type-name) ID and NAME tokens must begin with a letter ([A-Za-z]) and may be followed by any number of letters, digits ([0-9]), hyphens ("-"), underscores ("_"), colons (":"), and periods ("."). which suggests that even though a < and/or > in a name attribute value can/does work it might not be a good idea to use it.

Try something like this: <form action="f.php" method="POST"> <input type=text name="<Group>" /> </form> <?php phpinfo() ?> Type something in the form field and hit return and then scroll down and look at the $_REQUEST and $_POST variables. -Rasmus