Re: Re: $_GET and $_POST arrays not working
| From: | John Nichel | Date: | Sat, 26 Nov 2005 13:59:25 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: $_GET and $_POST arrays not working | ||
| References: | 1 2 3 4 | Groups: | php.general |
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> On Saturday 26 November 2005 02:45, John Nichel wrote:
>> If you have a form like this one one page...
>>
>> <form action="page2.php" method="post">
>> <input type="hidden" name="foo" value="bar" />
>> <input type="submit" />
>> </form>
>>
> [snip]
>
> Dear John
>
> Please go all the way when providing an example. To prevent errors and
> unpredictable behaviour, ALWAYS add encoding to the form tag.
>
> <form action="page2.php" method="post"
> enctype="multipart/form-data"
> name="form1">
>
> Systematically adding names on all your forms may save you many hours of
> hair
> plucking as well ;)
Neither are required. enctype is implied if left out, and name is only
'useful' on the client side. Even the W3C's examples match what I posted.
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.3
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