Re: forms problem

Andrew Ballard wrote: > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 7:13 PM, PJ <af.gourmet@videotron.ca> wrote: > >> Tom Chubb wrote: >> >>> 2009/6/3 PJ <af.gourmet@videotron.ca>: >>> >>> >>>> The code: >>>> ...snip >>>> <div id="loginbox"> >>>>     <form name="login" method="post" >>>> action="<? echo >>>> $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] ?>"> >>>>       <h2>acc&egrave;s client <br /><input >>>> type="text" >>>> name="title" value="<? echo $user; ?>" >>>> size="10" /><br /> >>>>       mot de passe <br /><input type="text" >>>> name="title" value="<? >>>> echo $passwd; ?>" size="10" /><br /> >>>>       <input class="submit" name="submit" >>>> type="submit" >>>> value="    entrez   " /><br /></h2> >>>>       <h2><a href="inscription.php"> >>>> Inscription </a></h2> >>>>     </form> >>>>   </div >>>> snip... >>>> >>>> PROBLEM 1: On Firefox3, the first input (accès client) does not accept >>>> any input, does not show the cursor; the second input (mot de passe) >>>> works fine. >>>> >>>> PROBLEM 2: The form does not appear on IE 6 >>>> >>>> Running FreeBSD 7.1, apache22, php 5, using sessions, CSS >>>> >>>> Am I doing something wrong? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Hervé Kempf: "Pour sauver la planète, sortez du capitalisme." >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> Phil Jourdan --- pj@ptahhotep.com >>>>  http://www.ptahhotep.com >>>>  http://www.chiccantine.com/andypantry.php >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >>>> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> I think the first problem is because both your inputs are defined as "title". >>> >>> >> Does that change anything in the functionanlity? If so, how? >> Bastien says it works in IE8; here it does not in IE6. :-) >> >> > > I'm not sure about functionanlity, but it definitely changes the > functionality. ;-) > > It means that regardless of whether someone is able to enter a value > in the field you have labeled "accès client", your PHP page will never > see it because it will look at the value from the field you have > labeled "mot de passe", even if it is left blank. And that is true > regardless of which browser they are using. In some scripting platform > other than PHP, or if you process the raw post data yourself it could > be different, but in PHP the variable $_POST['title'] will only have > one value in it, and it will be the last one passed by the form. (In > this case, "mot de passe".) > > Andrew > Thanks Andrew, I hadn't gotten that far and had not thought about that... it's a wake-up call for me. Glad to learn that. PJ -- Hervé Kempf: "Pour sauver la planète, sortez du capitalisme." ------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Jourdan --- pj@ptahhotep.com http://www.ptahhotep.com http://www.chiccantine.com/andypantry.php