Re: $_POST issues

On 1 December 2010 14:50, Bundhoo M Nadim <nadim@alienworkers.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Can someone explain me what this piece of code basically does ? > > <?php >    header("Expires: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s", time() + (0*60)) . > "GMT"); >    header("Pragma: no-cache"); >    print > "REDIRECT=http://www.domaine.com/page.php?"; >    $param = http_build_query($_POST); >    print $param; >    exit(0); > ?> > > Well, the code is redirecting to some page with query string constructed > using the $_POST data. > > My problem is not the redirection; but all I want is to get the data in > $_POST > > If I just put only this piece of code: > > <?php >    var_dump($_POST); > ?> > > i get nothing. But the above codes is successfully redirecting me to > page.php with a properly constructed query string -> which means that $_POST > was never empty. So why var_dump($_POST) is returning just array(0) { } ??? > > nadim attari > alienworkers.com > Under normal circumstances, $_POST will only be populated from a <form> with a method="post". So, loading a URL to a PHP script containing just the var_dump() will never output anything for $_POST as the URL wasn't the result of a POST'd form. You can also use cURL or stream_contexts to construct the data for POST-ing and your script would receive these correctly. -- Richard Quadling Twitter : EE : Zend @RQuadling : e-e.com/M_248814.html : bit.ly/9O8vFY