Re: PHP has no $_POST values

Greetings, gordonisnz@gmail.com. In reply to Your message dated Saturday, February 20, 2021, 1:54:17, > Ive got an odd situation. Ive been developing a new page / section to > my website (PHP / PHP Smarty templates) > A week ago, it was working fine for this particular script, But today > when i revisit it, there's NO $_POST values being received by the > script at all. 1. Check with a simple form. 2. Post example code. 3. Did you change webserver settings? If you are using Apache httpd, there's at least 3 ways to activate PHP, which one did you choose? > Other scripts in the same directory, work fine. Ive created a > sub-directory and moved the scripts (included files & main script for > the one I'm working on) into the subdirectory and still no $_POST > values. > The top of my script looks like this (no other information or processing) Irrelevant, $_POST array is filled before your script started. > error_reporting(E_ALL); > ini_set('display_errors', TRUE); > ini_set('display_startup_errors', TRUE); Set this in your virtual server configuration, and set it to more sensible values than this. php_admin_value error_reporting -1 php_flag display_errors on php_flag display_startup_errors on > echo "<pre>1\n".print_r($_POST,true)."</pre>\n"; > RESULT = a blank/empty array. Other scripts in the directory (now > parent directory) work fine. > Does anyone have ideas on what may be preventing the POST values ? Server misconfiguration or code mistake. Test with a simple curl call curl --form "name=value" http://localhost/yourscript.php > PS the htaccess file only contains 2 lines :- > RewriteEngine on If you are not writing any rules, why enable it at all? Not to mention, it is often useless and the problem can be resolved entirely without it. > DirectoryIndex provisional.php > QUESTION 2:- Are there any instructions on how to use this php forum ? > I'm getting NO information at the footer of these messages - archive ? > how to change settings etc ? Just use a sane newsreader client. -- Sincerely Yours, Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@freemail.ru>