note 20473 added to language.variables.external

When retrieving data from a form textarea, neither POST nor GET seem to work with PHP to store the data in the globals $_POST, $_GET, $HTTP_POST_VARS, or $HTTP_GET_VARS. Instead I had the textarea name setup as a global itself by PHP and it seemed to work fine from there. Example: -html portion- <form action="some.php" method="POST"> <textarea name="sample"></textarea> </form> -PHP portion- echo "sample:", $_POST['sample']; // displays nothing echo "sample: $sample"; // displays the text area data as a single string -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.external.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+20473 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+20473 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+20473