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Form Post variales are coming as empty in the submitted PHP page.

Hi!

I have a problem getting form/post variables from HTML page to PHP page. For example:

in HTML page I am writing :

<form action="testres.php" method="POST">
<input type="text" name="samplevar"><br>
<input type="submit"><br>
</form>

In testres.php I am writing

echo $_POST['samplevar'];

samplevar variable is getting as null in the above PHP page ....I checked the settings in php.ini file and register_globals = On
always_populate_raw_post_data = Off.....I don't know how to resolve this issue... .I am running PHP V 4.3.8 on Linux Apache server.

Can anybody please help me fixing this issue?

Thanks in advance.

Roonaan

As you use $_POST['samplevar'] it actually doesn't matter wether register_globals is on. You propably should turn it off again because of the security issues.

What is the value of $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] and what happens when you var_export some stuff:

echo '<pre>'.var_export(array('POST' => $_POST, 'GET' => $_GET, 'REQUEST' => $_REQUEST),true).'</pre>';

regards

-r-

Diablo84

A simple test to try:

<?php
if (count($_POST) > 0) {
echo "Post array contains: <br>";
print_r($_POST);
}
else {
echo "The post array is empty";
}
?>

<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post">
<input type="text" name="test" value="test value"><br>
<input type="submit" value="submit">
</form>

I would also advise turing globals off immediately.

Instead of $_POST you can also try $HTTP_POST_VARS although in your version of php there is no reason why $_POST shouldn't work.

Codeit1978

At the top of your code when the postback happends type in print_r($_REQUEST); That will print out all of the $_GET $_POST vars that are being passed.

Hope that helped.

prsupriya

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Hi! All,

Thank you so much for all your replies. The problem was with the my Plesk control Panel "View Site" issue. I could figure out and it's fine now.

Regards,
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