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Bug #19365 POST not working
Submitted: 2002-09-11 21:52 UTC Modified: 2002-11-10 18:32 UTC
Votes:2
Avg. Score:5.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:2 of 2 (100.0%)
Same Version:1 (50.0%)
Same OS:2 (100.0%)
From: pahluwalia at hotmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Scripting Engine problem
PHP Version: 4.2.3 OS: Win 2000
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2002-09-11 21:52 UTC] pahluwalia at hotmail dot com 
Hi !

I did read all the problems related with POST, but they all suggest to get the latest version, so I have 4.2.3 ... when I use GET, it works fine(with a small problem) but when I use POST it doesn't !

Code:

<form action="find.php" method="post">
	Design Number: <input type="text" name="design">
 <input type="submit">
</form>

in find.php:-

$input = $_POST["design"];

RESULT: Undefined index: design

I am not accessing the var directly, so no problem related with globals !

The problem with GET is that if the size of total var's I am using to pass through Form is more than 50 char's , it gives garbled values in the URL !

Strange...
Would be waiting for answers !!!

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 [2002-09-12 11:34 UTC] pahluwalia at hotmail dot com 
I am using Win2K with IIS 5. I have tried to install through the installshield version as well as the manual zip file version 4.2.3

And print_r $_POST (as well as $_POST['var']) gives an empty array but $_GET works ! My php.ini is the default that came with the installation files.

What more information do you need ?
 [2002-09-12 12:03 UTC] sniper@php.net 
Please try using this CVS snapshot:

  http://snaps.php.net/php4-latest.tar.gz
 
For Windows:
 
  http://snaps.php.net/win32/php4-win32-latest.zip
 [2002-09-12 16:13 UTC] pahluwalia at hotmail dot com 
I tried the CVS Snapshot for Windows, and now instead of the error of Undefined index, there is nothing that's printed.

My current code for find.php is:

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<?php
print_r ($_POST);
$input = $_POST["design"];
?>
</body>
</html>

Result:
Array()

that's all ! GET is still working !
 [2002-09-17 02:11 UTC] derick@php.net 
Dup of #17958
 [2002-11-10 18:32 UTC] sniper@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

In case this was a PHP problem, snapshots of the sources are packaged
every three hours; this change will be in the next snapshot. You can
grab the snapshot at http://snaps.php.net/.
 
In case this was a documentation problem, the fix will show up soon at
http://www.php.net/manual/.

In case this was a PHP.net website problem, the change will show
up on the PHP.net site and on the mirror sites in short time.
 
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