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Bug #25474 posting arrays from a select box with multiple select is not working properly
Submitted: 2003-09-10 14:30 UTC Modified: 2003-09-23 23:22 UTC
Votes:2
Avg. Score:5.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:2 of 2 (100.0%)
Same Version:0 (0.0%)
Same OS:1 (50.0%)
From: fmuller at cisco dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Apache2 related
PHP Version: 4.3.3 OS: redhat 7.3
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2003-09-10 14:30 UTC] fmuller at cisco dot com 
Description:
------------
Red Hat 7.3/Apache 2.0/PHP 4.3.3.

If I select multiple selections on a select box,
with an array name,
with a form method of post

I do not get the array of selected values I expect.

If one option is selected it works fine.  
If I use a method of get it works fine.

Here is what phpinfo.php displays when I select 1 and 2:

_REQUEST["param"]	

Array
(
    [0] => 1
    [1] => 2param[]=1
    [2] => 2
)

_POST["param"]	

Array
(
    [0] => 1
    [1] => 2param[]=1
    [2] => 2
)

Reproduce code:
---------------
<html>
<body>
<form method=post action=phpinfo.php>
<select name="param[]" multiple size=6>
<option value=0>0</option>
<option value=1>1</option>
<option value=2>2</option>
<option value=3>3</option>
<option value=4>4</option>
<option value=5>5</option>
<option value=6>6</option>
</select>
<input type=submit>
</form>
</body>
</html>

------------------

phpinfo.php
<?
phpinfo();
?>

Expected result:
----------------
_REQUEST["param"]	

Array
(
    [0] => 1
    [1] => 2
)

_POST["param"]	

Array
(
    [0] => 1
    [1] => 2
)

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 [2003-09-10 20:18 UTC] sniper@php.net 
Works fine for me. How did you configure PHP? 
How did you configure PHP for Apache2?

Add this line to your test script:

echo $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA;

And set "always_populate_raw_post_data" php.ini option to 'On'. Then post the result here.
 [2003-09-11 07:25 UTC] fmuller at cisco dot com 
Here is what the raw post data looks like:

param%5B%5D=1&param%5B%5D=2param%5B%5D=1&param%5B%5D=2

Here is my configure info:  Need more?

 Command 	 './configure' 'i386-redhat-linux' '--prefix=/usr' '--exec-prefix=/usr' '--bindir=/usr/bin' '--sbindir=/usr/sbin' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--includedir=/usr/include' '--libdir=/usr/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/libexec' '--localstatedir=/var' '--sharedstatedir=/usr/com' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--cache-file=../config.cache' '--with-config-file-path=/etc' '--with-config-file-scan-dir=/etc/php.d' '--enable-force-cgi-redirect' '--disable-debug' '--enable-pic' '--disable-rpath' '--enable-inline-optimization' '--with-bz2' '--with-db4=/usr' '--with-curl' '--with-dom=/usr' '--with-exec-dir=/usr/bin' '--with-freetype-dir=/usr' '--with-png-dir=/usr' '--with-gd' '--enable-gd-native-ttf' '--with-ttf' '--with-gdbm' '--with-gettext' '--with-ncurses' '--with-gmp' '--with-iconv' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr' '--with-openssl' '--with-png' '--with-regex=system' '--with-xml' '--with-expat-dir=/usr' '--with-pcre=/usr' '--with-zlib' '--with-layout=GNU' '--enable-bcmath' '--enable-exif' '--enable-ftp' '--enable-magic-quotes' '--enable-safe-mode' '--enable-sockets' '--enable-sysvsem' '--enable-sysvshm' '--enable-discard-path' '--enable-track-vars' '--enable-trans-sid' '--enable-yp' '--enable-wddx' '--with-pear=/usr/share' '--with-imap=shared' '--with-imap-ssl' '--with-kerberos=/usr/kerberos' '--with-ldap=/usr' '--with-mysql=/usr' '--with-oci8=/opt/oracle/product/9.2' '--with-mssql' '--with-unixODBC=shared' '--enable-memory-limit' '--enable-bcmath' '--enable-shmop' '--enable-versioning' '--enable-calendar' '--enable-dbx' '--enable-dio' '--enable-mcal' '--enable-mbstring' '--enable-mbstr-enc-trans' '--enable-mbregex' '--with-apxs2filter=/usr/sbin/apxs'

Additional info: 
  Things also work fine if my action is a perl cgi-bin script:

content_length = 27
stdin = param%5B%5D=1&param%5B%5D=2
 [2003-09-23 09:31 UTC] sniper@php.net 
Instead of using --with-apache2filter, use --with-apxs2, which enables the apache2handler version. Please let us know if that works.
 [2003-09-23 09:33 UTC] moriyoshi@php.net 
See bug #18648.

That's caused by the configuration error.
 [2003-09-23 23:22 UTC] fmuller at cisco dot com 
Yes, I agree this bug is bogus.  I was able to reconfigure httpd.conf as suggested in 18648, and fix the problem.

I simply commented out the following as suggested from the 
Redhat sample httpd.conf file, and restarted apache.

#<Files *.php>
#    SetOutputFilter PHP
#    SetInputFilter PHP
#    LimitRequestBody 524288
#</Files>
 
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