Form POST help

[NLT]

Ok so I've got trouble with a form I'm creating, I've got this:

<form id="login" name="login" action="URL"

          method="post">

and then Input fields like:

<input tabindex="3" type="text" class="login-field" name="acc.username" id="login-username"

                           value="" maxlength="48"/>

 

Now, if I go and submit that, and on the "URL" page I've had it echo $_POST['acc.username'] but it doesn't echo anything. I think it may be a problem with the form itself.. although I can't see one.

 

The code I got for URL:

<?PHP 
include('global.php');

if(isset($_POST['acc.username'])) 
{
echo "lol";
}
else
{
echo mysql_error();
}
?>

[Jessica]

your form action is not set to post, it is set to URL which I have never even seen, pretty sure that's not valid. post and get are valid. (get is the ones in the url, post are hidden).

[batwimp]

Action is the name of the file where the form is sent. So right now it is being sent to a file named "URL". Is this the behavior you wanted? Is your web server (apache, etc) set up to process files that don't have an extension?

[Jessica]

your form action is not set to post, it is set to URL which I have never even seen, pretty sure that's not valid. post and get are valid. (get is the ones in the url, post are hidden).

 

That's what I get for skimming. Plus the method was on the next line. thanks for correcting this.

[NLT]

I forgot to mention - URL was a URL to a valid link 

 

Anyways, I just removed the .'s and now they work.

 

Now I've come across another error checking if it has been submitted with isset().

 

Part of the form for submit:

<input type="submit" name="loginbuttonnlol" value="Login" />

 

Then in the URL link I've got this:

if (isset($_POST['loginbuttonnlol'])){ echo "lolol logged in"; } else { echo "lolno.jpg"; } 

But when I click "Login" it displays "lolno.jpg" as if it isn't been submitted.

 

EDIT: URL == mywebsite.com/login.php

[NLT]

Still getting the problem..

[Jessica]

on your page do a print_r($_POST);

[NLT]

Array ( [credentialsusername] => sdg [credentialspassword] => dgdg )

 

:-\

[Jessica]

You're not doing anything else before that?

[NLT]

On the page I'm trying to get it from, this is all I have got:

<?PHP
include('global.php');
print_r($_POST);
?>

[NLT]

I don't know if this would help.. but..

<input type="submit" value="Login" class="login-top-button" name="loginbuttonnlol" id="login-submit-button"/>

 

That's my login button and it's in the <form> element.

[Jessica]

I have no idea at this point. Do you have a link?

[NLT]

I've got it working now, but only if I click Enter rather than clicking the "Login" button which I find very weird.

 

EDIT: Actually, it always seemed it was that.. but why won't the submit button work?

[Jessica]

I'm curious what browser/OS are you using? Someone said something on another thread about the submit button not always being processed into POST, I am curious if this related. I have never heard of that before.

[NLT]

I'm curious what browser/OS are you using? Someone said something on another thread about the submit button not always being processed into POST, I am curious if this related. I have never heard of that before.

Windows 7.

Google Chrome.

 

Although, I do have this code also for the Login button, I don't know if it may be causing it but..

<a href="lol.php" tabindex="5" id="login-submit-new-button"><span>Login</span></a>

[Jessica]

Are you saying you are clicking that instead of the button?

[NLT]

Are you saying you are clicking that instead of the button?

The code I posted is the text for the button, but I'm pretty confused on how it all works together.

 

http://pastebin.com/T9gV02ui

[Jessica]

Link didn't work.

 

your <input> with a type="submit" (or "button") will be a submit button. An <a> element is a link. I;'m confused on what your form looks like all together.

[NLT]

Link didn't work.

 

your <input> with a type="submit" (or "button") will be a submit button. An <a> element is a link. I;'m confused on what your form looks like all together.

Sorry about that - I set it to 10 minutes.

 

http://pastebin.com/22Ae1APr

[NLT]

Anybody?

[Jessica]

I don't get why you have a link and a button.

Apparently in IE <8, if you hit enter instead of clicking the button it does not post the button. Check if one of your other values is submitted instead of the button.

[NLT]

Then, how would I go about adding the things for the a href(class, id and things) to the submit button?

[NLT]

What I need to do is to check if the login and password has been submit.. rather than all this playing, is there a way to add a hidden field as a submit or something?

[Jessica]

1. I would check if those two fields are submitted.

2. Yes you can add a hidden input.

3. you add a class and id to a button the same way you do to an <a>.

[NLT]

1. I would check if those two fields are submitted.

2. Yes you can add a hidden input.

3. you add a class and id to a button the same way you do to an <a>.

 

I just added a hidden field and now it works fine.

 

Thank you for your help though, much appreciated.