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Can someone help a php newbie? Making a post to php but no data posted.

html file contains this:

 

<head>

<title>database connection</title>

</head>

<body>

<form name= "search" action="welcome.php" method="post">

Name: <input type="text" id= "fname" name="fname">

<input type="submit" name="submit">

</form>

</body>

 

php file contains this:

<html>

<head> <title> Handler </title> </head>

<body>

<?php

echo "beginning ";

if(isset($_POST['search'])) {echo "Welcome" . $_POST["fname"];} else {echo "post not set for fname ";}

if($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == "POST") { echo "form submitted";}{echo "request method post not set ";}

echo "end";

?>

</body>

</html>

 

output gives me this:

beginning post not set for fname request method post not set end

 

Im using php 5.2. Im running a windows 7 pc with web server configured (iis). I have validated that php is running.

The above text is the entire text for each file.

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You are using the form name in your $_POST check.

 

Use the name of your button.

 

So instead of

if(isset($_POST['search'])) {echo "Welcome" . $_POST["fname"];} else {echo "post not set for fname ";}

do:

if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {echo "Welcome" . $_POST["fname"];} else {echo "post not set for fname ";}

 

 

--edit--

beaten by someone else.

for the second part of your script, you forgot an 'else', so you get "request method post not set" as well.

 

if($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == "POST") { echo "form submitted";}ELSE{echo "request method post not set ";}

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Also, relying on a submit button's value being passed on form submisison is unreliable. Instead use either a hidden input value or $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] to check for form submission.

 

This code needs to be tweaked a little. You need to verify that the text input actually has a value being outputting its value.

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