form input is not getting through

[Togfather]

Hello,

 

I hope this is the right place for my question. I am new to php, having spent more than a decade writing in vbscript for asp pages, and I am stumped by this problem. I have searched both of my PHP manuals, the net and forums galore but cannot find the answer.

 

I am trying to display records from mysql with a button to delete each record in the display. However, when I press the button, the information does not get through to the manipulation page.

 

In the first page my relevant code is:        

 

   <form action="<?=$_SERVER[ 'PHP_SELF' ] ?>" method="post">           <input type="hidden" name="ident" value="<? echo $row[0];?>">

           <input type="submit" value="Delete"></form>
 

 

$row [0] is the auto incrementing ID field and in this instance I have checked that it contains a value, which is the integer 3.

 

Now when I get to the next page, which is supposed to delete the record, I do not get any errors, but nothing happens, so I wrote the following code to check that the information had been passed through.    

 

  <?php

         $id = (INT)$_post['ident'];
         echo 'Form input= ', $_post['ident'], '<br>';
         echo '$id= ', $id, '<br>';
 

 

 

This produces

input=

$id= 0

 

when it should produce

input = 3

$id= 3

 

Once I can get the production of an integer in the $id variable I will be able to delete the record from the database.

 

Can anyone tell me what I have done wrong please?

 

Many thanks in advance.

[Togfather]

OK I have fixed it now.

 

I was forgetting that the $_POST function is case sensitive and used lower case.

 

Upper casing it has fixed the problem. I spent days pondering this too - just shows that I am getting old :-)

 

Regards

 

Tog

[Guest lenix]

Kindly mark it as SOLVED sir.