ID: 22427
Comment by: tnieto at greenbit dot es
Reported By: jroland at uow dot edu dot au
Status: No Feedback
Bug Type: *General Issues
Operating System: Windows XP / 2000
PHP Version: 4.2.3
New Comment:
I have experienced this issue also.
My environment is:
- php 4.4.2 as a module
- Apache 1.3
- Windows 2000 Server
When I send a form with a text area using POST i don't receive any
data.
In my case, it was because I was sending de form using a Javascript
code:
function newitem(tipus)
{
var accion;
if (tipus == 1)
{
accion =
document.mailing.action="pre_mailingsmanuals.php";
}
else
{
accion =
document.mailing.action="env_mailingsmanuals.php";
}
document.mailing.action=accion;
document.mailing.submit();
}
The input was specified as a button: <input type="button"
onclick="newitem(1) ...>" instead of as a submit.
Also, I was using a Rich Text Area. This issue doesn't occurs with a
normal textarea.
The form get working when I change the "button" for a "submit", without
use javascript code for send it.
I hope this message may be usefull for other users with the same
problem. There is an official response from the PHP team from this issue
?
Regards
Previous Comments:
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[2007-04-07 14:12:52] linux at mccoull dot net
I have been having similar problems, i.e. a form which submits happily
in Firefox, but not in IE 7. I have found this (very old!) forum entry -
http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread4451.html - which covers my issue,
and I have implemented the solution by checking for
(isset($_POST['submit']) || isset($_POST['submit_x'])) to check whether
my submit button has been clicked. Note that is an underscore, not a
'.'.
The solution works for GET method as well, if you are using that. If
you submit a form with a 'submit' image button using GET, the browser
URL shows submit.x=aa&submit.y=bb where aa and bb are the coordinates
within the button image of where you clicked, but you should still check
for $_GET['submit_x'] NOT $_GET['submit.x'].
As discussed in the above referred forum log this is an issue affecting
Internet Explorer, Netscape and Opera, and maybe other browsers, and
seems to be a simple failure to conform to the HTML standard for
handling forms.
Hope this helps someone.
Andy
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[2007-03-12 19:53:16] jpsoren at gmail dot com
I experience this problem as well.
* Happens both with and without enctype set for form
* Happens in IE6 and IE7, NOT in Firefox 1.5/2
* Changing form to GET works flawlessly
* Input can range from a few text fields (1-6) or a mix of text fields
and file fields, or just file fields (enctype set when file fields
exist) and POST data will come up empty
* Often times hitting reload and selecting to resubmit the form data
will have the POST data show up
* NO POST data will show up - I don't just lose some early fields
PHP 5.2.x (module), Apache 2.2.x, Windows XP SP2
This is a serious issue. Doesn't seem like anyone in this thread has
found any sort of solution. Please post (or GET, ha) if you have any
insight.
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[2007-02-22 15:25:15] elio at tondo dot it
I am experiencing the same problem reported on 29 Aug 2006 by "egil at
egil dot net". I can add some more details:
- I confirm that it happens only with IE;
- it is triggered when a character between 0x80 and 0x9f is used in a
form field (e.g. the "Word" quotation marks, but also the Euro symbol)
-- please note that these are the transposition in the "high half" part
of extended ASCII of the 32 "control characters" of ASCII (0x00 -
0x1f);
- it has some relationship with character encoding;
- I can reproduce it on Linux with Apache 2 on Fedora 4 - 6 if I don't
force "AddDefaultCharset UTF-8" in httpd.conf (the default in Fedora);
with this directive the problem dies not happen, but the "strange"
characters are interpreted incorrectly (because the file is not UTF8);
- I cannot reproduce it on Linux Mandrake 10 / Apache 2;
- I cannot reproduce it on Windows XP / XAMPP (Apache 2).
A further interesting detail: it happens only if the file containing
the form has the .php extension; if it has the .htm extension it does
not happen! (please note that I am using plain HTML for the form and
some PHP to show the results).
>From all of the above, it looks like it is not a PHP bug, but instead a
IE6 bug that is triggered by some combination of MIME types and
character encodings.
I am going to prepare a simpler test case (I am currently using a
rather complicated page with a multi part form that I extracted from an
application that was working on Mandrake and ceased to work on Fedora,
and worked again by adding a dummy hidden field as the first one in the
form...). When it will be ready I will post it here.
In the meantime, does anyone know if a similar problem has been
reported elsewhere?
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[2007-02-19 15:27:27] arek_felinczak at o2 dot pl
I had the same problem with empty $_POST table.
In my case solution was to remove post_max_size line from php.ini.
In php.ini i had
post_max_size = 16000
instead of default post_max_size = 8M
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[2006-12-07 22:30:59] celtic at sairyx dot org
I'm experiencing the same problem.
Server's running Apache 2 on a Windows Server 2003 machine.
IE 6.0, Windows XP SP 2, and about 90% of the time, POST data never
reaches my PHP script.
Firefox 1.5 in the same conditions, and it runs perfectly.
It does seem suspiciously like an IE bug, but this seems too big to be
a coincidence that IE never sends POST data to only these PHP
applications.
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