Re: [PHP] detecting POST variables

2002-10-08 Thread Jef
I've noticed that this issue is associated with text fields, password fields, and textarea fields. What about file fields? I have a form that is not showing the information pulled from a database in a file field. Any ideas why? Does the file type not allow this to be done? Jef

Re: [PHP] detecting POST variables

2002-10-08 Thread Vidyut Luther
you cannot pre-populate a field type of FILE in a form, it's in the W3C specs, but the basic reason why you can't do it, is pretty much to prevent malicous writers to prepopulate the field with c:\windows\passwords.txt or any thing similar, /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow (this is why you shouldn't

Re: [PHP] detecting POST variables

2002-10-08 Thread Jef
So is it better to use a text field in this case? Jef + Vidyut Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... you cannot pre-populate a field type of FILE in a form, it's in the W3C specs, but the basic reason

[PHP] detecting POST variables

2002-10-07 Thread Anup
Hello, I have been dealing with different form proccessing PHP scripts. When I start a new job I usually have a script that just takes the form POST values and prints them to the screen, so I know what I'm working with. Now I have a question say the form has 1 field named FirstName. If the field

Re: [PHP] detecting POST variables

2002-10-07 Thread Justin French
on 08/10/02 9:13 AM, Anup ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello, I have been dealing with different form proccessing PHP scripts. When I start a new job I usually have a script that just takes the form POST values and prints them to the screen, so I know what I'm working with. Now I have a

Re: [PHP] detecting POST variables

2002-10-07 Thread Anup
Here's the code ?php foreach ($HTTP_POST_VARS as $Index=$Value) { echo DEBUG ::: POST Key: $Index; POST Value: $Valuebr\n; } ? ### Here's the function (this is how what I catually use). function PrintVars () { global $HTTP_POST_VARS; foreach ($HTTP_POST_VARS as $Index=$Value) {

Re: [PHP] detecting POST variables

2002-10-07 Thread christian haines
maybe try... print pre; print_r($HTTP_POST_VARS); print /pre; this will dump the entire post var array to the browser.. similar to functions before but faster. Christian Haines Internet Developer MITOUSA. Branding Strategies for Visual Interactive Design 102 Tynte Street North