$_POST value is set but always = null even if you enter something

[comp.lang.php]

[PHP]
Other: <input name="school_type_other" size="30" maxlength="75"
value="<?php

if ($_POST['hasReviewedApplicant']) echo $_POST['school_type_other'];
else echo str_replace('"', '&quot;', str_replace('\\', '',
$result[0]->school_type_other));

?>">
[/PHP]

I verified via both var_dump() and print_r() that
$_POST['hasReviewedApplicant'] = 1 and that $_POST['school_type_other']
= null, even when you enter something into the text field, it's still
null!

Can someone tell me what on earth I did wrong this time? I'm lost here!

Thanx
Phil

[Janwillem Borleffs]

comp.lang.php wrote:

I verified via both var_dump() and print_r() that
$_POST['hasReviewedApplicant'] = 1 and that
$_POST['school_type_other'] = null, even when you enter something
into the text field, it's still null!

You need to specify the type of the element (type="text").
JW

[comp.lang.php]

Janwillem Borleffs wrote:

comp.lang.php wrote:

I verified via both var_dump() and print_r() that
$_POST['hasReviewedApplicant'] = 1 and that
$_POST['school_type_other'] = null, even when you enter something
into the text field, it's still null!

You need to specify the type of the element (type="text").
JW

I did just that.. school_type_other is type="text", which in HTML is
never a requirement, in fact, before I tried that none of the other
HTML form element text field tags have type="text" and work just fine.
I added type="text", still no $_POST['school_type_other'] even though I
entered it!

Phil

[Janwillem Borleffs]

comp.lang.php wrote:

I did just that.. school_type_other is type="text", which in HTML is
never a requirement, in fact, before I tried that none of the other
HTML form element text field tags have type="text" and work just fine.
I added type="text", still no $_POST['school_type_other'] even though
I entered it!

Can you post the element after the values are parsed in it by PHP?
JW

[Ken Robinson]

comp.lang.php wrote:

[PHP]
Other: <input name="school_type_other" size="30" maxlength="75"
value="<?php

if ($_POST['hasReviewedApplicant']) echo $_POST['school_type_other'];
else echo str_replace('"', '&quot;', str_replace('\\', '',
$result[0]->school_type_other));
Just curious... why are you doing this when

if ($_POST['hasReviewedApplicant']) echo $_POST['school_type_other'];
else echo
htmlentities(stripslashes($result[0]->school_type_other),ENT_QUOTES);

Does the same thing,

?>">
[/PHP]

I verified via both var_dump() and print_r() that
$_POST['hasReviewedApplicant'] = 1 and that $_POST['school_type_other']
= null, even when you enter something into the text field, it's still
null!

Please post the code for the whole form.

Also, when you first enter the processing script, what does:
<?php echo '<pre>' . print_r($_POST,true) . '</pre>'; ?>
display on the screen?

Ken

[comp.lang.php]

Ken Robinson wrote:

comp.lang.php wrote:

[PHP]
Other: <input name="school_type_other" size="30" maxlength="75"
value="<?php

if ($_POST['hasReviewedApplicant']) echo $_POST['school_type_other'];
else echo str_replace('"', '&quot;', str_replace('\\', '',
$result[0]->school_type_other));
Just curious... why are you doing this when

if ($_POST['hasReviewedApplicant']) echo $_POST['school_type_other'];
else echo
htmlentities(stripslashes($result[0]->school_type_other),ENT_QUOTES);

Does the same thing,

?>">
[/PHP]

I verified via both var_dump() and print_r() that
$_POST['hasReviewedApplicant'] = 1 and that $_POST['school_type_other']
= null, even when you enter something into the text field, it's still
null!

Please post the code for the whole form.

Even if I were allowed to do so - which I'm not as it is fed gov't
property and even posting code is considered a federal no-no, it's over
3,000 lines long, sorry :(

And if it gets weirder I can't duplicate the error, even after several
tries, $_POST['school_type_other'] now exists.

Phil
Also, when you first enter the processing script, what does:
<?php echo '<pre>' . print_r($_POST,true) . '</pre>'; ?>
display on the screen?

Ken

[Stephen Kay]

learning php here - I'm echoing some debug code, and I cannot seem to make
the newline character work.

For example, I tried this:

echo "supposedly, this will \nbe on \nmultiple lines.";

which, according to the php manual, should produce this:

supposedly, this will
be on
multiple lines.

But it doesn't work! It's all on the same line. What obvious thing am I
missing?

--
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Karma-Lab [e-mail]
^^^^^^^

[Stephen Kay]

Sorry for this really basic question, but assuming you have created a URL
string in your code, how do you cause a window to be opened with that url?

I've been searching the manual, but haven't found it yet.

I've seen reference to CURL libraries, but that seems a bit complicated for
the simple thing I'm trying at the moment. Thanks!
--
Stephen Kay
Karma-Lab [e-mail]
^^^^^^^

[Jerry Stuckle]

Stephen Kay wrote:

learning php here - I'm echoing some debug code, and I cannot seem to make
the newline character work.

For example, I tried this:

echo "supposedly, this will \nbe on \nmultiple lines.";

which, according to the php manual, should produce this:

supposedly, this will
be on
multiple lines.

But it doesn't work! It's all on the same line. What obvious thing am I
missing?

Display your html source. You'll see the newlines there.

This isn't a PHP problem - it's how HTML works. Newline characters are
ignored. Instead, you need to use <br> to start a new line.
See the nl2br() function.

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Jerry Stuckle
JDS Computer Training Corp.
js*******@attglobal.net
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[Stephen Kay]

in article M4******************************@comcast.com, Jerry Stuckle at
js*******@attglobal.net wrote on 3/21/06 2:08 PM:

This isn't a PHP problem - it's how HTML works. Newline characters are
ignored. Instead, you need to use <br> to start a new line.
See the nl2br() function.

Thanks - I didn't think of looking at the source instead of the screen
output. Makes total sense. I've got it doing what I want now.

--
Stephen Kay
Karma-Lab [e-mail]
^^^^^^^

[Geoff Berrow]

Message-ID: <C0***************@karma-lab.nospam.com> from Stephen Kay
contained the following:

Sorry for this really basic question, but assuming you have created a URL
string in your code, how do you cause a window to be opened with that url?

That's not php it's html

<a href='newpage.php' target='_blank'>link to new page (opens in a new
window)</a>

--
Geoff Berrow (put thecat out to email)
It's only Usenet, no one dies.
My opinions, not the committee's, mine.
Simple RFDs http://www.ckdog.co.uk/rfdmaker/

[Stephen Kay]

in article 5i********************************@4ax.com, Geoff Berrow at
bl******@ckdog.co.uk wrote on 3/21/06 2:40 PM:

Message-ID: <C0***************@karma-lab.nospam.com> from Stephen Kay
contained the following:

Sorry for this really basic question, but assuming you have created a URL
string in your code, how do you cause a window to be opened with that url?

That's not php it's html

<a href='newpage.php' target='_blank'>link to new page (opens in a new
window)</a>

That's not what I meant, sorry.

Maybe I don't have a clue yet, but I wrote a php function that you call from
a button. It takes a bunch of parameters, and assembles them into a URL
string.

Now that I have the URL string (inside my php function), how do I call that
URL and get that page to open up in a window?
--
Stephen Kay
Karma-Lab [e-mail]
^^^^^^^

[Geoff Berrow]

Message-ID: <C0***************@karma-lab.nospam.com> from Stephen Kay
contained the following:

<a href='newpage.php' target='_blank'>link to new page (opens in a new
window)</a>

That's not what I meant, sorry.

Maybe I don't have a clue yet, but I wrote a php function that you call from
a button. It takes a bunch of parameters, and assembles them into a URL
string.

Now that I have the URL string (inside my php function), how do I call that
URL and get that page to open up in a window?

I /think/ you'd probably have to use PHP to output some Javascript to do
that.

--
Geoff Berrow (put thecat out to email)
It's only Usenet, no one dies.
My opinions, not the committee's, mine.
Simple RFDs http://www.ckdog.co.uk/rfdmaker/

[Stephen Kay]

in article 4e********************************@4ax.com, Geoff Berrow at
bl******@ckdog.co.uk wrote on 3/21/06 5:10 PM:

Now that I have the URL string (inside my php function), how do I call that
URL and get that page to open up in a window?

I /think/ you'd probably have to use PHP to output some Javascript to do
that.

Thanks for the reply.

I've since discovered curl for at least getting the page to display:

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.eample.com");
curl_exec ($ch);
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Karma-Lab [e-mail]
^^^^^^^