PHP Post/Get problem

Hi all,
I have been working on a simple form to collect user data. The form is
written in ASP. The target action is a PHP script on a completely different
system. The problem I have been experiencing is when I use the GET method
on the ASP form, my PHP page displays the data as collected. When I use the
POST method (preferred), very same PHP page does not display the collected
information. I have searched for anything that may give me a clue on
php.net but found nothing. Please help.

Thanks
--K

[Agelmar]

bl******@bellsouth.net wrote:

Hi all,
I have been working on a simple form to collect user data. The form
is written in ASP. The target action is a PHP script on a completely
different system. The problem I have been experiencing is when I use
the GET method on the ASP form, my PHP page displays the data as
collected. When I use the POST method (preferred), very same PHP
page does not display the collected information. I have searched for
anything that may give me a clue on php.net but found nothing.
Please help.

Thanks
--K

1. Good god, don't cross-post to so many groups, especially when most of
them are not carried by most servers. Anyhow, on to your question -

In ASP, you access form variables by Request.Form.("VARNAME"). In PHP, it's
a bit different.

You can use either register_globals (the old method that is very frowned
upon) which lets you just use $varname, you can use $_GET['varname'] (which
only works if it's coming via GET), $_POST['varname'] ) (like $_GET but for
POST), or $_REQUEST['varname'], which is similar to ASP in that it will
search both the POST and GET inputs (if any).

Without seeing your code, I'm guessing that the script is using
$_GET['varname']. Either change this to $_POST['varname'], or if you are not
sure if you are going to use POST or GET, change it to $_REQUEST['varname'].

// Ian

[Marius Mathiesen]

bl******@bellsouth.net wrote:

Agelmar,
Thanks for your reply. The issue I am having is when using method POST from
an ASP form on a Wintel box and the target as a PHP page on a FreeBSD box.
I query the variables and they return nothing. However, when I use method
GET in the ASP form with the same target PHP page I get all the values from
the variables when they are queried. Have you seen this behavior before?
If seeing the code will help, I will get it to you in the AM.

Hi!
It _really_ doesn't matter what kind of system your web form is created
in. What matters is the html it produces. If your html looks something like:

<form method= "post" action="http://<your-php-box>/script.php">
<input name="myVar" value="default value of myVar">
<input type="submit">
</form>

then you could access the variable myVar with the following PHP code:
<?php
echo "Value of myVar is now ".$_POST["myVar"];
?>

If, however, your html looks like this:
<form method="get" action="http://<your-php-box>/script.php">
<input name="myVar" value="default value of myVar">
<input type="submit">
</form>

you could use:
<?php
echo "Value of myVar is now ".$_GET["myVar"];
?>

Really, it's that simple. As mentioned earlier, this would work in both
cases:
<?php
echo "Value of myVar is now ".$_REQUEST["myVar"];
?>

//marius