You've got something jacked. DO NOT proceed with your coding using this
hack.
Put this in a blank file named whatever_you_want.php and hit it with your
web browser.
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<?php if ($_POST['action'] == 'Go') print_r($_POST); ?>
<form action="<?=$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']?>" method="POST">
<select name="my_select">
<option value="foo">foo</option>
<option value="bar">bar</option>
</select>
<input type="submit" value="Go" name="action" class="button
submit"/>
</form>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Dunning [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 2:23 PM
> To: PHP-General
> Subject: Re: [PHP] Can't read $_POST array
>
> This was the complete code of the page (this is the POST
> version not the REQUEST version):
>
> <?php
> $response = print_r($_POST, true);
> echo $response;
> ?>
>
> Returns an empty array no matter what POST vars are sent. We
> fixed it by changing it to this, which I've never even heard
> of, but so far is working perfectly:
>
> <?php
> $response = file_get_contents('php://input');
> echo $response;
> ?>
>
> I have no idea what the problem was. Thanks to everyone for your help.
>
>
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<?php if ($_POST['action'] == 'Go') print_r($_POST); ?>
<form action="<?=$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']?>" method="POST">
<select name="my_select">
<option value="foo">foo</option>
<option value="bar">bar</option>
</select>
<input type="submit" value="Go" name="action" class="button submit"/>
</form>
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