Am I Going Mad Here?

Hi all,

I'm having a little trouble with forms and retrieving the values! I can't believe this but I can't get the thing to work!!

comment_test1.php:
Simplified version of my contact form, nothing to difficult here.

  <form action="/comment_test2.php" method="post" id="cForm" style="padding:6px;">
    <input type="hidden" id="pageID" value="123456"/>
    <input type="hidden" id="referringURL" value="http://127.0.0.1/"/>
    <input type="text" id="posName" tabindex="1" value=""/>
    <input type="submit"/>
 </form>

Code (markup):

and in comment_test2.php:

<pre>
  <?php var_dump(get_defined_vars()); ?>
</pre>

Code (markup):

Again, nothing to difficult. Now the thing that gets me is this, when all the vars are dumped, $_REQUEST and $_POST are blank.

["_POST"]=>
      array(0) {
      }
      ["HTTP_POST_VARS"]=>
      array(0) {
      }
      ["_GET"]=>
      array(0) {
      }
      ["HTTP_GET_VARS"]=>
      array(0) {
      }
      ["_COOKIE"]=>
      array(0) {
      }
      ["HTTP_COOKIE_VARS"]=>
      array(0) {
      }

["_REQUEST"]=>
    array(0) {
    }

Code (markup):

This all stopped working when my host upgraded the server to new os/new apache/new php/new mysql, can anybody point me in the direction of a workaround or what I should ask my host to modify?

Versions, all have been upgraded
FreeBSD: 6.2 (from 4.2)
Apache: 2.2.4 (from 1.1.2 i think)
PHP: 5.2.4 (from 4.3?)
MySql: 5.0.41 (from 4.something)
Zend Engine v2.2.0 (from unknown)

If anybody could shed some light onto this, id be grateful.

Thanks in advance.

 

Your form fields need a name, the ID isn't passed by the browser.

 

And I forgot to mention that this is the same on WinXP Firefox + IE6 and on Vista IE7 + Firefox

 

LOL Your joking!

Well, that fixed it, but how come it has been working fine for two years and suddenly stopped? Oh well, at least it works now. Thanks for your help!!

Cheers!

 

I'm sure it never worked that way before. Unless you were using a weird non-standard browser from the black market.