$_POST losses data

When my form fields data consists of more than one string, $_POST only picks up the first string.

e.g. form field name=street
form filed entry = President Kennedy
$Street = $_POST[street];
Result: $Street contains "President"

Am I doing something wrong?

How do I get the full field content?

Thanks
Michael

 

Post your HTML form and the exact code.

 

Sorry, I just found out that is not the problem.

The problem seems to be in the following statement/

Street:<input type=\"text\" readonly name=\"estreet\" size=\"25\" MaxLength=30 value=$Street>

$Street does contain the full field entry after using $_$POST but what is displayed in the new form (above statement) only shows the first string of $Street content.

Thanks
Michael

 

Use quotes around $Street.

<input type=\"text\" readonly name=\"estreet\" size=\"25\" MaxLength=30 value=\"$Street\">

PHP:

 

Or to avoid \ simply use ' (single quote) instead of double like

:<input type='text' readonly name='estreet' size='25' MaxLength=30 value='$Street'>

 

Oh and another hint, when getting data from arrays use:

$_POST['street'] not $_POST[street].

4-6x faster and reduces the risk for errors.

e.g.

If I had earlier done:

define('street', 'blah');
then it would retrieve $_POST['blah'] and not $_POST['street'].

- Dan

 

A million thanks! (I should have asked you sooner - I would have saved 8 hrs of my time.)