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Othmane
Othmane

Reputation: 1124

HTML form not working as expected

I have a form in a navigation bar. When I type something and click enter, I just obtain the page of this URL /html/sphider/search.php and not /html/sphider/search.php?query=something&search=1 as normally I should have. 

  <form class="navbar-form navbar-right" action="/html/sphider/search.php" method="POST">
        <input type="text" name="query" class="form-control" placeholder="Search...">
        <input type="image" src="../images/search.png" name="btn" alt="search">
        <input type="hidden" name="search" value="1">
      </form>

Does anyone know why the parameters are not passed correctly to the search page?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 77

Answers (3)

tallrye
tallrye

Reputation: 181

Your action tells your form to post all data to "/html/sphider/search.php" path.

And within this script, you should reach your $_POST data. Like $_POST['name']

See more about PHP Requests from this article

Upvotes: 1

Muhammad Ali Hassan
Muhammad Ali Hassan

Reputation: 962

You are using POST. For Post url will not include query value. Use Get insted POST. If you want to use POST then try this.

$_POST["search"];

This will be value of search

Upvotes: 3

drmarvelous
drmarvelous

Reputation: 1681

You are sending a POST request, not a GET request. POST sends the data transparently through, while GET sends the data using the URL as you noted in your question. Set method="get"

<form class="navbar-form navbar-right" action="/html/sphider/search.php" method="GET">

Upvotes: 3

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