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Reputation: 1044

$_POST values are not changing from initial state despite user input

I have this code here, within a form:

<form method="post" action="">
   <div id="icon-themes" class="icon32"><br></div>
   <h2 class="nav-tab-wrapper"><a class='nav-tab' href='?page=symbiostock-ecommerce-manager&tab=homepage'>Home Settings</a><a class='nav-tab nav-tab-active' href='?page=symbiostock-ecommerce-manager&tab=invoices'>Invoices</a><a class='nav-tab' href='?page=symbiostock-ecommerce-manager&tab=VAT'>VAT Settings</a><a class='nav-tab' href='?page=symbiostock-ecommerce-manager&tab=feed'>Google Product Feed</a></h2>

   <br />
   <label for="ssem_year_num">Year
   <input name="ssem_year_num" value="2014" type="text" />
   </label>
   <label for="ssem_month_num">
      Month
      <select name="ssem_month_num">
         <option  value="1">January</option>
         <option  value="2">February</option>
         <option  value="3">March</option>
         <option  value="4">April</option>
         <option  value="5">May</option>
         <option  value="6">June</option>
         <option  value="7">July</option>
         <option selected value="8">August</option>
         <option  value="9">September</option>
         <option  value="10">October</option>
         <option  value="11">November</option>
         <option  value="12">December</option>
      </select>
   </label>

   <p class="submit"><input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" class="button button-primary" value="Save Changes"  /></p>
</form>

Despite changing the values in the text and select area, they do not seem to change upon form submission, as the var_dump($_POST) result shows this:

array (size=3)
  'ssem_year_num' => string '2014' (length=4)
  'ssem_month_num' => string '8' (length=1)
  'submit' => string 'Save Changes' (length=12)

Having run my HTML through the w3 validator, it appears the HTML is not broken, so I'm left wondering - why aren't the values reflecting user input upon submission?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 70

Answers (3)

Will B.
Will B.

Reputation: 18416

Try to rename: 

<input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit">

To 

<input type="submit" name="s1" id="s1">

And see if that resolves the issue. I am assuming there is javascript on the page listening for a form.submit event.

Upvotes: 0

epipav
epipav

Reputation: 339

i think your problem is this: php is a preprocessed language.

If you are grabbing var_dump($_POST) at the same page, nothing should be in $_POST since when you load the php, you have not posted your form yet. therefore it will be empty.

put your php into seperate file and call it via action="submit.php", then use var_dump($_POST) and see it works!

Upvotes: 0

argamentor
argamentor

Reputation: 148

for the input text try this:

<label for="ssem_year_num">Year
    <input type="text" placeholder="2014" name="ssem_year_num" />
</label>

and in the select remove the 'selected' property:

....
<option value="8">August</option>
....

and see what happens.

Upvotes: 2

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