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CaSrBa
CaSrBa

Reputation: 13

Can not figure out why "if (isset($_POST['Enter Data']))" is constantly false

 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN">
<html>
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
    <title>Create or Search</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action = "Welcome Screen.php" method = "post">
   <div align = "center">
             <input type = "submit" name = "Enter Data" value = "Enter Data"/><br />
             <input type = "submit" name = "Search Data" value = "Search For Data"/><br />
   </div>
<?php
if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] === 'POST') {
    echo "here";
    if (isset($_POST['Enter Data']))
    {
        echo "Here1";
        header("Location: Enter Data.php");
        exit();
    }
    else if (isset($_POST["Search Data"]))
    {
        header("Location: Search Data.php");
        echo "here2";
        exit();
    }
}
?>
</form>
</body>
</html>

I can not seem to figure out why it is not at least entering inside the if statements. I am horribly new to PHP/HTML and will welcome any help. I have looked up this problem and can not seem to find a post that seems to help me solve it. Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 50

Answers (1)

Federkun
Federkun

Reputation: 36924

Change 

if (isset($_POST['Enter Data']))

to

if (isset($_POST['Enter_Data']))

and 

else if (isset($_POST["Search Data"]))

to

else if (isset($_POST["Search_Data"]))

The reason for that is that PHP will always replace the spaces with underlines in your $_GET / $_POST field. You can read more about it in the documentation.

Typically, PHP does not alter the names of variables when they are passed into a script. However, it should be noted that the dot (period, full stop, [and space]) is not a valid character in a PHP variable name. [...] it is important to note that PHP will automatically replace any dots in incoming variable names with underscores.

Upvotes: 2

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