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Ben Lambuth
Ben Lambuth

Reputation: 1

Form POST method is not sending any data

I have a form set into my html page:

<form action='savephp.php' name="writingData" id="writingData" method="post">
<textarea id="content">Hello, World!</textarea>
<input type="submit" value="submit" class="submitButton">
</form>

and the receiving php is:

<?php
$data = $_POST['writingData'];
if ($data === NULL) {
echo 'is null';
}
else {
file_put_contents("writingdata.txt", $data);
echo $data;
}
?>

However, I get the "is null" error every time I attempt to post. Im hitting a dead end, Ive tried changing up the form name, using the textarea id. I keep getting a null response. Any ideas what I am missing?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 75

Answers (2)

ntheg0d
ntheg0d

Reputation: 53

textarea needs a name attribute

<textarea id="content" name="txtareaContent"></textarea>

then you can fetch it in savephp.php like this

$data = $_POST['txtareaContent'];

Upvotes: 1

Aravind H
Aravind H

Reputation: 1

<form action='savephp.php' name="writingData" id="writingData" method="post">
<textarea id="content" name=="content">Hello, World!</textarea>
<input type="submit" value="submit" class="submitButton">
</form>

<?php
$data = $_POST['content'];
if ($data === NULL) {
echo 'is null';
}
else {
file_put_contents("writingdata.txt", $data);
echo $data;
}
?>

Try this and let me know.

Upvotes: 0

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