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Leahcim
Leahcim

Reputation: 41919

PHP $_POST, which part of the form does it connect to?

This ia a beginner's question. If part of my form looks like this

<p>Subject name: <input type="text" name="menu" value="" 
                    id="menu_name" /></p>

and I want to use $_POST to get the data that is submitted, is $_POST reading the form "name" or "value" or "id."

For example, using the form above, would it be

$_POST['menu'];

or

$_POST['menu_name'];

or something else

Upvotes: 5

Views: 458

Answers (4)

Jake N
Jake N

Reputation: 10583

It is connected to the name

$name = $_POST['name'];

You can see the whole array of $_POST by doing

var_dump $_POST;

Upvotes: 1

KJYe.Name
KJYe.Name

Reputation: 17169

$_POST['menu'];

would be the correect way. forms are connected to the name

Upvotes: 1

asthasr
asthasr

Reputation: 9397

The key for the associative array is the name attribute of the form element.

Upvotes: 1

alex
alex

Reputation: 490153

It uses the name attribute, and the value comes from the value attribute.

So you would access $_POST['menu'].

You can easily examine what's in a post with var_dump($_POST).

You could also view it directly with $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA which is handy in some situations, or through the PHP protocol like so...

$post = file_get_contents('php://input');

Although this doesn't work with a form that has the enctype="multitpart/form-data" attribute.

The id attribute is never sent to the server.

Upvotes: 7

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