PHP POST not working

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I have the simplest form possible and all I want to do is echo whatever is written in text box   HTML    lt form action    method  post  gt     lt input type  text  name  firstname  gt     lt input type  submit  name  submit  value  Submit  gt   lt  form gt    PHP   if isset   POST  submit         test     POST  firstname      echo  test      The problem is it s not working on my server  it works on another server   Does anyone has an idea what could be wrong  There are other forms on the server and are working fine

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Have you check your php ini   I broken my post method once that I set post max size the same with upload max filesize   I think that post max size must less than upload max filesize  Tested with PHP 5 3 3 in RHEL 6 0  FYI    POST in php 5 3 5 does not work PHP POST not working

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try doing var dump   GLOBALS    A potential cause could be that there is a script running before yours which unsets the global variables  Such as   unset   REQUEST     or even   unset  GLOBALS     This could be done via the auto prepend file option in the php ini configuration

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A few thing you could do    Make sure that the  action  attribute on your form leads to the correct destination  Try using   REQUEST   instead of   POST  see if there is any change   Optional  Try including both a  name  and an  id  attribute e g         lt input type  text  name  firstname  id  firstname  gt     If you are in a Linux environment  check that you have both Read Write permissions to the file    In addition  this link might also help   EDIT   You could also substitute    lt code gt if isset   POST  submit      lt  code gt    with this    lt code gt if   SERVER  REQUEST METHOD       POST     lt  code gt    This is always the best way of checking whether or not a form has been submitted

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Try get instead for test reasons   lt form action    name test  method  GET  gt     lt input type  text  name  firstname    gt     lt input type  submit  name  submit  value  Submit    gt   lt  form gt    and  if isset   GET        echo   GET  name       lt br gt        echo   GET  firstname

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Dump the global variable to find out what you have in the page scope   var dump  GLOBALS     This will tell you the  what  and  where  regarding the data on your page

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html file and php file both should reside in htdocs folder in c  apache2  if you use apache web server   Open html file by typing http    localhost html file name html  Now enter Your data in fields   Your code will run

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try this  html code     lt form action   lt  php echo   SERVER  PHP SELF      gt   method  post  gt             lt input type  text  name  firstname  gt             lt input type  submit  name  submit  value  Submit  gt           lt  form gt    php code   if isset   POST  Submit       firstname isset   POST  firstname      post  firstname       echo  firstname

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I had something similar this evening which was driving me batty  Submitting a form was giving me the values in   REQUEST but not in   POST   Eventually I noticed that there were actually two requests going through on the network tab in firebug  first a POST with a 301 response  then a GET with a 200 response   Hunting about the interwebs it sounded like most people thought this was to do with mod rewrite causing the POST request to redirect and thus change to a GET   In my case it wasn t mod rewrite to blame  it was something far simpler    my URL for the POST also contained a GET query string which was starting without a trailing slash on the URL  It was this causing apache to redirect   Spot the difference      Bad    http   blah de blah my path key value amp otherkey othervalue  Good   http   blah de blah my path  key value amp otherkey othervalue  The bottom one doesn t cause a redirect and gives me   POST

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I also had this problem  The error was in the htaccess  If you have a rewrite rule that affects the action url  you will not able to read the POST variable   To fix this adding  you have to add this rule to htaccess  at the beginning  to avoid to rewrite the url   RewriteRule  my action php -  PT

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Instead of using   POST  use   REQUEST   HTML    lt form action    method  post  gt     lt input type  text  name  firstname  gt     lt input type  submit  name  submit  value  Submit  gt   lt  form gt    PHP   if isset   REQUEST  submit         test     REQUEST  firstname      echo  test

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There is nothing wrong with your code  The problem is not visible form here    Check if after the submit  the script is called at all  Have a look at what is submitted  var dump   REQUEST

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