Question

I have a large form written in HTML (with 1,000+ input elements). I have set the action of the form to update.php, but was encountering some strange behaviour. It seems as though the $_POST is being reset somewhere along the lines.

Here’s what update.php looks like:

<?php
empty($_POST);
print_r($_POST);
?>

Which outputs:

Array
(
    [date] => 3 October 2012
    [date2] => 
    [to] => 
    [number] => 0005
    [contact] => 
    [address] => 
    [contact_tel] => 
    [contact_fax] => 
    [contact_mob] => 
    [contact_email] => 
    [site_contact] => 
    [site_address] => 
    [site_contact_tel] => 
    [site_contact_fax] => 
    ...
);

The strange thing is that $_POST['date'] has no value (i.e. it’s an empty field). Even refreshing update.php and re-posting the form has no effect. The values that the PHP is reporting are the original values from the first time that I submitted the form.

Changing the action to $_GET functions as expected (i.e. the correct variables are passed in the link), but I cannot use this solution, mainly because the URL become too long and causes a server error.

Does anyone why this is occurring. I would post my code, but it’s too long.

Here’s a PastBin of the form’s HTML > http://pastebin.com/rdQujigK

Answer 1

[ ... snip ... ]
<!-- Defaults: -->
<input type="text" value="3 October 2012" name="date" id="date" class="default_input" />
[ ... snip ... ]

I rest my case.