Question

I was given this form by a designer who built it in html and I need to create some php to process the form. However, when I tested the form to see if it would pass variables, $_POST was empty. When, however, I changed the method to get, I could access the variables fine. Can anyone see where the error is?

Here is the code:

<form action="process/appointment.php" method="post" accept-charset="utf-8" enctype="text/plain" id="appointments">
    <input type="text" placeholder="Contact Name..." name="contactName"  style="width:150px;"/>
    <input type="text" placeholder="Contact Telephone..." name="contactTel"  style="width:150px;"/>
    <!--<input type="image" src="images/send_purple.gif" alt="send appointment request" style="margin-top:0; height:auto; border:none;"/>-->
    <input type="submit" value="submit">
</form>

EDIT

Here is the page I was using to test the receipt of the variables:

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

$_POST returns an empty array when the form is set to post, but $_GET returns the values when the for is set to get.

Answer 1

Your enctype is wrong, you need enctype=”multipart/form-data”

Swap this line :

<form action="process/appointment.php" method="post" accept-charset="utf-8" enctype="text/plain" id="appointments">

to

<form action="process/appointment.php" method="post" accept-charset="utf-8" enctype="multipart/form-data" id="appointments">