Hi again. Thank you Ed. - its 4 am & I'm going back to bed.. however this is getting WEIRD.. (midnight snack..) data testing: - phpinfo(); enable_post_data_reading = On post_max_size = 50M 1) I've created a test.php script: <?php $xa=print_r($_POST,true); $va="BLUE\n$xa\n"; $xa=print_r($_REQUEST,true); $va.="REd\n$xa\n"; echo "<pre>$va</pre>\n"; exit; ?> 2) Ive modified my html form:- (the top part of the form is a duplicate of the complete form...) - addresses are just my test account / fake // test form <form action="/vyb/test.php" method="post"> <select class="w3-select" name="viewaddress" onchange="this.form.submit()"> <option value="">Home/main office</option> <option value="909-2-2" selected="selected">(909-2-2) 88 Newland St, Bondi Junction NSW 2022</option> </select> <p><button class="w3-btn w3-teal">View Location</button></p> </form> <br /><br /> // original form <form action="/vyb/" method="post"> <select class="w3-select" name="viewaddress" onchange="this.form.submit()"> <option value="">Home/main office</option> <option value="909-2-2" selected="selected">(909-2-2) 88 Newland St, Bondi Junction NSW 2022</option> </select> <select class="w3-select w3-yellow" name="CHANGEURL"> <option value="/vyb/">no action specified - select an action</option> <option value="/vyb/desc" >update business/location description</option> </select> <select class="w3-select w3-yellow" name="DISPLAY"> <optgroup label="FUNCTIONS NOT GOING YET"> <optgroup label="Services"> <option value="ACTIONviewservice" >View Services</option> <option value="ACTIONaddservice" >Add a Service</option> <option value="ACTIONremoveaservice" >Remove a Service</option> <optgroup label="Location status"> <option value="ACTIONlocationstatus" >Update your address status (in development)</option> <option value="ACTIONlocationphone" >Update your phone number for this address</option> <optgroup label="Hours"> <option value="ACTIONmodifyhours" >Modify opening hours</option> <optgroup label="Jobs"> <option value="ACTIONviewjobs" >View your employment requests</option> <option value="ACTIONaddjob" >Add a new position/job</option> </select> <p><button class="w3-btn w3-teal">View Location</button></p> </form> RESULTS:- If i change the SELECT on my 1st form, i *DO* get results... (test.php) If i do any change to the address on 2nd form - NO RESULTS - both scripts in the same URL/directory... I'm using PHP SMARTY - so html form is in the templates directory, & php scripts in the php directories back to bed - I'll do an hour or so more test in morning - then more after work. (Ps - this form is behind a password system - I need to manually create a test account for anyone - it's not open/public...) PPS - the blue and red ECHOS are also in the live php - the top few lines.. No PHP processing before then, and it's blank results. Oh yes - htaccess: Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^test.php [L] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [QSA,L] (END HTACCESS) - i'll want the POSt and GEt values to be avaialble if set... EXTRA: class ?? I just use functions - been programming a few decades, but all hand-coded... I rarely use off-the shelf codes... haven't really got into classes & such.. Goodnight - i'll try again in daylight On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 at 00:20, Ed Greenberg <edg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, I think my code has posted variables through rewrites all the time. > I've never considered that it wouldn't work. > > I went through a troubleshooting process in my mind (a dark and > dangerous place) and came up with this. > > As a test, you might take out the htaccess and post to the page > directly (unclean URLs) and see if the POST variables come through. > > Is the posted data present in $_REQUEST? > > Does your php.ini or other source of settings have > enable_post_data_reading set on? I didn't even know that this setting > existed until I went searching this morning. > > Is your php_max_size variable set in such a way to interfere with the > posted variables? > > Perhaps you should try another script with just the first line (the > print_r) statement and see if you can post to that, with and without a > rewrite. > > Does your page contain a class? If so, is your print_r accidentally > inside the class? (I got this from a 12 year old stack overflow post) > > Let us know how your troubleshooting is going. Hopefully some others > will chime in. > -- Gordon.
