enctype="multipart/form-data" is screwing up the form variables

[CC Zona]

In article <25514fc4.0307050937.7f801e8b@posting.google.com >,
[email]dhoult@landair.com[/email] (Daniel) wrote:

> where does the $mytext variable disapear to after you submit????
> <form enctype="multipart/form-data" mehtod="post" action="test.php">
> <input type="text" name="mytext">
> <input type="submit" name="submit">
> </form>
>
> test.php:
> <?
> if($submit){
> //do something
> }
> ?>
>
> this used to work before i put enctype="multipart/form-data" in the form tag.

If you correct the spelling of "method" does anything change?

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CC

[David Walker]

> where does the $mytext variable disapear to after you submit????

> <form enctype="multipart/form-data" mehtod="post" action="test.php">
> <input type="text" name="mytext">
> <input type="submit" name="submit">
> </form>
>
> test.php:
> <?
> if($submit){
> //do something
> }
> ?>

Is this the entire form? I'm confused as to why you are trying to use
form-data if you only have a text field. Also, do you have the global
variables set up so that $submit refers to the form post data? Usually
you'd have to use $_POST['submit'] - you could try that?
If method is spelt wrong in your code too though then thats your first thing
to check.

David

[Jason Dumler]

CC Zona wrote:

>>where does the $mytext variable disapear to after you submit????
>><form enctype="multipart/form-data" mehtod="post" action="test.php">
>><input type="submit" name="submit">
>></form>
>>
>><?
>> if($submit){
>> //do something
>> }
>>?>
>>
>>this used to work before i put enctype="multipart/form-data" in the form tag.

>
>
> If you correct the spelling of "method" does anything change?
>

And perhaps give the submit element a value?

<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit Button"/>

Jason

[Daniel]

the method typo was purely on this only, it's spelled correctly on my
page.
i have also tried to give submit a value - no dice.
the entire form is fairly long and contains many fields, one of them
being a file type. But if this page wont work the real one wont
either. I have done a $arr = get_defined_vars();print_r($arr); and
can't find the $mytext variable anywhere either.

[Daniel]

note.. this code worked with:
<form method="post" action="test.php">
but not with
<form enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post" action="test.php">
i don't understand why this would happen.
maybe it's something specific to this server as i have used the
enctype="multi..." on a different server and it's worked fine.