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Simple POST problem I can not figure out

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letmeoutofhere

letmeoutofhere

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Jan 23, 2002
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Hello, I am trying to use the POST process to pass variables from one form to another. Not fancy, however it is not working. Any ideas?

*****************
<html>
<head>
<title>Polling</title>
</head>

<body>
<h1>Poll </h1>

<p> Vole...</p>

<?$Age = 1?>;
<form method=post action=&quot;showpoll.php&quot;>
<input type=&quot;hidden&quot; name=&quot;test&quot; value=&quot;<?$Age?>&quot;>
<input type=submit value=&quot;Show Results&quot;></input>
</form>
</body>

*********************
showpoll.php contains:
<?
error_reporting(E_ALL);

$test = $HTTP_POST_VARS[&quot;test&quot;];

echo &quot;test = &quot;. $test;
?>


</html>

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The output has $test being empty.

Any ideas?

Thanks and sorry for the elementary question.

Jim
 
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Actually, PHP as fairly decent error trapping. Not as good as it will be in PHP 5.0 (they're implementing things like &quot;assert&quot;, &quot;try/catch&quot;), but it's usable.

I have a FAQ in this forum (faq434-2999) which shows a code snippet trapping errors using a custom error handling function and the PHP function set_error_handler(). Want the best answers? Ask the best questions: TANSTAAFL!
 
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SOrry for the slow response, but work as kept me buried and I have not been able to log back in to check responses.

I am sorry for not catching the Print statement in the first response. Shesh..

As for the PHP vs HTML, normally I only use PHP however, I had been working on resolving this for quite awhile before I posted the question so this was the final test of many many different attempts. I have over 20 years of programming under my belt so I am not new to this process...just the web portion of it.

Thanks for all the answers, sorry I didn't pick up on the print statement at the top of the post.

Jim
 
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No one was chiding you for missing the response in the second post.

You had mentioned you weren't sure why it worked after you made the change, so I was saying why, and in our own defense explaining why we were over looking it.

And then sleipnir and I debated on why it was so easy for us to overlook.

Anyway, glad you got everything working.

-Rob
 
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i thought that you had to start the script with

<?php track_vars?> [soapbox]
sleep is good
 
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i thought when passing variables from a form using post you had to start your script that handles the form with <?php track_vars?> or is that old php3 stuff, or.... [soapbox]
sleep is good
 
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