php not all POST variables coming through

puter · 06-19-2008, 10:13 AM

first i'll say i am new to php
my script is not accepting all the POST variables i'm expecting in fact if i do an

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or die("")

after a

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$var = $_POST['var']

it will die
i promise that i have typed the name of the variables correctly (for at least one of the ones that isn't working. Only array member 0 - 12 and 14 receive values. here's the script, with the form the post was too big so if anyone actually wants to see it i'll post it up

SCIPT:

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<?php

function commaCare($string) {
        if (strpos($string, ",")) {
                return "\"".$string."\"";
        }
        return $string;
}
$fh = fopen("HousingTable.txt", 'a') or die("can't open file");
$title =  $POST_['subject']; //Fall 2008/2009
$array[0] = $_POST['FirstName'];
$array[1] = $_POST['LastName'];
$array[2] = $_POST['RUID'];
$array[3] = $_POST['Email'];
$array[4] = $_POST['Phone'];
$array[5] = $_POST['Birthdate'];
$array[6] = $_POST['Gender'];
$array[7] = $_POST['Affiliation']; #A&S grad/under
$array[8] = $_POST['Applicant_Status_B']; #1st year, 2nd year
$array[9] = $_POST['Applicant_Status_C']; #New/Returning
$array[10] = $_POST['Contract'];
$array[11] = $_POST['MealOptionA'];
$array[12] = $_POST['MealOptionB'];
$array[13] = $_POST['RU Express']; //RU Express Amnt
$array[14] = $_POST['Option1'].",".$_POST['Option2'].",".$_POST['Option3'].",".$_POST['Option4'].",".$_POST['Option5'];
$array[15] = $_POST['Mailing Address'] or die("something strange is up");
$array[16] = $POST_['CityStateM'];
$array[17] = $POST_['Cell'];
$array[18] = $POST_['Applicant_Status_A']; //grad/under/transfer self titled
$array[19] = $POST_['Dec08 Grad']; //yes/no
if (strcmp($POST_['Part-Time Info'], "") == 0) $array[20] = $POST_['Part_Time Student'];
else $array[20] =  $POST_['Part_Time Student'].".  ".$POST_['Part-Time Info'];
$array[21] = $POST_['Contract 2'];
$array[22] = $POST_['Room Selection Preference'];
$array[23] = $POST_['Apartment Type'];
$array[24] = $POST_['Law/Grad Roomate Preferences'];
$array[25] = $POST_['Apt Before Roomates'];
$array[26] = $POST_['UG Floor Preference'];
$array[27] = $POST_['Undergraduate Roomates'];
$array[28] = $POST_['Studys in Room']; //make sure these are coming through even though no val
$array[29] = $POST_['Goes to Bed']; //same as last one
$array[30] = $POST_['Rises'];  //same as last one
$array[31] = $POST_['Neat Room'];
$array[32] = $POST_['Light Sleeper'];
$array[33] = $POST_['Computer_in_room'];
$array[34] = $POST_['Music_in_room'];
$array[35] = $POST_['Frequent Guests'];
$array[36] = $POST_['Smoker'];
$array[37] = $POST_['Special_Concerns'];
$array[38] = $POST_['Grad Cash']."\n";
while (strpos($array[14],",,")) {
        $array[14] = str_replace(",,", "", $array[14]);
        if (strcmp($array[14], ",") == 0) $array[14] = "";
        if (strcmp(substr($array[14][sizeof($array[14])]), ",") == 0) $array[14] = substr($array[14],sizeof($array[14] - 2));
}

for ($i = 0; $i < sizeof($array) - 1; $i++) {
        fwrite($fh, commaCare($array[$i]).",") or die("can't write to file");
        echo "array[".$i."]: ".$array[$i]."<br>";
}
fwrite($fh, commaCare($array[$i]).",") or die("can't write to file");
fclose($fh);
?>

Clemente · 06-19-2008, 10:51 AM

Don't think, that there is anything wrong with your php script.
Can you post your form anyway?
If possible, you can clear out irrelevant lines.
Or - if you generate your form with php - you can post the generated html code?

Clemente

puter · 06-19-2008, 10:57 AM

http://housing.camden.rutgers.edu/fa...gContract.html

derzok · 06-19-2008, 01:33 PM

Your code claims to be XHTML 1.0 Transitional which it is not. Run your code through an XML validator next time.

You can't put spaces in name="" or id="" properties - that's why half of your values aren't going through. You should also end all of your singleton tags. ie:

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<input type="text" name="abc" id="xyz" />

instead of:

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<input type="text" name="abc" id="xyz">

/me Hates WYSIWYG editors a little more

Edit: Also, you need to use $_POST not $POST and not $POST_

puter · 06-19-2008, 03:30 PM

thank you very much, i didn't make this form im just trying to update the cgi process

Clemente · 06-19-2008, 04:24 PM

Ho, must be either blind or drunken. ;-)
$array[1 to 12] work - no spaces in field name, and correct access to $_POST[].
array[13] does not work - space in field name
array[14] works
all remaining array do not work - incorrect access to $POST_[] (look at the underscore).

If you do a print_r($_POST), you see the correctly filled array. (I copied your form to my server and tested it.) All POSTed values are present. Funny thing, that php obviously does not work correctly with whitespaces in assiciative arrays... I never realized. Will go in this.

If you have no access to the form, you propably can iterate over $_POST with array_keys or similar.
Sorry for being little unspecific, but I am in little hurry at the moment...

Greets, Clemente