PHP $_POST problem

MathieuF · February 11, 2016

So i'm doing the PHP tutorial and for some reason $_POST or $_REQUEST are not getting filled up

So the form is this

D:\PHPStormProjects\W3schoolTutorial\Forms\PhpFormPt1.php
<html>
<body>

<form action="welcome.php" method="post">
Name: <input type="text" name="name" id="name"><br>
E-mail: <input type="text" name="email"><br>
<input type="submit" name="submit">
</form>

</body>
</html>

AND the php is this I added some things to test(used quote as somehow code made it go blank)

D:\PHPStormProjects\W3schoolTutorial\Forms\Welcome.php

<html>
<body>

Welcome <?php echo ($_POST['name']);

print "CONTENT_TYPE: " . $_SERVER['CONTENT_TYPE'] . "<BR />";

print "DATA: <pre>";
var_dump($data);
var_dump($_POST);
print "</pre>";
?><br>

Your email address is: <?php echo $_POST['email']; ?>

</body>
</html>

Welcome 
Notice: Undefined index: name in D:\PHPStormProjects\W3schoolTutorial\Forms\Welcome.php on line 4

Notice: Undefined index: CONTENT_TYPE in D:\PHPStormProjects\W3schoolTutorial\Forms\Welcome.php on line 6
CONTENT_TYPE: 
DATA:string(47) "name=name&email=email%40email.com&submit=Submit"
array(0) {
}

Your email address is: 
Notice: Undefined index: email in D:\PHPStormProjects\W3schoolTutorial\Forms\Welcome.php on line 15

EDIT: Tested it with netbeans instead of PHPStorm and that lets it run fine (if someone knows what setting i could have done wrong in PHPStorm feel free to post down below as for now i'll keep using netbeans)

EDIT2: think the problem is related to this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35290133/phpstorm-post-always-empty-solved BUT i have no idea how or what he did to fix it

Edited February 12, 2016 by MathieuF

justsomeguy · February 11, 2016

Where does that $data variable get defined?

Ingolme · February 12, 2016

If you did not arrive to the page by submitting the form, then $_POST['data'] will be undefined and PHP will show an error message.

Petrucho · February 12, 2016

It has to be something with your php version or configuration.

I have just tried the code on my server.

output:

Welcome petruchoCONTENT_TYPE: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
DATA:NULL
array(3) {
["name"]=>
string(8) "petrucho"
["email"]=>
string(18) "petrucho@gmail.com"
["submit"]=>
string(6) "Submit"
}

Your email address is: petrucho@gmail.com

Try the function phpinfo();

MathieuF · February 12, 2016

To be clear to all of you it works completely with neatbeans (see edit) so it has something to do with MyPhpStorm configuration i'll try to figure out what i could be when i've more time but for now i'll continue in netbeans

If you did not arrive to the page by submitting the form, then $_POST['data'] will be undefined and PHP will show an error message.

I arrived in the page but var_dump($_POST) clearly shows that it is empty tho

Where does that $data variable get defined?

Seems it didn't copy all my code too but $data is configured as $ data = file_ get _contents(' php:/ /input'); i added extra spaces as this code seems to dissapear

Edited February 12, 2016 by MathieuF

justsomeguy · February 12, 2016

You may have PHPStorm set up to run PHP scripts using the command line:

https://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/help/run-debug-configuration-php-script.html

Doing that will not populate $_POST, $_SESSION, $_COOKIE, $_GET, or other things that require a web server. It sounds like there is a built-in web server you can use though:

https://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/help/run-debug-configuration-php-built-in-web-server.html

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