From: Andrew Mason on
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 7:41 AM, Daevid Vincent <daevid(a)daevid.com> wrote:
> You've got something jacked. DO NOT proceed with your coding using this
> hack.
>
> Put this in a blank file named whatever_you_want.php and hit it with your
> web browser.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -----
> <?php if ($_POST['action'] == 'Go') print_r($_POST); ?>
>
> <form action="<?=$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']?>" method="POST">
>        <select name="my_select">
>                <option value="foo">foo</option>
>                <option value="bar">bar</option>
>        </select>
>        <input type="submit" value="Go" name="action" class="button
> submit"/>
> </form>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -----
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Brian Dunning [mailto:brian(a)briandunning.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 2:23 PM
>> To: PHP-General
>> Subject: Re: [PHP] Can't read $_POST array
>>
>> This was the complete code of the page (this is the POST
>> version not the REQUEST version):
>>
>> <?php
>> $response = print_r($_POST, true);
>> echo $response;
>> ?>
>>
>> Returns an empty array no matter what POST vars are sent. We
>> fixed it by changing it to this, which I've never even heard
>> of, but so far is working perfectly:
>>
>> <?php
>> $response = file_get_contents('php://input');
>> echo $response;
>> ?>
>>
>> I have no idea what the problem was. Thanks to everyone for your help.
>>
>>
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Does what your posting contain any content like '<' '>' my guess is
that you need to access the content using the filter_ functions.

Andrew