Re: HTTP POST into PHP

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Author: Don Calfa
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: HTTP POST into PHP
Craig White wrote:

>Trying to figure out what is exactly POST'ed to a php file when executed
>from a form. Perhaps my problem is that from the 'sender' I have several
>'form' objects, each with an 'input' button to invoke the action.
>
>I am trying to evaluate the 'array' that is POST'ed to branch to
>different functions within a php script and I get varying results.
>
>anyway, I have tried to inspect the contents of of the POST by simple
>commands in my target.php file with
>
>var_export($_POST);
>var_export($_HTTP_POST_VARS);
>
>but the thing that is really making me crazy is if I have two
>consecutive lines...
>
>$action = $_POST['OK'];
>var_export($_POST['OK']);
>
>will return different values.
>
>It's almost as if the value of $_POST['OK'] will never die - even if I
>change the 'name' of all of the '<input name="OK" value="some_value">
>buttons.
>
>So I am really left to think that the above 'var_export' commands simply
>don't give me a complete dump of all of the data that is POST'ed - is
>there any way to get a complete dump of this data?
>
>Craig
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I use :

print"<pre>";print_r($_POST);
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