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$_POST data randomly not working again. This is getting very frustrating:

Notice: Undefined index: fname in /home/mysite/public_html/system/core/core.functions.php(637) : eval()'d code on line 6

PHP is on.

FYI, the earlier thread marked as resolved should not be. You can see now that the errors I found had nothing to do with the issue at hand; rather, I had copied incorrect quotatin marks into my post.

anyone? this is a recurring issue that’s really, really annoying

So here’s where I’m at. I have a template (actions/test) with a simple PHP capture for a form like so:

<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
global $IN;
$theClause = $IN->GBL('blarftastic','POST');
echo $theClause;
?>

On two different templates (root/index, tours/index), I have the same form:

<form method="post" action="/actions/test">
<input type="text" name="blarftastic"><input type="submit">
</form>

Submitting the form from ‘root/index’ template works just fine; however, submitting the same form from ‘tours/index’ shows… nothing. I even created new templates in the ‘tours’ template group and tried. No luck. Then I deleted the whole tours group, recreated it and tried again. No luck.

I’ve seen this before. Somewhere EE is getting stuck on specific template groups and will not pass any form variables from them. I have no explanation. Surely this has been seen before by someone else.

Please advise!

Don

what’s a print_r or var_dump of the post array show you?

That’s just it—it was coming back completely blank, even with all error reporting on. More toiling on this has turned up some insights:

- EE is not liking dashes (’-’) characters in the template name. Removing these seems to fix it partially.
- Not having a closing slash (’/’) at the end of the form ‘action’ tag breaks it too. So do this:

<form action="/actions/dosubmit/" method="post">

NOT this:

<form action="/actions/dosubmit" method="post">

- Trying to pass a segment in the action parameter buggers it up too

what are you trying to do, what is your goal here?  You should probably try to be making a module so you can take advantage of the action id.

-greg

I have a plugin that submits the data. Rather, SHOULD submit it. But again, sometimes the $_POST makes it through, sometimes not. It’s getting to the point where I almost need to start considering building a bunch of components outside of EE altogether. Very frustrated.

So this is part of a plugin you’re attempting to create?