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I have a manually create form on one template that posts to a second template. The second template is set to PHP parse on input, but doesn’t see any $_POST parameters.

Here is the form:

<form action="/signup/step2" method="POST">
  Email: <input type="text" class="text" name="email" class="input" size="25" />
  <input type="submit" class="button" value="Sign Up" /></p>
</form>

In the signup/step2 template, I have tried all of these to no avail.

<?php
echo $_POST['email'];
echo $_REQUEST['email'];

global $IN;
print_r($IN->GBL('email','POST'));
?>

I also tried {exp:parameters:get name="email"} using the GET/POST parameters plugin.

All of these return an empty string.

I printed a phpinfo() on my step2 template and noticed that there was a _REQUEST[”/signup/step2/”] variable set, but no _REQUEST[“email”] variable.

Is it normal for PHP to see templates/template groups as _REQUEST variables of index.php?

I’m on MediaTemple DV if it matters. I’m leaning towards this being a PHP config issue, but am not sure what needs to be tweaked.

Any thoughts?

To further isolate the issue, I used the same form to post to a php file outside of EE. The php file was able to echo $_POST[‘email’].

So, this tells me that the form is posting and that PHP on the server is capable of reading POST variables.

Any idea on why I can’t read the POST variable inside an EE template?

Any chance you’re doing some rewriting?  Check your headers- are you going directly to the post page.  It worked fine for me in a quick test- and I can’t think why it normally wouldn’t.

Bingo. A mod_rewrite broke it for some reason.

Here is the offending rewrite.

# Add a trailing slash to paths without an extension
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,5}|/)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1/ [L,R=301]

Thanks for the help!

Glad Robin was able to help. Don’t hesitate to post again as needed.