PHP not posting (yes, name tag defined)

Question

After reading 20+ posts (a large majority of which involve people failing to put the name attribute in their input tags), I have a stupidly simple script:

<form action="submit_form.php" method="post">
        Name: <input type="text" name="name"><br>
        <input type="submit">
</form>

and on submit_form.php I have

<?php echo $_POST["name"]; ?>

Which spits out the text below.

Notice: Undefined index: name in C:\Users...\PhpstormProjects...\submit_form.php on line 1

I've been using PHP for years though this is the first PHP project on this fresh machine so this is the first post type action I've tried on the new configuration. With that said, I have a feeling it has to do with my PHP configuration? What should I look for inphpinfo()?

As a probably very important note:

I'm running this on PhpStorm
I've set all the deployment settings (I use PhpStorm at work with no problem)
After posting the form from the index page, I've had submit_form.php only execute phpinfo(); and that works except...
I get random 502's... Half of the time I see the PHP info, the other half of the time I get 502 Bad Gateway...

I've also tried:

if(isset($_POST["name"])) {
 echo $_POST["name"];
}

@nospor Thanks, edited to fix. It was a copy and paste error — 8protons, Jul 08 '16 at 06:20
@Anant It's a php file. Im able to connect to a DB with MySQLi and everything. Literally just can't seem to post — 8protons, Jul 08 '16 at 06:33
@AniruddhaChakraborty Even if I set `value='2'` inside the input, I still get `array(0) { }`, grrr. — 8protons, Jul 08 '16 at 06:35
I think you have to install everything from scratch again as you said `I get random 502's... Half of the time I see the PHP info, the other half of the time I get 502 Bad Gateway...`. go to cmd and run php command and check working or not? — Alive to die - Anant, Jul 08 '16 at 06:37
What the URL do you see in a browser when you executing your script? It it will be like `localhost:63342/PROJECT_NAME/...` then it means that PhpStorm's own simple built in web server is in use .. and it has some issue with POST data -- http://stackoverflow.com/a/34787827/783119 — LazyOne, Jul 08 '16 at 07:09

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 08 '16 at 06:39

First try

var_dump($_POST)

Because i think you're posting data to a wrong file. that's why you're not getting anything from var_dump .. please check that submit_form.php filename

if it doesn't work!

How about try something from beginning .

First create a file name: setup.php

<form action="post.php" method="post">
        Name: <input type="text" name="name"><br>
        <input type="submit" name="submit">
</form>

Then Create another file in the same directory called post.php

<?php 

     if(isset($_POST["name"])) {
       $name = $_POST["name"];
     }   

     echo $name;

?>

Hopefully my solution will work for you!

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 08 '16 at 06:39

0

The following link to a blog might help you resolve your problem. It does seem that your issue is php.ini configuration related.

http://getluky.net/2009/02/24/php-_post-array-empty-although-phpinput-and-raw-post-data-is-available/

answered Jul 08 '16 at 06:39

Ravi

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