_POST Syntax from HTML Form

Becca800 · 02-23-2009, 03:57 AM

Hello all and thanks in advance for any help. I am using Joomla and chronoforms (a joomla extension) to upload data into mysql from a form which a user fills out. I am having one issue with the following part:

PHP Code:


			
<?php

$_POST['type'] = 'component';

$_POST['componentid'] = '20';

$_POST['parent'] = '0';

$_POST['checked_out_time'] = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");

$_POST['link'] = 'index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=';

$_POST['published'] = '0';

$_POST['checked_out'] = '0';

$_POST['sublevel'] = '0';

$_POST['params'] = 'show_noauth=

show_title=

link_titles=

show_intro=

show_section=

link_section=

show_category=

link_category=

show_author=

show_create_date=

show_modify_date=

show_item_navigation=

show_readmore=

show_vote=

show_icons=

show_pdf_icon=

show_print_icon=

show_email_icon=

show_hits=

feed_summary=

page_title=Best ' . $city . $state . 'Home Stager 

show_page_title=0

pageclass_sfx=

menu_image=-1

secure=0';

?>

This is the very end of the form and is activated upon submission. Everything is posted correctly except for the page title. The page title just shows as Best Home Stager. The city and state variable are coming from the form itself, these form fields have ids and names with 'city' and 'state' respectively. Am I going about this incorrectly?...as I am trying to post the variables from the form in this manner?

`Jeremy · 02-23-2009, 04:01 AM

You need to make their names city and state, not their ids.

Also, you need to either use $_POST['city'] and $_POST['state'] or before $city and $state are used, do $city = $_POST['city']; and $state = $_POST['state'];

Becca800 · 02-23-2009, 04:14 AM

The names are city and state, as I said above, and the ids as well. THank you, the first suggestion did not work but the second one partly did. When I entered Houston TX into the form I got:

Best Houston0Home Stager

So I got the city, but not the state. Same code as above but added:

PHP Code:


			
$city = $_POST['city'];

$state = $_POST['state'];

above it all.

Becca800 · 02-23-2009, 04:23 AM

For some reason, the state variable is not going through. I will forge on and figure it out, thanks for helping though, you helped me tremendously.

UPDATE: Yeah, I am a foobar in the flesh. I already had another variable named state in some syntax above that equaled to 0.

02-23-2009, 03:57 AM	PM User \| #1
Becca800 New to the CF scene Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 3 Thanks: 1 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	_POST Syntax from HTML Form Hello all and thanks in advance for any help. I am using Joomla and chronoforms (a joomla extension) to upload data into mysql from a form which a user fills out. I am having one issue with the following part: PHP Code: <?php $_POST['type'] = 'component'; $_POST['componentid'] = '20'; $_POST['parent'] = '0'; $_POST['checked_out_time'] = date("Y-m-d H:i:s"); $_POST['link'] = 'index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id='; $_POST['published'] = '0'; $_POST['checked_out'] = '0'; $_POST['sublevel'] = '0'; $_POST['params'] = 'show_noauth= show_title= link_titles= show_intro= show_section= link_section= show_category= link_category= show_author= show_create_date= show_modify_date= show_item_navigation= show_readmore= show_vote= show_icons= show_pdf_icon= show_print_icon= show_email_icon= show_hits= feed_summary= page_title=Best ' . $city . $state . 'Home Stager show_page_title=0 pageclass_sfx= menu_image=-1 secure=0'; ?> This is the very end of the form and is activated upon submission. Everything is posted correctly except for the page title. The page title just shows as Best Home Stager. The city and state variable are coming from the form itself, these form fields have ids and names with 'city' and 'state' respectively. Am I going about this incorrectly?...as I am trying to post the variables from the form in this manner?

02-23-2009, 04:14 AM	PM User \| #3
Becca800 New to the CF scene Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 3 Thanks: 1 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	thanks The names are city and state, as I said above, and the ids as well. THank you, the first suggestion did not work but the second one partly did. When I entered Houston TX into the form I got: Best Houston0Home Stager So I got the city, but not the state. Same code as above but added: PHP Code: `$city = $_POST['city']; $state = $_POST['state'];` above it all.

02-23-2009, 04:23 AM	PM User \| #4
Becca800 New to the CF scene Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 3 Thanks: 1 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	For some reason, the state variable is not going through. I will forge on and figure it out, thanks for helping though, you helped me tremendously. UPDATE: Yeah, I am a foobar in the flesh. I already had another variable named state in some syntax above that equaled to 0. Last edited by Becca800; 02-23-2009 at 04:35 AM..

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02-23-2009, 04:01 AM	PM User \| #2
`Jeremy New Coder Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 32 Thanks: 0 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts	You need to make their names city and state, not their ids. Also, you need to either use $_POST['city'] and $_POST['state'] or before $city and $state are used, do $city = $_POST['city']; and $state = $_POST['state'];