PHP :: Looping Thru POST Variables

Can't See My Post Variables
I work on an application which runs on our Intranet network, so security it's not a big issue, and my phpinfo() get me register_globals on (php 4.1.2 on a Debian system).
The problems is that I can't see my post variables (only with $_POST) and I don't get it . Is there another setting wich overrides php.ini and stop my register_globals ->on to behave properly ?

With Variables And POST
On my online order form, I need to send a few variables to my
credit-card processor. These variables are for non-secure customer
comments, and will be sent through the usual metod, i.e.,
<form action="https://orderpage.ic3.com/hop/orderform.jsp"
method="post">

However, one variable is a text-area box for a detailed customer
comment, and this variable can get pretty long. But my credit-card
processor has a 256 byte maximum length limit for all POSTed
variables. However, I can add as many of these 256-byte variables as I
like.

So how can I accomplish this in the most simple, efficient, and
elegant manner? How can I break up the text-area vaiable into 256-byte
pieces and then send these variables via POST along with all of the
other form variables which will be POSTed through the usual HTML
means?

POST/GET Into Variables
how does this look? should this by me calling ... myforms = new
forms(); work by turning all key/value pairs for both get and post
into variable names of the same name as the get/post key, and the
variable values as the values from the post/get?

class forms {
// Some stuff
var $MyPosts;
var $MyGets;...

Post Cookie Variables
I have a page that include on the top the result of a cookie (i come form a previous page with some inputs) in the second part of the page a form with name surname email etc etc
On submit all the information (cookie + form) are sent by email...
my problem is this: in the email doesn't appear the cookie values
i try to create in the form tab a hidden fiel d with this value

<input name="NewEoc" type="hidden" value="<?php echo $COOKIE['NewEoc'] ?>">

Variables Past By Get And Post
I'd like a generic include that goes at the top of all pages that mysql escapes the variables past to the script. Is there a way to refer to the each of the variables past, for example (in pseudo code):

for(each $XX in (list of get/post variables)) {
$$XX = mysql_escape_string($$XX);
}

Empty Variables And 4.21 (POST/GET)
With global variables set to on, I always had the following in my script to make sure variables had a default value:

if (empty($var)) {
$var = 1;}

Now with 4.21, I changed it to:

if (empty($_GET['var'])) {
$var = 1;}

The problem is sometimes I use GET and sometimes I use POST. With global variables on it didn't matter. Now it does. Is there a way to do this? When I try if (empty($_GET['var']) || empty($_POST['var'])), it doesn't work because one or the other will always be empty at any one time.

Processing GET And POST Variables
Below is a function adapted from one found in phpMyEdit.class.php
http://platon.sk/projects/release_l...hp?project_id=5
phpMyEdit is a form generator for PHP/MySQL.

I think this function works great, especially for forms where data is
redisplayed due to failed validation of user input. I wonder what the
opinion of other PHP users would be.

function get_cgi_var($name, $default_value = null)
{
// From the phpMyEdit project
// Usage: $name = get_cgi_var('name');
static $magic_quotes_gpc = null;
if ($magic_quotes_gpc === null) {
$magic_quotes_gpc = get_magic_quotes_gpc();
}
global $HTTP_GET_VARS;
$var = @$HTTP_GET_VARS[$name];
if (! isset($var)) {
global $HTTP_POST_VARS;
$var = @$HTTP_POST_VARS[$name];
}
if (isset($var)) {
if ($magic_quotes_gpc) {
if (is_array($var)) {
foreach (array_keys($var) as $key) {
$var[$key] = stripslashes(trim(strip_tags($var[$key])));
}
return $var;
} else {
$var = stripslashes(trim(strip_tags($var)));
}
}
} else {
$var = @$default_value;
}
return $var;
// If data is displayed/posted using htmlspecialchars($var)
// return @$HTTP_POST_VARS ? html_entity_decode($var, ENT_QUOTES) :
$var;
};

$name = get_cgi_var('name');

POST Variables And Sockets...
I have a server that uses Cpanel, and my mail server is Cpanel's cppop. I am trying to create an email address. With an older version of Cpanel, you could use this command line through sockets.

GET /frontend/x2/mail/doaddpop.html?email=emailaddress&domain=mysite.ca&password=emailpassword&quota=10 HTTP/1.0
Authorization: Basic $pass

That worked just fine because email addresses were created through GET variables. Now, they have changed it to POST variables. Now, I need to create an email address, while faking the following post variables:

email
domain
password
quota

I know I need to use sockets, and pass the POST variables, but I have no idea how to.

Passing Variables With POST
I have a file named login.php that basically just checks if a username and password are in a MySQL database. If they aren't then it shows access denied. If they are then I want to pass the $name and $pass to project.php in a different directory. Code:

POST Variables Not Coming Through
For some reason, at random posts, the post variables don't get thru to
the server. For example, if there is are two text fields: name and
email... (I have register_globals on)... When I try to update the
database with a query and use $name, $email, the $name is missing or
the $email is missing. I am building an intranet application and all
the 20 or so clients run IE. This happens very rarely. Something like
once in 100 updates.

But I can see this in the log files as update contact set name="",
email="asda@pol.com" where contact_id=918. Notice the name field is
blank. I have JS checks in the client side which does not allow blank
name field..

Is this an IE random error? How do I get over this?

POST Variables From Programs
we are trying to make a program in C++ that will comminicate with a PHP script. But we dont know how to get the variables from the program. We got it figured out with perl/CGI, but PHP seems to be a better way to connect to SQL server. On PHP the GET works, its easy, but it's not secure enough. I need informtion on what headers does the PHP require to get the POSTed data from a program.

Sending Variables As POST?
I am currently trying to send information to another page using the POST method. Unfortuantley I can not find any information on how to do this. Currently I am trying

Header ("Location: newpage.html?var=test&var2=test2");

Obviously this re-directs with the variables, but they are send using GET. Not what it need. Any ideas on how to post these variables to the new page?

Apache/PHP Post Variables
I'm working with someone on a PHP project. The other person is doing
testing of scripts on their personal machine using Apache as a web server.
The production server and the one I'm using are both using IIS.

This other person reports that in their PHP scripts when tested with Apache,
form variable sent via the POST method are not "coming through." (This is
even using the "long method" of specifying them as $HTTP_POST_VARS['x'].)
These same scripts work fine on the the IIS machine (the POST variable come
through).

I've looked online to see if I can find out if anything special must be
specified in the Apache configuration to enable the POST method, and
although I found other people posting similar problems, I saw no reference
to a solution.

Not Catching The Post Variables
For some reason my PHP script is not catching the post variables that should be being sent by this form. Code:

Forward POST-variables
I have a form which should be submitted with either of two actions. Tried with javascript but this seems unreliable. Now looking at php and a processor page as the action of the form (process.php) which then sends the user to the different actionpages...can't figure out how to forward the post-variables to the different pages. Code:

Post Variables From Header Redirect
I'm using header to redirect the browser to another page and in the url I've added ?var1=value1&var2=value2 to pass some argument as get to that script, can I pass in some way, arguments as post in this case ? may I do it in both methos at the same time ?

Passing Post Variables Using Fopen()
I'm trying to pull data from a website and read it into a file the I
can parse. I've done the before to site without post variables but I
can seem to get my statments to work with the post. Can someone help
me out?below is the code I have so far.

$url="www.somesitethatneedspostvariables.com";

$postdata = http_build_query(
array( 'postvarname1' ='value1',
'postvarname2' ='value2'
)
);
$opts = array('http' =>
array(
'method' ='POST',
'header' ='Content-type: application/x-www-form-
urlencoded',
'content' =$postdata
)
);

$context = stream_context_create($opts);
$file = @fopen($url, "r", $content) or die("Connection Error, Please
contact Webmaster ERROR CODE=0xDEADBEEF");

Get Unknown Number Of Variables From POST Or GET.
I am trying to create a page that redirects users to an advertiser's page. The reason for the redirect is statistics about who clicks where.

The situation is simple when I only need to redirect them to a page, but some of the ads on my site include forms which put data in either POST or GET and I need to know how to allow my redirect page to take that data from POST or GET, whatever that data is, and pass it on to the page that the data were intended for.

I think that once I get the data I can simply create a hidden form, on the redirect page, with the data from POST or GET already in it. However, I don't know how to get an arbitrary number of variables from POST or GET.

Search - Pass Variables Or Self Post
I've created a database of documents that is searchable by a variety of fields. Currently I have a PHP page called search.php with a form to get the keywords from the user and it then passes this back to itself, runs a query and displays the results. Doing it this way the address for the search page and the results of the search is the same.

This all works fine and I'm happy with it but I was wondering if it should be implemented differently where the keywords are used as a part of the address like with search engines with Google. I don't know what the advantages or disadvantages is for either method so I'm keen to hear what others think is the best method.

How Can I Pass Variables Via POST In A Script?
Let's assume we have a script that only accepts POST variable input.. How is it possible to pass variables to it (using a php-script)?

How To Loop Through POST Variables And Contents
I am looking for a standard way/function to loop through all POST variables
and their respective contents to update a database record.

Here's my ideal to pass a function and it update:
session variable - "ID" - that holds the record ID to update
$_POST or $HTTP_POST_VARS

The function would update the $_POST vaiables of the ID record with the
$_POST variable's contents.

Get/Post Variables Not Showing Under Windows
I'm quite rusty with PHP and have a little issue. A script transmit parameters to itself through a simple form. It works fine when I run it on aproduction server (Linux+Apache+PHP4). When I run the same script on my development machine (Win2K+Apache2+PHP5) the submited variables
don't show.

Here's some simplified code:

<HTML>
<BODY>

<?php
print_r ($_SERVER);
print_r ($submit);
switch ($submit) {
// ...
}
?>

<FORM METHOD=Get>Display content of:<BR>
<INPUT TYPE=submit NAME=submit VALUE=APACD1>
<INPUT TYPE=submit NAME=submit VALUE=APACD2>
// ...
</FORM>

</BODY>
</HTML>

PHP Not Populating Form Variables Passed Through POST Or GET
I"m running:

Windows Xp SP2
Apache2
PHP5
MySQL4

Everything seems fine and dandy, and I can do scripting on server side, but for some reason I cannot get data from a form to be put into a variable.

I have a simple form in an html page which submits, and in the php script that handles the input, none of the data in the form is going into the variables.

My php.ini file does have all the GPC's in place(ie variable_order, the way they get processed).

How To Process Some Variables, Then Place Them Into POST And Redirect?
I'd like to do the following in PHP. Is there a way?

Someone submits a form with data. I want to process the data, then once I'm done with it, take two of the variables, make them post variables and basically redirect the browser as if the user pressed the submit button with data filled in.

The variables can't appear in the url.

How Do You Parse Post Variables To A Popup Window?
I know this isnt really a php question but can anyone tell me how
you parse post variables to a popup window, here's my code so far, im
trying to pass the value entered into a radio button:

<head>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript">
var win= null;
function NewWindow(mypage,myname,w,h,scroll)
{
var winl = (screen.width-w)/2;
var wint = (screen.height-h)/2;
var settings ='height='+h+','
settings +='width='+w+','
settings +='top='+wint+','
settings +='left='+winl+','
settings +='scrollbars='+scroll+','
settings +='resizable=yes'
win=window.open(mypage,myname,settings);
if(parseInt(navigator.appVersion) >= 4){win.window.focus();}
}

</script>
</head>

<body>
<form name="answer" action="result.php" method="post">
<input type="radio" name="group1" value="Milk"> Milk<br>
<input type="radio" name="group1" value="Butter"> Butter<br>
<input type="radio" name="group1" value="Cheese"> Cheese<br>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit" src="result.php"
onClick="NewWindow(this.src,'name',âÆ',âÆ','yes');retur n false" >
</form>
</body>

Post Variables After Java Sort Are Lost
I have an HTML table that is being constructed from a MySQL table and
displays a form that includes a check box on 1 of the fields on the form for
each record. I have included in this PHP program a javascript routine called
sorttable.js which is something I found on the internet for sorting tables
and works quite well. The HTML table includes a check box on each record so
the user can select certain records for passing to the next process. This
works fine unless I sort the table on some column and then the POST
variables are lost. When I run the following code there are no POST
variables that will echo except the submit button.

foreach ($_POST as $varName =$value){
echo ($varName . " = " . $value);
}

However, if I don't sort the table the POST variables will be echoed for
every record in the table. I'm not sure why this is happening or how to go
about solving it. When I check certain records on the form and then sort the
table the checks themself don't disappear only the POST variables do. This
prevents me from looping thru the ARRAY to determine the value of the POST
check box for each record to see if it was checked. If I run the above code
but don't sort it I will have several hundred POST variables (several for
each record).

Could someone give me an idea on how to solve this or offer some sort of
work-around?

Forward To Page Alongwith Variables In POST
How to forward a page to another page alongwith the parameters passed into it

I mean I have page a.php
which is called with some parameters in $_POST and I require to pass these to another page with same variables in $_POST

Passing Variables In Frame Page By Post Method
Is it possible to send variables by post method through a submit button to a frames page, and have all 3 pages in the frame pick up the variable using the $_request[var] ?In other words, I click on a submit button. in form action method call index.php the index page has a top, main, and a left frame.how do i get each one of those to receive the variable, when i can only sendit to one page? or is it possible to send it to more than one page, but only action to one page?

Problems With Error Checking / Control Of POST Variables
I have a small form that on button press submits to a PHP file for further
processing into a database. I have to change the script as it allows
blank / nothing to be submitted to the database. The intention is that if
any of the two form fields are blank (empty) then the page is resent
stating that they have to fill in all the fields to post (to a database).

If I deliberately leave the fields blank and submit the form, querying the
database shows that both fields are zero / null - so nothing was entered in
to the database.

However, if I use an echo command to see what is going on (before the data
is entered into a database) I get the $TheName field with a "1" and the
$TheComment field with an unknown entry (it doesn't echo anything to the
screen - but it's not empty).

The code I've used to test this is:

$TheName = $_POST[gbName];
$TheComment = $_POST[gbComment];

if (($TheName = NULL) or ($TheComment = NULL))
{
echo 'Quick error check running:<BR>'
echo "Name: $TheName<BR>";
echo "Comment: $TheComment";
exit;
}

This does NOT execute as these fields are not empty. It only runs if I
change to:

if (($TheName = !NULL) or ($TheComment = !NULL))

Which is pointless as it will always execute with genuine entries.

Using the amended code below:

if (($TheName = !NULL) or ($TheComment = !NULL))
{
echo 'Quick error check running:<BR>'
}

echo "Name: $TheName<BR>";
echo "Comment: $TheComment";

I get the result that both the echoed lines are displayed as blank (no
"1").

PHP:Unable To Post Variables From Html Form To Mysql Database
Plz dont treat this as another newbie query , i did my homework but
still getting nowhere :( :( :(

Trying to learn PHP on Fedora core 1 (PHP 4.3,MySQL,HTTPD).Unable to
post data from html form to php file(connecting to mysql database and
inserting into a table) .
This seemingly simple problem is making me go mad !!! I googled
extensively and already tried the following

I enabled " register_globals = On " .... in /etc/php.ini and
also took used _$POST syntax.

wot could be the problem .... is it the case that /etc/php.ini file is
not being read .... how do i know whether this is the default location
for php.ini?
Where can i find the PHPRC environment variable (the variable
responsible for the php.ini default location)

Is the problem something else .....?

Following is the code ...

form.html
---------
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE> email entry form </TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>

<P>plz fil the form </P>

<FORM METHOD="POST" ACTON="form-handler.php">

NAME: <BR>
<INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME="givename" SIZE=25> <BR>
AGE: <br>
<INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME="givenaddress" SIZE=25> <BR>

<INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT>
</FORM>
</BODY>
</HTML>

form-handler.php
-----------------
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE> EMAIL FORM HANDLER </TITLE>
</HEAD>

<BODY>

<?
mysql_connect("localhost","root") or die("Failure on db connection");

mysql_select_db("mydb");

While Looping.
This function builds a single table that displays a small weekly calendar to display how many records have been entered into my dbase talbe...

i need to show another table with separate queries above this one...

i tried to just duplicate the table, using a while statement, just to make sure i can display two tables, with slightly different queries, but to no avial....would anyone be able to show me the correct syntax to do that?

Code:

Looping In Php
I have a parent/child table. The basic setup is as follows:
The parent table is called load sheet. It has fields such as Tripno,
carrier, loaddate, etc.The child table contains the actual stop offs, in other words the shipper, load city, load state,etc. If a pick then shipper, otherwise a consignee. I have no problem with this parent child table setup.
Here's the problem:

Looping
I am trying the following: I have a ID field in my database wich is displayed in a table.
I want the ID displayed with the link to the ID number. The loop looks like this:

While ($r = mysql_fetch_array($result))
$id = $r[ID];

When I echo that into the table I get the numbers. I want the numbers displayed as a link in the table with the ID variable set to the number for parsing on to the script that gets the record. I have done this futher more:

$ID = "<a href=1.php>". $r[ID]."</a>";

The above links the ID number to the 1.php script but does not parse the $ID to the script.

Looping...
I know how to loop an event a certain number of times, but I cannot figure out how to make the number of times an option. Basically I want to have the form with an option to select the number of times the event happens. Code:

Help With A Looping Function
I have a function that I want to use as a hit counter. Everytime this function is accessed I want a counter to increase by 1.

Code:
function display_articlepart($articlepassed, $infotoreturn, $errorcode) {
// displays a single article
// usage: display_articlepart(selected article id, info to return, $errorcode)
// info to return can be any of these: id artcategory artcreationdate artauthor artauthoremail arttitle artthumbnail arttext arthits

global $tableforarticles;

db_connect($errorcode);

$query = "SELECT * FROM $tableforarticles WHERE id=$articlepassed";
$result = mysql_query($query);

if ( $row = @mysql_fetch_array( $result ) ) {
$id=$row['id'];
$artcategory=$row['artcategory'];
$artcreationdate=$row['artcreationdate'];
$artauthor=$row['artauthor'];
$artauthoremail=$row['artauthoremail'];
$arttitle=$row['arttitle'];
$artthumbnail=$row['artthumbnail'];
$arttext=$row['arttext'];
$arthits=$row['arthits'];

}
else
echo "No items found";

// increment hit counter by 1
mysql_query("UPDATE $tableforarticles SET arthits = arthits+1 WHERE id=$articlepassed");

mysql_close();

// return info

switch( $infotoreturn ) {
case id:
echo "$id"; break;
case artcategory:
echo "$artcategory"; break;
case artcreationdate:
echo "$artcreationdate"; break;
case artauthor:
echo "$artauthor"; break;
case artauthoremail:
echo "$artauthoremail"; break;
case arttitle:
echo "$arttitle"; break;
case artthumbnail:
echo "$artthumbnail"; break;
case arttext:
echo "$arttext"; break;
case arthits:
echo "$arthits"; break;
default:
break;
} // end switch

} // end display_article

The problem is, whenever I call this function, the hits increase by 8 instead of 1.

The mysql query that increments the hit counter,

Code: mysql_query("UPDATE $tableforarticles SET arthits = arthits+1 WHERE id=$articlepassed");

is out of any loop, so why is it running 8 times and increasing the counter 8 times?

2D Array Looping
I'm trying to loop through an array that looks like this:

$images[type][2]
$images[size][0]

I've done some research and I tried using two foreach loops, but I couldn't get it to work right. The following PHP gets the first attribute of the array.

Looping Through Array
I am trying to think through the best way to perform the following :

I need to be able to change the CSS stylesheet of a web page when the user clicks a link like "click for larger print"

I understand basically how this is done but I'm wondering if someone could give me a syntax pointer or two.

Looping Too Many Times
I can't seem to get this loop working properly.
Here is the script:

String Looping?
I am doing user authentication, and I need to find out if the username they chose starts with a number. What is the best way to go about that, is there anything built in to PHP4 to help?

Looping Eating 100 Per Cpu
I've got a while loop thats iterating through a text file and pumping the
contents into a database. the file is quite large (over 150mb).

the looping causes my CPU load to race up to 100 per cent. Even if i remove
the mysql insert query and just loop through the file , it still hits 100
per cent CPU. This has the knock on effect of slowing my script down so
that mysql inserts are occuring every 1/2 second or so.

here's my script:

Looping Through A Query
I am new to PHP and am wondering how to loop through a query in order to avoid delimiters. Below is how I have been doing it in Cold Fusion and was wondering if anyone could help translate this into something similar in PHP.

Bellow is a selection of the fields followed by the table name (verticalfiles) and then the field being searched (name) with the looping of the field following.

SELECT id, name, see, seealso, type, scrapbook
FROM verticalfiles
WHERE name is not null
<CFLOOP LIST="#name#" DELIMITERS=" " INDEX="nameloop">
AND name LIKE '%#nameloop#%'
</CFLOOP>
Order by name

Looping Error
Can anybody explain why this script doesn´t work. It takes ages to load and it doesn´t load everything. I made it for the following purpose. I have a database with 440 Dutch soccerplayers. There is a game where they can earn points. Those points are on another page. I want to load this page in an array and compare all my players with the lines on that site. If a player from my database is in a line on the other site, I filter the points from the other site, and print it on mine. PHP Code:

Looping Within An IF Condition.
I have a counter on my site to log visits. It works well but I've noticed that a lot of visits come from web crawlers so I'm getting counts higher then what it should be. So I put an if statement around my counter code like so..PHP Code:

Looping From A Fetcharray()
I have a SQL query that returns all company names containing a user
defined keyword. I store all this information using: $listings =
mysql_fetch_array($result);

That query works fine, as I am able to see the first company. What I
need to do, is loop through the array, displaying each company name. I
have the code to write the company name to the screen. I am just
trying to figure out how to do the loop. My beta attempt:

(Not shown is that I have used $NumRows to catch the number of rows
contained in $result)

for (x=0, x<=$NumRows, x++){
echo $listings['company_name'];
}

Looping Results...
I'm writing a simple display page for a bunch of info from a realestate database as an exercise. I've successfully queried and displayed the information in tables, but I want it to keep pulling information from the tables until there are no more left. What i've got only pulls one entry. Code:

Looping Through Array
Consider the following array and string:

$trail = array('products/veggies', 'products', 'services/cleaning');
$path = 'products/veggies/1243/more'

I am trying to write a function that matches $path with a value in
$trail. If no match is found, it should chop off "more" and compare
again. Then, chop off "1243" and compare again. Now a match is found:
"products/veggies". The function should return true.

Let's take another example: $path = 'services/industrial/gardening'.
There is no match for $path in $trail. Chopping off "gardening" leaves
"services/industrial". Again, no match. Chopping off "industrial"
leaves "services". No match will be found; the function should return
false.

This is what I have so far:

function in_trail($path) {
global $trail;

while ($path && !in_array($path, $trail)) {
$path = substr($path, 0, strrpos($path, '/'));
}

return $path ? true : false;
}

But this function always returns true! Could someone explain this to
me and tell me how to fix it?

Looping Until Today
I want to loop through dates, stopping at the current date

I set the enddate like this
$enddate=date('Y-m-d');

which prints out as &#55614;&#57158;-04-01'

$l['cc_startdate'] comes from a DB with the column in date format

but when i do
for ($dl=$l['cc_startdate'];$dl < $enddate;$dl++)
{
print $dl;
blah

}

Looping A Result
Im new to PHP and MySql, Im trying to setup a really basic news script for me to use for my site 2design4.com. PHP Code:

Looping From An Array?
I've wrote this script that will pull the last 6 uploaded results in the database and return them via the function recentlyuploaded()

When I call this function it will contain the data from 6 results but the way I have it coded I am only assigning the first value of that array returned. How can I loop through the array that i returned and assign the 6 results to their respective variables? Code:

Looping Thru POST Variables

I need to know how to loop thru the variables my script receives from a form with action=post. I need to build a list of only those variables that comes from my checkboxes.