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PHP

Posted by Steven Lorenzi
Steven Lorenzi
15,994 Points

Working with Post Variables

I had an error where my $_POST variable would not display the form submission elements. Instead, it would display and empty array. The solution was to add an = sign to the name attribute (shown below). I can not believe I over-looked something so simple. I was checking for configuration errors when it was a simple typo the entire time.

Submission would still work, but there was no name on the input elements for POST to create an array.

I will go ahead and leave this forum post up. It may benefit someone experiencing an issue with receiving the ' array(0) {} ' message.

        <form method="post" action="contact-process.php">
            <table>
                <tr>
                    <th>    
                        <label for="name">Name</label>
                    </th>
                    <td>
                        <input type="text" name"name" id="name">
                    </td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <th>    
                        <label for="email">Email</label>
                    </th>
                    <td>
                        <input type="text" name"email" id="email">
                    </td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <th>    
                        <label for="message">Message</label>
                    </th>
                    <td>
                        <textarea name"message" id="message"></textarea>
                    </td>
                </tr>
            </table>
            <input type="submit" value="Send">
        </form>

1 Answer

Guilherme Henrique
Guilherme Henrique
41 Points
Guilherme Henrique
Guilherme Henrique
41 Points

You must write input name attribute with a equal sign before like name="my_input_name" no like was you doing... name"my_input_name".