PHP form won't submit to $_POST
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Noob alert! I am doing Kevin Skoglund's PHP Essentials course on Lynda.com. Ch. 11 is an example to illustrate superglobals. He is using php 5.6 and my WAMP is setup for php 7.0.1. I can't get this simple form to post to the superglobal and I have no idea why.
<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
$username = $_POST["username"];
$password = $_POST["password"];
$message = "Logging in {$username}";
} else{
$message= "The form was not submitted";
}
;?>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Hello World</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php echo $message;?>
<form method="post" action="">
<label for="username">Username: </label>
<input type="text" name="username" id="username" value=""/>
<br />
<label for="password">Password:</label>
<input type="password" name="password" id="password" value=""/> <br />
<br/>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit"/>
</form>
</body>
</html>
The output is always null regardless of what is typed into the two fields. Its running from localhost directory, WAMP is live. What could cause such a simple error?
Answer
Solution:
Firstly thanks to everyone who tried to help me. It wasn't the code but in the end the error seems to originate in PHPstorm. When running the php file by having the IDE initiate it there seems to be a port number being added in the localhost address.
http://localhost:63342/www/Helloworld.php?_ijt=6jrieg9npqffa11j0l2k3bv05hThis is causing the post values to get lost when running the form, and the superglobal comes back empty as a result.
When I initiate localhost directly from WAMP menu and type in the url for the file e.g.
http://localhost/Helloworld.php, then the code runs as intended. I still have to sort out how to get PHPstorm to run the php files into the correct localhost instance but for now there's a workaround.