PHP5 POST HTML Form Data (inputs data, selection)

Question

Having some trouble posting input types data and selections to a php script.

    <form action="./events/upload.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
        <input type="text" name="event" id="event"><br/>
        <textarea rows="4" cols="50" name="description" id="description" ></textarea></br>
        <input type="file" name="fileToUpload" id="fileToUpload"></br>
        <input type="date" name="data" id="date"><br/>
        <input type="date" name="endDate" id="endDate"><br/>
        <select name="Template" name="Template" id="Template">
            <option value="select1">select 1</option>
            <option value="select2">select 2</option>
            <option value="select3">select 3</option>
            <option value="select4">select 4</option>
        </select><br/>
        <input type="submit" value="submit" name="submit"><br/>
        </form>

For both text and textbox i can easily get it by using

$event = $_REQUEST['event'];
$description = $_REQUEST['description'];

If i use the same method to get data, endDate and Template i dont get anything from them.

$date = $_REQUEST['date'];
$endDate = $_REQUEST['enddate'];
$template = $_REQUEST['template'];
$phase = array("Event= ", $event, "Description= ", $description, "Image= ", $image, "Date= ", $date, "End Date= ", $endDate, "Template= ", $template);
print_r($phase);

I am simply looking to get the data they have as a sting (so date as a string and the Template value as a string.

Side note: Did you in fact close off the form? I don't see a `` in your post and in edit mode neither. — Funk Forty Niner, Sep 12 '17 at 16:37
*"If i use the same method to get data..."* - Did you assign those variables to POST arrays? — Funk Forty Niner, Sep 12 '17 at 16:39
i did close off the form sorry, and i used their name ="" values for the requests. — AceScottie, Sep 12 '17 at 16:41
i have tried $_POST with no change. still getting nothing from those fields — AceScottie, Sep 12 '17 at 16:46
Anything from error reporting? http://php.net/manual/en/function.error-reporting.php — Funk Forty Niner, Sep 12 '17 at 16:51
You should be getting errors, `$_REQUEST['template']` and `name="Template" name="Template"` is doubled, yet the lettercase is different. Same thing goes for `name="endDate"`. Both being undefined indexes. — Funk Forty Niner, Sep 12 '17 at 16:52

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 12 '17 at 16:51

The reason is that the array key's you are trying to access are case sensitive:

this will work:

$date = $_REQUEST['data'];
$endDate = $_REQUEST['endDate'];
$template = $_REQUEST['Template'];
$phase = array("Event= ", $event, "Description= ", $description, "Image= ", $image, "Date= ", $date, "End Date= ", $endDate, "Template= ", $template);
print_r($phase);

to find errors like these it's a good practice to turn on error reporting:

error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', 1);

i moved over from ajax to include file uploading and forgot to check the naming scheme, thanks. — AceScottie, Sep 12 '17 at 17:15

PHP5 POST HTML Form Data (inputs data, selection)

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