$_POST array is always empty and server method return GET while I use POST

Question

I use a method="post" form and made a test script.php to check my variables and this is what I get:

array(0) {
}
array(0) {
}
array(0) {
}
Array ( ) GET

this is my html:

<form id="contacts-form" method="post" action="contact.php" 
enctype="multipart/form-data">
<fieldset>
<div class="field"><input type="text" name="f_name"/></div>
<div class="field"><input type="text" name="f_email"/></div>
<div class="field"><input type="text" name="f_phone"/></div>
<div class="field"><textarea name="f_message" cols="1" rows="1"></textarea></div>
<div class="wrapper">
<a href="contact.php" class="link2"
onclick="document.getElementById('contacts-form').submit()" name="subjoin"> 
<span>
<span>Send Your   Message</span>
</span>
</a>
</div>
</fieldset>
</form>

here's my contact.php script:

<?php
$mypostdata = file("php://input");
print "<pre>";
var_dump($_POST);
var_dump($mypostdata);
var_dump($_GET);
print "</pre>";
print_r($_POST);
print_r($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']);

You have a link that submits the form, with just some text inside of it...? Ever hear of <input type=submit>? :P — cHao
– cHao, Commented May 12, 2013 at 5:46

kelunik · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-12 05:38:44Z

1

Your mistake is in your link:

<a href="#" class="link2" onclick="document.getElementById('contacts-form').submit(); return false;" name="subjoin">

Should work because a normal link just links zu contact.php and does not submit the form.

answered May 12, 2013 at 5:38

kelunik

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Sherif Riad Over a year ago

thank you so much :D I wasted 5 days of my project trying to figure it out, really you saved my day!

cHao Over a year ago

@SherifRiad: If you'd use a submit button for this as the gods intended, you wouldn't have wasted so much time. You wouldn't even have had to script anything. Just saying. :)

Sherif Riad Over a year ago

yeah right, but I had to stick to my design in the website with button look a links

Sherif Riad Over a year ago

yes I do, but that's the way I started it on many pages, and it was great.. simply it's: shit happens! anyway I'll consider using buttons later on as you suggested :)

kelunik Over a year ago

@cHao you can style buttons, but it works slightly different in different browsers because buttons seem to have the old IE-box-modell

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