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not parsing form data as multidimensional variables into $_POST

Bug #978107 reported by GodsMadClown
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php5 (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

I'm having trouble with form data getting into multidimensional data structures on the latest 12.4 beta. I also observe the same behavior on Suse Linux Enterprise, but not on CentOS. What am I missing?

I can define one explicitly, demonstrated with $test_array in the code examples below, however I can't get the post data to populate a similar structure.

The following basic form works as expected, with the input text data getting put into the variables text1 ... text4 in the $_POST array.

<?php

print_r($_POST);

$test_array = array ( 'test1' => array( 'test11' => 'test','test12' => 'test','test13' => array( 'test131' => 'test') ) );

print_r($test_array);
?>

<html>
<body>
<form action="samplepost.php" method="post">

First Name: <input type="text" id="fname" name="text1"></input>
<br/><br/>
Last name: <input type="text" id="lname" name="text2"></input>
<br/><br/>

text3: <input type="text" id="fname" name="text3"></input>
<br/><br/>
text4: <input type="text" id="lname" name="text4"></input>
<br/>

<br/>
<input name="submit1" type="submit" value="submit"></input>

</form>

</body>
</html>

but this doens't seem to work properly. After I submit a filled form, the first piece of form data gets populated into the $_POST araray, but all the other ones are always missing. I know the data is getting submitted, because the variable $inputdata gets populated in the example below. Why isn't that input getting parsed into $_POST?

<?php

$inputdata = file_get_contents( 'php://input' );
print_r($inputdata);
print_r($_POST);

$test_array = array ( 'test1' => array( 'test11' => 'test','test12' => 'test','test13' => array( 'test131' => 'test') ) );

print_r($test_array);
?>

<html>
<body>
<form action="samplepost.php" method="post">

First Name: <input type="text" id="fname" name="text1[fname]"></input>
<br/><br/>
Last name: <input type="text" id="lname" name="text1[lname]"></input>
<br/><br/>

text3: <input type="text" id="fname" name="text1[text3][text]"></input>
<br/><br/>
text4: <input type="text" id="lname" name="text1[text4][text]"></input>
<br/>

<br/>
<input name="submit1" type="submit" value="submit"></input>

</form>

</body>
</html>

GodsMadClown (wfindley)
no longer affects: php53 (Suse)
Revision history for this message
Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar) wrote :

I could not reproduce this on the latest 12.04 with PHP 5.3.10-1ubuntu3 using a basic libapache2-mod-php5 setup.

_POST comes out as

Array
(
    [text1] => Array
        (
            [fname] => a
            [lname] => b
            [text3] => Array
                (
                    [text] => c
                )

            [text4] => Array
                (
                    [text] => d
                )

        )

    [submit1] => submit
)

Given this script (combines the HTML with the result so you can keep trying values):

<html>
<body>
<?php

$inputdata = file_get_contents( 'php://input' );
print_r($inputdata);
echo '<pre>';
print_r($_POST);
echo '</pre>';

$test_array = array ( 'test1' => array( 'test11' => 'test','test12' => 'test','test13' => array( 'test131' => 'test') ) );
echo '<pre>';
var_export($test_array);
echo '</pre>';
?>
<form method="post">

First Name: <input type="text" id="fname" name="text1[fname]"></input>
<br/><br/>
Last name: <input type="text" id="lname" name="text1[lname]"></input>
<br/><br/>

text3: <input type="text" id="fname" name="text1[text3][text]"></input>
<br/><br/>
text4: <input type="text" id="lname" name="text1[text4][text]"></input>
<br/>

<br/>
<input name="submit1" type="submit" value="submit"></input>

</form>

</body>
</html>

Changed in php5 (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
Revision history for this message
GodsMadClown (wfindley) wrote : Re: [Bug 978107] Re: not parsing form data as multidimensional variables into $_POST

Yeah, I updated my test VM a few days ago and it's fixed. Go ahead and
close it.

On 4/20/2012 8:07 PM, Clint Byrum wrote:
> I could not reproduce this on the latest 12.04 with PHP 5.3.10-1ubuntu3
> using a basic libapache2-mod-php5 setup.
>
> _POST comes out as
>
> Array
> (
> [text1] => Array
> (
> [fname] => a
> [lname] => b
> [text3] => Array
> (
> [text] => c
> )
>
> [text4] => Array
> (
> [text] => d
> )
>
> )
>
> [submit1] => submit
> )
>
> Given this script (combines the HTML with the result so you can keep
> trying values):
>
> <html>
> <body>
> <?php
>
> $inputdata = file_get_contents( 'php://input' );
> print_r($inputdata);
> echo '<pre>';
> print_r($_POST);
> echo '</pre>';
>
> $test_array = array ( 'test1' => array( 'test11' => 'test','test12' => 'test','test13' => array( 'test131' => 'test') ) );
> echo '<pre>';
> var_export($test_array);
> echo '</pre>';
> ?>
> <form method="post">
>
> First Name:<input type="text" id="fname" name="text1[fname]"></input>
> <br/><br/>
> Last name:<input type="text" id="lname" name="text1[lname]"></input>
> <br/><br/>
>
> text3:<input type="text" id="fname" name="text1[text3][text]"></input>
> <br/><br/>
> text4:<input type="text" id="lname" name="text1[text4][text]"></input>
> <br/>
>
> <br/>
> <input name="submit1" type="submit" value="submit"></input>
>
> </form>
>
> </body>
> </html>
>
> ** Changed in: php5 (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Medium
>

Revision history for this message
Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar) wrote :

Thanks for getting back on this one! Closing.

Changed in php5 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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