Text area posting to php

[Nick Pearson]

Do you get the values of the "act" and "subj" parameters?  Also, is it
the same behavior from different browsers?

I'm not sure this makes a difference, but I've never seen request
parameters in the "action" attribute of a form.  Is it possible for
you to put the values of the "act" and "subj" attributes in hidden
form fields instead of in the form's action?  That would be the first
thing I would try.


On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Ian Hobson <ian at ianhobson.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a site written in php, that I am trying to move onto nginx.
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> The site works on my test machine = Windows, Apache2.2. and php5.
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> It does not work on the production machine  (Ubuntu, nginx, php5).
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> The post of a form with a submit button and a textarea arrives with the
> textarea with no value, and nothing from the button.
>
> The form is
>
> <FORM METHOD="POST" action="question.php?act=Save&amp;subj=2"><table
> width="100%">
> <tr><td width="25%" align="right">Subject : </td><td align="left">Decision
> Coach</td></tr>
> <tr><td><input type="submit" value="Save subject"></td><td> </td></tr>
> <tr><td colspan='2' ><textarea COLS="90" rows="35" name="xmlarea"
> id="xmlarea" >
> &lt;questionset title=&quot;Decision Coach&quot;&gt;
>
> lots of content snipped
> &lt;/questionset&gt;
> </textarea>
> </td></tr></table>
> </form>
>
> What could be going wrong? How can I diagnose the problem further?
> Regards
>
> Ian
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