[ciapug] $_POST vars and html email?

[David Champion]

David Champion wrote:

> I have an html form like this:
> 
> <form action="http://www.foo.com/test.php" method="POST">
> <input type="hidden" name="foo" value="bar">
> <input type="submit" name="btn_foo" value="btn_bar">
> </form>
> 
> ... and test.php says:
> 
> <?
> foreach ($_POST as $key1 => $value1) {
>     echo "<br>$key1 : $value1";
> }
> ?>
> 
> If open this first form in my web browser and submit it, I get the 
> expected behavior - the page displays "foo : bar". If I then send an 
> HTML email with the exact same form, test.php displays nothing. I also 
> tried spitting out everthing by subsituting "$GLOBALS" for "$_POST" and 
> there is no key called "foo" or value called "bar".
> 
> I verified by saving the email source, then running "base64 -u ..." to 
> decode it, and there's nothing wrong with the HTML.
> 
> I tested with Mozilla 1.4.x and Thunderbird, as well as Outlook and they 
> all do (or don't do) the same thing.
> 
> Ideas?

<crickets chirping> :(

Would someone be willing to put that "test.php" on their server and see 
if we get the same results?

-dc