POST not working for HTML Form

Question

I'm working on a registration page using an html form, however when I use post it doesn't submit the data. All this code is in the index.php file, so it directs to itself for the form action.

<form action="index.php" method="post" style="align-content: left;text-align: center;padding:10px" id="signForm">
            Company: <input type="text" value="" name="company"><br>
            Email: <input style="margin-top:5px" type="text" value="" name="email"><br>
            Username: <input style="margin-top:5px" type="text" value="" name="username"><br>
            Password: <input style="margin-top:5px" type="password" value="" name="password"><br>
            Verify Password: <input style="margin-top:5px" type="password" value="" name="password2"><br>
            <input style="margin-top:10px" type="submit" value="Submit" name="submitr">
        </form>

And here is the php, which is located above the form on the page.

if(isset($_POST['submitr'])) {
    $username = $_POST['username'];
    $password = $_POST['password'];
    $password2 = $_POST['password2'];
    $email = $_POST['email'];
    $company = $_POST['company'];
    ...
}

I've tried outputting the variables, however they are always blank, and I cannot seem to figure out why. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!

Try [enabling error reporting](http://stackoverflow.com/a/845025/811240) and instead of `echo` use `var_dump()` to figure out what the variables contain. — Mike, Apr 16 '17 at 01:21
@Mike the form is submitted normally, and when I use `var_dump($_POST);` in my code it outputs `array(0) { }` both before and after submitting the form. — Dan F, Apr 16 '17 at 01:25
I don't see anything here that would cause that behaviour. Are you doing any rewriting with your .htaccess (or equivalent) files? — Mike, Apr 16 '17 at 01:31
@Mike I'm using AWS for hosting/testing, so as far as I know I don't have access to a the .htaccess file. — Dan F, Apr 16 '17 at 01:37
@TurtleTread here is the complete file code [link](https://codedump.io/share/NRAHD7Hz8N4i/1/index) — Dan F, Apr 16 '17 at 01:37
Does this help you? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6923643/php-settings-php-not-receiving-post-data — Mike, Apr 16 '17 at 01:51
So after looking through the link, I added the part about CONTENT-TYPE, and after looking at phpinfo, the other variables seem to be fine for my setup. I've gotten it to work, however it only works if `phpinfo();` is called, so that's some kind of progress. — Dan F, Apr 16 '17 at 02:09
Post the global.inc.php file content too please. ofc strip the sensitive data. Did you put session_start() before outputting any content body — TurtleTread, Apr 16 '17 at 03:35

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:02

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Try add a name to the form , also try add the enctype attribute in the form What does enctype='multipart/form-data' mean?

edited May 23 '17 at 12:02

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answered Apr 16 '17 at 09:14

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POST not working for HTML Form

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