Hello,

I have created a database and wrote some php to connect to it. I then added another page which contained a form and an input field. When you entered data in the field, it would search a field in the database for a match and then display the results. For some reason the form wasn't passing the information over the PHP page. In the end I figured out it was because of this:

I don't know what was causing this to happen. Can someone please explain?

Thanks,
Steven

You must have added that unless you downloaded the form. Basically you have all sorts of enctypes, the most popular for form submission being multipart/form-data. What the form would be trying to do there is to simply push plain text items through, I don't know for certain but I imagine the POST or GET would be there, but simply not parsed correctly by PHP. Perhaps as one big long string.

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Thanks Whildhoney. I'm still a little confused to why that was stopping the data from being passed over to the other page. Would it be possible that it was changing the numbers enter to text?

Actually, the POST forms have by default application/x-www-form-urlencoded as the enctype (multipart/form-data must be used in order to be able to upload files). The text/plain enctype specifies that the document in question (the form in your case) is a text container. Therefore, the form doesn't really exist anymore, as form data must be serialized before submitted to be processed server-side. Since you were using plain text as the form's contents, there was no data to submit.

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Oh ok, thanks for that!