| Re: different servers, different results with a file upload [message #175197 is a reply to message #175195] |
Sun, 21 August 2011 21:18   |
bill
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On 8/21/2011 3:52 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> On 8/21/2011 12:11 PM, bill wrote:
>> I have a small script that works fine on the development
>> server, but
>> when I try to run it for real on the production server it does
>> not work.
>>
>> here is the html:
>> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
>> "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
>>
>> <html>
>> <head>
>> <title>CaseNoteCheck</title>
>> </head>
>> <body>
>>
>> <h2>Case Note Edit Checker</h2>
>> <form action="caseNoteChecker.php" method="POST"
>> enctype="multipart/form-data" >
>> <input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="40000" />
>> <input type="file" name="caseNote"/>
>> <input type="submit"/>
>> </form>
>>
>> </body>
>> </html>
>>
>> here is the top of the php script:
>> <?php
>> //caseNoteChecker.php receives file from CaseNoteChecker.html
>>
>> session_start ();
>> error_reporting(E_ALL);
>>
>> $_SESSION ['current_user'] = "WPD";
>>
>>
>> echo "<pre>";
>> print_r($_POST);
>> print_r($_FILES);
>> echo "</pre>";
>>
>> On the development server the file uploads correctly and all is
>> well. On
>> the production server the $_FILE array is empty.
>>
>> Array
>> (
>> [caseNote] => WPD-CaseNotes.txt
>> )
>> Array
>> (
>> )
>>
>> and naturally it fails.
>>
>> I searched with google and found a terrific article by
>> jkorpela, but
>> afak I am doing it right.
>>
>> Suggestions to debug this please. It must be a server
>> configuration
>> issue but I don't know where to look.
>>
>> bill
>
> The fact the $_POST array is empty means PHP isn't getting the
> information from the web server.
>
> First thing to check on things like this is your HTML - is it valid?
"Well it looked valid"
However the W3C validator wanted the form contents in a <div> so
I did that and now it works.
Thanks Jerry
Another question: I write a lot of program fragments that are
loaded via AJAX into a huge application. I obviously can't
validate them by submitting them to the W3C markup validation
service, does anyone have suggestions on how to validate the
fragments ?
bill
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