[suspicious - maybe spam] [suspicious - maybe spam] Re: [PHP] Interesting, yet goofy behavior

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But, Jay:

Am I missing something here? It's obvious that the 'bid' parameter will appear in the query string... That's how the form posts it.

Yes, you can unset it if you like, but the form will still add it to the URL that it posts to, unless you change the "action" attribute of the form tag.

Actually I wonder how much alcohol you've had by now... :-)

/Mattias


Jay Blanchard wrote:

Let's say I have a form and the action is thus;

<form name=\"managebatch\" action=\"" . basename($PHP_SELF) .
"?bid=edit\" method=\"POST\">\n";

Note the 'bid' attribute. Now, I have a case statement in which stuff
takes place since the form has called it because of the 'bid' attribute.
Before I break from the case I do this;

unset($_GET['bid']);

SIDEBAR: You should all note that I ma editing someone else's code.
Someone who did not bother to comment their code. [ed note: Yes, they
work for the same company, but are not in the department, yet management
says that I have to support their code. I asked if we could at least
teach them commenting and revision control. They looked at me as if I
was a space alien]. Someone who believes that all forms should use
$PHP_SELF (because whatever book they have showed them this, so
therefore it must be good for everything).

The URL comes back and the 'bid' attribute is still there. Is this to be
expected? If so, do you have any advice (other than copious amounts of
alcohol) for dealing with this?


Thank you, I really appreciate your help.




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