Re: [PHP] Perhaps an incomplete $_POST

To the best of my knowledge, the "name" attribute of the FORM tag is
never submitted with the request, whether it be GET or POST. It's
there for client-side scripting (JavaScript, etc.) only.

One trick that might help you - if your form action is POST, add a
querystring to the action, something like "foo.php?formname=foo", then
check $_GET['formname']. Of course, it might be just as easy to drop
in a hidden input instead.

Hope this helps.

On 8/29/07, Jay Blanchard <jblanchard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I just noticed something a little odd, and maybe there is a simple
solution. Given a form;

<form name="foo" action="foo.php" method="POST">

The attributes, especially the name "foo", never appear in any variables
array. I am thinking that this might be handy to have for several
reasons when processing the form. I have several reasons for needing the
information, does anyone know how to get this in the processing script
without having to add hidden fields or do some Ajax magic?
.

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