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POPHP $_POST strange behavior, only works 2nd time form is posted
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    copied!<p>I'm genuinely stuck on something VERY irritating. After a couple of hours of trying everything I know I've ended up here to see if anyone can help. Here's the general idea. </p> <p>I want one certain page to be available with a password sent via a form. There is no user, and the password will not change. This should be easy, right!</p> <p>I've got a form which submits with the method set to post, and the action set to <code>$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']</code>. The plan is, when the password variable I've pre-defined matches what is typed in the form, one set of content shows on the page, when it doesn't you get a different set of content (a form). </p> <p>Here's what's weird. When looking at a <code>print_r</code> I see whatever I submit in the form in the array, but when I put the right password in the array fills, then empties quickly. I see this on the page reload. It completely empties itself. Even stranger, the 2nd time I do this, it works. What am I missing here? I'd love to know!</p> <p>Many thanks, and Merry Christmas. </p> <p>---- some code ----</p> <p>The form</p> <pre><code> &lt;form action="&lt;?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?&gt;" method="post"&gt; &lt;label for="pass" id="pass"&gt;Password:&lt;/label&gt; &lt;input type="text" name="pass" id="pass" /&gt; &lt;input type="submit" name="submit" value="Yes" /&gt; &lt;/form&gt; </code></pre> <p>Some PHP from the top of the file;</p> <pre><code>$pass = '12846565488374'; if($_POST['pass']){ $login = $_POST['pass']; } else { $login = 'empty'; } if($login != $pass) { $show = 0; } elseif($login == $pass){ $show = 1; } </code></pre> <p>----- solved ------</p> <p>Turns out this was a JS plugin reloading the page without me knowing. </p>
 

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