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    copied!<p>How do sites such as Stack Overflow submit forms using <code>action="/questions/ask/submit"</code>?</p> <p>I would've thought <code>mod_rewrite</code> would lose the <code>$_POST</code> vars?</p> <p><b>.htaccess</b></p> <pre><code>RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L] </code></pre> <p><b>index.php</b></p> <pre><code>$q = explode("/", $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']); if($q[1]!=""){ switch($q[1]){ case "test": include("test.php"); break; ... </code></pre> <p><b>test.php</b></p> <pre><code>&lt;?php if(isset($_POST["submitButton"])){ echo "Submitted"; } else{ echo "Not submitted"; } ?&gt; &lt;form method="post" action="/test/submit"&gt; &lt;input type="submit" name="submitButton"&gt; &lt;/form&gt; </code></pre> <p><b>If I remove</b> <code>action="/test/submit"</code></p> <p>If my URL is <code>/test</code> then it returns <code>Not submitted</code> when I click the button.<br> If my URL is <code>/test.php</code> then it returns <code>Submitted</code> when I click the button.</p> <hr> <h1>Update</h1> <p>For the time being, I'm using the following.</p> <p><b>index.php</b></p> <pre><code>if($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST'){ $q = explode("/", $_POST["url"]); } else{ $q = explode("/", $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']); } ... </code></pre> <p><b>test.php</b></p> <pre><code>&lt;form method="post" action="/"&gt; &lt;input type="hidden" name="url" value="/test"&gt; ... </code></pre> <p>This allows my test.php to receive the post vars.</p> <p>If there are no errors by the user, I use <code>header("Location: test/success");</code></p> <p>If there are errors, the URL will have to be <code>/</code> which isn't ideal.</p> <h1>Update/resolution</h1> <p>The problem may be with Apache 2.4. The fix was to add this line to index.php:</p> <pre><code>parse_str(file_get_contents("php://input"),$_POST); </code></pre> <p>With this method, there's no need for any <code>action="..."</code> (this will successfully POST to itself, even if the URL is a slug).</p>
 

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