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Re: different servers, different results with a file upload

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On 8/21/2011 5:18 PM, bill wrote:
> 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
> .

Try an HTML newsgroup.

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different servers, different results with a file upload bill <nobody@spamcop.net> - 2011-08-21 12:11 -0400
  Re: different servers, different results with a file upload bill <nobody@spamcop.net> - 2011-08-21 12:18 -0400
  Re: different servers, different results with a file upload bill <nobody@spamcop.net> - 2011-08-21 12:24 -0400
  Re: different servers, different results with a file upload Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-08-21 15:52 -0400
    Re: different servers, different results with a file upload bill <nobody@spamcop.net> - 2011-08-21 17:18 -0400
      Re: different servers, different results with a file upload Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-08-21 18:10 -0400
      Re: different servers, different results with a file upload Gregor Kofler <usenet@gregorkofler.com> - 2011-08-22 10:32 +0200
  Re: different servers, different results with a file upload Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-08-21 16:06 -0400
  Re: different servers, different results with a file upload "Twayne" <nobody@devnull.spamcop.net> - 2011-08-22 10:13 -0400
    Re: different servers, different results with a file upload bill <nobody@spamcop.net> - 2011-08-23 07:45 -0400

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