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PHP fails to load all the POST params

I'm having an issue with my old phpbb forum. It had been working very well until I changed the server from old php4 to new php5. I cannot retrieve the whole post array. That's pretty strange.

I've used firebug to see what browser is sending and displayed it using print_r.

Here is what I'm sending:

addcategory[0]  Create new category
mode    new
name[0] test
name[1000]  
name[1001]  
name[1002]  
and so on

Here is what I receive in php using print_r($_POST):

Array ( [name] => Array ( [1000] => [1001] => [10002] ...)

Shortly speaking, name[0] and mode are not passed at all.

Solution

  • I've displayed raw POST data using:

    print_r(urldecode(file_get_contents('php://input')));

    All of the params are correctly passed. It seems like php fails to parse these params to place them correctly in $_POST array.

    I will parse it myself then and overwrite $_POST array with my "custom" POST data.

    Thanks for your help.