I have the following form on a wordpress template page. I'm getting a 404 error each time i submit the form but I'm not using any of the reserved workpress parameter names in the form.
<?php
/**
* Template Name: Registration Template
*/
if(isset($_POST['form-submitted']))
{
if(trim($_POST['runner']) === '') {
$runnerError = 'Please enter runner runner.';
$hasError = true;
} else {
$runner = trim($_POST['runner']);
}
if(trim($_POST['racenumber']) === '') {
$numberError = 'Please enter a race number.';
$hasError = true;
} else {
$racenumber = trim($_POST['racenumber']);
}
$race = trim($_POST['race']);
error_log($race.' '.$runner.' '.$racenumber);
$registrationSubmitted = true;
}
get_header();
echo "<pre>GET "; print_r($_GET); echo "</pre>";
echo "<pre>POST "; print_r($_POST); echo "</pre>";
?>
<div id="container">
<?php
if(isset($registrationSubmitted) && $registrationSubmitted == true)
{
echo '<div class="thanks"><p>The runner has been registered.</p></div>';
}
else
{
$races = // magic array
$selectRaces = '<select name="race" id="race">';
foreach($races as $racez)
{
$selectRaces .= sprintf('<option value=%d>%s</option>',$race->id,$race->name);
}
$selectRaces .= '</select>';
echo apply_filters('the_content','
<form action="'.get_permalink().'" id="form" method="POST">
[one_half last="no"]
<b>Race Details</b><br/>
RaceNumber<input type="text" name="racenumber" id="racenumber"/><br/>
Race'.$selectRaces.'<br/>
[/one_half]
[one_half last="yes"]
<b>Runner Details</b><br/>
ID<input type="text" name="runner" id="runner"/><br/>
Firstname<input type="text" name="first" id="first"/><br/>
Surname<input type="text" name="last" id="last"/><br/>
Gender<input type="text" name="gender" id="gender"/><br/>
DOB<input type="text" name="dob" id="dob"/><br/>
Standard<input type="text" name="standard" id="standard"/><br/>
Company<input type="text" name="company" id="company"/><br/>
[/one_half]
<input type="submit" value="Register Runner"/>
<input type="hidden" name="form-submitted" id="bhaa-submitted" value="true" />
</form>');
}
echo '</div>';
?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>
I've customised my 404 page to dump the $_POST values so i'm sure the parameter values are being submitted.
[racenumber] => 5
[race] => 2596
[runner] => 5
[first] =>
[last] =>
[gender] =>
[dob] =>
[standard] =>
[company] =>
[form-submitted] => true
Can anyone explain my the logic in my 'isset($_POST['form-submitted'])' is not being exercised?
The generated html
<form action="http://localhost/registration/" id="form" method="POST">
<div class="one_half">
<b>Race Details</b><br><br>
RaceNumber<input name="number" id="number" type="text"><br><br>
Race<br>
<select name="race" id="race">
<option value="2596" id="2596">4-Mile-M</option>
<option value="2595" id="2595">2-Mile-W</option>
</select>
EDIT
I've changed the code where is set the values of the select dropdown to use an incrementing int value rather than using sprintf to map a string value to an int value. When the first element is selected the form submits, if the second option is picked i get a 404!
$races = // magic array
$selectRaces = '<select name="race" id="race">';
$i=0;
foreach($races as $racez)
{
$selectRaces .= sprintf('<option value=%d>%s</option>',$i++,$race->name);
}
Problem is that wordpress have some words reserved and it will throw that error when submitting forms:
Some of the words that i found myseld and surfing the web are:
- Custom post type names
- taxonomy names
- "name"
- "day"
- "month"
- "year"
- "category"
- "title"
So be careful when creating a a custom form and try to name your inputs with some prefix. In my case i had a custom post type called "history" and i was naming the input the same way.
Have you tried resetting your permalinks?
Could be an issue there somewhere.
It doesn't seem or look like the issue is isset($_POST['form-submitted'])'
It's possible your page name is being used another plugin.
WordPress's get_permalink()
is generating a URL that is being injected into your output HTML's form tag.
If you look at the HTML source, as it appears in your browser (eg right-click, view-source or right-click, inspect element), find this:
<form action='some_url_here' ...>
.
I would expect that this URL should probably be the same as the one that you're currently browsing... ie it tells the browser to send the details back to that same PHP file to process its results.
Type unique Name and ID try this form
<form action="'.get_permalink().'" id="form" method="POST">
[one_half last="no"]
<b>Race Details</b><br/>
RaceNumber<input type="text" name="racenumber" id="racenumber"/><br/>
Race'.$selectRaces.'<br/>
[/one_half]
[one_half last="yes"]
<b>Runner Details</b><br/>
ID<input type="text" name="runner_id" id="runner_id"/><br/>
Firstname<input type="text" name="runner_first" id="runner_first"/><br/>
Surname<input type="text" name="runner_last" id="runner_last"/><br/>
Gender<input type="text" name="runner_gender" id="runner_gender"/><br/>
DOB<input type="text" name="runner_dob" id="runner_dob"/><br/>
Standard<input type="text" name="runner_standard" id="runner_standard"/><br/>
Company<input type="text" name="runner_company" id="runner_company"/><br/>
[/one_half]
<input type="submit" value="Register Runner"/>
<input type="hidden" name="form-submitted" id="bhaa-submitted" value="true" />
</form>
You can't use this variables in POST FORM
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I had the same issue but I found when I submitted empty input fields (without any value in input field) that's working fine then I leave few input fields remain empty and place value in others which was also working fine.
That's means the issue was one of my input field not in wordpress or
in my code.