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1. Nightshade01
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   I've made a page template which has a form. I've left the 'action' part of the form blank so the form submits to itself (action=""), and am using POST data (method="post"). However when I submit the form, the URL doesn't change (correct) but I get a 404 error - why is this?

   I'm using 'pretty' permalinks if that helps.

2. chschenk
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   I've just tried that and can't reproduce the problem. Here's the code I used:

   <?php
   /*
   Template Name: Form
   */
   ?>

   <?php get_header(); ?>

   <?php echo 'We have got: ' . $_POST['f1'] . ''; ?>
   <form action="" method="POST">
   <input type="text" name="f1" value="test"/>
   <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit"/>
   </form>

   <?php get_footer(); ?>

   Submitting the form shows the value of the input field as expected; no 404.
   Maybe a plugin that's interfering here. Have you tried this on a fresh installation?

3. Nightshade01
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   Hi chschenk, and thanks for looking into the problem for me. Your form worked for me so I started looking at my own form. Turns out the problem was caused by one of my input's being called 'name'. Try this:

   <?php
   /*
   Template Name: Form
   */
   ?>
   
   <?php get_header(); ?>
   
   <?php echo 'We have got: ' . $_POST['name'] . ''; ?>
   
   <form action="" method="POST">
       <input type="text" name="name" value="test"/>
       <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit"/>
   </form>
   
   <?php get_footer(); ?>

   On my Wordpress install this produces a 404 error page.

4. chschenk
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   I get a 404 here too but can't tell whether that happens; excuse: haven't had a detailed look at it.

   I'd say, just avoid naming your input fields "name" ;)

5. brockangelo
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   Thanks - I was using the post names of "author", "title" and "description" and was getting this error. I modified them to "ad_author", "ad_title", (I'm making a simple classifieds board for our intranet) and that took care of it.

   Thanks for the tip! - I would call this resolved.

6. iglauser
   Member
   Posted 3 weeks ago #

   Thanks! Searched a long time for a solution to this problem, and now I found it on this page... name="name" :)

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