Forwarding Submitted Text To A Function

Okay so I have a PHP file and it has a textarea. There is also a button, which when clicked already redirects you to *another page. I've added the textarea above the button and whe

Solution 1:

Two ideas for troubleshooting this:

(1) At top of the next page (the PHP page):

<?phpecho'Received: ' . $_POST['comment'];
    die();

Make sure your text is being received in the second file.

(2) Remove previous changes from idea (1) and change as follows:

$comment = 'This is a test 9876'; <-- temporary change, just for testing

Then manually run the next.php (or whatever you called it) file and make sure the string "This is a test 9876" goes into the database.

That will probably expose the problem. But if not, please post additional info here and we'll help you to continue troubleshooting.

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