{"id":266,"date":"2012-02-10T12:24:36","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T12:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/?p=266"},"modified":"2026-02-03T23:16:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T23:16:33","slug":"getting-form-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/php\/forms\/getting-form-values","title":{"rendered":"Getting Form Values"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Get POST values<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>  \/\/Raw text field\n  $MyStringField = (isset($_POST&#91;'MyStringField'])) ? trim($_POST&#91;'MyStringField']) : \"\";\n\n  \/\/To sanitise text entry fields properly use this:\n  $MyStringField = htmlspecialchars(stripslashes(trim($_POST&#91;'MyStringField'] ?? '')), ENT_QUOTES);\n\n  \/\/Int field, defaulting to 0\n  $MyIntField = (int)($_POST&#91;'MyIntField'] ?? 0);\n\n  \/\/Checkbox field\n  $MyCheckboxField = isset($_POST&#91;'MyCheckboxField']) &amp;&amp; $_POST&#91;'MyCheckboxField'] === 'Yes';    \/\/Always gives True or False\n\n\n  if ( isset($_POST&#91;'form_action']) &amp;&amp; ($_POST&#91;'form_action'] == 'My_form_action') )\n  {\n    \n  }<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>\/\/Get all POST values\nforeach($_POST as $key=&gt;$value)\n    echo \"&lt;b&gt;$key:&lt;\/b&gt; $value&lt;br \/&gt;rn\";<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get POST values<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5273,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions\/5273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}