Since the name attribute has been deprecated in xhtml how does one go about getting post form data without using the name attribute??

Thanks

The id attribute

then Why does the following not work..

<?php
echo "name: ".$_POST['name'];
?>


<form id=\"reg\" action=\"register.php\">
<input type=\"text\" id=\"name\" /><hr />
<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Register\"/>
</form>

because the $_POST['name']; will display the content of the input field with the name of "name".

eventually server side code may catch up with the plan that the ID attribute can also be used as a form key\value pair.

But don't hold your breath.

Out of curiousity, why would you not want to use the name attribute?

oh and another thing to reaisdead

if you make the form pass to its self you could do something like this:

PHP Code:

<?php
$name = $_POST['username'];
$age = $_POST['age'];
if (isset($name) and isset($age)) {
     print "Hello, $name.<br />You are $age year(s) old.\n";
} else {
     $self = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
     print "<form action='$self method='post'>\n";
     print "<input type='text' name='username' value='$name' />\n";
     print "<input type='text' name='age' value='$age' />\n";
     print "<input type='submit' value='submit' /></form>\n";
}
?>

This would post the information back to the form, if you forgot to fill out your age or name.

enjoy!

*EDIT* Yes, i know that i could have done the fancy ">>>" thing, but i prefer to print it like this.

I want my page to be valid xhtml therefore i cannot have the name attribute.

None of your responses actually solved my problem

other than change it to the name attrube is there anything I can to to make sure the server passes the id attribute to the post request.

What version of XHTML are you using? I mostly use 1.0 Transitional and I have no problems with the name attribute.

There's not a whole lot you can do in this case. If you look at the XHTML syntax as described at w3schools you'll notice that there is a recommendation to include both the name and id attributes with identical values in order to maximize compatibility.

Yep, Just use transitional for the form pages.

It's my understanding that the name attribute is only deprecated for elements other than <input>. I just validated one of my XHTML Strict pages that uses "name" on inputs to confirm this. There were no errors related to "name" in the validation. "Name" was once used on many elements. Now, it is only supposed to be proper to use it on form elements.

Originally Posted by wayfarer07

It's my understanding that the name attribute is only deprecated for elements other than <input>. I just validated one of my XHTML Strict pages that uses "name" on inputs to confirm this. There were no errors related to "name" in the validation. "Name" was once used on many elements. Now, it is only supposed to be proper to use it on form elements.

Thats what i was thinking :/ i only ever use name for inputs and most of the pages I do are XHTML strict 1.0

Thanks a bunch ill try those things

For your information its also name attribute is also not deprecated in the <select> tag.

or the <textarea> tag....

can we just say the name tag isnt deprecated in form elements?

lol

No, that would be just silly and far too obvious.

I want my page to be valid xhtml therefore i cannot have the name attribute.

None of your responses actually solved my problem

other than change it to the name attrube is there anything I can to to make sure the server passes the id attribute to the post request.

To correct this, you would need to follow the same path than when the target property was reimplemented using javascript:

var aryElm=document.getElementByTagName('input')
for(cptElm=0;cptElem<aryElm.length;cptElm++){
  elm=aryElm[cptElm];
  elm.name=elm.id;
}

Like this, your xhtml is valid, and the browser will alter it on load time to re-create the name attribute.

Messy, but if xhtml validation is that much important to you and the deprecation to transitional is out of the equation, your only route...