PHP Form not posting the submit button correctly-CodePudding

I was doing an application form and the form is not working. When I click the submit button it doesn't even run the if statement to POST the variables.
My form tag looks like this:

<form method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">

My submit button looks like this:

<button name="submeter" type="submit" >Submeter</button>

And the if statement in my form looks like this:

if(isset($_POST['submeter'])) {

I even tried to run a JS alert just to see if it actually enters the if statement but it doesn't. No console errors as well.
Any help is appreciated

CodePudding user response：

Have you added method="post" to the <form>-tag?

CodePudding user response：

Well your codes looks fine. it seems you are submitting the form using post method on some php file. Please share the complete form element and the codes of the target file that you have defined in the action attribute of form tag. the submit button sends the data to server and there you can process the data using any server side scripting language. your codes must look something like

<form action="process.php" method = "post">
<!-- your form controls -->`
<button name="submeter" type="submit" >Submeter</button>
</form>

then create another file on same location where html/php file containing this form is saved with name process.php, in which you can use following codes.

if(isset($_POST['submeter'])) {
// php codes
}

in case you want to subimt the form on the same page. make sure your file is php use method="#" in form tag and place the file of your webserver as you can not run php files directly from your filesystem but you need to run it through your webserver