Bootstrapped PW does not see submitted form data

[Valery]

Hello, everyone,

I've been playing around with Processwire since late 2012, so I am pretty much a novice. Hope my question is not too dumb though.

I seem to have a problem which I cannot solve on my own.

I want to be able to have a PW page with some form which, when submitted, is processed by a separate script. I added a form to the basic-page.php template. The code of the form looks like this:

<form id="f" action="/f.php" method="post">
<input type="text" name="char_name" id="ch_name" value=" ">
<button type="submit" id="char_name_submit">Proceed</button>
</form>

 

f.php processes the submitted form. Here's what its code looks like:

 

<?php

// bootstrapping PW
include("/u/www/htdocs/index.php"); 

if($input->post->char_name === null) echo "Form was not submitted";
    else if(!$input->post->char_name) echo "Form was submitted but the value is blank";

//some debug
echo $_POST["char_name"];
?>

 

The problem is, when I submit the form, I get "Form was not submitted" from the f.php script.

 

echo $_POST["char_name"] works just fine.

 

My PW installation runs on php5.3+nginx+OpenBSD.

 

Could you, please, tell me what I am doing wrong? Why is bootstrapped PW not seeing my submitted form data?

 

Thanks a lot for your help.

[Valery]

Sorry, disregard this post. I really should read the (awesome) PW docs more attentively...

[diogo]

This is what I was going to say

edit: you can also do:

wire('input')->post->char_name

For others reading this post, the documentation is here http://processwire.com/api/include/

And welcome to the forums Valery