IE bug?

[FaberFedor]

Hi all,

I found PHPDig just today and installed it and everything worked fine. I was pretty impressed. I then added the search box function from section 9.2 of the FAQ. Great!

Then I remembered that my client uses IE to view everything, so I checked it under IE. Of course, there were problems.

I'm surprised that I haven't come across this problem in the fora, since it seems pretty major. If I enter "paul" in the searchbox on the main page (http://www.trimlinemed.com), the search.php page appears with the string "paul query_string=paul" in the search box on search.php.

I can't find anything in the code (mine or PHPDig's) that would cause this. And it only under IE. Firefox on several platforms work fine. :-?

[Warmbells]

Hi,

I've just checked your page in IE 5.5 with no problem showing.

Warmbells

[Dave A]

Hi I just visited the web site and it works fine when viewed with firefox, I then switched over to IE and it was okay as well..

[FaberFedor]

Warmbells, Dave A,

You went to http://www.trimlinemed.com, entered the string "paul" into the search box in the upper right hand corner of the screen and hit "Enter" and the resulting search.php page showed results?!

[Warmbells]

Yes, no problems at all and I also tried firefox.

Warmbells

[FaberFedor]

Curioser and curioser. It doesn't work for me running IE on my Linux box via VMware nor does it work for my client running IE on XP at a completely different physical location. :-?

[FaberFedor]

Several people in my LUG saw the problem and one did not. All of the data is not in, but it was consistent amongst people running Win98SE and XP (Home|Pro).

To fix the problem, I added 'enctype="multipart/form-data"' to the form tag and it works now!

May I suggest you change the entry in the FAQ/docs to read as follows so others can cut 'n' paste:

<form action="http://YOURDOMAIN/search.php" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post">
<input type="text" name="query_string" value="">
<input type="submit" name="search" value="Search">
</form>