PHP: How to get name value in

Question

Is there a way to get the value of the name attribute in the form tag? I'm using PHP and don't see it in $_POST.

There is not a single reason to get it. Why do you need that? — Your Common Sense, Oct 23 '10 at 09:41
You can't think of a reason why one might want to know the name of a form? — StackOverflowNewbie, Oct 23 '10 at 09:52
possible duplicate of [How to access the form's 'name' variable from PHP](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/846020/how-to-access-the-forms-name-variable-from-php) — Fluffeh, May 08 '14 at 08:34
@YourCommonSense i myself do. When you have several forms pointing to the same action form to call. — webs, Jan 27 '22 at 12:31
@webs so your question is how to tell one form from another, not "how to get the name attrubute" — Your Common Sense, Jan 27 '22 at 12:39
@YourCommonSense yes but it is well answered here and a small test shows the answer is correct. — webs, Jan 27 '22 at 17:24

Pekka · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-09T13:54:32.383

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Is there a way to get the value of the name attribute in the form tag? I'm using PHP and don't see it in $_POST.

No, the form's name attribute is never set to sent to the server as part of the POST data.

The easiest way around this would be adding a hidden form element <input type="hidden"> containing the name.

<form name="myform" method="post" action="" enctype="multipart/form-data">
    <input type="hidden" name="frmname" value=""/>
</form>

edited May 09 '16 at 13:54

answered Oct 23 '10 at 09:36

Pekka

No, that's incorrect. At least it's not standard behaviour. – Pekka May 09 '16 at 13:32
It doesn't work for me in any major browser. Can you show a test case where this works? Which browsers did you test this with? – Pekka May 09 '16 at 13:35

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 23 '10 at 09:36

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<form name="wut">
    <input type="hidden" name="name" value="wut"/>
</form>

answered Oct 23 '10 at 09:36

Robus

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