PHP Post不起作用/ Get

Question

I am new to php programming. I have been trying to learn from w3 schools. I have installed phpstorm on my mac. I have been learning forms. the code is below

Form:

<form action="welcome.php" method="post">
    Name: <input type="text" name="name" id="name"> <br>
    E-mail: <input type="text" name="email" id="email"><br>
    <input type="submit">
</form> 

Message board:

Welcome <?php echo $_POST["name"]; ?><br>
Your email address is: <?php echo $_POST["email"]; ?>

When I try and use post on the form, I get an error

Welcome 
Notice: Undefined index: name in /Users/chris/PhpstormProjects/three/welcome.php on line 4

Your email address is: 
Notice: Undefined index: email in /Users/chris/PhpstormProjects/three/welcome.php on line 5

But when I use get the code works perfectly. I use a Mac, I have tried changing from MAMP to XAMPP, have run the code in xampp and mamp and still nothing happens. I am all out of ideas, can anyone help ?

Update

This is not like any other problem on stack overflow ( believe me I've checked :-) )

From what can see , the HTML form is not writing to post which is odd as thats what I thought it should do , has anyone else come across this in phpstorm ?

Many thanks again

Answer 1

After searching a lot of forums, there appears to be bugs with the internal PhpStorm web server that prevent posts from working, although, I am not certain of the circumstances. I wasn't able to get simple or complex posts to work with my current setup (PHP 7 with PhpStorm 2016.2 built on July 12, 2016).

Solution was to use a proper web server instead of the internal one. To do this:

1. Define Deployment entry (Tools --> Deployment --> Configuration). Set the type to be either "In place" or "Local or mounted folder" and ensure your web server to serve up your project files.
2. Configure the remaining items by providing URL details for your web server configuration.
3. Click on "Use this server as default" on the Mappings tab.

Now the IDE will use that deployment option for Run & Debug actions for the current project and any future ones. You may still need to reconfigure any other pre-existing projects you have manually.

I note that this issue can result in multiple errors including bad gateway, page not found and your undefined index error, but all three should be fixed by the same solution.