php variables no value

Question

I have striped down the following code to the minimum for clarity html

<form  action="insert.php" method="post">
 <textarea  name="ff1" disabled="disabled">Monday 11 february</textarea>
 <textarea  name="ff2" disabled="disabled" >Selected Match is</textarea>
 <input type="submit" name="submit"  value="Submit Bet" >
 </form>

php

 <?php

   $myvarA = $_POST['ff1'];
   $myvarB = $_POST['ff2'];
   $sql="INSERT INTO bestmatch (ddate, mmatch)
   VALUES ('$myvarA','$myvarB')";

?>

I cannot get anything into the variables, if I change the following

 VALUES ('$myvarA','$myvarB')";

to

 VALUES ('anytext','anytext2')";

then everything is fine, and anytext is entered into my database, so there is no problem connection wise. I am puzzled as to why the variables will not work

Try doing print_r($_POST) and your error will probably be made pretty apparent. Also, you should be using prepared statements to insert any user-supplied values into your database. Blindly inserting them like that is just asking for your site to be hacked. — Mike
– Mike, Commented Feb 24, 2014 at 7:50
Show more code: How are you executing your (most insecure) query? Are you testing if (isset($_POST['ff1'])) at any given time? — Elias Van Ootegem
– Elias Van Ootegem, Commented Feb 24, 2014 at 7:50
It's a blessing for you that it doesn't work. Don't do that, lest you open yourself wide open to trivial injection attacks. Use PDO or mysqli_ with prepared statements. — John Dvorak
– John Dvorak, Commented Feb 24, 2014 at 7:50

xzag · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-24 07:50:08Z

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Because you have these fields disabled in your form. If you want to hide them from user - just make them hidden

answered Feb 24, 2014 at 7:50

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Manish Jangir · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-24 07:50:28Z

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Disabled values can never be get in form submit.

answered Feb 24, 2014 at 7:50

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John Dvorak Over a year ago

-1 for stealing from the other answer. You can't blame concurrency - you've edited and undeleted your answer after the other one was posted.

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