Is `/` treated equally as `home` when posting data on homepage?

1

Good Morning all,

I run into an issue where I can’t fetch my forms data when it’s used under the home template. It appears to be only reloading the site but not posting the forms data.
I have tested this with a plain starterkit and the cookbook receipt here. The same template works fine if I rename it to a different template name e.g contact.

It seems that / is not treated equally as home where <form method="post" action="<?= $page->url() ?>">. Does this require a special route?

Controller and template are identical from the cookbook receipt. Tested on the latest version 3.5.3.1.

2

Hm, works for me when putting this on the home page. The URL is just the site’s url (and does not include home, which would be wrong).

Please try and add a dump($data) statement instead of the $kirby->email() stuff and see what you get.

3

@pixelijn thanks for your quick response!

When I add the dump($data) it’s empty when I have the form on the home template. When I rename the template and controller to any other name which is not the home page e.g. contact, dump($data) shows all the data from my submitted form. It’s a little bizarre…

template:

   <?php dump($data) ?>

    <?php if($success): ?>
    <div class="alert success">
        <p><?= $success ?></p>
    </div>
    <?php else: ?>
      <?php if (isset($alert['error'])): ?>
          <div><?= $alert['error'] ?></div>
      <?php endif ?>
      <form method="post" action="<?= $page->url() ?>">
          <div class="field">
              <label for="email">
                  Email <abbr title="required">*</abbr>
              </label>
              <input type="email" id="email" name="email" value="<?= $data['email'] ?? '' ?>" required>
              <?= isset($alert['email']) ? '<span class="alert error">' . html($alert['email']) . '</span>' : '' ?>
          </div>
          <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
      </form>
    <?php endif ?>

controller:

if($kirby->request()->is('POST') && get('submit')) {

    // check the honeypot
    if(empty(get('website')) === false) {
        go($page->url());
        exit;
    }

    $data = [
        'email' => get('email'),
    ];

    $rules = [
        'email' => ['required', 'email'],
    ];

    $messages = [
        'email' => 'Please enter a valid email address',
    ];

    // some of the data is invalid
    if($invalid = invalid($data, $rules, $messages)) {
        $alert = $invalid;

        // the data is fine, let's send the email
    } else {
        try {
            dump($data);

        } catch (Exception $error) {
            if(option('debug')):
                $alert['error'] = 'The form could not be sent: <strong>' . $error->getMessage() . '</strong>';
            else:
                $alert['error'] = 'The form could not be sent!';
            endif;
        }

        // no exception occurred, let's send a success message
        if (empty($alert) === true) {
            $success = 'Your message has been sent, thank you. We will get back to you soon!';
            $data = [];
        }
    }
}

return [
    'alert'   => $alert,
    'data'    => $data ?? false,
    'success' => $success ?? false
];
4

And your home page is not redirected to another page with another template? And the contend file in the home folder is called home.txt? No funny redirect routes?

5

Nope no routes or redirects configured and home has a home.txt in it. It’s pretty much a new starterkit with the added form + controller.

6

Could you send me the zipped Starterkit with the form and controller? Seems weird that this doesn’t work.