PHP/HTML - Create/Rename Directory Scripts Are Near Identical; First Works, Second Doesn't

[Scyze]

[editline]11:19PM[/editline]

Sorry, I just realized that this is the wrong forum. I'll go post this in Web Dev, ignore this idiot post.

Hey folks, I've been battling with this for hours and I can't for the life of me understand why this isn't working. I have a site that you can create and upload your own folder on to, and then rename it. The more intricate stuff works; what doesn't work is simple and makes no sense as to why it doesn't work.

First, the form to create a directory:

<p class='registertext'>You don't have a folder yet!</p><br />
<form name='create_folder' method='post' action='upload.php?action=createfolder'>
<input type='text' name='foldername' width='300px' maxlength='36'>
<input type='submit' value='Create Folder'>
</form>

Then the form to rename the directory:

<p class='registertext'>Rename Folder</p><br />
<form name='rename_folder' method='post' action='rename.php?action=renamefolder'>
<input type='text name='foldername' width='300px' maxlength='36'>
<input type='submit' value='Rename Folder'>
</form>

Near identical. Now, for the second part, like I said, all the intricate MySQL stuff works to the best of my knowledge, but the $_REQUEST gets funked up. I have a basic strlen() test to make sure that the user actually enters something for the name. With the create directory, it goes fine:

if($_POST['action'] == "createfolder") {
$username=$_SESSION['loginname'];
$foldername=$_REQUEST['foldername'];
if (strlen($foldername)==0) {
	header("Location: manage.php?createfolder=failed&cause=".urlencode('Please enter a folder name!'));
}
else
{
.. the else
}

But my second code, which is practically IDENTICAL, for some reason manages to not pick up the second form's foldername. Instead, it returns true for $foldername having a length of 0, and shoots me back to manage.php with my error message. I have no idea why this would happen.

if($_GET['action'] == "renamefolder") {
$username=$_SESSION['loginname'];
$foldername=$_REQUEST['foldername'];
if (strlen($foldername)==0) {
	header("Location: manage.php?renamefolder=failed&cause=".urlencode('BROKEN AS HELL'));
}
else
{
... the else
}

I've tried all sorts of things such as giving the forms individual variables, referring to the variables in different ways, but I can't figure out what gives. Does anybody have any idea? It'd be MUCH appreciated; I've been working at this for ages.

[i300]

Web programming.

[editline]11:44PM[/editline]

DAMN :ninja:

[Burning Ninja]

have you tried $_POST["foldername"]