title: POST Variable Lost on Submit
body: <p>I have form with a submit button that changes value depending on the page.  When the submit button is pressed, I need that value to do some data validation.  However, the value is being lost somewhere in the process.</p>
  
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  <li><p>I did a value check on the button using 'click' in jQuery that fires before the 'submit' of the data.  The value is correct.</p></li>
  <li><p>On the page load, I tried checking the POST variable value and it is gone.</p>
  
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  <li><p>EXCEPT in the following situations:</p>
  
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  <li><p>If I do NOT use the POST variable in any way, such as 'if' statements.  Or assign its value to a variable.  If I do any of those things, the value is lost does not even show up when I check for its value at the top of the page.</p>
  
  <p>2.If I leave one of the required fields in the form blank.</p></li>
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  <p>I should note that this is a Wordpress site. I know people are going to be asking for code, but the page is quite long, so I will try to get some code here soon.</p>