nodejs, express and jade: problems with inserts from form to database - node.js

Question

when i try to enter data in my jade form i get error message that says it is null. Can someone help me figuring out what the problem is?
app.js
var express = require('express');
var pg = require('pg');
var routes = require('./routes');
var user = require('./routes/user');
var http = require('http');
var path = require('path');
var app = express();
var conString = "postgres://abc:123#localhost/abc";
app.set('port', process.env.PORT || 3000);
app.set('views', path.join(__dirname, 'views'));
app.set('view engine', 'jade');
app.use(express.favicon());
app.use(express.logger('dev'));
app.use(express.json());
app.use(express.urlencoded());
app.use(express.methodOverride());
app.use(express.cookieParser('your secret here'));
app.use(express.session());
app.use(app.router);
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')));
// development only,
if ('development' == app.get('env')) {
app.use(express.errorHandler());
}
//app.get('/', routes.index);
app.get('/', function (req, res) {
res.render('index',
{ title : 'Home' }
)
});
app.get('/users', user.list);
app.post('/', function(req, res){
var header = req.param('header', null); // second parameter is default
var body = req.param('body', null);
console.log(header);
console.log(body);
pg.connect(conString, function(err, client, done, request, response) {
client.on('drain', client.end.bind(client));//stänger av när alla queries är klara
client.query("INSERT INTO post(member_id, title, body) VALUES ('1', $1, $2)", [header, body], function(err, result){
if (err) {
console.log(err);
}
else{
res.send("success!");
}
});
});
});
http.createServer(app).listen(app.get('port'), function(){
console.log('Express server listening on port ' + app.get('port'));
});
index.jade
extends layout
block content
h1= title
p Welcome to #{title}
form(action='/',method='post')
input(type='text',id='header',placeholder='header')
input(type='text',id='body',placeholder='body')
input(type='submit',name='submit',value='Submit')
layout.jade
doctype html
html
head
title= title
link(rel='stylesheet',href='/stylesheets/style.css')
body
block content
p whaddup
However if I use curl --verbose -d 'header=abcd&body=1234' http://localhost:3000 it works fine, so im fairly certain it's the jade part, but i've no clue what's wrong. I am new to nodejs and all that :)
thanks in advance.

Answer 1

It's the name of a form control that is submitted with the data, not the id. As it is, the only value your form is submitting is that of the submit button.
Rather it should look like this:
input(type='text', name='header', placeholder='header')
input(type='text', name='body', placeholder='body')