[thelist] PHP_SELF / Contact Form

Nan Harbison nan at nanharbison.com
Thu Jul 29 14:06:33 CDT 2010


After years of creating forms on websites, I found out that if the action is
just staying on the same page, you can actually leave off the:
action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>
and just have:
<form name="mycontactForm"  method="get" >


Who knew?
Nan

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> <form name="mycontactForm"  action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>
method="get" >
>
> HTML source output  action="index.php"
>
> so while my contact.php file is located inside mypages folder one level
below index.php what should
> I do so the contact form works just fine.

Hi Davoud,

as the action attribute of your form will always have the same value,
there is no need to insert the value as a variable.
Just write action="contact.php" and your form should work.

Cheers,

jens

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