Form Script Question

[Zapp]

Hi
Can anyone tell me why my form script fails at this line
<form action="$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']" method="POST">

when running on my ISP which is using PHP version 4.3.2,
Configure Command './configure' '--prefix=/usr/local'
'--with-apache=/home/shells/chriss/Apachetoolbox-1.5.66/apache_1.3.27'
'--enable-exif' '--enable-track-vars' '--with-calendar=shared'
'--enable-magic-quotes' '--enable-trans-sid' '--enable-wddx' '--enable-ftp'
'--enable-inline-optimization' '--enable-memory-limit'
'--with-openssl=/usr/local/ssl'




but works on my Linux box running running PHP version 4.3.1.
Configure Command './configure' '--with-config-file-path=/etc/httpd'
'--with-mysql=/usr' '--with-exec-dir=/usr/bin' '--with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs'
'--with-java=/usr/java/jdk1.3.1' '--disable-cli' '--includedir=/usr'
'--with-gdbm' '--with-db' '--enable-track-vars' '--with-zlib-dir=/usr/'
'--with-gd=/usr'



I'll supply more inf if needed.

Thanks in advance
Bill Zapp

[Rudolf Horbas]

Zapp,

> Can anyone tell me why my form script fails at this line
> <form action="$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']" method="POST">

If You're in HTML, the line should read
<form action="<?=$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']?>" method="POST">

If this in an echo statement or a variable ect, it should be:
<form action=\" . "$_SERVER["PHP_SELF"] . "\" method=\"POST\">
or shorter:
<form action=\"$PHP_SELF\" method=\"POST\">

Thats all I can do without the rest of the code, but it looks like it's
easy to fix ...

rudi

[Rudolf Horbas]

> echo <<<END

> <form action="$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']" method="POST">

Here You go.
It's the quotes around the $_SERVER array index.
Neither '' nor "" will work.

If you want to use the heredoc syntax, use
<form action="$_SERVER[PHP_SELF]" method="POST">
or just
<form action="$PHP_SELF" method="POST">

rudi

[Rudolf Horbas]

(Sorry, first message was a reply to myself ...)

> echo <<<END
> <form action="$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']" method="POST">

Here You go.
It's the quotes around the $_SERVER array index.
Neither '' nor "" will work.

If you want to use the heredoc syntax, use
<form action="$_SERVER[PHP_SELF]" method="POST">
or just
<form action="$PHP_SELF" method="POST">

rudi

[Rudolf Horbas]

(Sorry, first message was a reply to myself ...)
(darn, again! whats mozilla up to? :-( )

> echo <<<END
> <form action="$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']" method="POST">

Here You go.
It's the quotes around the $_SERVER array index.
Neither '' nor "" will work.

If you want to use the heredoc syntax, use
<form action="$_SERVER[PHP_SELF]" method="POST">
or just
<form action="$PHP_SELF" method="POST">

rudi

[Zapp]

Rudi

No problem with the reposts, just glad to see you're not using MS ;)
Anyway, your fix worked thank you very much for taking the time to respond!
Zapp


"Rudolf Horbas" <rhorbas@hypotext.de> wrote in message
news:bhj9uk$nrm$4@svr8.m-online.net...

> Sorry zapp, Mozilla keeps posting to my own reply, 'though I'd marked
> Your post. Guess You'll find this anyway, but it's embarassing for me ...
>
> anyone know 'bout this moz behaviour? or am i making some stupid mistake?
>
> rudi
>