netscape escaped from hell

Anon

$PHP_SELF: Netscape refuses to handle this correctly. I'm submitting a form to $PHP_SELF but I can't get it to work in IE and NS. Anyone have any experience here?

<sigh>Thought I was done with browser bull**** when I got into server-side scripts</sigh>

Anon

nope, the $PHP_SELF is only in php and is browser independent. You should have
< FORM METHOD=POST ACTION="<? echo $PHP_SELF; ?>">

so the literal string $PHP_SELF should never appear in the html sent to the browser

Anon

i've never had an probs with $PHP_SELF try viewing the source after the page has been parsed into html, it should give some insight into what the browser is seeing and if your wraping it up inside your <form> tagscorrectly

Anon

I've got this worked out now...

But something like this was happening maybe:

I was trying to pass variables into $PHP_SELF where I'd have $PHP_SELF?user=foo set as a form action. In the next iteration (the next page) $PHP_SELF would be 'thepage.php3?user=foo' or that was my hope anyway. NS wasn't buying this and would dump '?user=foo'.

Anon

It's not that the browser can't handle this. $PHP_SELF only references the document in which that tag is stated, therefore it will only return thispage.php. The way to get it to accept variables passed through the URL is to use: action="<? echo $PHP_SELF ?>?user=<? echo $user ?>".

I like to blame NS for everything too.