php form in included files

ligraci

hi to all!
I have a little problem writing the action in a form placed into an included file because I can't write the correct url. I mean:

This is the code of the main page (http://www.myweb.com/index.php):
<body>
<?
include("http://www.myweb.com/myfile.php");
?>
</body>

and this is the string in myfile.php that contains the form

echo "<form name=\"formname\" method=\"post\" action=\"".$PHP_SELF."\">";

The problem is that the value of $PHP_SELF is "myfile.php" and not "http://www.myweb.com/index.php" as I hoped. How can I solv the problem and give the correct action value to my form?

Thank in advance for help!!!
^_ Dan

Anon

You could try using SCRIPT_FILENAME instead of PHP_SELF.

Mark

ligraci

thanks, but it doesn't solve my problem because the value of script_filename is http://www.myweb.com/usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/myfile.php

but I need only

http://www.myweb.com/index.php (the URL of the main page)

Any ideas?

Thanks again!!

khaine

You could try SCRIPT_NAME or REQUEST_URI.

Failing that just set a variable to equal PHP_SELF before the include and use that instead. i.e.

$thisprog=$PHP_SELF;

include("some/file/or/other.php");

and in the included file.

not an ideal solution but it would work.

Mark.

ligraci

I'll use the second solution, because neither SCRIPT_NAME nor REQUEST_URI work.

Thanks

Dan