Form action help

justn

I am writing a php page to basiaclly take data from some forms, and insert it into a mysql database. i am using php5 with the mysqli extension. i am using apache2 and mysql 4.1. i have a decent grasp of php and all else but somewhere in my life i just didn't learn html that well. so i have this:
<form method="post" action="<?php echo $thispage; ?>?proc=New&post=yes&<?php echo $pagevars; ?>">

i'm 99% this is whats giving me the problem, as there isn't a whole lot else to the code. i just don't what is wrong in the html as it was something i found on a snippet. any help would be greatly greatly appreciated.

justn

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /< on this server.
Apache/2.0.53 (Win32) mod_ssl/2.0.53 OpenSSL/0.9.7e PHP/5.0.3 Server at localhost Port 80

that is the error i get when trying to submit the form

this is the data in the title bar:
http://localhost/%3C?php%20echo%20$thispage;%20?%3E?proc=New&post=yes&%3C?php%20echo%20$pagevars;%20?%3E

devinemke

<form method="post" action="<?php echo $thispage; ?>?proc=New&post=yes&<?php echo $pagevars; ?>">

are $thispage and $pagevars set?

justn

yeah
$thispage = newemployee.php;
$pagevars = "";

justn

so what exaclty does that &lt do? nothing i'll miss? i thought it was something to align.

bradgrafelman

"<" = Less than sign.

It's an HTML-safe way of saying "<" (to clarify a less than sign versus an HTML object)

If this is a line from a PHP script, you do NOT want the HTML-safe &lt, rather, you want <.

Change your code as devine has done nicely in his post above.

EDIT: Also, not sure if you were just being lazy and didn't type it out, or if that was your actual code, but:

$thispage = newemployee.php;

should be

$thispage = "newemployee.php";