php_self and safari for windows

asa_carter

I have just discovered that $php_self does not work in Safari for windows. When the form is submitted the document root index.php file is loaded.

<form action="<?=$php_self?>" method="post">

Can anyone else verify this? Is there a simple solution?

asa_carter

Replacing $php_self with $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] seems to work.

Why do apple have to mess everything up? IE make things hard enough.

cahva

Well you even shouldnt use $php_self unless you have declared it like:
$php_self = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];

Usually people use $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] to point to the same script that you are on.

$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] works in my safari for windows so I dont think Apple has screwed anything 🙂

Weedpacket

Since Safari (or any other browser) never sees any of your PHP code unless you've stuffed up, I don't think it's Apple's fault.

asa_carter

Weedpacket wrote:
Since Safari (or any other browser) never sees any of your PHP code unless you've stuffed up, I don't think it's Apple's fault.

That's what I would have thought as well. As php is server side it should have no difference between browsers.

bradgrafelman

asa_carter wrote:
As php is server side it should have no difference between browsers.

As far as $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] goes, it doesn't.

$PHP_SELF should never work (unless you explicitly define said variable). If it ever did, that means register_globals was turned On, though it definitely should not be.