sending post dat via SSL

Borojimmy

Hi, I am not sure if this is the correct place to put this question but its about displaying pages with SSL

My SSL all works i can view al the pagers with https:// but I have a problem when it comes to sending form content over ssl, currently I am having to include the full url when posting form data so an example would be

 
<form name="login" method ="post" action="https://www.domainname.com/recieving_page.php" >
<input... yada yada yada >
</form>

when what I need is:

 
<form name="login" method ="post" action="recieving_page.php" >
<input... yada yada yada >
</form>

Is there a way of just using the page name but ensuring that the page it is sent to is [url]https://?[/url]

the reason for this is currently I am developing a CMS/online booking system for a client and this is my first 'go' at creating this sort of large project, everything works which I am real pleased about but when I am finetunin various things at home I need to be able to post the data to the page on my own local server rather than having to uploqad to the site constantly the check if it works, then go back to the page, save upload, repeat and rinse, repeat and rinse.....

is there a function I can use that tells the page to send the data via ssl but only use the file name in the action, it would save me sooooo much time,

any help , greatly appreciated

Jimmy

scrupul0us

well if you prefix the page name with a dynamically generated path based on the current page then you'll be set

Borojimmy

Okay I replied and then read it and it made no sense!

I am not too surte how I would do the dynamic generation plus to send a form it may be a little overkill, I was thinking of using constants for the path and have different constants on the remote server to what I have locally, this way both will work....

this is what I mean:

if I define a constant for the path to the filename but not the file name

the server version would be:

define ("SSLPATH", "https://yada_yada_yada_/")

but locally it would be :

define ("SSLPATH", "localhost/path_to_file/")

and then to call it I think it would be:

<form name="name" method="post" action="<?php echo SSLPATH ?>/filename.php" >
<input...etc>
</form>

I am going to give this a try and see if it works.....
Jimmy

scrupul0us

you could do that however if you ever port the site to another domain you'll have things to change

check out:

[man]parse_url[/man]

Borojimmy

Thanks, just had a look,

The thing about php is there are soooooo many built in functions its difficult to keep up with them!

though saying that, the sheer number of functions makes php such a flexible language, when I began training i used to prefer asp and ASP.NET, once I got into php I dumped all the Micro$oft stuff and went open source!

thanks for your help

Jimmy

scrupul0us

yea theres alot out there for PHP... google is certainly your best friend when it comes to these things...

good luck!