Error when using the "Post" method

Anon

I keep receiving an error when trying to process a form I've created.

Here's the form action line:
"<form method="post" action="<?php echo $PHP_SELF?>">"

When I process the form I get:
"HTTP Error 405
405 Method Not Allowed

The method specified in the Request Line is not allowed for the resource identified by the request. Please ensure that you have the proper MIME type set up for the resource you are requesting.

Please contact the server's administrator if this problem persists."

I'm running PHP 4.2.2 on PWS (couldn't get Apache to work correctly) on a WIN 98 operating system.

I've checked all of the properties in PWS and all of my bin directories are set to execute so I don't think that's a problem.
I am concerned about the $PHP_SELF variable, because I don't think that is returning a value. I wrote a simple script to print the value of the $PHP_SELF variable and I got an "undefined variable" error.

Has anybody else experienced this error?

Thanks in advance.

Anon

Try
<form method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'];?>">

Anon

Will that retrieve the whole directory path like $PHP_Self does or just the script name?

Thanks again

Anon

Can you not just use:

If you have variables that need passed use hidden form elements, or change the action to:

./?<?php PRINT("var1=".$var1."&var2=..."); ?>

dunno?

Also if $PHP_SELF is an undefined variable your code will be

Which may through a server 405 error, as you do not specify where to send the variables, and the server may not allow this. For example if they were sent to an htm/html file then a 404 error may appear.

Anon

I actually got that script from a webmonkey tutorial. I'm just learning PHP and I basically followed the tutorial step for step.

But I guess that script would work.

But if it was in a tutoruial, you would expect it to work.

Oh well.

I'll give it a try.

Thanks for your help.

Anon

I've actually seen a few complaints/questions recently about $PHP_SELF on the forum, perhaps it has changed or been dropped in the new version of PHP and now that tutorial is out of date.

-Chris

Anon

On the php.net site it says that it is a server variable so I assume it must ne used in conjuction with $_server[] in order to work.

Dunno....

edwardsbc

Unless you have 'register globals' on in the PHP.INI file. This used to be default behaviour, but is not suggested for security reasons. To see all of the system-like variables available add a

phpinfo();

to the end of your script.

Anon

It's funny because I tried this solution last night before I read this post and it worked. I basically just fooled around in the .ini file until I came across the globals preference.

I guess my question now is, if globals are turned off for security reasons, do most hosts have globals turned off?

Would that effect the scripts that I wrote on my local machine with the globals turned on?

Thanks