RE: [PHP] How to submit form via PHP
| From: | Richard Lynch | Date: | Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:33:41 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] How to submit form via PHP | ||
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Actually, I believe action="" submitting to the same URL is *documented* HTTP spec
behavior.
I welcome correction/confirmation if somebody wants to wade through the docs again...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dotan Cohen [mailto:dotancohen@gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2008 4:13 AM
> To: php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: Re: [PHP] How to submit form via PHP
>
> 2008/9/28 Ashley Sheridan <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk>:
> >> Sorry to drag up an old thread, but I just saw this. Is that true of
> >> all browsers? I'm wondering because I just coded a site to use this
> >> behavior, then I saw that the html specification says the action
> >> attribute is required.
> >>
> > Without the action attribute, the form submits to itself, i.e. a form
> on
> > contact.php submits to contact.php without an action attribute being
> > specified.
> >
>
> If it's undocumented then I would not rely upon it. How much trouble
> did we have in the early 00's because of sites that were coded for the
> undocumented 'features' of specific browsers five years prior?
> Additionally, if you cannot test all the varied platforms (PC,
> cellphones, iPhone, PS3, browsers for the disabled) then you should
> not rely on undocumented behaviour.
>
> Dotan Cohen
>
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