Re: form challenge

On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 09:16:42PM +0200, Marcel Martin wrote: > > <? for( $i = 0; $i < $x; $i++ ) { ?> > > <form method="post" action="<? echo $PHP_SELF ?>"> > > <input type=text> <input type=submit> > > </form> > > <? } ?> > > AFAIK the "action" in a <form> tag defaults to the current URL. I'v seen > a few scripts where the action was set to $PHP_SELF (like in the example > above) explicitly, instead of being left out. Is this "better" or even > necessary for some browsers? Or do most people just not know about this > behavior? (like I did just a few days ago :-) )? I prefer the above approach (use $PHP_SELF). It's portable across multiple source files that way, and it makes the resulting HTML output easier to debug. I don't like making assumptions on browser behavior. -- Jon Parise (jon@csh.rit.edu) . Rochester Inst. of Technology http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/ : Computer Science House Member