Blank page after post

I've been having a wonderful struggle these last few days with vservers.com over a database problem. Originally I was getting the SQLConnect error messages and I was able to pass those on. After a couple of days they replied that the problem had been fixed. The page we use to insert news into the database uses inserts the data (using the $PHP_SELF action) and then presents the empty form again for the next story. After telling us it was fixed I was able to successfully insert a story. When I went to go use the form later, it not only won't insert the data, but after being unsuccessful IIS dishes up an empty page (nothing between the <html> tags) despite having the name of the form page in the address bar. The script has been working fine for over a month and has not been changed. Ignoring the fact that vservers.com is still having a problem with the database connection, can anyone explain why IIS would toss up an empty page? Even when we were getting the MS SQL 7 error messages, the form would still reload, so I don't get this latest quirk. I'll include the code (can't remember where I adapted it from) below. If you're wondering about the str_replace and stripslashes lines, it's a kludge we needed because of the way vservers have the php.ini set: <?php if ($REQUEST_METHOD == 'POST') { $cnx = odbc_connect( 'blah' , 'blah', 'pwd' ); $sql="INSERT into news VALUES ('$date', '$headline', '$description', '$keywords', '$photo', '$alt', '$celebs', '$story')"; $sql = str_replace("\'","''",$sql); $sql = stripslashes($sql); $res = odbc_exec($cnx, $sql); if ($some_error) { echo "Oops!<br>"; exit; } else echo "<a href=cronkite3.php3>Again?</a>"; } ?> <form action="<?php ECHO $PHP_SELF ; ?>" method="POST">PLEASE <br /> Date:(yyyy-mm-dd)<input type="text" name="date" size="12" maxlength="20" value="2000-" /><br /> Headline: <input type="text" name="headline" size="50" maxlength="200" value="Headline " /><br /> Description: <input type="text" name="description" size="50" maxlength="200" /><br /> Keywords: <input type="text" name="keywords" size="50" maxlength="200" /><br /> Make sure you start photo dir with / root.<br /> Photo: <input type="text" name="photo" value="none" size="50" maxlength="100" /><br /> Alt: <input type="text" name="alt" value="none" size="50" maxlength="100" /><br /> People mentioned: <input type="text" name="celebs" size="50" maxlength="400" value="Celebrity_Names" /><br /> <a href="javascript:ReplaceText(&#39;&lt;b&gt;&#39;,&#39;&lt;/b&gt;&#39;)"> <b>Bold</b></a> <a href="javascript:ReplaceText(&#39;&lt;i&gt;&#39;,&#39;&lt;/i&gt;&#39;)"> <i>Italic</i></a> <a href="javascript:ReplaceText(&#39;&lt;a href=&quot;&quot;&gt;&#39;,&#39;&lt;/a&gt;&#39;)"> Link <a href="javascript:ReplaceText(&#39;&amp;quot;&#39;,&#39;&amp;quot;&#39;)"> Quotation</a> <a href="javascript:ReplaceText(&#39;&lt;p&gt;&#39;,&#39;&lt;/p&gt;&#39;)"> Paragraph</a><br /> Story:<br /> <textarea name="story" rows="10" cols="100" wrap="virtual"></textarea><br /> <input type="SUBMIT" value="Insert Data" /><input type="RESET" value="Reset" /><br /> </form> </body> -- Ian Evans