Trying to set form action to same page, but getting a 'not found' error.

Hi guys! Thanks a lot for helping me yesterday. But now I have a new problem. I have a module in joomla which I write PHP code in.
[PHP]$thisfile ="http://192.168.1.38/demotest/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&" . "id=" . "$id" . "&Itemid=" . "$itemid";[/PHP]

$id and $itemid are variables that tells me what to call on (the page I am on). the address I get when I print out is "http://192.168.1.38/demotest/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemi d=26"
which is the current address I am on.


$thisfile is supposed to work in my form like this:
[PHP]<form id="form1" name="frmname" method="post" action="<? echo $_SERVER['$thisfile']?>">[/PHP]

But when I fill something in my form, and press submit, I get the following error: "The requested URL was not found on this server. The link on the ">referring page seems to be wrong or outdated. Please inform the author of ">that page about the error. If you entered the URL manually please check your spelling and try again."

I have tried to change the code, change the $thisfile, but I can't seem to fix it. It worked before :-(

What I want to do is call on itself, so I can fill out the form, submit it, and reload it.

Can anyone see anything wrong?


Phopman

re: Trying to set form action to same page, but getting a 'not found' error.

Changed thread title to better describe the problem (did you know that threads whose titles that do not follow the Posting Guidelines actually get FEWER responses?).

re: Trying to set form action to same page, but getting a 'not found' error.

Sorry about my bad title description. My english is lacking sometimes...

re: Trying to set form action to same page, but getting a 'not found' error.

hi.. i'm not sure but try this..
[PHP]
$thisfile ="index.php?option=com_content&task=view&" . "id=" . "$id" . "&Itemid=" . "$itemid";
[/PHP]

instead of...

[PHP]
$thisfile ="http://192.168.1.38/demotest/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&" . "id=" . "$id" . "&Itemid=" . "$itemid";
[/PHP]

if you are accessing the page from the same directory then you dont need to provide whole path to the file......

re: Trying to set form action to same page, but getting a 'not found' error.

Thanks rpnew for the tip. I found out that if I had action ="" the script worked. Somehow...

re: Trying to set form action to same page, but getting a 'not found' error.

Heya, Phopman.

Did you set a base href for the page? That might have thrown things off a bit.

For example, if your script were located at /forms/update.php, but your base href were http://yoursite.tld/, then you would run into problems:
Would attempt to post to /update.php, not /forms/update.php.

However,
Posts to the same page... I think. I don't think it's part of a standard, but all browsers seem to implement it that way. But I don't like to trust it, which is why I usually use the basename(__FILE__) trick (though that won't work, as you can see, with a base href).

re: Trying to set form action to same page, but getting a 'not found' error.

No, I did not set a Base Href, only "".

Man, sometimes I just hate PHP. But I love it too. Mastering it a little by little give me satisfaction...