echo inside an echo???

[rch10007]

Can I place an echo statement inside another echo that creates a form.

I am trying to create a form "on-the-fly" and I want the action to post to itself.

It would look something like this, but since this doesn't work - maybe not!

Can I do this?

echo ("<form action=\"{<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>}\" method=\"post\">\n");

or

echo ("<form action=\"" . <?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?> ."\" method=\"post\">\n");

??

[arto]

Why do you want one echo inside another?
This works: echo("<form action=\"".$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."\" method=\"post\">\n");Arto

[Wart_Hog]

Or even better:

echo ('<form action="'.$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'" method="post">'."\n");

When printing out html with variables in the mix, I find it easier to read/debug if I use single quotes. Using single quotes (to wrap your strings) will allow you to use double quotes inside the strings without messy backslashes everywhere.

-Mike

[BeachSide]

to answer your question...

No you cannot do it like you have it up there. echo isn't really a function it is a construct so you can't have <?php ... ?> inside of it

The best way is like Wart_Hog said use single quotes for something simple like that with lots of double quotes inside of it. Otherwise I like to use double quotes and have the variable inside of it...

If you want to really get crazy O_o (ok I'm a nerd laugh and point fingers) use heredoc for big chunks of code that way you don't have to worry about quotes at all and even newlines etc...

echo <<<FORM
<form action="{$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']}" method="post">
A whole bunch of form stuff...
...
...
...
More form stuff...
blah blah "some quotes"
...
maybe even a {$variable} or {$two}
blah blah some single 'quotes'
</form>
FORM;

[rch10007]

I KNEW that! This project has me forgetting the basics - thx for clearing my eyes, if only for a short time! LOL

thx guys

[bokeh]

One last thing... I often see people using this construct:
echo ('<form action="'.$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'" method="post">'."\n");
but sometimes people save forms and fill them in later and it is very frustrating finding the form doesn't work only after having filled it in so I recommend:
echo ('<form action="http://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'" method="post">'."\n");

[rch10007]

thx all:

this is actually what I was looking for:

'SCRIPT_FILENAME'
The absolute pathname of the currently executing script.

Note: If a script is executed with the CLI, as a relative path, such as file.php or ../file.php, $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] will contain the relative path specified by the user.

This is the best way to get the absolute URL everytime.

[rch10007]

I AM WRONG!!!

That's not what I was looking for!

Which variable calls only the page name??? Like: "page.php" not listing the directory too. (dir/another_dir/page.php) Is there one?

[bokeh]

As far as I know there isn't one so you will need to extract it.<?php
$url = array_reverse(explode('/', $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']));
$filename = $url['0'];
print $filename;
?>

[bokeh]

I AM WRONG!!!

That's not what I was looking for!

Which variable calls only the page name??? Like: "page.php" not listing the directory too. (dir/another_dir/page.php) Is there one?

basename()

print basename('dir/another_dir/page.php');// prints 'page.php'