How to make a HTML form post its variables to itself

: Joel Lipman; Hypertext Markup Language; 17 September 2009; Hits: 11730

The Issue

You have a PHP page which generates a HTML form. When the user submits the form, you want the same PHP page to process the data.

Solution

I've seen a lot of people write CGI requests but if you left the action attribute blank, this would do the same thing:

copy raw

<form method="post" action="">
...

<form method="post" action="">
...

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