I have created a php script that uploads an image, it is located at forum.php?act=add_avatar
But the form goes to the same page that it's on, forum.php?act=avatar

<form action=\"forum.php?act=add_avatar\" method=\"post\" enctype=\"multipart/form-data\">
Upload Avatar: <input type=\"file\" name=\"imagefile\"><input type=\"submit\" name=\"submit\" value=\"Add Avatar\">
</form>

Whats wrong with the form?

There seems to be nothing wrong with the forum.

What I think you want to know is, is that whatever you have set to "action=' ' ", is the page your form is "sent" to.

The reason you keep on getting sent to forum.php?act=add_avatar is because you have that in your action.

I take it you also have a PHP code that goes along with this...?

No, i'm not getting sent to forum.php?act=add_avatar, i'm staying on the same page that the form is on, forum.php?act=avatar.

I have never seen the backslashes used in the code for a form like this. Is this xhtml compliant? or does it have something to do with the php coding?

Originally Posted by ChipJohns

I have never seen the backslashes used in the code for a form like this. Is this xhtml compliant? or does it have something to do with the php coding?

I think he prints this code with double quotes, like this:

PHP Code:

<?
echo "<form action=\"forum.php?act=add_avatar\" method=\"post\" enctype=\"multipart/form-data\">
Upload Avatar: <input type=\"file\" name=\"imagefile\"><input type=\"submit\" name=\"submit\" value=\"Add Avatar\">
</form>";
?>

I've just tested this HTML code:

<form action="forum.php?act=add_avatar" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data"> Upload Avatar: <input type="file" name="imagefile"><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Add Avatar"> </form>

And it works fine..

the "\" is a php escape character. It tells the server that the character following is a literal, and not part of the code flow.
So the \" prints the double quote to the page rather than it getting treated as the string delimiter.