problem with Safari and my CMS

[paulcj2]

My page editing function (using Editize latest version) works fine in IE6 and Firefox, but not in Safari. I think the problem may be that Safari does not recognize the variable $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] in the form action:

 <form name="edit_page" method="post" action="<?php $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" >

Instead of sending the contents of the form to the rest of the script for processing, it redirects one to the home page, no doubt by my 400.php script.

My markup is all validated by the W3C checker.

Here are two raw access log file entries that may say something:

72.70.243.69 - - [29/Apr/2006:11:51:51 -0400]
"POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 6365 "http://www.clickbasics.com/pages/edi....php?pg_id=184"
"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/417.9 (KHTML, like Gecko)
Safari/417.8"

72.70.243.69 - - [29/Apr/2006:11:51:52 -0400] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404
4839 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/417.9 (KHTML, like Gecko)
Safari/417.8"

Any clues why Safari does not process page edit changes in my CMS.

(Off topic, any suggestions for a program that will read a raw access .txt file?)

[UFTimmy]

The browser never sees the PHP code, so one browser doesn't interpret your PHP code any differently than another. Now if your PHP is producing invalid HTML, one browser may read that differently than another.

If you load your page in any browser, what does that <form> tag look like in its html form? Can you copy and paste that here?

[paulcj2]

Well I'll be.....

Here's how the form tag looks in the source view of IE6

 <form name="edit_page" method="post" action="" >

How can that be, yet it still works in IE6 Firefox?

[UFTimmy]

Well I'll be.....

Here's how the form tag looks in the source view of IE6

 <form name="edit_page" method="post" action="" >

How can that be, yet it still works in IE6 Firefox?

I'd imagine by default IE & Firefox submits the form back to itself, while Safari has another default action.

[paulcj2]

Thanks. Know of a work around?

[trib4lmaniac]

action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>"

[jtresidder]

Covered already, but yep, IE will send a form to itself if no action is specified, but not all browsers do.

[UFTimmy]

action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>"

tribal is of course correct. You have to echo the $variable to have it show up in the page.

[paulcj2]

Thanks