PHP - Have Echo On The Same Page Without Php_self?

Hi I am new to PHP and this is my first post one here so appologies is this questions seems a bit dumb!

I have an if clause such that if a button is pressed on my web page then i want to reload the page and include a new form on it.

I am having a problem getting the $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] command to work from iside a echo command. I must not be escaping the code correctly with back slashes:

I currently have the line :

 
echo"<form method=\"POST\" action=\"\<?$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']?\>\">";


However this doesnt seem to work as my page just doesnt display in the browser.

Any advice is much appreciated.

Thanks for taking the time to read.

Hi there,

I'm trying to make my code more efficient by using <?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?> ....where I've been used to having two pages with forms - one for filling out the form, and then a second page to process it / confirm, etc.

The page in question is designed to send a reminder of a user's password to their email address.

They basically put their email address into a form with one field, next to which it says:

"So...You forgot your password eh? Give us your email address and we'll send it to you."

I've got the code set up so it sends the email with the password, no problems.

However, once they've pressed submit, they can still see the message  "So...You forgot your password eh? Give us your email address and we'll send it to you"...as well as the form field and submit button.

I'd love to know what I need to do to hide these after the user has pressed submit??

Here's the code:
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    <?php
if(isset($_POST['submit'])) 
{ 

 $emailaddress = $_POST['emailaddress'];
 
echo "We've sent an email to $emailaddress, reminding you of your password.";


 //MySQL Database Connect
 include 'mysql_connect_applications.php'; 

// Get all the data from the "example" table

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM applications2011 WHERE emailaddress= '$emailaddress'  LIMIT 0,1 ")
or die(mysql_error());

while($row = mysql_fetch_array( $result )) {

 $password = $row['password'];
}

// keeps getting the next row until there are no more to get

//***********************Email to forgetful user code***********************

$to = "$emailaddress\n";
$subject = "C2K Application";
$headers = "From: coast2kosci@coast2kosci.com";

$message = "Hi there, 

Seems you forgot your password. Here it is:

Password:  $password

Yours in the long run,

Dave.\n";
if (preg_match(' /[\r\n,;\'"]/ ', $_POST['emailaddress'])) {
  exit('Invalid Email Address');
}
else {
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);
}

//***********************End of Email to applicant code***********************
   
}
?>
             
             
                <form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>">
                  <p>
                    <label>
                      So...You forgot your password eh? Give us  your email address and we'll send it to you.
                      <input type="text" name="emailaddress" id="emailaddress" />
                    </label>
                  </p>
                  <p>
                    <label>
                      <input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="Submit Form" />
                    </label>
                  </p>
                </form>

Hello

I have a from that updates a few things in the db, and uses "<?php echo $PHP_SELF;?>".

The form does update everything fine, however that page does not reflect it. If I refresh the page manually
I can see the new values.

Is this a common thing, and can anything be done to fix this?

Hey guys,

I m not an expert in PHP but i want to learn php now.

So the question is,

So i have 2 machines that I want to communicate; let's say 192.168.1.5 and 192.168.1.7

And then, there is a php called test_main.php in 192.168.1.5, then test.php in 192.168.1.7

My goal is to call test.php and then capture the echo result... is it possible?

kinda like:
in test_main.php
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<?php
echo file_get_contents("http://192.168.1.7/test.php?test=123123");
?>
in test.php
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<?php
echo "HELLO WORLD!";
?>
so the output when i call test_main.php is "HELLO WORLD!"

Thanks guys! Appreciate it

P.S. Maybe the function that I m using is incorrect? Please let me know of another function to use?