I personally use it all the time in my news script that powers my page, it
is easier to use and it helps with security.
Chris "TunkeyMicket" Watford
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TunkeyMicket Productions
www.tunkeymicket.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "motorpsychkill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 6:39 AM
Subject: Re: [PHP] bad form...
> generally. no its not.. IMHO its a good thing.... it can help make data
> validation easier, as in people can't "fake" variables by passing them in
> the URL to the processing script.
> It also helps keeps thing tidy... so providing that the processing isn't
> fantastically complex (in which case the complexity of the processing may
> make the physical file cumbersome)
>
> HTH,
> Tom
>
>
> > hello everyone, is it 'bad form' (no pun intended) to have a form point
to
> > itself for processing, rather than forward the form variables to another
> > page? Anybody have any input on this? I try to have 1 page that is the
> > form and handles all the processing as well in order to keep the page
> count
> > on my site low and for easier editing, blah blah blah....
> >
> > thank you for you help!
> >
