.htaccess ruined on form process

DreamWeaver's $editFormAction = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];

[fwordboy]

using DreamWeaver MX 2004's PHP code

<form action="<?php echo $editFormAction;?>" method="POST" etc

couple with this code in the head (also courtesy of DWMX 2004:

$editFormAction = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
if (isset($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])) {
 $editFormAction .= "?" . htmlentities($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']);
}

completely ruins my people/search-engine friendly URLs (created with mod_rewrite thru .htaccess) and turns my URLs back into query strings? how do I avoid this?

[Birdman]

Well, there is no need to worry about a query string on the resulting page of a form submittal. search engines won't ever see it.

However, to remove it I would simply remove the if(){} section and leave it at:

$editFormAction = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];

[fwordboy]

I'm pretty sure, by removing the if statememnt makes the page refresh to just index.php without any rewritten query strings, so on form submittal the user would get sent back to a the page two levels up in the site hierachy. e.g. from

site.com/level1/level2/page-with-form/

to

site.com/level1/index.php

p.s. although search engines are a worry, i think it is more important not to bombard visitors to my site with horribly ugly urls that could confuse them.

[Birdman]

Ok, I think I understand better now. You want the form to submit to itself, but PHP_SELF is giving you the unfriendly URL.

The solution would be to rebuild the "friendly" URL using the query string variables. Using your example:

suppose...

site.com/level1/level2/page-with-form/

...gets rewritten to...

/index.php?lev_1=level1&lev_2=level2&lev_3=page-with-form

In the script, the form action would be...

$editFormAction = '/' . $_GET['lev_1'] . '/' . $_GET['lev_2'] . '/' . $_GET['lev_3'] . '/';

Which would give you the original URL...

/level1/level2/page-with-form/

I hope that helps a bit.

[fwordboy]

perfect. thanks