HTML form: action clarification - php

Question

Hello I am currently making a registration page,
I'm new to php, and was wondering if this would work when I use the action part in form
<form method="post" id="formArea" action="action.php">
action.php is a file that contains
redirect.html
<?php echo htmlspecialchars($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']); ?>
would this work? or is there a way where I can have both in the action section without the need for having to make a new file?

Answer 1

You Could Just Do This From The Form. If This is what your looking for:
<form method="post" id="formArea" action="<?PHP $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?>">
//this will make the form post to same page as the form
if your wanting to send this to both you can save the $_POST Data In A Variable and Use It Later.
EX:
<?PHP
//your form submit code might look something like this same file as your form
if(isset($_POST['submit']))
{
foreach($_POST as $key -> $value)
{
//echo or show your values or store your values in database or w/e
$_SESSION['post'][$key] = $value;
//this will make a session variable to be used again later each session array is marked with post identified by $key and stored a $value
}
//you can call your other page here this will only run after this page runs and loads your information above and then redirect with a session variable.
header("Location: redirect.html");
}
else
{
echo "<form method=\"post\" id=\"formArea\" action=\"".$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."\">";
}
This Code Is Not Tested But It Would Work the redirect.html will process code from $_SESSION['post']