In order to stay on the same page on submit you can leave action empty (action="") into the form tag, or leave it out altogether.
For the message, create a variable ($message = "Success! You entered: ".$input;") and then echo the variable at the place in the page where you want the message to appear with <?php echo $message; ?>.
Like this:
Copy<?php
$message = "";
if(isset($_POST['SubmitButton'])){ //check if form was submitted
$input = $_POST['inputText']; //get input text
$message = "Success! You entered: ".$input;
}
?>
<html>
<body>
<form action="" method="post">
<?php echo $message; ?>
<input type="text" name="inputText"/>
<input type="submit" name="SubmitButton"/>
</form>
</body>
</html>
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In order to stay on the same page on submit you can leave action empty (action="") into the form tag, or leave it out altogether.
For the message, create a variable ($message = "Success! You entered: ".$input;") and then echo the variable at the place in the page where you want the message to appear with <?php echo $message; ?>.
Like this:
Copy<?php
$message = "";
if(isset($_POST['SubmitButton'])){ //check if form was submitted
$input = $_POST['inputText']; //get input text
$message = "Success! You entered: ".$input;
}
?>
<html>
<body>
<form action="" method="post">
<?php echo $message; ?>
<input type="text" name="inputText"/>
<input type="submit" name="SubmitButton"/>
</form>
</body>
</html>
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The best way to stay on the same page is to post to the same page:
Copy<form method="post" action="<?=$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?>">
Stack Exchange
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php - Post + form + action + results on the same page - WordPress Development Stack Exchange
August 10, 2017 - Already solved: The problem I had was to prepare a WP post with a form, then use PHP to call an external JSON service and after that present the data on the same page. I didn't need a DB. I used the "insert-php" plug-in to embed php into the page.
html - php, form using the same page after submittion - Stack Overflow
The answer is NO. Once you submit a form -- whether you use the POST or GET method, and of course assuming that you are using $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] or empty action, etc. -- a new page is opened automatically. This holds at least for PHP. More on stackoverflow.com
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PHP form - on submit stay on same page
To stay on the same page after a form submission in PHP, you can use the following steps: In the HTML form element, set the action attribute to the current page's URL, and set the method attribute to "post": <form action="<?php echo ...
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The other answers are right; you only need to send the user back around to your current page in the "action" property. You can test to see if they did so using "isset".
Something that I'm surprised hasn't been mentioned yet is that your input is not being sanitized, and you're setting yourself up for disaster. Huge injection vulnerability in your action attribute:
$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']
If you don't sanitize this, then someone can just modify the URL that they see and your poor PHP script won't know any better than to process that as your SELF constant.
In other words, you absolutely must use an htmlspecialchars() function to html-encode that parameter. With that, your action should look more like htmlspecialchars($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']).
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if current page is index.php, use index.php in form tag as value of action.
like this:
<form action="index.php" method="post">
</form>
u can check for submitted form by putting:
if(isset($_POST)){
...
}
at top of page
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You can put the code in the same file and change the form to:
<form action="" method="post">
or
<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post">
to submit it to the same page.
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In addition to @ana-claudias's answer i recommend using the htmlspecialchars function to prevent XSS in case a client injects maliciuous characters into the url/variable.
<form action="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']); ?>" method="post">
HTML Form Guide
html.form.guide › php-form › php-form-action-self
Using PHP_SELF in the action field of a form | HTML Form Guide
A common use of PHP_SELF variable is in the action field of the <form> tag. The action field of the FORM instructs where to submit the form data when the user presses the “submit” button. It is common to have the same PHP page as the handler for the form as well.
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How to display submitted data on the same page as the form in PHP - Quora
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December 16, 2016 - I have created a form that submits successfully to an email address, however, it redirects to another page with the text “Thank you. We will be in touch shortly” or “Please fill in all fields and submit again!” as I have used some simple validation. I would like the form to submit but ...
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I took a look at your code, and it appears the issue in on the first if statement:
```php
if($server["REQUESTMETHOD"] == "POST") {
```
You are trying to access the $_SERVER array for it's request method. Variables in PHP are case sensitive, and in your code you have typed out the variable in lowercase. To correct this, simply adjust the case to:
```php
if($SERVER["REQUESTMETHOD"] == "POST") {
```
Once this is done, the conditional will trigger, the message should be created, and the page should redirect to the location with the GET variable of status that causes your custom message to be displayed.
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Hey tuukka!!
All you have to do is change the spelling of $server to $SERVER (all caps) and it should work fine!!
SitePoint
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GeeksforGeeks
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April 28, 2025 - <form name="form1" method="post" action="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']); ?>" > ... $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']: The $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"] is a super global variable that returns the filename of the currently executing script.
YouTube
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Part 7: Show Result on Same Page after form submission in PHP - YouTube
In this video I have shown that how you can get the result of form after submission on the same page using POST method.
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SitePoint
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PHPBuilder
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FORM's action call php function in same page? - PHPBuilder Forums
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Experts Exchange
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Solved: php form - on submit stay on same page | Experts Exchange
June 27, 2013 - <?php error_reporting(E_ALL); ini_set('display_errors','1'); # some settings of POST vars if (!isset($_POST['send'])) $send = ''; else $send = $_POST['send']; if (!isset($_POST['toText'])) $toText = ''; else $toText = $_POST['toText']; if (!isset($_POST['subjectText'])) $subjectText = ''; else $subjectText = $_POST['subjectText']; if (!isset($_POST['msgText'])) $msgText = ''; else $msgText = $_POST['msgText']; if (!isset($_POST['ccText'])) $ccText = ''; else $ccText = $_POST['ccText']; if (!isset($_POST['bccText'])) $bccText = ''; else $bccText = $_POST['bccText']; if (!isset($_POST['nameText'
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You should either change method="post" in test.php or change $roomId = $_GET['roomId']; or $roomId = $REQUEST['roomId']; in results.php
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Your action page is result.php not results.php,change your form to POST if you want yout code to work:
<Form name ="form1" Method ="post" Action ="result.php">
room number: <inpyt type = "text" Name ="roomId">
<input TYPE = "Submit" Name = "Submit" VALUE = "Go">
</FORM>
and in php , check first that you got value like this :
if(isset($_POST['roomId'])) $roomId = $_POST['roomId'];