remove action= from a form

[shadiadiph]

$formhtml="<form action="sometext" method="POST">";

 

Please this is driving me nuts how can i remove an action="sometext" or action="" from a form?

[Barand]

Select the text then hit the DEL button on keyboard.

[shadiadiph]

I mean automatically to change the html

[Ch0cu3r]

You need to explain your problem in more detail. Such as how and when do you want the form action to change.

 

Are you wanting to change the action when a user clicks a button/link? if so then this will be handled by javavscript not PHP.

[shadiadiph]

I am dynamically creating a form from two seperate sources and need to remove the action="something" or action=""

or if there is a way to change the action="someting or nothing" can't seem to get the correct regex to replace any text between it so i am trying to remove it and recreate it.

 

The php variable is $formhtl="<form action="something or nothing" method="post">(form fields etc</form>";

 

I tried str_replace and preg_replace but cant get it to work.

[Ch0cu3r]

If you are generating the form html in your PHP code then define the action as a variable.

$action = "something or nothing";
$formhtl='<form action="'.$action.'" method="post">(form fields etc</form>';

Edited January 5, 2014 by Ch0cu3r

[shadiadiph]

There is already an action attribute on the form i am calling i am just adding to the input fields with php but i want to change the action on the fly

[jazzman1]

You could start your first posting showing your script. If you have some actual error(s), would help.

[JIXO]

You may be looking for preg_replace() function.

<?php
$formhtml = '<form action="" method="post">';
$pattern = '/action=""/';
$replacements = array();
$replacements[0] = '';
$replacements[1] = 'action="action1"';
echo preg_replace($pattern, $replacements[0], $formhtml)."<br />";
echo preg_replace($pattern, $replacements[1], $formhtml);

Will output :

<form  method="post">
<form action="action1" method="post">

Edited January 5, 2014 by JIXO

[dakota367]

This regex patturn will match the action="***" part of the string.

[objnoob]

Just don't dynamically create the form using this line. 

$formhtml="<form action="sometext" method="POST">";