Question

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I want to know how to submit form without action attribute shown.
Like this

<form action="someact.php" method="post">
...
</form>

Some suggest to use $_PHP['SELF'], but I want my form to be processed using another php file like separating UI part and process part so that anyone can’t see my process file ?

I want like this

<form method="post">
...
</form>

But it processed to the file I want.

Help please ?

Answer 1

Firstly, I don’t quite understand why you would want this. The whole point of the action attribute is to tell the browser where to send the request, and “hiding” it achieves nothing – any half-way competent hacker (or even less than half-way) can still find the information you are hiding, no matter what you do.

Having said that, you could do something like this:

<form id="hidden_action_form" method="post">
  <!-- ... -->
</form>
<script type="text/javascript">
  document.getElementById('hidden_action_form').action = 'someact.php';
</script>