Phillip Armitage wrote:
> I'm working on an ftp login form using PHP. I'm trying to set it up so that
> the PHP file is self calling. eg. file FTP.PHP displays an html form in
> which the form action setting calls FTP.PHP. Essentially the program does
> the following:
> 
...

The $_REQUEST array is rebuilt on every request.  It sounds to me like
you need to look into storing user info in sessions:

http://php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php

So basically your user submits user / pw info on the first request and
if the authentication succeeds you can start a session for the user.

> 
> Does PHP support the writing of scripts which with forms whose actions are
> self calling? eg. the form created by ftp.php calls ftp.php.

Absolutely!  The lazy man's way of doing this:

/** HTML File */
<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="POST">

/** PHP File */
echo "<form action=\"{$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']}\" method=\"POST\">";

> 
> If so, is there anything I need to do to flush the $_REQUEST buffer between
> presses of the SUBMIT button?

It is flushed on *every* request.  $_REQUEST is "stateless" meaning that
it doesn't remember what the user passed through the browser on the last
SUBMIT.


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