php form action breaks script

[Tim Dunphy <bluethundr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello list,

 I was just wondering if I could get some opinions on a snippet of
code which breaks a php web page.

 First the working code which is basically an html form being echoed by php:

if ($output_form) {

  echo '<br /><br /><form action="sendemail.php>" method="post"  >
  <label for="subject">Subject of email:</label><br />
  <input id="subject" name="subject" type="text" size="30" /><br />
  <label for="elvismail">Body of email:</label><br />
   <textarea id="elvismail" name="elvismail" rows="8"
cols="40"></textarea><br />
   <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" />
  </form>';


  }

However if I change the form action to this, it breaks the page
resulting in a white screen of death:


  if ($output_form) {

  echo '<br /><br /><form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>"
method="post"  >
  <label for="subject">Subject of email:</label><br />
  <input id="subject" name="subject" type="text" size="30" /><br />
  <label for="elvismail">Body of email:</label><br />
   <textarea id="elvismail" name="elvismail" rows="8"
cols="40"></textarea><br />
   <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" />
  </form>';


  }

Reverting the one line to this:

echo '<br /><br /><form action="sendemail.php" method="post"  >

gets it working again. Now I don't know if it's an unbalanced quote
mark or what's going on. But I'd appreciate any advice you may have.


Best,
tim

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