Title: Creating your HTML forms causes problems
Last modified: August 18, 2016
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# Creating your HTML forms causes problems
* [worchyld](https://wordpress.org/support/users/worchyld/)
* (@worchyld)
* [20 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-your-html-forms-causes-problems/)
* I’ve created my own template which is basically a form. The data is meant to
go back to the same page and do all the processing necessary.
* However, for some reason when I put ‘action=”” it always go’s
back to the index.php and not to the actual page.
* I’ve tried hard-coding the actual page URL (ie: /?page_id=6) into the form, but
it always go’s to index.php
* I tracked down the page it’s going to, it’s calling “single.php” in the theme
directory, but I do not why.
* So, in summary.
* 1. Created a new .php in the theme’s directory (ie; contact page)
2. Associated
a page created in WP to the new theme I created in point 1. 3. Make the page
have a form which sends data back to itself using $PHP_SELF or $_SERVER[‘PHP_SELF’];
4. Doing this makes the data go to index.php 5. Making the page go to “?page_id
=7” still makes it go to index.php
* Why can’t I send data back to the same page? How do I solve this?
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* [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
* (@michaelh)
* [20 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-your-html-forms-causes-problems/#post-273444)
* You might look here for an explanation:
[Template_Hierarchy](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy)
* Thread Starter [worchyld](https://wordpress.org/support/users/worchyld/)
* (@worchyld)
* [20 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-your-html-forms-causes-problems/#post-273519)
* Thank you for your help.
* I recently made a “contact form” .php file which sits as a template in my themes
directory.
* Amazingly, this form works — but no other form does, which I found very strange–
but I’m sure you’re link will help.
* Thanks!
* Thread Starter [worchyld](https://wordpress.org/support/users/worchyld/)
* (@worchyld)
* [20 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-your-html-forms-causes-problems/#post-273735)
* I have now solved the problem — for some reason an empty $PHP_SELF will make
it go back to the same page, but if you put in a normal address it goes elsewhere…
* [Monika](https://wordpress.org/support/users/monika/)
* (@monika)
* [20 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-your-html-forms-causes-problems/#post-273736)
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