Title: trying processing data form
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# trying processing data form

 *  Resolved [ptsiridi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ptsiridi/)
 * (@ptsiridi)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trying-processing-data-form/)
 * Hello to everyone. Well i am new in making plugins and on top of that i have 
   to make one for a project i am into. I’m trying my best but it seems that i lack
   serious knowledge. Here is my first big problem. The following code is called
   in the admin’s menu and has 3 possible options.
 *     ```
       <form id="form" name="form" method="post" action="process.php">
         <table width="400">
           <tr>
             <td><label>
               <input type="checkbox" name="CheckboxGroup[]" value="A"/>
                 Option 1</label></td>
           </tr>
           <tr>
             <td><label>
               <input type="checkbox" name="CheckboxGroup[]" value="B"/>
                 Option 2</label></td>
       	</tr>
       	<tr>
       	  <td><label>
       	<input type="checkbox" name="CheckboxGroup[]" value="C"/>
                 Option 3</label></td>
       	</tr>
         </table>
       <p><input type="submit" name="Finish" value="Finish"/></p>
       </form>
       ```
   
 * The problem is that wordpress looking for the process.php into the wp-admin folder
   and not in my plugin folder. I tried using the whole directory but nothing changed.
   If i put my process.php into wp-admin folder everything works but i know this
   is not the solution. If anyone has any idea please guide me. Thank you. Here 
   is the code from process.php
 *     ```
       <?php
       include_once("phpchartdir.php");
   
       $temp = $_POST['CheckboxGroup'];
   
       # Check which (if any) of the queries was selected
   
       if(empty($temp))
       {
           echo("You didn't select anything.");
       }
       else
       {
       	$N = count($temp);
   
           for($i=0; $i<$N; $i++)
       	{
       		if($temp[$i] == "A")
       		{
       			# SQL statement
   
       			$SQL = "SELECT COUNT( post_id ) , poster_id, wp_users.user_login, wp_users.ID FROM wp_bb_posts, wp_users WHERE poster_id = wp_users.ID GROUP BY poster_id ORDER BY COUNT( post_id ) DESC LIMIT 10";
   
       			# Connect to database and read the query result into arrays
   
       			mysql_connect("localhost", "root", "0000");
       			mysql_select_db("wordpress");
   
       			$result = mysql_query($SQL);
   
       			while($row = mysql_fetch_row($result))
       			{
           			$counter[] = $row[0];
           			$user_login[] = $row[2];
       			}
   
       			# Print the query's graph
   
       			# Create a PieChart object of size 360 x 300 pixels
       			$c = new PieChart(360, 300);
   
       			# Set the center of the pie at (180, 140) and the radius to 100 pixels
       			$c->setPieSize(180, 140, 100);
   
       			# Add a title to the pie chart
       			$c->addTitle("Pie");
   
       			# Set the pie data and the pie labels
       			$c->setData($counter, $user_login);
   
       			# Output the chart
       			header("Content-type: image/png");
       			print($c->makeChart2(PNG));
       			#$c->makeChart(dirname(__FILE__) . "/aaa.png");
   
       			unset($counter);
       			unset($user_login);
       		}
                       else if($temp[$i] == "B")
                       #and continues like that........
       ```
   

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 *  [Chris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zenation/)
 * (@zenation)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trying-processing-data-form/#post-3638383)
 * You already seem to have registered an admin menu page (where the form will be
   shown). So you can take this very page URL (and script), use this one as form
   action value and include the process.php there.
 *     ```
       <?php
       if( {checkIfFormHasBeenSent} ) {
   
         include_once dirname( __FILE__ ) . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'process.php'
   
       }
       ?>
       <form action="admin.php?page=whateverYourPageSlugAlreadyIs" ...
       ```
   
 * Or if you really must target your process.php directly you could do it like this
   `
   <form action="<?php echo plugins_url(); ?>/yourPlugin/process.php" ...`
 *  Thread Starter [ptsiridi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ptsiridi/)
 * (@ptsiridi)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trying-processing-data-form/#post-3638494)
 * Chris you are amazing. Thank you for your help. I used the
    <form action=”<?php
   echo plugins_url(); ?>/yourPlugin/process.php”… and it’s working perfectly. Thanks
   again!!!

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