script.php in action="script.php" returns "broken link"?

[Godfrey]

I'm trying to setup a mailing form.

In my form's action="" attribute, I'm trying to link to my mailing script.

However, every time I hit submit, I keep getting redirected to mysite.com/site/templates/path_to_script.php and a blank page that says "Link appears to be broken".

This is what I've tried:

<form action="<?php echo $config->urls->templates?>mail.php" method="post">

<form action="<?php echo dirname(__FILE__);?>mail.php" method="post">
<form action="<?php echo dirname(__FILE__).'mail.php'?>" method="post">
 

And I keep getting similar results. Usually, the first method works when I try to include things such as my javascript or css files, but it's not working for this. What do I need to do? 

[adrian]

To load a php file from the templates directory, you must have a page in your page tree that uses that template. So you can either create that page, or you can move the mail.php file outside of the templates directory, assuming that file just processes the form and redirects to another page.

Does that make sense and solve the problem?

[Godfrey]

Yes, thank you adrian! I chose to move it outside the templates file, and it worked as you said!

[ryan]

<form action="<?php echo dirname(__FILE__);?>mail.php" method="post">

As a side note, I just wanted to mention that you wouldn't want to use dirname() in a URL like that, as it's giving you a server path, not a URL. Secondly, if you were using dirname(__FILE__); somewhere else, remember that its output does not include a trailing slash like ProcessWire's paths do. So you'd have to add a trailing slash to it's output.