i try to analyse a plugin operations , and , at some point we fill a form to be process , but i don't know by who the form is processed as i have this kind of html form , so i wonder how i can know the final php file who handle realy my form.
<form method="post" action="<?php echo esc_url( admin_url( 'admin-
post.php' ) ); ?>">
<input type="hidden" name="action" value="check_imported">
<input type="hidden" name="importer" value="<?php echo esc_attr(
$uid ); ?>">
<?php wp_nonce_field( 'check_imported', 'check_imported', false );
?>
<table class="import">
thank you for your help.
i try to analyse a plugin operations , and , at some point we fill a form to be process , but i don't know by who the form is processed as i have this kind of html form , so i wonder how i can know the final php file who handle realy my form.
<form method="post" action="<?php echo esc_url( admin_url( 'admin-
post.php' ) ); ?>">
<input type="hidden" name="action" value="check_imported">
<input type="hidden" name="importer" value="<?php echo esc_attr(
$uid ); ?>">
<?php wp_nonce_field( 'check_imported', 'check_imported', false );
?>
<table class="import">
thank you for your help.
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Reset to default 1The form action is the file that handles the form, which you can see is the admin-post.php file in your WordPress installation.
However what you are really looking for is the hook that handles the form.
Basically, the form is getting submitted to admin-post.php, which then uses the "action" value in your form to determine what hook to trigger; in other words, what code to run. This is a common WordPress paradigm.
The hook name is generated in this format:
admin_post_{{action}} for logged in users, and
admin_post_nopriv_{{action}} for non-logged in users
In your case the action is set to "check_imported". So if you are trying to find code that is already handling these, do a search in your theme/plugins for "admin_post_check_imported" and/or "admin_post_nopriv_check_imported".
They would be written as an add_action call, connecting the hook name to some other function, like:
add_action( 'admin_post_check_imported', 'some_function_name');
So you would then look for the function named, "some_function_name", for the actual code.