Best way to include a PHP file in a CMS page

[tonyg]

Hi all, I have a complex "whois" script that I would like to include inside a CMS page. The script is a form that posts the form results to itself, via an included (INC) file in the PHP script.

I tried putting the standard PHP include statement in a user-defined tag to call whois.php. That displayed the form OK, but when I submit I just get the form again, not the results.

To test what was happening, I created a tag "echo "IP ADDRESS: " . $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];". What gets returned is the IP address of the shared web server, not the IP address of my domain. I think this is the problem, but I am not sure.

Can anyone tell me if they have had success including a self-posting form in a page? Can it be done with a tag or does it need to be done with a module? If a module, then I'm a bit lost because I've not built one of those yet.

Thanks in advance for the help.

Tony Gilbert