in the form action i have the following line\

<form action="{URL}" method="post" target="_self" id="xxx" name="xxx">

when rendered in the browser it becomes

action="/abc/17224_pb/HTTP/index.php" 

this is just HTML. I cannot see anywhere the {URL} has been defined and anyway you cannot have variables in HTML (can you?)

i thought it might be jquery but it would need to be in a script ??

Where does it come from? How is it defined?

This code is not really in a framework but we do have some Zend framework code around.