Form actions

[eluser]baalwww[/eluser]
YANQ (yet another newbie question)... I have the form action in my form as

Code:

action="admin/process_login"

What I find is that when I submit the form, the function index() in my controller gets executed. I end up back at the login form, via index() calling login() in the controller, with the uri showing being index.php/admin/login and the '***here' in the code below not appearing. This is all fixed if I have the action as

Code:

<?php echo base_url();?>index.php/admin/process_login

but I shouldn't have to have the full url all the time, should I?

Here is the applicable part of my controller

Code:

function index()
      {
          if(! $admin_id=$this->session->userdata('admin_id')):
                redirect('/admin/login/', 'refresh');
          endif;
      }

      
      function process_login()
      {
      echo '***here';
      }