Why is log in form on home page not actually logging in?

Question

I'm using the existing form from the default login page and calling the action like this:

<?php $custmlogin= new Mage_Customer_Block_Form_Login();?> <form action="<?php echo $custmlogin->getPostActionUrl() ?>"...

The action gets echoed just fine resulting in the same path I initially had hard coded, but it doesn't actually log me in. I just goes to the standard login page with a form for me to log in. Is there something else I need to do to actually submit the data and get logged in successfully?

Answer 1

Mage_Customer_AccountController (/app/code/core/Mage/Customer/controllers/AccountController.php) handles login functionality, use it's url:

<form action="<?=Mage::getUrl('customer/account/login', array('_secure' => true))?>">

Answer 2

I finally got it using this:

{{block type ="Mage_Customer_Block_Form_login" template="customer/form/login.phtml" }}

Instead of pulling in my own custom block. Not really sure what the difference was until I looked at the source code and noticed there was a slight difference in the action attribute.

mageUz's answer was very close. So instead of this:

<?=Mage::getUrl('customer/account/login', array('_secure' => true))?>

it was:

<?=Mage::getUrl('customer/account/loginPost', array('_secure' => true))?>

All it needed was Post added to it. Then I removed the Mage block and just kept mine in there.

Thank you guys for the help and putting me in the right direction.