That will not work because you are referring to a single php file, instead the the whole WordPress environment.
There’s a easier way to use ajax in WordPress.
Use admin_url('admin-ajax') as the form action, then put the function that will answer the ajax call in the theme’s functions.php.
More detail here in this answer
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