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thePurpleGiant · Mar 15, 2004, 05:28 AM

Hi guys!

I have a small request that I hope someone can help me out with. Here's what I want to do:

I will have a form on a html page. There will be 1 field in the form called 'Domain'.

User goes to page, and types in 'macnn.com' into the 'domain' field, and then clicks the 'Go' button (submit).

Then this will happen (sudo code):

Code:
Output to Address bar: 'http://www.' + 'Domain' + /blah

They should then be taken to the page: http://www.macnn.com/blah

Did that make sense? They type a domain, then the script adds bits to it, and sends the browser there. Do I even need PHP for this, or could I just use javascript? Post your simplest suggestions please!

(note the specific request is not relevant, I need to do this for a few sites, so I would like a simple way to simply add these fields to the end of a URL)

Thanks!! (expecting hundreds of great replies when I wake up in the morning

)

Chris O'Brien · Mar 15, 2004, 05:39 AM

Code:
<html>
  <head>
  	<title>whatever</title>
  	
    <script>
    
    	function goTo() {
    	
    		var domain = document.getElementById("domain").value;
    		
    		document.location.href = "http://www." + domain + "/blah";
    	
    	}
    
    </script>
  </head>
  <body>
  
  	<input type="text" id="domain"> <button onclick="goTo()">Go</button>
  
  </body>
</html>

You might want some error checking, to make sure they don't submit a blank field and that they haven't typed in the www. bit too...

philzilla · Mar 15, 2004, 07:55 AM

just whipped this up; seems to work as requested [php]<?
$domain = $HTTP_POST_VARS['domain'];
$Submit = isset($_POST['Submit']) ? TRUE : FALSE;
if($Submit){
header("Location: http://$domain/blah/");
} else {
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>gigantic purple form</title>
</head>
<body>
<form name="form" id="form" method="post" action="/gpf.php">
<input name="domain" type="text" id="domain" />
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="havoc!" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
<? } ?>[/php] have fun, jer'

RGB · Mar 16, 2004, 02:30 AM

Originally posted by philzilla:
just whipped this up; seems to work as requested [php]<?
$domain = $HTTP_POST_VARS['domain'];
$Submit = isset($_POST['Submit']) ? TRUE : FALSE;
if($Submit){
header("Location: http://$domain/blah/");
} else {
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>gigantic purple form</title>
</head>
<body>
<form name="form" id="form" method="post" action="/gpf.php">
<input name="domain" type="text" id="domain" />
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="havoc!" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
<? } ?>[/php] have fun, jer'

Pretty much what I was just gonna post. Go with it.

thePurpleGiant · Mar 17, 2004, 12:14 AM

Aww, shucks. You guys spoil me

Both look good, I will check them out - cheers!