Help pleaseeeee :) - Printable Version

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Help pleaseeeee :) - Ash - 2011-10-19 15:55

Im currently trying to create a html/php page for my own personal homepage.

I want (And have done before, just cant remember how lol), a text box, and a drop down menu. I want the drop down menu to choose where exactly to search, if that makes sense.

So i can have like Google/Yahoo/Bing etc, so i type a text phrase, select where i want it to search, then hit submit.

Any help would be gratefully appreciated! Smile

Thanks

Ash

RE: Help pleaseeeee :) - Elmo - 2011-10-19 18:51

http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_forms.asp

There's also a couple of dropdown box examples at the bottom

RE: Help pleaseeeee :) - Ash - 2011-10-19 18:55

Yehh ive seen that page elmoish, thanks anyway Smile

What i need is a text box though, then a drop down menu, with each of those values to have a html code into it. For example like our URS, have the URL of it, add "file.php?username=" then add the value from the text box into the end of it? For example if i wrote my name, it would show file.php?username=racerash3.

Is it possible? Smile

Thanks

Ash

RE: Help pleaseeeee :) - Elmo - 2011-10-19 19:06

Code:

<form name="input" action="html_form_action.asp" method="get">

Username: <input type="text" name="user" />

<input type="submit" value="Submit" />

</form>

Entering "some text" into the text box, then pressing submit will send you to:
html_form_action.asp?user="some text"

if you have more than one control within the form tags, it'll send a value for each control.

So, with this code:

Code:

<form name="input" action="dostuff.php" method="get">

Search: <input type="text" name="search_text" />

<select name="search_engine">

<option value="google">Google</option>

<option value="bing">Bing</option>

<option value="wolfram">Wolfram Alpha</option>

</select>

<input type="submit" value="Go" />

</form>

I enter "City Driving" in the text box and select Google on the dropdown, pressing the Go button will do:
dostuff.php?search_text=City%20Driving&search_engine=google

dostuff.php would need to be able to do something with the values it gets. I'll have a quick look how

RE: Help pleaseeeee :) - Ash - 2011-10-19 19:08

Ok awesome mate thanks! Smile

Edit: Could you not change the option URL's or something?

RE: Help pleaseeeee :) - Elmo - 2011-10-19 19:21

Something like this *might* work: (untested)

dostuff.php:

PHP Code:

<?php
$engine = $_GET["search_engine"];
$text = $_GET["search_text"];
switch ($engine)
{
    case "google":
        $url = "http://whatever/" . $text;
    (insert other engines)
}
header("Location: " . $url);
exit;
?>

RE: Help pleaseeeee :) - Ash - 2011-10-19 19:24

Na doesnt work im afraid Sad

I did come up with something purely upon HTML at one point but i cannot remember to save my life Sad

Thanks for trying tthough mate! Smile

Would it be possible to get the form's action to be a php variable?

RE: Help pleaseeeee :) - Elmo - 2011-10-20 19:53

If anyone else is interested, this works:

some html page

PHP Code:

<form name="input" action="dostuff.php" method="get">
Search: <input type="text" name="search_text" />
<select name="search_engine">
<option value="google">Google</option>
<option value="wolfram">Wolfram Alpha</option>
</select>
<input type="submit" value="Go" />
</form> 

dostuff.php

PHP Code:

<?php
$engine = $_GET["search_page"];
$text = $_GET["search_text"];
switch ($engine)
{
    case "google":
        $url = "Location: www.google.co.uk/#q=" . $text;
        break;
    case "wolfram":
        $url = "Location: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=" . $text;
        break;
    default:
        echo "Error";
        exit;
}
header($url);
exit;
?>

RE: Help pleaseeeee :) - Ash - 2011-10-20 20:03

Works VERY well Smile

RE: Help pleaseeeee :) - Crille - 2011-10-21 08:48

I understand nothin