FORMS and php

Anon

Forgive me all if this seems really trivial, but I am not a active programmer.

I am looking to create a page that has a SELECT statement (pull down menu of names).
You click on one name, then a button and it takes you to a URL for that name.
Basically depending on what Item you select in the menu, depends on what the page you goto is.

How is this done?

Appreciate some help.
John

Anon

<?
$url=array("www.yahoo.com","slashdot.org","www.phpbuilder.com");

if($plop) {header("Location: http://".$url[$plop]);}

<body>
<form method="post">
<select name=plop>
<?
@reset($url);
while(list($k,$v)=@each($url)){
print "<option value=$k>$v";
}

?>
</select>
<input type="submit">

</form>
</body>

Anon

Thanks for the input....
That got me closer.

I want the choices to by Name of people
Joe,
Bob,
Jeff,
etc....

When I pick Joe, I wanna goto http:.....page 1
Bob http:....page 2

This is slightly different than what you put down...

Thanks for all your input!

khaine

You could try.

</FORM>

</BODY>

The php would look like this.

<?php

header("location: ".$goto);
exit;

Anon

hum...I put the html in there exactly...
the php I put into a file of its own and it is coming up with the "the page cannot be found"

cordex

The most likely cause of this is a lack of correctly referenced relative positioning.

Try changing:
<SELECT name="goto">
<OPTION value="page1.html">Joe
<OPTION value="page2.html">Bob
</SELECT>

to
<SELECT name="goto">
<OPTION value="http://www.mydomain.com/mydirectory/page1.html">Joe
<OPTION value="http://www.mydomain.com/mydirectory/page2.html">Bob
</SELECT>

Anon

the action field in your html page must contain the name (complete or relative) of the php script that will process data.

saltwater

This should work

<? if ($submit) {header("location: ".$goto);}
?>

</FORM>

</BODY>

but you could also do this with javascript:

</FORM>

</BODY>

Bruno

saltwater

<FORM action="process.php" method="post">
should be <FORM action="<? echo $PHP_SELF; ?>" method="post"> to make your form self submiting if you choose to do this with PHP

Anon

Check out Julie Meloni's "PHP Fast & Easy Web Development." She has a short and sweet example of this on p. 111.

If you don't have the book, I could post the code for you. It follows most of what has already been posted here.

BTW, if you're new to PHP programming, I highly recommend the book as an intro.

khaine

Good choice of book. Another good one is the PHP visual quick start guide by larry ullman from peachpit press.

Mark.

Anon

<FORM action="<? echo $PHP_SELF; ?>" method="post">

<SELECT name="goto">
<OPTION value="http://www.blah.com/functions/email/email_jcs.php">PERSON ONE<OPTION value="http://www.sponheimer.com/functions/email/email_crc.php">PERSON TWO
</SELECT>
<P>
<INPUT type="submit" name="submit" value="Go">

</FORM>

-=-=-=-=-
<?php

header("location: ".$goto);
exit;

(the above php snippet is in process.php)
Where are the errors here....I must be blind here....

John

cordex

<?php
/
header() line MUST be executed before ANY output to the screen. You aren't helping us help you, though. You aren't giving any details.
/
header("location: ".$goto);
exit;
?>
<FORM action="<? echo $PHP_SELF; ?>" method="post">