how do I redirect from a form text field

adultinfo4u

I am wanting to to redirect people from one page to another.

Please goto test.nevis.co.uk/test.php basically you will see a one field form I would like our clients to type in there domain and be redirected to there stats page how can I do this? I have tried using the header () function but cant get it working please help me.

adultinfo4u

The code for that page is as follows

$url_base = "http://www.";
$url_end = "/stats";
if (submit=="") {
$url_go = $url_base . $domain . $url_end;
header("Location: $url_go");
}

<form action=<? echo("$PHP_SELF"); ?> method=post enctype="multipart/form-data">
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td>www.</td>
<td><input type="text" name="domain"></td>
<td>/stats</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit"></td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>

barand

$url = "http://www." . $_GET["domain"] . "/stats";
header("location: $url");
exit();

Note header will only work provided no other output has been sent first.

hth

adultinfo4u

ok dude ive tried adding what u said but its not working where would i put the code in the above piece?

barand

As I said, before anything else gets sent.

<?php

code goes here

<html>
html code including headers and body
</html>

hth

adultinfo4u

OK when I try and veiw the page wich is now http://test.nevis.co.uk/test2.php it doesnt work have i done the code correctly should the page action to itself or not?

I am a real newbie so I do appreciate your help and as a fellow countryman

<?php
$url = "http://www." . $_GET["domain"] . "/stats";
header("location: $url");
exit();
?>

<form action=<? echo("$PHP_SELF"); ?> method=post enctype="multipart/form-data">
  <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
    <tr> 
      <td>[url]www.[/url]</td>
      <td><input type="text" name="domain"></td>
      <td>/stats</td>
    </tr>
    <tr> 
      <td>&nbsp;</td>
      <td><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit"></td>
      <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
  </table>
</form>

barand

if it is calling itself then the first time the form is loaded there will be no domain to get, and you just want to display the form.

So check for a domain

<?php
if (isset($GET["domain"])) {
$url = "http://www." . $GET["domain"] . "/stats";
header("location: $url");
exit();
}
?>

Put this code right at the top of your file, as shown in my last post, before <html>

If a domain has been sent, it will redirect. If no domain, your page with form displays.

aldur

Just a note but when I was using headers I came across the problem that the header would get executed even if inside a condition statement. I will note though that I didn't bother trying to see what was specificly wrong I used the eval command

replace
header("location: $url");

with eval ("header(\"location: $url\");");

note the semicolin in the text string above

eval takes a properly formatted php source represented as a string ( you could do the following to test your code
put the string in a variable and then print the variable if a proper syntaxing section of code is displayed then it should work.

Aldur

adultinfo4u

aldur thanks but what you just told me makes as much sense as russian does to me...barand I have put that code in and it now displays the form but no redirection what could be going wrong.

Could you try it might be my browser goto http://test.nevis.co.uk/test2.php and use nevis.co.uk as the domain.

barand

Nope, its not your browser - doesn't work for me either. Need to see test2.php for full diagnosis.