help!!

[calibretto]

hey guys. i hope you can help me. i'm currently writing a web page and i need some help. i have a drop down list box and i want to link to the other pages on my site. i want the user to pick from the list, click submit and then go to the chosen page. how do i do that? thanks.

calibretto

[jonathen]

There are several ways of doing this with javascript, but the easiest way I know of doing it without having to use javascript, is to do the following:

On the page that has the select menu (lets call this "choose.php") you would have something like:

echo "
<form action='jump.php'>
<select name='jump'>
<option selected>Select A Page:</option>
<option disabled></option>
<option value='1'>Page 1</option>
<option value='2'>Page 2</option>
<option value='3'>Page 3</option>
</form>";

Then you create a new file (lets call this jump.php) with the following:

<form name='selectjump' action='$_SERVER[PHP_SELF]' method='get'>
<input type='hidden' value='$jump'>
";

if (!isset($jump))
{
  $jump = "0";
  echo " ";
  }
else if ($jump == "0")
{
  $jump = "1";
  echo "
<META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT='0; URL=page1.php'>
<div align='center'>
Loading page 1...<br>
If you are not directed to page 1 within 5 seconds,
 please <a href='page1.php'>click here</a>.
  ";
}
else if ($jump == "1")
{
  $jump = "2";
  echo "<div align='center'>
  <META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT='0; URL=page2.php'>
<div align='center'>
Loading page 2...<br>
If you are not directed to page 2 within 5 seconds,
 please <a href='page2.php'>click here</a>.
  ";
}
else if ($jump == "2")
{
  $jump = "3";
  echo "<div align='center'>
  <META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT='0; URL=page3.php'>
<div align='center'>
Loading page 3...<br>
If you are not directed to page 3 within 5 seconds,
 please <a href='page3.php'>click here</a>.
  ";
}
echo "</form>";

You can then modify the above to suit your page names etc.

HTH

Jonathen

[calibretto]

thank you so much. you are awesome!! 😃 i looked all over the net for a tutorial or something that told me how to do this but the only form/php tutorials i could find explained how to send info from a form to an email address. this is great. thanx again!

calibretto

[rpanning]

The very simple JavaScript version:

<form name="JumpMenu">
  <select name="Menu" [color=red]onChange="window.location=this.options[this.selectedIndex].value;"[/color]>
    <option selected>-- Select A Website --</option>
    <option value="http://www.yahoo.com/">Yahoo</option>
    <option value="http://www.google.com/">Google</option>
    <option value="http://www.hotmail.com/">Hotmail</option>
    <option value="http://www.kare11.com/">Kare 11</option>
    <option value="http://www.msn.com/">MSN</option>
  </select>
</form>

Set the value of the option to the URL you want to go to and the text as the shown option.