Very Very new at all of this....

inquest750

I need help with something please. I am attempting to create a search box within a website. The search box is actually a dummy search in the sense that what ever gets put into the search box must then be entered into a specific url that I already have and then the end result to be displayed on the next page. Can anyone help me with this? Perhaps I'm going about this the wrong way by using PHP, but I'd like opinions... Thanks for your help...

SumitGupta

Hi..

You just need to pass the value of one text box in your page to another page...

Than just use this kind of code

//Page one code for showing text box
...
<form action=secondpage.html method=post>
<input type=text name=t1>
<input type=submit>
</form>
....

//page 2 code for displaying using php

<?
$x=$_POST['t1'];
echo $x;
?>

Simple

inquest750

not exactly... ok let me try explaining i this way... take the search bar and let's say you input "notebooks" i need to then to take the word "notebooks" and put it into 2 separate urls... let's say the first url is www.abcdef.com/search=""/office.html and the second url www.qwerasdf.com/search=""/office.html .... I would need it to draw the word(s) that were entered into the search box and place it into thearea that has parenthesis in the url... and then display both of those urls on the next page in a split pane...

Roger_Ramjet


// page2.php

$str = $_POST['t1'];

echo '<a href="www.abcdef.com/search='. $str . '/office.html">whatever text you want for the link</a>';
echo '<a href="www.qwerasdf.com/search='. $str . '/office.html">whatever text you want for the link</a>';

inquest750

ok you definitely understand me now.... but how do i create a search box that let's me do that?

Roger_Ramjet

Basic html form html

inquest750

thanks for your help it is greatly appreciated...