search facility

Il-Belti

i have done the following:

<html><head><title></title></head><body>
<form method="post" action="test.php">
<input type="text" name="test1">
<input type="submit"></form>
</body>
<html>

then i put the following in the test.php

<?php
$max2 = @$_POST["test1"];
$max3 = "http://www.$max2.com";
Header("Location: $max3");
?>

It seems to work fine, however, how can i edit the above code, so that in case the page does not exist, it will redirect to a particular page which i want i.e. to a not found page ?

Thank You

RossC0

Not too sure of why you want to do the redirect to any webpage...

but you could always do a ping of the site and then determine where the header will go:

Check out exec()

and look for : Using ping function in PHP

Il-Belti

actually, i do not want to redirect to any website, that is just an example. i want a user to use a textbox to enter a word, and then if i have a corresponding page with my website, i will redirect him to it.

RossC0

Cool - well you could always determine filename from the text input and do a search on your drive for the name.

If it fails then redirect to the not found page..

Check out: PHP Directory Functions

Il-Belti

thank you for your suggestion. i took a look at the link which you provided me, but to be honest i did not understand how to implement those functions in my situation. Basically, what i want is sort of a simple if statement i.e.

if Header("Location: $max3") is true then go to that web site else if it does not exist go to this default page (which is the not found page).

if someone can enlighten me with some example, i would really appreciate that, as i am fairly new to PHP.

Thank You

Il-Belti

any other suggestions pls ?

Thank You

alexu_

You cannot use the header() function to check if a file or site exists because header modifies only the header of your running script.

You should try to open the file (or web page) using fopen and this will return an error if the file does not exist. If the file is on your server you can use the file_exists() function to check if it exists.

RossC0

Either

1) Check the file / web page is physically on the drive.
2) Edit your 404 page to redirect you to a page which informs the user the page doesn't exist.