[RESOLVED] Form and selective url destination

Jon12345

I have a form here: http://www.speedrecovery.com/quote-step1.htm

When someone selects Microsoft Access, I want them taken to url A. If they select Microsoft Excel, they will be taken to url B. And so on.

How can I achieve this?

Thanks,

Jon

Roger_Ramjet

On the page you are posting to eg quote_step2.php


$dest = $_POST['select'];

switch $dest {
case 'access':
   include 'access.php';
   break;
case 'excel':
   include 'excel.php';
   break;
case // etc
}

This will include the relvent page fragment into the content section of your page. I am assuming that you have standard headers, menus, and footers that will wrap around the content fragment.
If you want seperate pages then replace the includes with a redirect eg: header("Location: www.yourdomain.com/access.php");

Jon12345

Ahh there is one potential difficulty. The urls are on another server and they are asp pages! So if I used a include, would that mean those asp pages would not run as they are brought into a php environment?

They are basically asp forms with other asp code on them.

Roger_Ramjet

Yep, they will only run on an NT box, but then so will php.

However, rather than get into all that, just use the redirect instead of the include.

Jon12345

Would the code look something like this?

$dest = $_POST['select']; 

switch $dest { 
case 'access': 
   header("location: http://somedomain.com/somepage1.php");
   break; 
case 'excel': 
   header("location: http://somedomain.com/somepage2.php");
   break; 
case // etc 
}

Roger_Ramjet

Precisely. (except it would be somepage1.asp wouldn't it? or somepage1.html)

Now, the way that the target page handles the redirect is also under your control - only it's asp and I'm a begginner there. I do know that the target asp script can detect it as a redirect and configure output appropriately - only you'll have to post in an asp forum for details on that.

Jon12345

I am a bit confused on this code, which is breaking...

<?php 
$dest = $_POST['select']; 
switch $dest { 
case 'Microsoft Access': 
   header("location: http://somedomain.com/somepage1.php");
   break; 
case 'excel': 
   header("location: http://somedomain.com/somepage2.php");
   break; 
} 
?>

I get the following error:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_VARIABLE, expecting '(' in /home/mypath/public_html/step1b.php on line 2

What am I doing wrong? What does the field name have to be on my first page?

Can you explain what $_POST['select']; does please?

Thanks,

Jon

Roger_Ramjet

It should return the value selected by the user in your

<select name="select" id="select">
<option selected>--Please choose--</option>

              <option>Microsoft Access</option>
              <option>Microsoft Word</option>
              <option>Microsoft Excel</option>
              <option>Microsoft PowerPoint</option>
              <option>Microsoft Outlook</option>
              <option>Zip file repair</option>

            </select>

Since you have given it the name="select" then that is how you address it in subsequent processing.

rincewind456

That's because you need brackets around the variable you want to compare so this line

switch $dest {

needs to be

switch ($dest) {

$_POST['select']; is the variable that you are passing to the switch comaprison,

Jon12345

That worked a treat. Thanks!