Problems getting text box variable to add onto end of url

DirtySnipe

Ok i have a question for you lot.

i want to have a test box with a continue button and when somone enters there mailbox name it opens an iframe to there outlook webaccess mailbox.

ive done the easy bit of creating the text box and creating the iframe but i dont know how to get it to take the data from the text box and add it to the end of the url.

Here is the bodge of what ive done atm please help.

<?php

//trying to have a text box the user enters there mail box name
//and when they click the continue button it opens there outlook web access
//mailbox in the iframe window

if (!stristr($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'], "modules.php")) {
    die ("You can't access this file directly...");
}

$index = 0;
require_once("mainfile.php");
$module_name = basename(dirname(__FILE__));
get_lang($module_name);



include("header.php");
title(_EMAIL);
OpenTable();

echo "<table align='center' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='3' border='0'>";

//input text box

echo "<form action='modules.php?name=$module_name' method='post'>";
echo "<tr><td bgcolor='$bgcolor2'>"._EMAILADD.":</td><td bgcolor='$bgcolor1'><input type='text' name='email' size='40' maxlength='255'>&nbsp;<font class='tiny'>"._REQUIRED."</font></td></tr>";

//Submit button

echo "<input type='hidden' name='submit' value='iframe1'>";
echo "<tr><td align='right' bgcolor='$bgcolor1' colspan='2'><input type='submit' value='"._YA_CONTINUE."'></td></tr>";
echo "</form></table><br>";


//target iframe for it to send to

?>
    <table align='center' cellpadding='1' cellspacing='1' border='0'>
    <iframe SRC="http://10.0.0.3/exchange" width="700" height="600" id="iframe1" marginheight="0" frameborder="0";"></td></tr>





<?php
CloseTable();
include("footer.php");

?>

as you can see im a n00b so go easy on me please.

bogu

This is a question for ClientSide Technologies section of this forum ...

A simple script to append something that u write in a textbox to the iframe src ...

<form method="POST">
	<input type="text" name="txt" value="" />
	<input type="button" name="btn" value="Submit" onclick="return ChangeSrc();" />
</form>
<iframe src="" width="700" height="600" id="iframe1" marginheight="0" frameborder="0" style="border:1px solid;"></iframe>
<script>
	iframe_ = document.getElementById('iframe1');
	function ChangeSrc() {
		text_ = document.forms[0].txt.value;
		iframe_.src+= text_;
	}
</script>

DirtySnipe

I still cant get it to work..

Im also getting error on page now aswell.. Didnt have it using the older code.

What goes in the txt vaule ????

bogu

For me is working propertly the code I provide u ...

DirtySnipe wrote:
What goes in the txt vaule ????

Shouldnt u know?

Alastasia

It strikes me that the output of your form (which looks fine, btw) is being sent to the page represented by:

modules.php?name=$module_name

... and that your iframe source does not match this destination 🙂

DirtySnipe

I havnt a clue what im doin with php can somone throw together some code??

Alastasia

mmm....

Well, if you want to get someone to enter data and have that data passed to another page, you use a form. This form has a method - in this example we'll use "post". It also has an action - this is the destination page. In its simplest form, your first page might be:

<form method='post' action='page2.php'>
<input type='text' name='yourname'>
<input type='submit' value='Whatever you put here is largely irrelevant'>
</form>

and your second page, page2.php (again in its simplest form so no burning please) picks up the 'yourname' variable with this line:

$yourname=$_POST['yourname'];

et voila!

DirtySnipe

your goin off topic a bit there.

What im after is a text box where somone enters the email box name click button
and it then opens that mailbox in an iframe window.

so the dat from the text box needs to be added onto the end of the iframe url eg

i enter Paulc in the text box

it then adds that onto the end of the url

http://10.0.0.3/exchange/Paulc

that will then open up there outlook webaccess mailbox within the iframe so they can view there email from the webpage.

DirtySnipe

here is what i got atm and it still dosnt work and im getting page errors

<?php


if (!stristr($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'], "modules.php")) {
    die ("You can't access this file directly...");
}

$index = 0;
require_once("mainfile.php");
$module_name = basename(dirname(__FILE__));
get_lang($module_name);



include("header.php");
title(_EMAIL);
OpenTable();

echo "<table align='center' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='3' border='0'>";
?>
   <form method="POST"> 
    <input type="text" name="txt" value="" /> 
    <input type="button" name="btn" value="Submit" onclick="return ChangeSrc();" /> 
</form> 
<iframe src="http://10.0.0.3/exchange/" width="700" height="600" id="iframe1" marginheight="0" frameborder="0" style="border:1px solid;"></iframe> 
<script> 
    iframe_ = document.getElementById('iframe1'); 
    function ChangeSrc() { 
        text_ = document.forms[0].txt.value; 
        iframe_.src+= text_; 
    } 
</script> 

<?

CloseTable();
include("footer.php");

?>

This is the page error that im getting

Error: 'document.forms.0.txt.value' is null or not an object

DirtySnipe

Why wont anyone help anymore?

kburger

DirtySnipe wrote:
i enter Paulc in the text box

it then adds that onto the end of the url

http://10.0.0.3/exchange/Paulc

This should get you started with some ideas, but it won't use your iframe idea:

header("Location: http://10.0.0.3/exchange/" . trim($_POST['email']));
exit;

DirtySnipe

But that just takes yopu straight into the exchange folder...

arghhh this is drivin me nutz.

DirtySnipe

OK the previous code that bogu posted does work if its running from http://www.doamin/code.php

But im running it from a phpnuke site

so its url is this
http://10.0.0.3/modules.php?name=Email

But its location is

http://10.0.0.3/modules/Email/index.php

Can somone help me as i dont know what section on the code to change for it to look in the right location..

DirtySnipe

Still here......

DirtySnipe

Oww cummon anyone!!!!