Hi,
Does anybody know a code where i can type the name of a page on my site in a text area, press a submit button and it will take me straight to that page.
For example, My site was in the code ( http://mysiteurl.com/ ), then when you type the name of the page into the text area and press submit, it will take you to that page ( http://mysiteurl.com/page )

Help would be much appreaciated .

Not with HTML. javascript or server side code.

do you mean there is no code or you dont know one? I thought it would be a simple html!

There's a couple different way to do it, though I've never thought about it. It is pretty simple, but definitely requires a server-side code, or else JavaScript, as Chris has pointed out. Why don't you bring it up in one of the other channels?

Originally Posted by webmaster flex

do you mean there is no code or you dont know one? I thought it would be a simple html!

there is no "simple HTML" code that can do that.


the simplest javascript would be onblur="window.location.href = this.value" on the text input.

Thanks ill give it a try

Do you know a full code, Im not too familiar with javascript, im still learning :-C

Demo: http://radgh.com/jsredir/redir/

<script type="text/javascript">
  function goto(url) {
    if (typeof(url) == undefined || url == '') { url = '../'; }
    window.location += url;
    return false; // Keep form from refreshing page
  }
</script>
<form onsubmit="return goto(this.gotoURL.value);">
	<input type="text" name="gotoURL" />
	<input type="submit" value="Go" />
</form>

Tested in IE6, FF2, and Google Chrome.

brilliant thanks radGH, thats exactly what i wanted. But is there any way i could pre-define the first part of the location, because it just adds the name of the page at the end of the current page its on eg (http://www.myurl/currentpage/pageIwanttogoto) instead of (http://www.myurl/pageIwanttogoto) so it doesent take me to that page.

You could change the "window.location += url" to "window.location = 'http://website.com/'+url".

great, that works perfectly!
but if the page typed in does'nt exist, how would i make i take you to another page, to tell them.

Originally Posted by RadGH

You could change the "window.location += url" to "window.location = 'http://website.com/'+url".

Just using "window.location = '/'+url" would have the same effect and make the script portable.

Originally Posted by webmaster flex

great, that works perfectly!
but if the page typed in does'nt exist, how would i make i take you to another page, to tell them.

Have a custom 404 page.

I was thinking instead, of havin an alert when you press the submit button to tell you the page does'nt exist. How would i do this?

you would have to use a xmlHTTPRequest (AJAX) to do that.

PHP Code:

<?php
$sitename = "YOUR SITE URL HERE NO END SHASH";
$linkname = $POST["urlsuffix"];
if ($linkname) {
      header("$sitename/$linkname");
} else {
?><form action="<?php echo $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]; ?>" method="post">
<input type="text" size="25" name="urlsuffix" />
</form>
<?php 
}
?>

See if this works...

The assumption there being the OPs site can use PHP

Your help is much appriciated decaf, but the host im with at the moment does'nt support php, so i wanted the code to be in javascript/html untill I get a new host

The only way I have ever heard of such things is using a search with server-side code like PHP or .Net.

have a look around proxy sites and view source?

right im gonna try chrishirsts idea of having a custom 404 page then.