In my website i have many articles... URL of each article is like below

http://www.mysite.com/article/1
http://www.mysite.com/article/2
http://www.mysite.com/article/3
http://www.mysite.com/article/4

Etc...

So each article got a number in the URL

>>>>> What I need now is <<<<<<

To make little form with only 1 filed in main page
Filed is to add the article number... Then by submitting the form the URL of article will open

For example:

If I enter number 4 and click submit
That will open URL http://www.mysite.com/article/4

Thank you
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<form name="thisform" action="" method="post">
<input type="text" name="artref">
<input type="submit" value="go">
</form>

thank you chrishirst

but where to add the link of URL in this form ..

which is

http://www.mysite.com/article/ .. and the number which i enter it in filed 4
so the page will open should be
http://www.mysite.com/article/4

Like all forms, the URL goes in the action attribute.

Not forgetting that you will also need to write the necessary server side code to make the whole thing actually work of course.

I am beginner without enough experince to do that

can you please give me the full html form code as my example above
and what to add in server side ?

Your help will be highly appreciated

and what to add in server side

Absolutely no idea!

We do not know what code your server runs.
We do not know what database your site uses and
We do not know the structure of the database tables that hold the "articles"

I was think it is not complicated

because only if I enter number 4
it will open http://www.mysite.com/article/4

if i enter number 3
it will open http://www.mysite.com/article/4

etc ...

so the link http://www.mysite.com/article/ will never be changed .. only numbers change depend on number entered in the filed

What you want to do can be done one of two ways,
but neither of them are novice level.
And no one here is going to code your site for you for free.

You get what you PAY for. Place an ad in MarketPlace.

What you are trying to do cannot be done with HTML alone. You need to learn a scripting language like PHP.
The server that hosts your website will support the use of particular scripting languages, find what these are first

thank you all

i got the code from somewhere else:

<form action="#" onsubmit="location.href='http://www.mysite.com/article/'+this.indx.value; return false;">
   <input name="indx" type="text" size="3" />
   <input name="btn" type="submit" value="Go" />
</form>

Yes that will work but be aware that the code will only function for people who have javascript turned on in their browser or are using a user agent that supports javascript.

Source of the PHP file "action.php"

PHP Code:

<?
$num = $_POST['num'];
$adr = "http://www.mysite.com"; //Full URL of root to article (without slash)
header("location: $adr/$num");
?>

HTML form

<form action="action.php" method="post">
<input type="text" name="num" size="2" maxlength="5" value="" />
<input type="submit" value="GO" />
</form>

Number of the article sends to the action.php and
then user redirects to the article`s page.

Originally Posted by WMASTER

thank you all

i got the code from somewhere else:

<form action="#" onsubmit="location.href='http://www.mysite.com/article/'+this.indx.value; return false;">
   <input name="indx" type="text" size="3" />
   <input name="btn" type="submit" value="Go" />
</form>

This is only a HTML coding for form field u need PHP coding or my sql coding to open database connection of your form field