I want to have a box on a web page where someone can type in a bit of text that would complete a url. For example

www.abc.com/blablabla=[ ]

Where the [ ] would be a box where a user could type, for example, car and press a button to go the the url

www.abc.com/blablabla=car

Any tips appreciated. I use Frontpage, BTW.

You would use java. Hook into some event, maybe onblur, and then use window.location=document.getElementById(textbox) to tell the browser to go there.

But why? We already have a url box.

I would create a userform with a hidden value that would hold the "www" part and then a field element for the "box".

When you hit submit you should have a simple program that would take the hidden field and add the value of the "box" field and then use simple redirect code to forward the user to the correct page.

Good Luck.

I just have to ask what this is for, because it seems a strange thing to want to do.

Originally Posted by memberpro

I would create a userform with a hidden value that would hold the "www" part and then a field element for the "box".

When you hit submit you should have a simple program that would take the hidden field and add the value of the "box" field and then use simple redirect code to forward the user to the correct page.

Good Luck.

That is what I was thinking but I would need to know what the "simple program" consists of (my skills with forms are not very good). Any specific instructions here would be most appreciated.

The purpose of the box for me is so that users of my site do not need to remember the long url to get where they want to go, they only need to know a short bit they can enter in a box. More specifically, the url is to a survey php and the bit in the box they would type takes them to whatever survey they constructed.

here is a simple program written in PHP (i am assuming your are hosted on a linux server)

in your form you should set the action="simplelittlescript.php" and method = post
name the "box" field "newpage"

Here is the code for the simplelittlescript.php

<?  $newpage=$_POST['newpage']; /// this variable is from your textbox field named 'newpage'
 
if (file_exists($newpage)) {
 
header("Location:$newpage") ; }
 
 
 
?>

Enjoy

Originally Posted by lobserve

The purpose of the box for me is so that users of my site do not need to remember the long url to get where they want to go, they only need to know a short bit they can enter in a box. More specifically, the url is to a survey php and the bit in the box they would type takes them to whatever survey they constructed.

This is exactly what hyperlinks are for. Just use regular html.

Kind of like killing a fly with a bazooka... I agree...

Its pointless, but easily done.

The only thing you can't have is www.abc.com/blablabla=
it would have to be www.abc.com/blablabla?something=

<form name="form" method="get" action="http://www.abc.com/blablabla">
  http://www.abc.com/blablabla?name=<input name="name" type="text" id="textfield" size="8" />
</form>