Parse text box into url

[firstcustomer]

Hi,

I'm wanting to have a very simple page with the facility to do as
follows:

The user inputs some data into the text box, and clicks a button
The user is then submitted to a url depending on the variable, example:

www.mysite.com/variablehere/etc/etc.html

Where variable here is the value that the user has entered in the text
box.

How wuold I go about doing this?

I know HTML fairly well, but that's about all I know, so please answer
as you would to a 5 year old, cheers!

TIA,

 

[hywel.jenkins]

Hi,

I'm wanting to have a very simple page with the facility to do as
follows:

The user inputs some data into the text box, and clicks a button
The user is then submitted to a url depending on the variable, example:

www.mysite.com/variablehere/etc/etc.html

Where variable here is the value that the user has entered in the text
box.

How wuold I go about doing this?

Have your server-side form handler work out whether the user's input
would product a valid URL and one that can be found, and the send the
appropriate header to redirect the user to that location.

 

[firstcustomer]

Have your server-side form handler work out whether the user's input
would product a valid URL and one that can be found, and the send the
appropriate header to redirect the user to that location.

Nvm Hywel, got it cracked now, fyi this is how I've done it with no SSI
at all.

A colleague as done it as a VB script.

Cheers

 

[hywel.jenkins]

Nvm Hywel, got it cracked now, fyi this is how I've done it with no SSI
at all.

A colleague as done it as a VB script.

Server-side, I suppose? Or is this for a closed user group?

 

[Neil Monk]

Server-side, I suppose? Or is this for a closed user group?

No, not server side as I mentioned (ah, I meantioned SSI, when I actually
meant no server side stuff at all, my bad!)

It's a closed user group (it is on a W2K networked drive) and works a treat!