Text form field leads to URL?

johnwey · February 22nd, 2009, 09:28 PM

Hi all

I have 26 folders inside a website, labelled 'a' to 'z'.

On the home page of the site I want a text form field, with a submit button.

If someone lands on the site's home page and types in eg j in the text form field, I want them to land on the 'j' folder home page

Does anyone know if a script like that is out there somewhere?

I can't google it because I can't figure out what search term to use

I hope someone can help

Cheers

Old John

jono99 · February 23rd, 2009, 06:42 AM

Are you specifically wanting to use JavaScript for this one?

johnwey · February 23rd, 2009, 12:34 PM

I completely don't mind . . .

I'm an old print industry graphic designer who taught himself to use DW to make html pages.

I don't really know much more than that.

I just need to have a text field on the home page, and if someone types in a subdirectory name in that field and hits SUBMIT, it will take them to the subdirectory.

EXAMPLE: If they are in http://mydomain.com/index.html and they enter the word 'sample' (no quotes) in the text field and then they hit SUBMIT, they will then land on http://mydomain.com/sample/index.html

Cheers

John

Evilaussie · February 25th, 2009, 01:54 AM

That's more PHP orientated then Javascript. I cant write up a full example for you now, but once i get home i'll help you out.

johnwey · February 25th, 2009, 01:56 AM

Hey that'd be cool as mate . . . where abouts in Oz are you?

jono99 · February 25th, 2009, 04:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Evilaussie

That's more PHP orientated then Javascript.

I actually think it is quite possible to accomplish this with JavaScript. Unfortunately, i only know the basics of JS at this point, so i probably wouldn't be able to help with this 100%.

From my understanding of it, you would use the combination of a JS funtion and the search form to change the documents' url or src to the relevant value of the input field.

But that's just me...

johnwey · February 25th, 2009, 04:15 AM

Hey guess what someone sent me this from another forum, and it works!

<form>
<p align="center">Enter your code and click Submit.</p>
<div align="center">
<input type="text" name="letter" size="33">
<input type="button" value="Submit" name="B1"
onclick="document.location.href = letter.value + '/index.html'">
</div>
</form>

of course I don't know what language it is, but as long as it works, I'm cool

Evilaussie · February 25th, 2009, 04:19 AM

Ah alright, glad to here it works! Yeah, i'm only familiar with PHP and the Javascript forum hasn't been to active lately, so i wasn't sure you would get help otherwise. Glad to hear it!

johnwey · February 25th, 2009, 04:22 AM

Goodonyamate

Cheers

John

jono99 · February 26th, 2009, 09:22 AM

That looks like HTML to me and that's exactly what i was referring to here:

Quote:

Originally Posted by jono99

From my understanding of it, you would use the combination of a JS funtion and the search form to change the documents' url or src to the relevant value of the input field.

Glad you got it right now.
All the best for the rest of your work