Help with form submission

[1BIZLIST]

Hi all,

I have implemented mod_rewrite on my site which has a search facility, the thing is when the form is submitted I get the following URL format search.php?search=xxx&submit=go , I have tried and tried to get the result to be /search/xxx/ when the form is submitted, does anyone know a way of doing this?

All the mod_rewrite stuff is working really well and I know /search/xxx/ works as well, as links within the site created like that work just fine, so it is purely the output from submitting the form I need sorted now.

TIA
Mark.

p.s if your site was w3c compliant would you bother to display the logo ?

[dmorison]

Hi Mark,

Browsers only know how to do a GET in the normal way (unless you want to go with JavaScript); so the safest way to do this would be to issue a redirect at the top of your search script. If you're using PHP, you could do it something like this:

PHP Code:

if ($_GET["submit"]=="go")
{
  header("Location: /search/".$_GET["search"]."/");
  exit();
} 


Other scripting languages will have a similar mechanism for doing the same thing, but that's the general idea.

If you're happy to rely on JavaScript, the following should work (not tested tho'!):

<script type='text/javascript'>
  function mySubmit()
  {
    window.location = "/search/" + document.myForm.search.value + "/";
  }
</script>
<form name='myForm' action='javascript:mySubmit()'>
  <input type='text' id='search' /> 
  <input type='submit' value='Go' />
</form>

p.s if your site was w3c compliant would you bother to display the logo ?

Personally I don't bother; as my sites only seem to remain w3c compliant for a few minutes after going through a phase of making my sites w3c compliant

Hope this helps!

[futureweb]

I think you would have to make your form post rather than get and use some kind of jump script to fire off to the new url like:

PHP Code:

<?
if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
// May be some checks here is search empty special chars etc..
$search = urlencode($_POST['search']);
header("Location: /search/".$search."/");
}
?>
<form name="search" action="" method="post">
<input type="text" name="search" value="Search for?" />
<input type="submit" value="go" name="submit" />
</form>

[1BIZLIST]

Awesome,

I think basically both replies were heading in the same direction, and it works a treat!

Many Thanks
Mark.