TextBox coding in need of help

[borden0108]

Hi all

 

i have been trying for 6 hours to write some code that will show a text box and the user puts in there id then it provides a link with the id in the middle of it

 

so say the id is 111555

 

the link is http://example.com.au/data/users/111555/2011/1/1 i want the user to insert their id and do if the id 343034 the link is

http://example.com.au/data/users/343034/2011/1/1

 

can any one give me the code to this i have gotten no where

from tutorials

               

please matt                                       

[codefossa]

<?php

$url1 = 'http://example.com.au/data/users/';
$url2 = '/2011/1/1';

if (isset($_GET['id']))
{
echo $url1 . $_GET['id'] . $url2;
}
else
{
echo '
	<form method="get" action="">
		Enter ID <input type="text" name="id">
		<input type="submit" value="Get URL">
	</form>';
}

?>

[dragon_sa]

<?php
if (isset($_POST['link']) && $_POST['link']!='') {
    $link=$_POST['link'];
    header("Location: http://www.example.com.au/data/users/$link/2011/1/1");
    exit;
}
?>
Enter User ID:-<br/>
<form method="post" action="" name="linkID'>
<input type="text" name="link" size="20" /><br/>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit Link" />
</form>

 

really you should have some validation with that so users dont enter any one elses ID's but I dont really know what your doing with this.

[codefossa]

really you should have some validation with that so users dont enter any one elses ID's but I dont really know what your doing with this.

I'm sure now that he has the basic set up he'll alter it to fit his needs.

[borden0108]

sorry but i trailed it and put the id in but it did not return a link i trialed php in a .html doc

 

so so sorry

 

can you possibly attach a html file with a working code so sorry

:'(

 

 

[dragon_sa]

you have to save the page as a .php file for example index.php

otherwise your php wont be initialized and will not work, you cant use php code on a page that ends with .html it has to be .php

[borden0108]

but then safari will not read it

 

it just shows the source code

[dragon_sa]

php code needs to be uploaded to your server you cannot preview it in your browser without uploading it to your server first, php is read by the server and then outputs html code to the users browser based on the processed code,

if yo just open a php page directly on your computer then it will only show the source code as no server has processed it.

Once you upload it to your web server and then look at the page you will only see the form the code outputs and not the php.

[borden0108]

i uploaded it and it only downloads it

 

 

HELP

[dragon_sa]

Did you save it as a php file first?

Also does the server you uploaded to support php?

 

You need to show us your code you have uploaded as we cant help with anything if we cant see what you have done.