Open new window URL, variable from form in URL PHP

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02-23-2009, 07:44 PM
squaredvision

Open new window URL, variable from form in URL PHP

Hi how are you?

Code:

<form name="form" target="_new" method="POST" action="mp3search.php"> Song or Artist: <input name="mp3search" type="text" /> <input type="submit" value="Search" /> </form>

This is a simple form. I want whatever the user entered in the text box to be concatenated into the URL in a new window when the user hits Submit:

EX:
This will open up as a new window showing google.com
http://www.google.com/search?(VARIABLE)<--this is the variable from the textbox.

so for example it would be: www.google.com/search?VARIABLE+fileextension

best,
Michael
02-23-2009, 08:25 PM
Schmoopy

Hi there, to achieve this, you will need to be using the method="get", so that google can get the query from the url. Using post would result in the data not being sent through the url bar and so google wouldn't be able to produce a result.

Here is the code:

search.html

Code:

<html> <head> <title>Google Search</title> </head> <body> <form name="form" target="_new" method="get" action="mp3search.php"> Song or Artist: <input name="mp3search" type="text" /> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Search" /> </form> </body> </html>

mp3search.php

PHP Code:

<?php if (isset($_GET['mp3search'])) { $search = $_GET['mp3search']; echo "<meta http-equiv=\"Refresh\" content=\"0; url=http://www.google.com/search?q=" . $search . "\">"; } else { echo "You need to enter a search term"; } ?>
02-23-2009, 09:20 PM
squaredvision

http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/4231/36452236.jpg

this is what i get for the outcome. it doesn't take me to google.com

my firefox editor i think shows a break somewhere?

thank you for your help on this.
02-23-2009, 09:23 PM
Schmoopy

You're running the file straight from the source "C:/users/blabla". You need to either host it with your server provider or download WAMP (Windows only) or similar.

Then execute the script through a local server. The reason it isn't working for you at the moment is because there is nothing there to interpret the PHP, just the HTML
02-23-2009, 09:44 PM
squaredvision

http://www.squaredvision.com/search/search.htm what do you think ? :D
02-23-2009, 09:46 PM
Schmoopy

:) Glad you got it working.
02-23-2009, 09:58 PM
squaredvision

what is isset?
02-23-2009, 10:03 PM
Schmoopy

isset

That site's a great resource, just put any function you want into the search bar and it tells you how to use it :)
03-01-2009, 01:26 AM
squaredvision

Hi Schmoopy,

I put checkboxes in my form so users can choose what they want to search. How do I implement it so that if a user chooses the mp3 it will do the mp3 and if the user chooses MP3 WAV and WMA it goes in the URL and search those

Code:

echo "<meta http-equiv=\"Refresh\" content=\"0; url=http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=-inurl%3A(htm|html|php)+intitle%3A%22index+of%22+%2B%22last+modified%22+%2B%22parent+directory%22+%2Bdescription+%2Bsize+%2B(.mp3|.wma|.wav)+%22". $search ."%22\">";

http://www.squaredvision.com/search/search.htm

thank you,
Michael
03-03-2009, 11:11 AM
Schmoopy

Ok, so do you just want it to add the extension of the file?

So if I searched for "Through the fire and the flames", it would add whatever button I checked to the end? Like "Through the fire and the flames.mp3"

Tried and tested, but using checkboxes would be a little bit more complicated:

PHP Code:

<?php if(isset($_GET['extension'])) { $extension = "." . $_GET['extension']; } else { die("You need to select a format"); } if (isset($_GET['mp3search']) && $_GET['mp3search'] != "") { $search = $_GET['mp3search']; echo "<meta http-equiv=\"Refresh\" content=\"0; url=http://www.google.com/search?q=" . $search . $extension . "\">"; } else { die("You need to enter a search term"); } ?>

I made the HTML into radio buttons to make it simpler:

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="search.css"> <title>G Search - by: Michael Fridman</title> </head> <body> <div id="content"> <div class="searchMP3"> <FIELDSET><LEGEND>Search for MP3s</LEGEND><br /> <center><form name="form" target="_new" method="GET" action="Gsearch.php"> Song or Artist: <input name="mp3search" type="text" /> <input type="submit" value="Search" /> <br /> <br /> <table width="296" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td width="70" height="20"> <input name="extension" value="mp3" type="radio" /> .MP3 <br /></td> <td width="70"><input name="extension" value="wma" type="radio" /> .WMA</td> <td width="70"><input name="extension" value="wav" type="radio" /> .WAV</td> <td width="70"><input name="extension" value="ogg" type="radio" /> .OGG</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="5"> </td> </tr> </table> </form> </center> </FIELDSET></div></div> </body> </html>
03-03-2009, 03:55 PM
squaredvision

*QUOTE*
So if I searched for "Through the fire and the flames", it would add whatever button I checked to the end? Like "Through the fire and the flames.mp3"
*END QUOTE*

It would only add the name to the URL:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...+%2B(.mp3)+%22Through the fire and the flames%22

the .MP3 is hard coded in the URL already

so if the user chooses .WMA it would be:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...+%2B(.wma)+%22Through the fire and the flames%22

thank you,
Michael
03-05-2009, 04:03 PM
squaredvision

Maybe this can be done with If statements, If user select mp3, put whatever is in search box in the mp3 URL, when user selects wma, put whatever is in search box in the wma URL.

hmm, i'm still trying to figure this out.
03-05-2009, 07:19 PM
Schmoopy

Try and figure it out for yourself and you'll probably learn quicker.

Here's something to get you started:

PHP Code:

<?php if (isset($_GET['extension'])) { switch ($_GET['extension']) { case "mp3": $ext = "mp3"; // Add your url code and add the .mp3 where necessary break; case "wma": $ext = "wma"; // Add your url code and add the .wma where necessary break; // Etc... // echo "http://www.google.com?q=" . $search . $ext; } } ?>

Sorry about the bad formatting but it's a bit hard to do indents on here.

Hopefully you can figure it out from here,

Good luck!