making an url with text and buttons?

[BLiZZaRD]

It is sort of like a log in, only umm.. not?

The idea: two text input boxes and a single button. You enter the text in the two text boxes and are taken to a web page.

Catch: The URL has to contain both texts (say username and password) separated by a colon and BEFORE the domain with an @ sign.

so it looks like:

Username:
Password:

click here button.

You enter "name" and "1pass" and are taken to:

http://name:1pass@thesite.com

I know it is possible, I just can't get my " ."$var" ." in the right order (never understood how those spaces and dots worked).

Thanks for any help.

[djr33]

$url = 'http://'.$_POST['name'].':'.$_POST['pass'].'@my.com';

[BLiZZaRD]

Awesome! Thanks for that!

Now.. know anywhere that can explain the use of dots and quotes and spaces in a string? I haven't ever found anything that makes sense to me.

[BLiZZaRD]

Okay, I am doing something really wrong here (besides working on 5 projects at once). I have tried numerous ways, and once I got to go to the page, but it asked me for the username and password like 12 times (once for each item of the new page that loaded!)

the current set up is like this:

<?php
$url = 'http://'.$_POST['name'].':'.$_POST['pass'].'@my.com';
?>

//html head and body and css stuff...

            <form action="<?php $url; ?>" method="post">

                <div class="form_field">
                <strong>Username:</strong>
                <input type="text" id="name">
                </div>

                <div class="clearthis">&nbsp;</div>

                <div class="form_field">
                <strong>Password:</strong>
                <input type="password" id="pass">
                </div>

                <div class="clearthis">&nbsp;</div>

                <div class="form_field">
                <input type="image" src="/images/loginBtn.gif" class="button">
                </div>

            </form>

</body>
</html>

Obviously this doesn't work, and having to enter the pass 12+ times isn't going to work either.. what am I doing wrong?

[Master_script_maker]

what kind of item? image, frames ... do you have a link?

[BLiZZaRD]

ermm.. just going to a new page. Nothing fancy.

no frames, no nothing, just 2 text boxes sitting on a page, with a button image to click on.

The page taken to has .htaccess protection.

you can bypass the .htaccess pop up if you have the correct username and password and enter the url like such: http://username:password@site.com/pa...sProtected.php

Issue is I want the username and password entered on the previous page, and when button is clicked visitor is take to page with url as shown above.

Nothing more to it than that. Really.

[Twey]

<?php header(sprintf('Location: http://%s:%s@my.com/page/', $_POST['username'], $_POST['password'])); ?>

Now.. know anywhere that can explain the use of dots and quotes and spaces in a string?

Uh... quotes surround a string, dots join strings. Spaces are irrelevant.

[BLiZZaRD]

<?php header(sprintf('Location: http://%s:%s@my.com/page/', $_POST['username'], $_POST['password'])); ?>

Umm.. how does that work into my form? I tired various spots nothing worked for me... I don't get it. (I really need to learn php)

Uh... quotes surround a string, dots join strings. Spaces are irrelevant.

that's what a stupid dot does? And if spaces don't matter, how come if I have something like ' . ' whaterver' . ' and I remove a space (as done on accident before) it made a parse error?

[thetestingsite]

Umm.. how does that work into my form? I tired various spots nothing worked for me... I don't get it. (I really need to learn php)

This part is just saying to do a header redirect to the location http://$_POST['username']:$_POST['password']@my.com/page/ just in the form of sprintf. Basically, the %s is a string that is passed through the sprintf method. The first %s is the username and the second is the password. For a better picture, look at the colored code below.

header(sprintf('Location: http://%s:%s@my.com/page/', $_POST['username'], $_POST['password']));

Hope this helps.

[Master_script_maker]

<?php 
if ($_POST['name'] && $_POST['pass']) {
$url = 'http://'.$_POST['name'].':'.$_POST['pass'].'@my.com';
} else { ?>
<form action="<?php echo htmlentities($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']); ?>" method="post">

                <div class="form_field">
                <strong>Username:</strong>
                <input type="text" id="name">
                </div>

                <div class="clearthis">&nbsp;</div>

                <div class="form_field">
                <strong>Password:</strong>
                <input type="password" id="pass">
                </div>

                <div class="clearthis">&nbsp;</div>

                <div class="form_field">
                <input type="image" src="/images/loginBtn.gif" class="button">
                </div>

            </form>
<?php } ?>