Question

I am trying to create the following condition

1) User visits page
2) User enters code
3) If the code is valid, the user enters a page corresponding to the code
4) If the code is not valid, the user fails

This is so that people can view certain PDFs for an apartment rentals company.

What I would like to do, is to create a form, with an input for the special code.

When the form is submitted, it will simply redirect to url.com/[[value of input]].php

I tried creating a PHP handler to do this, but when I try it out, I get a blank page. I have limited experience with PHP, so I might be off on a completely wrong path.

Thoughts greatly appreciated on this

Here’s my form

  <form id="enter_code" name="enter_code" action="code_handler.php" method="post">

        <label for="code">Enter Your Apartment Code</label>
        <input id="code" name="code" size="30" type="text" />

        <input class="button" name="commit" style="font-weight:normal" type="submit" value="Sign in" />

  </form>

and here’s my code_handler.php

<?php

   header( 'Location: http://www.opohills.com/guests/pdf/<?=htmlspecialchars($_POST['code'], ENT_COMPAT)?>.php' ) ;

?>

Answer 1

Why using php within php

header( 'Location: http://www.opohills.com/guests/pdf/'.htmlspecialchars($_POST['code'], ENT_COMPAT).'.php' ) ;