Question

I would like to have a URL such as

• http://www.google.com/

and a user input text area.

If the user inputted 123 the link would be

• http://www.google.com/123

and there would be a button they could click to go to this link.

Could someone please tell me if this is possible without javascript or if not? Could you please let me know how best to implement it? Thank you for your time.

Answer 1

You can do this by posting your form to a PHP page and PHP will redirect the user to that URL using header.

<form method="post">
    <input type="text" name="urlpart" />
    <input type="submit" value="go" />
</form>

And then at the top of your page put:

if($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST'){
    header('location: http://www.google.ca/'.$_POST['urlpart']);
    exit();
}

Please take great care in how you implement this because it can easily lead to XSS injections.