...a Way To Get There

[boxturt]

This has me stumped for many days. I'm pretty sure I've seen this but I don't remember where and I can't seem to get my head around it enough to figure it out.

 

I would like to offer specific visitors the ability upon arriving at the site, enter a specific filename in a form field, click go and be taken straight there to that specific file. eg: go to

 

h**p://****/some_folder/specificfile.html

 

but all the visitor would type in is 'specificfile'

 

I probably haven't posed this query very well and I apologize. Any hints would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thank you

[TCH-Rob]

Something like;

 

><form method=post>
Keyword: <br>
<input type=text name=keyword>
<input type=hidden name=sub value=1>
<input type=submit value=Go!>
<?php 
if($sub==1)
{
if($keyword=="keyword1")
{
echo("<script>window.location='url_for_keyword1';</script>");
}
else if($keyword=="keyword2")
{
echo("<script>window.location='url_for_keyword2';</script>");
}
else if($keyword=="keyword3")
{
echo("<script>window.location='url_for_keyword3';</script>");
}
else
{
echo("That is not a valid keyword.");
}
}
?>

 

Might work.

 

Still looking, I found this at the sitepoint forums.

[boxturt]

Thanks Rob, I appreciate it. Pretty neat, works well but might get weird for content that's always getting added/changed/removed. I almost think I need some sort of modified site search that delivers the page on demand.

 

I dunno.

 

Clueless As Usual In Naugahyde.......

[LisaJill]

Y'mean something like livesearch?

[boxturt]

Looks scary Lisa - but I'll check it out, thank you.

[DarqFlare]

Here's what I would use... It would need to be modified to work for extensions other than HTML:

 

><form method=post>
Keyword: <br>
<input type=text name=filename>
<input type=hidden name=sub value=1>
<input type=submit value=Go!>
<?php 
if($sub==1)
{
if(file_exists("/home/yourcpaneluser/public_html/somefolder/" . $filename . ".html"))
{
 header("Location: /somefolder/" . $filename . ".html");
}
else
{
 echo "The file, it does not exist! Run around and scream!";
}
}
?>

[boxturt]

echo "The file, it does not exist! Run around and scream!";

 

Yes, well try that too. Thanks for the code, I haven't had time to mess with these yet but I will