submitting result to the end of the url instead of adding an index.php

Question

Id basically like the below submission to place text at the end of the url

example of what i want

http://example.com/(text) -- without the () obviously

example of what i don't want -- http://www.example.com/index.php?firstname=text

<form action="(end of current url)">
<fieldset>
 search name
<br>
<input type="text" name="search" value="name">
<br>
<input type="submit" value="Submit"></fieldset>
</form>

id like to fix this via html or php either will do aslong as it submits the request to that :)

thank you in advance.

possible duplicate of [URL rewriting with PHP](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16388959/url-rewriting-with-php) — Jeremiah Winsley, Nov 26 '14 at 18:51
a duplicate??? lol no i don't want to rewrite an url i want it to correctly post the text into the url > http://www.example.com/(example)..... — Darren Brinx, Nov 26 '14 at 20:08

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 26 '14 at 17:54

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Using the POST method instead of GET.

<form action="" method="POST">
<fieldset>
 search name
<br>
<input type="text" name="search" value="name">
<br>
<input type="submit" value="Submit"></fieldset>
</form>

answered Nov 26 '14 at 17:54

Zulfadly AshBurn

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Doesn't seem to add anything to the end of the url – Darren Brinx Nov 26 '14 at 17:57
@DarrenBrinx Can you include part of your PHP code? So we can view what's wrong in the PHP section – Zulfadly AshBurn Nov 26 '14 at 18:19

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 26 '14 at 18:44

In short you do the following:

<?php 

    // Get posted text
    $text = strtolower(mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['text']));

    // Do some cleanup here

    // Redirect to page
    if ($text != ''){
        header( 'Location: http://www.example.com/' . $text );
    }

    // HTML output below (not before)

?>    
<form method="post" action="">
    <fieldset>
        Search name<br />
        <input type="text" name="text" /><br />
        <input type="submit" value="Submit" />
    </fieldset>
</form>

submitting result to the end of the url instead of adding an index.php

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