PHP Code 'Search'

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Listen, I've been stressing for 5 hours this will be helpful if you guys could understand and help me

I need a simple PHP code that when I input a text, and then press submit it redirects to my website with the text that I entered in the box, so basically i want it to write the Text that I put, into the URL (Example: www.site.com/[name]) will be kinda like www.site.com/rob.

This is my form HTML Code

<form name="form" method="post">
<input type="text" id="text_box" name="text_box" placeholder="Username"><br>
<button name="submit" class="button buttonlol">Search</button>

If you guys could figure this out for me, it'll be very helpful thank you.

This format, StackOverflow, isn't for "asking for code". We'll gladly help troubleshoot, but questions asking for code are off-topic, as they generally are too broad to answer. There are examples in the PHP manual which may be of use to you, http://php.net/manual/en/tutorial.forms.php — Qirel, Dec 16 '16 at 11:56
If you want to have the URL in the format like `site.com/word` you'll have to use .htaccess. If you would be okay with a `site.com/script.php?word=YourWord?` then it'll be quite simple with PHP. But as Qirel said, we're here to help you with YOUR code, not to write code for you. — Twinfriends, Dec 16 '16 at 11:59
You could use Javascript to intercept the form submission and the use it to redirect otherwise with php you could look at something like: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/768431/how-to-make-a-redirect-in-php — Rwd, Dec 16 '16 at 11:59

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 16 '16 at 12:01

What you want is to use a form method that puts the search request into the address bar, and then an .htaccess file that re-writes the URL and redisplays in the format you desire.

Change your form HTML code to use a GET request -- that will write the search into the address bar.

<form name="form" method="get">

This will put the name-value pairs in the form into the URL instead of posting them invisibly in the background.

Next, look into using an .htaccess file to re-write that URL as desired.

References:

https://www.addedbytes.com/articles/for-beginners/url-rewriting-for-beginners/

http://www.noupe.com/development/htaccess-techniques.html

Mitch · Accepted Answer · 2016-12-16T12:57:04.247

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if(isset($_POST['text_box']))
{
    $username = $_POST['text_box'];
    header("location: http://example.com/$username");
}

You can try this.

I will explain what it does:

It checks if $_POST['text_box'] is set.
If it is set, it will declare a variable $username to the post.
Then, the header location will send you to the desired link, and you can include you're variable with it.

edited Dec 16 '16 at 12:57

answered Dec 16 '16 at 12:01

Mitch

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