[SOLVED] form field...How do I get this URL after searching?

[nicob]

With this code I get http://www.mydomain.com/search/page.php?q=blabla+blabla

<form method="get" action="search/page.php">
<fieldset>
<input type="text" name="q" value="" />
<input type="submit" value="search" />
</fieldset>

 

Now I want this result => http://www.mydomain.com/search/-blabla+blabla-1-1-10-and.html or http://www.mydomain.com/search/-blabla-1-1-10-and.html but I don't know how!

 

[Brian W]

you could post the "search" to a page where it is then processed like that. Example:

<?php
if($_GET['q'] > ''){
   $stuff = "-1-1-10-and";
   header('location: search/'.$_GET['q'].$stuff.'.html'); die();
} else {
   echo "you did not enter anything for the search";
}

this being said, I'm not sure what your doing with this or even how this will work once you have achieved what you asked in this thread.

[nicob]

Thank you for the code, Brian. But I was looking for a manipulation from the search form.

 

I'm not sure what your doing with this

By using 'RewriteRule' in htaccess I can visit a search result in this way => http://www.mydomain.com/search/-blabla+blabla-1-1-10-and.html . But when I use the search field I get the old url => http://www.mydomain.com/search/page.php?q=blabla+blabla and I don't want this to show for the users anymore!

[Brian W]

I was going to recommend mod rewrite if you came back not knowing what you were doing.

 

Cheers

Brian

[nicob]

By the way. Your code works very well. I added

$replace = str_replace(" ", "+", "$_GET[q]"); 

to replace the spaces. Thx!

 

If it's not possible to manipulate the search form, then this topic is solved.

[Brian W]

solved then to my knowledge, I've never seen any kind of method besides possibly javascript to do what you are looking for using the form. You could use JS, but the php code is simpler.

[nicob]

PHP is indeed better than js. So this topic is solved as there is no other solution. Thx!