Redirect to static web page from user input box

[Pointmewheretogo]

I am very new to web design. My current webmaster says that I need someone that programs databases to do what I want. I have NO idea where to go to find help on what I need to do. I hope someone here can help me in some way.

 

Below is what I am looking to do.

Let?s say I had a website with an index page and 100 static pages named (page1.html ? page100.html)

I would like to have a box on the index page that a user could put in ?page5? then press enter and have it go to, or show a link to  ?www.example.com/pages/page5.html?

The index page would have NO links going to any of the static html pages 1-100.

I do not want to use a Google Custom search box. 

I do not want a sitemap with a list of all the pages.

I do not want the pages 1-100 to be indexed by search engines

 

I use Dreamweaver. Do I need to get another program?

I would and do appreciate any and all help I can get.

 

I would be willing to hire someone to help me.

 

Rob-Point me in the right direction please

 

[scootstah]

This is just a simple matter of capturing the input and then using it in a string (for link) or header call (for redirect).

if (!empty($_POST)) {
$page = $_POST['page'];

// link
echo '<a href="http://example.com/pages/' . $page . '.html">' . $page . '</a>';

// redirect
header('location: http://example.com/pages/' . $page . '.html');
exit;
} else {
echo '<form method="post">
Page: <input type="text" name="page" /><button type="submit">Go</button>
</form>';
}

 

This will get you started. You may want to validate and/or sanitize the input.

[Pointmewheretogo]

Can you tell what am I doing wrong?

http://dual07.com/

The index page is called index.php

 

I have a folder called pages and I have 5 html pages inside, listed below.

page1.html

page2.html

page3.html

page4.html

page5.html

 

Rob

[PaulRyan]

You are not putting the PHP tags around the code...

Put this at the start:

<?PHP

 

And put this at the end

?>