Where is this script?

[Steen]

Hello,


I have seen other people who have forms that link to a different site which URL is partially made up of the info put into the form.

In simpler terms.


Domain.com has a form that collects a domain name
it sends people (on enter) to whois.sc/DOMAINENTERED.com

Anyone get what I mean?

I want to use it for my new search engine.

Have a form that collects a search term and sends the person to searchbunny.com/search.pl?q=TERM

Thanks for your help if you know of such a script

Steen.

 

[samscripts]

Do you just want a form which redirects direct to searchbunny, or a form that processes the search term first on your site, and then redirects?

For the first:

<form action="http://www.searchbunny.com/search.pl" method="get" target="_blank">
<input type="text" name="q" />
<input type="submit" value="Do The Bunny" />
</form>

The target="_blank" will cause the form to open a new search bunny window when submitted.

If you need to do something with the submitted search term on the site with the form first, change the form action to submit to a script on your site, and remove the target="_blank" if you don't want a new window.

The script the form submits to would be something like this:

// searchsubmit.php

<?php

if( isset($_REQUEST['q']) ){

   $q = $_REQUEST['q'];

   // this line removes any slashes added by php (see www.php.net/stripslashes )
   if( get_magic_quotes_gpc() == "1" ) $q = stripslashes($q);

   // do whatever you want to do with $q before redirecting to searchbunny

  // redirect

   header("Location: http://www.searchbunny.com/search.pl?q=$q");
   exit();

}else{

   // form was not submitted, do something else...

}

?>

and the form would be something like this:

<form action="searchsubmit.php" method="get">
<input type="text" name="q" />
<input type="submit" value="Do The Bunny" />
</form>

see: http://www.samyapp.com/dothebunny.htm for the two forms in action.

hope that helps,

Sam

 

[Steen]

Thank you so much!

I set it up here:
http://www.searchbunny.com/test/searchform.htm

Is there a way to make it so that there is no search box and it just runs on enter?

Or is there a way to use a image as a go button instead of the uglywindows supplied one?

:-D

Thanks for your time.

 

[Beachie]

Actually (just as a side topic) the whois.sc thing had me fooled for a while..

They actually have the domain that is being whois'ed as part of the URL, not just a parameter that is POSTed.

For example:

http://www.whois.sc/ibm.com

instead of what you might expect:

http://www.whois.sc/whois.html?domain=ibm.com

My guess is they use a custom 404 handler which trims the domain from the end of the "missing" URL. Clever! k:

 

[mole]

Originally posted by Beachie
My guess is they use a custom 404 handler which trims the domain from the end of the "missing" URL. Clever! k:

They don't call themselves NameIntelligence for nothing, I suppose

 

[bidawinner]

Welcome samscripts and thanks for help..we need more of that around here..

100 DNF coming your way !

 

[Steen]

Thank you all so much,

FYI,

I have built it here: http://www.searchbunny.com/test/searchform.htm

And implemented it http://www.buffononline.com/home.php
and
http://www.buffononline.com/forum/index.php

Thanks so much!