[eyedea]

Let me start off by telling you guys what I am trying to do, I'm simple trying to create a search script in which people will come to my website and enter an ID for example, '1101' and the page that will load will be '1101.html', despite that this is nothing fancy at all I can't figure out for the life of me on how to do it. I went to hotscripts.com, but i cant find a script that fits what i need. I was hoping someone here could point me in the right direction, tell me what programming language it is i need to learn (php, asp, vbscript)?

Maybe there is a programmer here that is looking to build a portfolio and might be willing to do this for free, I know the programming cannot but that advanced and I already have the website and everything else ready to go. Or if you own a programming/design company we can form a type of partnership because the clients I will be dealing with are real estate agents there is a nice profit to be made off of a web design company that can cater to them.

Sorry for the long post and thanks in advance to anyone who responds.

[mxer210]

I would make a simple php script and have it do like:
index.php?id=1011

This variable, 1011, can now be passed onto that page and can display page 1011.html in a frame directly below.

[Onyx]

Doing it in PHP as above would be real easy, but it does put certain requirements you (namely having a PHP-enabled server etc.)

I'm sure this can be done in Javascript, but I haven't got my Javascrip book with me and I'm a little rusty! The shame of it - I know!

One word of caution. With something ike this I'd say it's essential that you validate the input just in case they can enter something that allows them to go to a page they shouldn't!

Can anyone help with the JS? An onSubmit calls a function that grabs the contents of the form field, adds it to the base URL and then adds '.htm' to the end before reloading the window with the new URL we created.

[mxer210]

oohh I know. Just make a form script, (look at www.zend.com/php5/abs and lesson 1 or 2 has the code for a form. You would just have a box for the user to enter in the number, and when they enter it, it links and sends the variable to the same page, and it would be like:

<?php
$webpage_id = ['http_vars'];

?>

and have some code (not sure what it is) redirect to the below page.

<?php echo $webpage_id.".html" ?>