Mod Rewrite ... Help

[Guest]

ok i have the chatroom page...

mysite.com/chat/

on this page i have the links to

mysite.com/chat/general
mysite.com/chat/teens

with teens and general both being chatrooms.

Now..

what i want is a form on mysite.com/chat that will allow a private chatroom ...

<form action="i dont know " method="post">


Private Room: <input type="text" name="room" value="" maxlength="15" />

<input type="submit" />
</p>
</form>

What would I put in form action? Or do I HAVE to make a simple redirect script.. i.e Will just pass the variable post to a page that will sort out the right url for me.

I Hope this makes sense.

[looony]

hmmmm try
add the variable to the form then use the $_REQUEST to call the variable from the url and form so.

<form action="page.php?private=$variable " method="post">


Private Room: <input type="text" name="room" value="" maxlength="15" />

<input type="submit" />
</p>
</form>

[subzero]

I fixed the easy way to do this

echo "<form action=\"What-php.php\" method=\"post\">";
echo "<input  name=\"room\" value=\"$room\" maxlength=\"20\"/>
";
echo " <input type=\"submit\" value=\"SUBMIT\"/>|<input type=\"reset\" value=\"RESET\"/> 
";

echo "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"action\" value=\"Where\"/>";
echo "</form>
";

[Guest]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (subzero @ Feb 5 2009, 01:21 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

I fixed the easy way to do this

echo "<form action=\"What-php.php\" method=\"post\">";
echo "<input  name=\"room\" value=\"$room\" maxlength=\"20\"/>
";
echo " <input type=\"submit\" value=\"SUBMIT\"/>|<input type=\"reset\" value=\"RESET\"/> 
";

echo "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"action\" value=\"Where\"/>";
echo "</form>
";

[/b]

I think you did not understand me. @Loony that does not work.

I don&#39;t think what I want to do is possible.

Imagine this

[myinputboxishere]privateroom[endinputbox]
[submit]

when i enter privateroom into the input box i want the url im going to, to be mysite.com/chat/WHATEVERIHAVEINPUTTED

It don&#39;t matter, i do not think its possible i will just make a redirection script.

[subzero]

You want links to work in a selete ?

[Guest]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (subzero @ Feb 5 2009, 01:39 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

You want links to work in a selete ?[/b]

Look at this url you should get an idea of what i mean http://kyle-young.com/chat/

Notice where the first two links go to. That is the same sort of thing I want the input to go to.

[looony]

i have something like this on my site the navi input i just used a redirect to do it but im sure there would be a better way to do it

[subzero]

cut out chat/ try ../chat/

[Guest]

Lol, no that won&#39;t work. I know the <form action="chat/" is wrong just now. Don&#39;t worry im just going to make a redirection script. Bare in mind there is no /chat/general/ folder on my server. It doesn&#39;t exist. Mod_Rewrite just makes you think there is.

[subzero]

i know how to mod things

[Guest]

Yeah sorry. Anyway I got it working with a redirect script but if anyone knows how to do one without the redirect that would be great.

[subzero]

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html

Learn the hard way lol

[Guest]

LoL... too much time reading and too little implentation.

[subzero]

Well have to learn the hard way to get it right i had too