mscreashuns — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 23:33:55 +0000

Well, for that sort of thing, the only way I know how to do it is through JavaScript, and I would simply write a completely different code, something like this:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
  <head>
  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1250">
  <title>New Window</title>
  &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
  function newUserWindow(url) {
    url = "http://" + url;
    window.open(url,'userWindow','toolbar=yes,location=yes,directories=yes,status=yes,menubar=yes,scrollbars=yes,copyhistory=yes,resizable=yes');
  }
  &lt;/script&gt;
  </head>
  <body>
    <form>
      http://<input type="text" name="url" id="url" />
      <input type="submit" name="go" id="go" value="Go!" onclick="newUserWindow(document.getElementById('url').value)" />
    </form>
  </body>
</html>

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Let me know if you have any questions about what something means.

If you absolutely want to incorporate the code I gave before, I'm not sure how to go about it.

drew22299 — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 22:54:53 +0000

Using the code example you gave me, how would I make it open in a new window?

drew22299 — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 22:53:47 +0000

It was a syntax error, your code works great. Thanks

mscreashuns — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 22:41:30 +0000

I don't know how the user inputs the URL, so it's hard to say exactly how you could work around this, but one option would be to have an input field something like this:

...
<ul>
  <li>
    <label for="url">URL: </label>
    http://
    <input type="text" name="url" value="" />
  </li>
</ul>
...

In most cases, the user will realize not to put the 'http://' and then in your redirect, you could have something like the following:

<?php
header("Location: <a href="http://"" title="http://"">http://"</a> . $_POST['url']);
?>