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Drew
Drew

Reputation: 6862

HTML Select Dropdown - Click Submit and go to URL based on Value

What I want to do is have an HTML drop down for example:

<option value="">Select Tire Brand</option>
<option value="cooper">Cooper</option>
<option value="michelin">Michelin</option>

And when they click the Submit button, I want it to go to http://www.domain.com/{selection}/

so if they selected Cooper it would go to http://www.domain.com/cooper/.

I would use the GET method and have it go to the main URL which is brand_results.php?brand=cooper but then the URL wouldn't show up as the neat URL which I use htaccess for.

Is there a way to do what I am looking for?

Thank you!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1782

Answers (2)

Jeff Lambert
Jeff Lambert

Reputation: 24661

I am assuming the value of name for your <select> is mySelect below.

After submission:

<?php
    if(empty($_POST['mySelect'])) {
        // User did not select a brand
    }
    header('Location: http://www.domain.com/' . urlencode($_POST['mySelect']));
    exit();
?>

Upvotes: 3

fredley
fredley

Reputation: 33901

In the file that receives the result: 

header("Location: http://domain.com/".$_GET['brand']);
exit();

Upvotes: 2

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