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select country then redirect to another website

[Ltype]

Hello everyone,

I use php in the most basic of ways and I have now come up against a hurdle.

I have an html form from which visitors can select a country from a list. Each country is assigned a value:

<form action="http://www.example.com/world.php" ...
<option value="1"> USA </option>
<option value="2"> Brasil </option>, etc.

In the world.php I want the php code to redirect the browser to open that country's website.

Should I assign the country's URL to the value, should the url be in the world.php file? Help.
Can someone suggest a way of doing this.

Thank you,

[Mr_Fern]

My suggestion would be to have in world.php an array that has the urls to each country's site.

Here is a sample code I just wrote that could be used for world.php to perform as specified.

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$country_urls = array('-','usa site','brazil site',...); // The "-" in the first slot is since there's no 0 value in the options

$form_method = 0; // 0 for POST, 1 for GET
$form_value = "country"; // change to name of <SELECT>

// STORE COUNTRY NUMERICAL VALUE IN $c_code
if ($form_method == 0)
$c_code = $_POST[$form_value];
else
$c_code = $_GET[$form_value];

//GET LOCATION IN VARIABLE
$loc = $country_urls[$c_code];

//SEND OFF
@header("Location:$loc");
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[Ltype]

Hi!

I have implemented your code. I get what you are doing.
Unfortunatly, once I select the country, the browser returns a blank screen.

When I press submit, the url goes to: http://www.example.com/world.php?country=1&Submit=Go

and the screen is blank.

the Form code:
<form name="form1" method="get" action="http://www.example.com/world.php">
<select name="country">
<option value="1">USA</option>
<option value="2">Brasil</option>
<option value="3">Mexico</option>
</select>
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Go" />

The world.php code:
<?php
$country_urls = array('-','www.exampleusa.com','http://www.example.com.br','http://www.example.com.mx'); // The "-" in the first slot is since there's no 0 value in the options

$form_method = 0; // 0 for POST, 1 for GET
$form_value = "country"; // change to name of <SELECT>

// STORE COUNTRY NUMERICAL VALUE IN $c_code
if ($form_method == 0)
$c_code = $_POST[$form_value];
else
$c_code = $_GET[$form_value];

//GET LOCATION IN VARIABLE
$loc = $country_urls[$c_code];

//SEND OFF
@header("Location:$loc");
?>

Anything out of place?
Thank you,