Search Engine DDL

[cian]

Hi guys,
having difficulties,

I have a dropdownlist of search engines which allows the users to pick a search engine which will redirect them to the search results page of that particular engine.
The form submits to a page which has code like the following:

<?php
$engine = $HTTP_POST_VARS[&quot;engine&quot;];
$search = $HTTP_POST_VARS[&quot;search&quot;];
$searchterms = urlencode($search);

if ($engine==&quot;google&quot {
header('Location:

http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=$searchterms');

}

the problems is the script is sending $searchterms to google rather than the value of searchterms.
Can you see where I have gone wrong?






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[cian]

It's ok, I figured it out.

Solution: double quotes instead of single

header(&quot;Location:

http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=$searchterms

&quot;);

amazing how something so small can wreck your head for hours!!

Also: TT seems to have a TGML problem re:square brackets, some code requires square brackets.





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[dkdude]

Hi cain,

Had the square bracket problem myself. Use [ignore]

[/ignore] instead of [ignore][tt][/ignore] -seems to be working fine!


Jakob

 

[cian]

DOH! Never thought of that, I always just copy and paste the code!
Thanks, i'll do that in future!





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