Loading a webpage throught a combo box

Oriel

Hi Folks,
i'm in the middle of making a photo website for myself. On one of the pages I want to have a lost of bands in a combo box - if the user selects any of the bands it opens that webpage. So selecting, say the item U2 would open the u2.html page.

What would be my best way to go about this? I know a bit of php if that helps, but I'd rather stick to forms and html if possible.

Cheers
S.

Adam

Bit of javascript? This would sort you out:

[HTML]<select name=navigation onChange="go()">
<option value=''>

---

<option value="u2.html">U2
<option value="strokes.html">The Strokes
</select>[/HTML]

function go()
{
	box = document.forms[0].navigation;
	destination = box.options[box.selectedIndex].value;
	if (destination) location.href = destination;
}

Oriel

Excellent. That did the trick. Thanks for that.
There's only one obvious thing now though - I'm going to have to copy, paste and update the values into every page that used the combo box. Any ideas to a simple away around this do you reckon?

Adam

Possibly save the navigation box as a seperate html file and simply call it as an included file in each script? I'll have a ponder...

democrates

fade_to_grey is bang on.
Make a header file called header.php and include it atop every page on your site.
This means your navigation menu etc if changed only need to be changed in one file, then all the pages that include it automatically pick it up.
Likewise with footer.php at the last in each page if necessary.

Seth Brundle

include files are all well and good - but make sure that your hosting a/c allows for *.shtml (or PHP or ASP or whatever) before designing a site with them

Adam

Que??

Its just another html file, your host is none the wiser...

Seth Brundle

which shtml?
I have come across hosts in the past that don't allow these extensions.
Anyhow, my point was to check that it is supported. There is no point doing out a site with the following code
<!-- #include file="head.html" -->
if he doesn't have ASP, etc.

Adam

Well since he mentioned php something as simple as:

[PHP]
<?php

include 'includedfile.html';

?>
[/PHP]

would work surely?

democrates

I've had failures with includes where SSI was supposedly available,
but the php 'virtual' command always worked.

Seth Brundle

fade_to_grey wrote:

Well since he mentioned php...

he said that he knew php - he didn't say that his server supported it. He could be using a free eircom.net a/c for all we know.

Adam

Fair enough, but rather than debating it between ourselves we should just wait til he comes back to answer our replies, no point in a bust up!

Oriel

Folks,
Yeah, I've coded in php before, it's just that I'm having bother getting 5.14 to work on my MacBook Pro (or any version for that matter). I'm using a php script I wrote a while ago as a contact page - so I've made sure the server is going to be able to handle it. It's just a bollocks having to upload it every time to test it

Thanks for the initial code fade_to_grey - I usually come into contract with javascript when I go to try new things like this
I'll have a go at that menu thing tonight and get back to you I should have made it clear that php was an option. To be fiar I've writen sites in php with MySQL databases etc - it's just that it's been a while since I've done it, and the fact that I'm having bother getting it to work on my Mac...