send the form value into the form action parameter

Question

Can i send a input value into form action ?Let say, on the form the phone number taken.Now can i send the phone number as form action parameter "number"? Is their any way to send it?

<form method="post" action="abc.php?number=ph_number" enctype="multipart/form-data"> 
 <input type="text" name="ph_number" value=""/> 
 <input type="submit" name="search" value="SEND"/>
</form>

How can i do it?

Thanks in advance
riad

• Abdel Raoof Olakara: Why do you need it to be sent as url parameter? you can use the GET method of HTTP to have all the form params in the URL

Answer 1

<form method="GET" action="abc.php" enctype="multipart/form-data"> 
 <input type="text" name="number" value=""/> 
 <input type="submit" name="search" value="SEND"/>
</form>

• riad: hi,thx for your quick reply. sorry for late..because i test it many way...Can i do it using post method?because on the action parameter i have to include other some parameters.like: <form method="POST" action="abc.php?text=somethoing&address=something&number=something" enctype="multipart/form-data"> thats why i need to use post method.Can i do it using post method??
• Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams: Sure, if you modify your script to get the value from $_POST.
• riad: I have 2 parameters.1 of them is collected from script and one i should take from text box input.let see my example: <form method="post" action="friend.php?title=<?php echo htmlspecialchars(@$msg_to_friend)?>&number=""?>" enctype="multipart/form-data"> i can collect both data one using $_POST and another using $_GET mothod. But my problem is i have to send both data on the action parameter.so i can i do it???can u help pls..

Answer 2

Change action="abc.php?number=ph_number" to action="abc.php

Change name="ph_number" to name="number"

When you click submit, the value contained in "number" text field will be passed to abc.php.

Receive the value with $value = $_REQUEST['number']; in abc.php.

Answer 3

You can leave an empty action, and use the onSubmit event to load a javascript function that does whatever and redirects to the page according to the input value.

Html

<form .. action="" onsubmit="return abcByPhone(this);">

Javascript

function abcByPhone(form) {
 url = from.number.value;
 ...
}

EDIT: I actually didn't read the question properly. I thought you wanted to redirect to different pages according to the input. Using plain GET (like the others mentioned) is fine for this.