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#3 01-29-2001, 08:30 PM

this is a fairly easy hack, but as was mentioned above, it will be a pain for users who spell the forum name incorrectly...

however, this is how it could be done:

first, alter your forumjump template to look like this:

Code:

<form action="forumjump.php" method="get">
<input type="text" size="10" name="forumtitle" title="Enter the name of the forum you want to visit here">
<input type="submit" value="Go">
</form>

next, create a new file called forumjump.php and put this text into it:

Code:

<?
include "global.php";
$goto = $DB_site->query_first("SELECT forumid FROM forum WHERE title=\"$forumtitle\"");
if ("" != $goto[forumid])
	header ("Location: forumdisplay.php?forumid=$goto[forumid]");
else
	header ("Location: $HTTP_REFERER");
?>

The escaped quotes in the SQL query will prevent malicious users from doing nasty things to your database by adding code into the textbox.

If the query finds no results (ie: the user has spelled the forum title wrongly, or the forum does not exist), the script will return them to page they were previously on.

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