I managed to get my API lyrics code working. All I'm facing is a small problem: When a user enters a song name in a textbox and clicks the submit button, I catch the value via getElementById, and then how do I append it with the URL below?
Here's my code:
<?php
//Catches the value of the Submit button:
$submit = isset($_POST['submit']);
if($submit) {
?>
<script type="text/javascript">
var val1 = document.getElementById('val').value;
</script>
<?php
/* The below $res contains the URL where I wanna append the caught value.
Eg: http://webservices.lyrdb.com/lookup.php?q=Nothing Else Matters(Or
what the user searches for)&for=trackname&agent=agent
*/
$res = file_get_contents("http://webservices.lyrdb.com/lookup.php?q='+val1+' &for=trackname&agent=agent");
?>
<html>
<form method="post" action="">
Enter value: <input type="text" name="value" id="val" /><br/>
<input type="submit" value="Submit" name="submit" />
</form>
</html>
Could you please correct me as to where I'm making a mistake in this piece of code, highly appreciate all help in this forum! :)
As far as I understand your question, what you need to do is:
<?php
//Catches the value of the Submit button:
$submit = isset($_POST['submit']);
if($submit) {
$val1 = $_POST['val']; // TO store form passed value in "PHP" variable.
/* The below $res contains the URL where I wanna append the caught value.
Eg: http://webservices.lyrdb.com/lookup.php?q=Nothing Else Matters(Or
what the user searches for)&for=trackname&agent=agent
*/
$res = file_get_contents("http://webservices.lyrdb.com/lookup.php?q=' . urlencode($val1) . ' &for=trackname&agent=agent");
} // This is to end the "if" statement
?>
and then change the form input field to:
Enter value: <input type="text" name="val" id="val" /><br/>
I am not sure if POST accepts id values too!
Remove the javascript it's unnecessary. PHP runs at the server. Javascript at the client.
Then change your PHP code to this:
if(isset($_POST['value'])) {
$res = file_get_contents("http://webservices.lyrdb.com/lookup.php?q=". $_POST['value'] ." &for=trackname&agent=agent");
}