[vbsaltydog]

I have a drop down list form that I would like to include in a website that simply shows categories in a drop down list using option tags. My current form processing script works however, it requires the target URL in the "value" field and I cannot have this in there for SEO reasons (keyword density and placement) so my question is ....can anyone help me with a form processor that can process a drop down list of target pages on the same domain while masquerading the target url?

Thanks to all for your help

[Drunken Perl Coder]

If the URL is always the same you can hard code the URL in the pel script and leave it out of the drop down menu in the form.

[vbsaltydog]

The url is not always the same.

[Drunken Perl Coder]

post an example of the drop down menu form code.

[vbsaltydog]

Code:

<form action="http://www.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/selector.cgi" method="GET"><select name="URL" onChange=form.submit()><option VALUE="none">Select a Category</option><option value="http://www.mydomain.com/cat/abec_wheels.html">Abec  Wheels</option>

[Drunken Perl Coder]

looking back at your original question:

can anyone help me with a form processor that can process a drop down list of target pages on the same domain while masquerading the target url?

You could maybe put the domain in a hidden form field:

Code:

<input type ="hidden" name="domain" value="http://www.mydomain.com">

then when the script gets the form data it can concatenate the fields to form the URL:

Code:

my $URL = param('URL');
my $domain = param('domain');
my $domain .= $URL;

or maybe I don't understand your question.

[vbsaltydog]

The last part of the url

Code:

abec_wheels.html

from my example code in my previous post is the part that messes up my SEO so if I were to concatenate wouldnt I still need the final section of the url in the form field?

[Drunken Perl Coder]

Yes, you would still need it. Maybe the answer lies in a pure javascript solution since the problem is in the html code. Maybe ask in the javascript forum.

[vbsaltydog]

Thank you for your help on this.