Quick Question, IF Else....

**kade119** · Oct 14th, 2009, 12:11 PM

hi guys, below is the script, currently this script allows person to input their age and if they input 0 -> 17 goes to one URL and all other go to another URL, well I need to add 40+ to go to a different URL then those other 2, so 20->39 will go to one URL and then 40+ will go to antoher URL, check the script.. can someone help me real quick with this?

thanksssss

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<!-- saved from url=(0051)http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~gina/lbsc690/select.html -->
<!-- saved from url=(0041)http://glue.umd.edu/~oard/690/select.html -->
<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Anytown Public Library Search Tool Selector</TITLE>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<META content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0" name=GENERATOR>

<SCRIPT language=JavaScript>
<!--

// This JavaScript Program sends users to a search engine or directory that
// is appropriate to their age.
// Original: 10/6/99 D. W. Oard
// modified: 9/26/2003, Daqing He
// modified: 2/26/2008, Yejun Wu

//jump_to_url is the caller or driver, which calls the other functions, such as is_valid, is_adult, adult_jump, child_jump
function jump_to_url() {
  var age = document.age.box.value;
  if (is_valid(age)){
    if (is_adult(age)){
      adult_jump();
    }else{
      child_jump();
    }
  }else{
    window.alert("Invalid age " + age);
  }
}

// Some handy functions that simplify the code

function is_adult(age){
    if (age>17){
      return true;
    }else{
      return false;
    }
}

//prevent invalid input from "evil" users
function is_valid(age) {
  if (age > 0 && age < 120){
    return true;
  }else{
    return false;
  }
}

// The main redirection functions
// selection[0] is the content of 1st radio button, selection[1] is the content of 2nd radio button

function adult_jump() {
  if (document.tool.selection[0].checked==true){ 
    window.location = "http://altavista.com";
  }else{
    if (document.tool.selection[1].checked==true){
      window.location = "http://dmoz.org";
    }else{
      window.alert("You must select a search tool!");
    }
  }
}

function child_jump() {
  if (document.tool.selection[0].checked==true){ 
    window.location = "http://www.askforkids.com/";
  }else{
    if (document.tool.selection[1].checked==true){
      window.location = "http://kids.yahoo.com";
    }else{
      window.alert("Dear kid, please click a round radio button!");
    }
  }
}

//-->
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>

<BODY>

<H1>Anytown Public Library Search Tool Selector</H1>

<!--every form has a name-->
<FORM name=age><B>Please enter your age</B> <INPUT size=10 value=" " name=box> 
</FORM><B>Select a Search Tool:</B> 

<!--name of form is "tool", the type of input is a radio button, button name is selection-->
<FORM name=tool>
<INPUT type=radio name=selection> Web Search Engine <BR>
<INPUT type=radio name=selection> Web Directory 
</FORM>

<!--associate onclick to function jump_to_url() -->
<FORM name=Search>
<INPUT onclick=jump_to_url() type=button size=10 value=Go! name="go button">
</FORM>

<HR>


  </ADDRESS>
  <ADDRESS>&nbsp;</ADDRESS>

<SCRIPT language=JavaScript>
<!--

var updated = document.lastModified
document.write("Last modified: "+ updated)

//-->
</SCRIPT>

</BODY></HTML>

**Web Design Forums** · Oct 14th, 2009 12:11 PM

**paintingtheweb** · Nov 04th, 2009, 02:08 PM

you could use a switch statement instead. Something like this:

Code:

var age = document.age.box.value;
switch(true){
  case(age <= 17):
    child_jump();
  case(age >= 18 && age <= 39):
    adult_jump();
  case(age >= 40):
    older_jump();
}

It's not tested but I think it should work.

**shoffman3572** · Nov 12th, 2009, 10:27 AM

Here's how I would do it - probably not the best way since I'll admit I'm no genius web programmer... Your description of the problem also doesn't cover the ages between 17 and 20? so this code does...

The html part:

<form name="mainForm" method="post" onSubmit="return formCheck()">
Please enter your age: <INPUT size="10" value=" " maxlength="3" name="age"><p>

please make a selection:<br />
<INPUT type="radio" name=selection> Web Search Engine <BR>
<INPUT type="radio" name=selection> Web Director<p>

<input name="" type="submit">
</form>

Then the javascript:

function formCheck() {

var age = document.mainForm.age.value;
if (document.tool.selection[0].checked==false && document.tool.selection[1].checked==false)
{
alert ("Please select a search tool!"); return false;
}
if (age > 0 && age < 120)
{
if ((age >0 && age <18) && document.tool.selection[0].checked=true) {
window.location = "http://www.askforkids.com/"; }
if ((age >0 && age <18) && document.tool.selection[1].checked=true) {
window.location = "http://kids.yahoo.com"; }
if ((age >17 && age <40) && document.tool.selection[0].checked=true) {
window.location = "http://altavista.com"; }
if ((age >17 && age <40) && document.tool.selection[1].checked=true) {
window.location = "http://dmoz.org"; }
if (age >40 && document.tool.selection[0].checked=true) {
window.location = "<over 40 url for selection 0>"; }
if (age >40 && document.tool.selection[1].checked=true) {
window.location = "<over 40 url for selection 1"; }
}
else
{
alert ("Please enter a valid age!");
return false;
}
}

hope that works for you...

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