Add searched URL address to your webpage

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The discussion centers around a user, an Electrical Engineering major, seeking assistance in creating a personal webpage to store and retrieve favorite URLs from any computer. The user wants to develop a solution using HTML and potentially JavaScript, as they are familiar with these languages but have limited knowledge of Perl. They aim to save the current page's URL directly to their webpage, circumventing the limitations of Internet Explorer's Favorites, which are not accessible from different PCs. Participants in the discussion suggest considering web hosting options, the ability to use scripts, and tools available for creating and editing websites, including PHP and various editors. The conversation emphasizes the need for a web host that supports scripting to implement the desired functionality effectively.
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Hi,

I am an EE major, and my knowledge of CS is limited. So, I need some help from you.

Purpose:
When I search and find some good pages from online, I add them to my Favorites (part of Internet Explorer) from my PC. If I use any other PC, at work for example, I couldn't remember the addresses I saved to my PC's Favorites.

Therefore, I am thinking of writing a code, like HTML or Javascript, for my webpage with search engine so that any time I find a good site, I can save that location (URL address) and write it to my page as my OWN favorite directly. I would go to online and retrieve them out from my webpage on any other PC than my own PC.

Any help will be appreciated. Thanks


Mike P
 
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So you're trying to write a page that accepts text (URLs) and adds them, in parsed form, to a page. Right?

Do you know HTML and some scripting language like Perl?
 
Yes, kind of. I want to save the current page's URL to a page, so that next time I can retrieve this site via my web from any PC. If I save it to the Internet Explorer Favorites, I only find it on the same PC.

I know HTML pretty good, and some other languages, such as Visual Basic, C++, and a litle of javascript. Honestly, I don't know anything about Perl.

Thanks for your help!
Mike Phan
 
Do you have a web host? How will you put the site online?

Here's a thought -- you could get a Google page and just paste in links as needed.
 
Does your host let you use scripts? Do you have a cgi-bin directory?
 
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