First of all: Hi. I'm new to this forum and I hope it will prove mutually beneficial.

Second, what I'm looking for is to have a search bar on my site. When the user enters a string and clicks the Search button, a new window/tab opens with that string in the "from" section of the Google Maps URL.

Example 1:
User enters "Trenton NJ", clicks Search.
New window/tab opens here.

Example 2:
User enters "Hartford CT", clicks Search.
New window/tab opens here.

From what little I know (and I know very little), this would require a PHP script of some kind. However, I don't know where to begin and my Google searches turn up nothing. Direction or help on this would be much appreciated.

Thanks for your time.

-TM

It would need scripting at the receiving end, your HTML form just needs appropriately named fields and to use method="get" to send the values in the request URI.

Thanks for the reply, chrishirst.

I really don't know where to start. Do you have any ideas for what the script would need to be or look like? I'm using Dreamweaver CS3, if that helps.

A form, two pre-populated hidden fields (f & daddr), a text box (saddr) and a button basically.

BUT
Using the Google Maps API would give you more options.