Use relative path when redirect

I'm using redirect method for confirmation with query strings. Since I didn't want the "?" in the url, I use an absolute url like this:

http://www.domain.com/{department:1:value}.html

It works nicely. But now i'm have multiple languages for my site, so the url for different languages will change to http://www.domain.com/zh-hans/{department:1:value}.html or http://www.domain.com/es/{department:1:value}.html. In this case, I need to use a relative url.

When I only use {department:1:value}.html in the redirect box, the result will add a ":/" before it. Then the link will become http://www.domain.com/:/actual-value.html.

How do I get rid of the ":/" ? or is there another work-around?

Hi David, I'm using WPML for translations.

Any workaround?

Thanks!

Hi Chris,

Thanks for the tips. The first option sounds great. I'm not really a code person, can you shed some light on how to use the filter.

Sorry for the late reply.

The idea is to use the form to perform a simple search function.

For example, I have already created pages and the permalinks are like this:

domain.com/chest-pain-clinic-doctors.html
domain.com/general-cardiology-doctors.html

So, in the form, I have created a dropdown field, admin label is "department", with choices like "Chest pain clinic doctors", and set value as "chest-pain-clinic-doctors", in the confirmation setting, I set the redirection to:
http://domain.com/{department:1:value}.html
when it's selected and click on the submit button, the page redirects to domain.com/chest-pain-clinic-doctors.html, it works perfectly.

My problem is, I have the same pages for multiple languages, take Spanish for example, the aforementioned urls will become:

domain.com/es/chest-pain-clinic-doctors.html
domain.com/es/general-cardiology-doctors.html

For Chinese, they will become:

domain.com/zh-hans/chest-pain-clinic-doctors.html
domain.com/zh-hans/general-cardiology-doctors.html

So of course, absolute url like this http://domain.com/{department:1:value}.html won't work.

Is this information enough?

Best regards,

First of all, I'm using the very same form for all languages, translated with WPML. Let's say my form is on home page, it will be:

English:
domain.com
Spanish:
domain.com/es/
Chinese:
domain.com/zh-hans/

Which means the language slug is already included in the url.

Since I'm using the same form for all languages, the form can not determine what language currently it's using. And I can only set one confirmation redirect.

Relative redirects would be very nice. My situation is not as unique. I develop websites on a development server (with a different domain than the final location). If I hard code the domain, I have to remember to change each redirect location every time I push a code update to the live server. It would be MUCH easier if I was allowed to enter '/redirect-location' instead of 'http://example.com/redirect-location'.

Please consider adding this feature.