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Hello,
I am having a real hard time to understand query strings!!
Currently I pass data/variables from one page to the next using hidden inputs.
This works 100%, but I'm running into some trouble with it now. What I want to do
is send an email address field from page1 to page2, so that I can then use that variable(email)
in page2, in sql statement for example.
Can someone please give me some simple example code - I'm sure I'll then be
able to figure it out.
Thanks,
T
I'm not sure I understand completely...
You're trying to send an variable (that holds the email address) from one page to the next...
If you're using forms...
If you passed the data in a querystring (which I don't think you are in this case) you would reference the variable as:Code:'// In page 1
<form name="whatever" action="post" method="page2.asp">
<Input Type="text" name="emailaddress" size="50">
<Input Type="submit">
</form>
'// In page 2
<html>
<p>The email you entered was: <%=Request.Form("name")%></p>
</html>
Basically the difference is that if you pass things from a form (using POST) they are in the Request.Form collection and if you use GET (like a querystring) then they are in the Request.QueryString collection.Code:<html>
<p>The email you entered was: <%=Request.QueryString("name")%></p>
</html>
Hope this helps...
Maybe I didn't explain properly or what I want to do is NOT query string.
I basically want to achieve something like this forum for instance - look in the url - they send some info from one page to the next.
http://forums.vb-world.net/showthrea...threadid=59054
The email address which I want to send to the next page is not entered in a input box. I read this from my db. I suppose I now can put this email (which I just read from db) into a input/hidden input and the post it, but I am trying to learn some other stuff - "querystrings" , for now!!
Thanks,
T
Ok. Sorry, I didn't understand what you were trying to do.
To use querystrings just call the page you want and append the querystring to it...
Does that make sense? You basically add the key-value pairs to the url...Code:
<html>
<p>Clicking on this link will pass the email [email protected] to emailprocess.asp</p>
<a href="[email protected]">Click here</a>
</html>
somepage.asp?variable1=value1&variable2=value2&variable3=value3...
You can do this in your ASP pages by doing stuff like...
<a href="process.asp?<%=variable1%>=<%=value1%>">Click here</a>
(Where variable1 and value1 are variables)
The information you pass this way will then be in the Request.QueryString collection... which means that you to get the values you:
Hopefully that's more on target than last time...Code:
vEmail = Request.QueryString("email")
Thank you VERY much. I'm going to give it a try!!
T