While using window.location the value entered in text box is not retained

sarega

Hi,

Here am trying to populate the page with new url, with the value that is being entered in the text box.
this is the php code called example.php

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<?

echo "<input type='text' name='text1' id='text1' />\n";

echo "<input type='button' name='button' onclick=\"return reload_page_with_value()\" />\n";

?>

the javascript code:

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function reload_page_with_value() {

        var value=document.GetElementById('text1').value;

        var url="example.php";

        url=url+"?value=+"value;

       window.location=url;

}

The problem here is, after the page is being reloaded with the value, the text entered in the textbox will not be available. Can somebody tell me the reason why this is happening and give the solution??

thanks

Dormilich

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Originally Posted by sarega

Can somebody tell me the reason why this is happening and give the solution??

getElementById() is written with a small "g", but why so complicated? just echo out the value in your server script using the default value attribute for <input> (<input ... value="default"/>). when you have a form, you don't need to reload the page with location.href, that's what the submit button is for (except for some special cases maybe).

sarega

I want that value to be used for further processing. So how do i retrieve the value of value??

Dormilich

Javascript processing or PHP processing?

sarega

I have to do php processing

Dormilich

submit the form. depending upon which submit button you use (you can have more than one submit type button in a form), the script can do different tasks with it.

sarega

Actually the form is not complete with this textbox, there are more checkboxes in the form. After that i have a submit button

Dormilich

that doesn't matter, if you name this submit button (not the final one), say, "refresh" you can test for this value in the script and print the page with all the currently submitted values (and maybe some according processing))
like:

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 if (isset($_POST['refresh']))

{

    // do some refreshing

    // compute some other stuff

}

sarega

I did not understand how to proceed?

sarega

Cant we use textbox and checkboxes for window.location property??

Dormilich

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Originally Posted by Mozilla Developer Center

Returns a Location object, which contains information about the URL of the document and provides methods for changing that URL. You can also assign to this property to load another URL.

window.location seems not the right place to me to handle form elements..... unless I've totally misunderstood you

Dormilich

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Originally Posted by sarega

I did not understand how to proceed?

you can have multiple submit buttons in a form, so you can assign in your script a different function/processing to each of the buttons. the buttons can be distinguished by their name attributes. so if you put one submit button named "process" (just for example) and another one "refresh", then you can write (there's always only one submit button's value sent):

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 // HTML

<form action="...php" method="post" ...>

<!-- your form elements go here -->

     <input type="submit" name="refresh" value="preview"/>

     <input type="submit" name="process" value="send"/>

</form>
 
// PHP

if (isset($_POST['refresh']))

{

    // preview and its processing code comes here

}

if (isset($_POST['process']))

{

     // final processing code comes here

}

form elements which were not filled are either not present in $_POST or have an empty value (which you can check for with empty())

sarega

There exists already another form which is pointing to another php file, in this case can i still use another form which points to a diff php file?

Dormilich

maybe a demonstrative html sample can clarify the matter for me.... I'm a bit lost now.

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