Putting Session Data In A VBScript - ASP / Active Server Pages

Colin Steadman

I'm trying to create a VBScript using ASP. However I'm having
problems getting data from session variables into the right places.
The example I have copied below works, however I need to replace
"data1" and "data2" with real data from a session variable.

However if I replace this:

Call OpenDoc("data1", "data2")

With this:

Call OpenDoc(<%=session("var1")%>, <%=session("var2")%>)

It breaks.
<html>
<head>
<script language=vbscript>
Sub button_onclick()
Call OpenDoc("data1", "data2")
End Sub

Sub OpenDoc(v1, v2)
msgbox v1
msgbox v2
End Sub
</script>
</head>
<body>
<input type=button name=button value="Click">
</body>
</html>

Any ideas?

TIA,

Colin

Jul 19 '05 #1

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Steven Burn

How about;

data1 = session("var1")
data2 = session("var2")

Call OpenDoc("data1", "data2")

or

data1 = Request.Form("var1")
data2 = Request.Form("var2")

Call OpenDoc("data1", "data2")
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Colin Steadman <go****@colinsteadman.com> wrote in message
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I'm trying to create a VBScript using ASP. However I'm having
problems getting data from session variables into the right places.
The example I have copied below works, however I need to replace
"data1" and "data2" with real data from a session variable.

However if I replace this:

Call OpenDoc("data1", "data2")

With this:

Call OpenDoc(<%=session("var1")%>, <%=session("var2")%>)

It breaks.
<html>
<head>
<script language=vbscript>
Sub button_onclick()
Call OpenDoc("data1", "data2")
End Sub

Sub OpenDoc(v1, v2)
msgbox v1
msgbox v2
End Sub
</script>
</head>
<body>
<input type=button name=button value="Click">
</body>
</html>

Any ideas?

TIA,

Colin

Jul 19 '05 #2

Ray at

What "breaks" about it? What shows up in a view-source, as this is a client
side routine you're calling. Are the argument you're passing in there? Are
they string values that need to be in quotes, but are instead being
interpreted as variables, perhaps?

Ray at work
"Colin Steadman" <go****@colinsteadman.com> wrote in message
news:40**************************@posting.google.c om...

I'm trying to create a VBScript using ASP. However I'm having
problems getting data from session variables into the right places.
The example I have copied below works, however I need to replace
"data1" and "data2" with real data from a session variable.

However if I replace this:

Call OpenDoc("data1", "data2")

With this:

Call OpenDoc(<%=session("var1")%>, <%=session("var2")%>)

It breaks.
<html>
<head>
<script language=vbscript>
Sub button_onclick()
Call OpenDoc("data1", "data2")
End Sub

Jul 19 '05 #3

Evertjan.

Colin Steadman wrote on 21 jan 2004 in
microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general:

However if I replace this:

Call OpenDoc("data1", "data2")

With this:

Call OpenDoc(<%=session("var1")%>, <%=session("var2")%>)

It breaks.

And it should.
You put strings without "" as parameters for a clientside function call

You will end up with nonsense like:

Call OpenDoc(this is not a string, because it is undelimited)

in stead of:

Call OpenDoc("this is a string", "delimited too")
Try this:

Call OpenDoc("<%=session("var1")%>", "<%=session("var2")%>")

Always view-source your asp output, if such things go wrong.

--
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

Jul 19 '05 #4

Colin Steadman

> And it should.

You put strings without "" as parameters for a clientside function call

You will end up with nonsense like:

Call OpenDoc(this is not a string, because it is undelimited)

in stead of:

Call OpenDoc("this is a string", "delimited too")
Try this:

Call OpenDoc("<%=session("var1")%>", "<%=session("var2")%>")

Always view-source your asp output, if such things go wrong.

Bingo!

That was exactly the problem. I made the change you suggested and its
now working as I had originally intended.

That said I've just discovered (by accident) that it worked the other
way too, but only if I passed it a number.
<html>
<head>
<script language=vbscript>
Sub button_onclick()
Call OpenDoc("<%=Session("var1")%>", "<%=Session("var2")%>")
End Sub

Sub OpenDoc(v1, v2)
msgbox v1
msgbox v2
End Sub
</script>
</head>
<body>
<input type=button name=button value="Click">
</body>
</html>
Thanks for tipping me off (+ other_contributors)!

Colin

Jul 19 '05 #5

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