Pass on values from drop-down box

nazgulero

Hello all,
I wonder if anybody can give me a hint about what I have to do to get
this working: I am creating a drop down box using the script below. The

result is two text fields; now I want to pass those values, which come
from the drop down box, to the next page. The next page should then
simply look like this:
Month:
Year:
And the values should be the ones from the drop-down box...
I have been staring myself blind about how to get this accomplished.
Would be more than grateful if somebody could have a look...here is
what I got so far:
<script language="JavaS cript"></script>
Incident Level <br>
<form name="formName1 ">
<select name="selectNam e1" onChange="setFo rm2Value()">
<option>Make A Selection:
<option value="2000">Ja nuary
<option value="2001">Fe bruary
<option value="2002">Ma rch
</select>
</form>

<p>
<form name="formName2 " method="POST" action="step2.h tm">
<input type="text" name="textboxNa me1" value="" size="20"> Euro
<input type="text" name="textboxNa me2" value="" size="6">
<input type="submit" VALUE="Next" class=button>
</FORM>
This creates the drop down list, and when a selection is made, two
textboxes at the bottom are filled. When I hit the ´Next´ button,
that takes me to the new page. So far, so good. The problem is: how do
I get the values from those two textboxes to two new text fields on the

new page ? I have been staring at this for the last two days, and tried

about everything I could find in sample codes, but I must be doing
something wrong, because the values do not appear on the new page. Can
anybody provide me with a hint, or better yet, some sample code ?
Thanks a bunch in advance !
Naz

Nov 25 '05 #1

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Dag Sunde

"nazgulero" <ge**********@w anadoo.nl> wrote in message
news:11******** **************@ g49g2000cwa.goo glegroups.com.. .

Hello all,
I wonder if anybody can give me a hint about what I have to do to get
this working: I am creating a drop down box using the script below. The

result is two text fields; now I want to pass those values, which come
from the drop down box, to the next page. The next page should then
simply look like this:
<snipped />
<form name="formName2 " method="POST" action="step2.h tm">
<input type="text" name="textboxNa me1" value="" size="20"> Euro
<input type="text" name="textboxNa me2" value="" size="6">
<input type="submit" VALUE="Next" class=button>
</FORM>

This creates the drop down list, and when a selection is made, two
textboxes at the bottom are filled. When I hit the ´Next´ button,
that takes me to the new page. So far, so good. The problem is: how do
I get the values from those two textboxes to two new text fields on the
new page ? I have been staring at this for the last two days, and tried

You need server-side code to do that...

You post your two textboxes to the next page, so all is well so far.
But the next page is a .htm file (step2.htm", with no ability to run
serverside script to extract the data you posted.

As an example (using ASP on the server):

* Replace "step2.htm" with step2.asp, and put this in the .asp file:
<%@LANGUAGE="VB SCRIPT"%>
<%
Dim monthValue
monthValue = Request.Form("t extboxName1")

Dim yearValue
yearValue = Request.Form("t extboxName2")
%>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dt d">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Page Title</title>
</head>

<body>
<p>Month: <%=monthValue%> </p>
<p>Year: <%=yearValue% ></p>
</body>
</html>

--
Dag.

Nov 25 '05 #2

Georg Pauwen

Hello Dag,

great, thanks for your quick help. I´ll give that a try and let you know
!

Regards,

Naz
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Nov 25 '05 #3

RobG

nazgulero wrote:

Hello all,
I wonder if anybody can give me a hint about what I have to do to get
this working: I am creating a drop down box using the script below. The

The following example may help:



<html>
<title>Play</title>

<form action="page2.h tml">
<select name="month">
<option>January </option>
<option>Februar y</option>
<option>March </option>
</select>
<select name="year">
<option>2005</option>
<option>2006</option>
<option>2007</option>
</select>
<input type="submit">
<form>
</html>


<html> <title>page 2</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
function getMonthYear(){
var s = window.location .search.replace (/^\?/,'').split('&') ;
for (var i=0, len=s.length; i<len; ++i){
var x = s[i].split('=');
document.getEle mentById(x[0]).innerHTML = x[1];
}
}
</script>
<body onload="getMont hYear();">

<span id="month"></span> <spa n id="year"></span>
</body></html>

--
Rob

Nov 25 '05 #4

Georg Pauwen

Hello Rob,

thanks a bunch for your help. The problem seems to be that the script I
am using creates two text boxes, filled with values form the drop down
box. Now I need to get those two values to two separate text boxes on
the next page. Also, the values need to appear not next to each other,
but in two different lines...
I will try to tweak your script and see if I somehow get it working.
Thanks again for your response.

Regards,

Naz

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Nov 25 '05 #5

Georg Pauwen

Hello Dag,

sorry to bother you again. I have tried your script, but still nothing
is being sent. Here is the code I am using:

On page 1:
<script language="JavaS cript"></script>
Incident Level <br>
<form name="formName1 ">
<select name="selectNam e1" onChange="setFo rm2Value()">
<option>Make A Selection:
<option value="January" >2004
<option value="February ">2006
<option value="March">2 005
</select>
</form>

<p>

<form name="formName2 " action="page2.a sp">
<input type="text" name="textboxNa me1" value="" size="20">
<input type="text" name="textboxNa me2" value="" size="6"><br><b r>
<input type="submit" value="Continue ">
</form>

And on page 2:
<%@LANGUAGE="VB SCRIPT"%>
<%
Dim monthValue
monthValue = Request.Form("t extboxName1")

Dim yearValue
yearValue = Request.Form("t extboxName2")
%>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
<html xmlns="page1.ht m">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Page title</title>
</head>

<body>
<p>Month: <%=monthValue%> </p>
<p>Year: <%=yearValue% ></p>
</body>
</html>

I can see both the ´Month´ and ´Year´ fields on the new page, page2.asp,
but nothing gets passed on from the previous page...
I am at a loss, been looking at this for too long probably...do you see
anything wrong with this code ?

Thanks again for your help.

Regards,

Naz
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Nov 25 '05 #6

Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn

Georg Pauwen wrote:

Hello Dag,
Instead of strangely addressing _one_ individual in a public medium
where _everybody_ may read and post (otherwise you should use private
e-mail), you should quote what you are referring to, trim quotes and
provide attribution of quoted material, as described in
<URL:http://jibbering.com/faq/faq_notes/pots1.html>.
<script language="JavaS cript"></script> ^^^^^
See above.
Incident Level <br>
If you have a heading, use an `hX' (X := 1..6) element.
<form name="formName1 ">
<select name="selectNam e1" onChange="setFo rm2Value()">
<option>Make A Selection:
The `option' element's close tag should be used.
<option value="January" >2004
<option value="February ">2006
<option value="March">2 005
</select>
</form>

<p>

<form name="formName2 " action="page2.a sp">
<input type="text" name="textboxNa me1" value="" size="20">
<input type="text" name="textboxNa me2" value="" size="6"><br><b r>
type="text" is the default here, it can be safely omitted. Do not use
`br' for margins, use block-elements like `div' being formatted via CSS.
<input type="submit" value="Continue ">
</form>

And on page 2:
<%@LANGUAGE="VB SCRIPT"%>
<%
Dim monthValue
monthValue = Request.Form("t extboxName1")

Dim yearValue
yearValue = Request.Form("t extboxName2")
%>
That could also be

<%@LANGUAGE = JScript %>
<%
var monthValue = Request.Form("t extboxName1");
var yearValue = Request.Form("t extboxName2");
%>

However, Request.Form() retrieves POST data. You are using GET (default for
the `form' element is method="GET"). Either you switch to method="POST" in
your markup or switch to Request.QuerySt ring() in your server-side script
code.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
<html xmlns="page1.ht m">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1" />
See the W3C Validator again, and <URL:http://hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml>
<title>Page title</title>
</head>

<body>
<p>Month: <%=monthValue%> </p>
<p>Year: <%=yearValue% ></p>
</body>
</html>

I can see both the ?Month? and ?Year? fields on the new page, page2.asp,
but nothing gets passed on from the previous page...
I am at a loss, been looking at this for too long probably...do you see
anything wrong with this code ?

Plenty.
HTH

PointedEars

Nov 25 '05 #7

Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn

Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:

Georg Pauwen wrote:
function setForm2Value() {

function setForm2Value(f )
{
var selectedItem =
document.formNa me1.selectName1 .selectedIndex;
var selectedItemVal ue =
document.formNa me1.selectName1 .options[selectedItem].value;
var selectedItemTex t =
document.formNa me1.selectName1 .options[selectedItem].text;

Inefficient, error-prone and hard to maintain (what if the form name
changes?). Instead use:

if (f && f.elements)
{
[...]
<form name="formName1 ">
<select name="selectNam e1" onChange="setFo rm2Value()">

Of course this line then has to be changed to

<select name="selectNam e1" onChange="setFo rm2Value(this.f orm)">

as well. Which is why it is prudent to use

function setForm2Value(o )
{
if (o)
{
var f = o.form;

if (f && f.elements)
// inferring feature test for formName2 later -- comments?
{
// o is already properly defined
var selectedItem = o.options[o.selectedIndex];
// ...
}
}
}

<select name="selectNam e1" onChange="setFo rm2Value(this)" >
...
</select>

instead.
PointedEars

Nov 25 '05 #8

Dag Sunde

"Georg Pauwen" <ge**********@w anadoo.nl> wrote in message
news:0Q******** *****@news.uswe st.net...

Hello Dag,

sorry to bother you again. I have tried your script, but still nothing
is being sent. Here is the code I am using:

On page 1:
<snipped />

<form name="formName2 " action="page2.a sp">
<input type="text" name="textboxNa me1" value="" size="20">
<input type="text" name="textboxNa me2" value="" size="6"><br><b r>
<input type="submit" value="Continue ">
</form>

Add the "method=" attribute to the form element, and set it to POST:

<form name="formName2 " action="page2.a sp" method="POST">

--
Dag.

Nov 25 '05 #9

Georg Pauwen

Hello,

thanks everybody for the continued support. To be honest, most of the
replies are way over my head, I actually thought that it was much easier
to just pass the two values in the text box on to the next page. My
server apparently does not support ASP, so I have to use HTML or JAVA
scripting.
I think what I am looking for is more a beginner´s forum, where people
are not expected to know all the intricacies of scripting, and where, it
seems to me, and that is because I am not an experienced user, things
get ever more complicated.
So, I apologize for taking up people´s time, I think this forum is more
for real developers and people that have been working with scripting for
a long time, rather than for beginners...

So, thanks again for the support, and I apologize for inappropriately
posting here.

Regards,

Naz

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