passing data from links

[jarremw]

hello all, i am making a blog engine for myself and i am wondering how to get the correct data when a link is clicked, example being, i have mysqldatareader returning all exceprts of my post, what i want is when the user clicks on the title of the post, the whole article will be displayed when the next page is displayed, how would i go about doing this? ive read somewhat on the onlinkclick event, but im not sure if it is what i need, i am using asp.net that came with the visual studio 2005 and im coding in vb, thanks for all the help in advance

[deric]

Wouldn't be good if you just retrieve the article again during the loading of the next page?

If not, try to set the article into a hidden field of your first page's form, and then on the next page, call a Request.Form to that hidden field to get its value and display on that page. I'm not sure, though, if hidden field can hold large value (like, very long article). If you follow this suggestion, you don't need the onclick event... just set the article to the hidden field after you've got the data from your mysqldatareader.

<input type="hidden" name="myHiddenField" value="<% the data from your mysqldatareader %>">