Published: Tuesday, April 13, 1999
Four Ways
to Send/Get Information
From one ASP Page to Another
By Joćo
Vieira
Passing variables from one page to another is an important task in ASP.
Correctly passing information among Active Server scripts was one of my biggest
problems when I started some more advanced web programming projects a couple of
years ago. What I will show in this article is ways to send a variable (it's name
and data) from one ASP/HTML page to another ASP page.
In my example, I will use two variables: name and phone.
At this first example we use the GET method,
this one will show all the information on the link address,
like
http://www.anything.com/getting.asp?name=namevalue&phone=phonevalue
FILE : SENDING.HTML
<form name="sending" method="GET" action="getting.asp"
target="_self">
</FONT><font
size="2">Name :</font><br>
<input name="name" size="22" >
<br>
<font size="2">Phone:</font><br>
<input name="phone" size="14" >
<br>
<input type="submit" value="Send" name="Send">
</form>
FILE : GETTING.ASP
<%
'the querystring gets the info that it is
'attached at the link address
gotname = Request.querystring("name")
gotphone = Request.querystring("phone")
%>
Here I use the POST method, the one I use most, its more
confidential and doesn't show the variable's content.
FILE : SENDING.HTML
<form name="sending" method="POST" action="getting.asp"
target="_self">
</FONT><font size="2">Name
:</font><br>
<input name="name" size="22"
>
<br>
<font
size="2">Phone:</font><br>
<input name="phone"
size="14" >
<br>
<input type="submit" value="Send"
name="Send">
</form>
FILE : GETTING.ASP
<%
'the request.form gets the info within the boxes of the form
actioned
'from the previous
HTML/ASP
gotname = Request.form("name")
gotphone = Request.form("phone")
%>
Here i use something like the first
example, the big difference is that you say wich variables to
send.
FILE : SENDING.ASP
<%
name2 = "The name I want"
'or name2 = recordsetobject("name"). Yes you
can get info from DB
phone2 = "1232131221"
%>
<a href="getting.asp?name=<%=name2%>&phone=<%=phone2%>"
target="_self" >
<img src="images/button_gotogetting.gif"
name="pic">
</a>
FILE : GETTING.ASP
<%
gotname = request.querystring("name")
gotphone = request.querystring("phone")
%>
In the above approach you make a button, or an image. The image is hyperlinked
so that the link contains the information you want to send.
The last example of passing data from one ASP page to another is through
using session variables. Session variables can be very useful, they are similar
to global variables.
While you're browsing between the pages the variable
exists; you don't have to explicitly pass it from one page to the next.
Of course, there are disadvantages to using Session Variables. There is a nice
article explaining the Pros & Cons of
Session Variables on 4Guys.
FILE : SENDING.ASP
<%
session("name") = "Myname"
session("phone") = "21121231"
%>
<a href="getting.asp" target="_self"
>
<img src="images/button_gotogetting.gif" name="pic">
</a>
FILE : GETTING.ASP
<%
gotname = session("name")
gotphone = session("phone")
%>
Those are the four ways with which you can pass data from one ASP page to another!
João Vieira BIO: (email me!)
- Age : 23
- Student And worker (tryin' to finish university, on the last year of the graduation)
- Workin' now at NetGate Portugal
- Programming little stuff since 1989
- Programming HTML since 1996
- Programming JavaScript since 1997, made some experiences with Java.
- Programming ASPs since the Summer of 1997 (yeap, I didn't had nothing to do.
Now I love it.)
- Programming ActiveX since 1998
- Webmaster of www.joaovieira.com
