HTML/ASP variables from querystring to SUBMIT

[daverobev]

Ugh. Bit of a simple one, I thought, but apparently not.

I'm kicking off with a link in an email with a variable reference number (?urn=xxx for example - the URN is generated in the original email program which works fine).

Clicking that takes you to a "Please give us your feedback!" webpage with a couple of questions. Submit that, and the values in the form and the reference number is written via a submit script to a text file.

I can get the form data to submit, but NOT my reference number (which I'm getting using

<%
urnval=request.querystring("urn")

response.write(urnval) for debugging to show I'm getting the value!
%>
)

then submit using a standard form, but I need the line

<input type="hidden" name="urnval" value=urnval>

but of course that writes the string "urnval" in my text file!

How in hell do I submit the VALUE of the variable urnval, rather than the text?

Preferably with ASP or javascript - if it's not possible I have someone here who is a PERL/PHP guy and can do it all very simply, but it'd be nice to know...

[killgORE]

does the "response.write(urnval)" print out the correct value ?

I am off learning a little ASP.. sometimes a fools perspective can be useful !

[killgORE]

because if that is the case..

you SHOULD be able to do this...

<input type="hidden" name="<%=urnval%>" value=urnval>

but note... I have never written any ASP before.

[malfunction]

You've set the value of the form element "urnval" to the value urnval in that bit of HTML there - i.e. a string constant - and not a variable in the ASP script. What you need to do (as KillgORE is trying to point out) is put the value of the variable from the e-mail link into the HTML page. The correct ASP would be:

<input type="hidden name="urnval" value="<%= urnval%>"/>

Or if you don't want / need to declare it as a variable in the ASP just use:

<input type="hidden name="urnval" value="<%= Request.QueryString("urnval")%>"/>

[killgORE]

LOL... crap.. Can't believe I put the variable there !!! d'ho... Should have re-read that.

[malfunction]

LOL... crap.. Can't believe I put the variable there !!! d'ho... Should have re-read that.

Yep - you got the ASP right but the HTML sucks

[killgORE]

I er... was rushing there to learn the ASP.. and erm.. my mate is supposed to have arrived for flat hunting. And erm ... is that the time ?

[edit]

how about these tutorials... They taught me everything I know about ASP...

here

[daverobev]

Cheers guys, works nicely! I think I did have the code right before, but there's a lag with updating to our server, so there's me testing it and nothing happens differently - I only figured it out when I set the field to being "text" rather than "hidden" and it didn't happen! Seems to cache...grr!!

Ho hum!