How to pass info from form field?

[alpherjo]

I have a page with a simple data capture form. I'm trying to figure out the best way to pass the information put in one of the fields so that the user-inputted data is put in the same field on the next page.

Can anyone help me out with this? Any insight would be great.
Thanks!

[Jon Hanlon]

You either use a cookie, or the search part of the URL, or asp/cgi.

[alpherjo]

Could you explain that a little more?

Also, the site doesn't support asp or php (wish it did), so I am just using the basic FormMail script like found at "Matt's Scripts".

So what I have is one page where someone puts in their info (name, email) in a textarea. After they hit submit, they are taken to another page where they can add some other info. However, if they add info, I also need their name and email to go with it. Instead of them having to add it again, I would like for it to just show up in those 2 field areas.

But I'm not sure how to do this using this type of form. I also heard I could maybe use javascript to accomplish this.

ANY help would be great!
Thanks!

[screamer]

use this script in your next page to process data in your URL say
http://www.yourdomain.com/home.html?field1=data1&field2=data2

where field1 is your original page fieldname
and data1 is your original page data

obviously u need a <form method ="get" action="yournextURL.html"> in your original HTML


this script will parse the data in the resulting URT
and u call the data using FORM_DATA["field1"]

<script language="JavaScript">

function createRequestObject() {

FORM_DATA = new Object();
// The Object ("Array") where our data will be stored.

separator = ',';
// The token used to separate data from multi-select inputs

query = '' + this.location;
// Get the current URL so we can parse out the data.
// Adding a null-string '' forces an implicit type cast
// from property to string, for NS2 compatibility.

query = query.substring((query.indexOf('?')) + 1);

// Keep everything after the question mark '?'.

if (query.length < 1) { return false; } // Perhaps we got some bad data?

keypairs = new Object();
numKP = 1;
// Local vars used to store and keep track of name/value pairs
// as we parse them back into a usable form.

while (query.indexOf('&') > -1) {
keypairs[numKP] = query.substring(0,query.indexOf('&'));
query = query.substring((query.indexOf('&')) + 1);
numKP++;
// Split the query string at each '&', storing the left-hand side
// of the split in a new keypairs[] holder, and chopping the query
// so that it gets the value of the right-hand string.
}

keypairs[numKP] = query;
// Store what's left in the query string as the final keypairs[] data.


for (i in keypairs) {
keyName = keypairs[i].substring(0,keypairs[i].indexOf('='));
// Left of '=' is name.

keyValue = keypairs[i].substring((keypairs[i].indexOf('=')) + 1);
// Right of '=' is value.

while (keyValue.indexOf('+') > -1) {
keyValue = keyValue.substring(0,keyValue.indexOf('+')) + ' ' + keyValue.substring(keyValue.indexOf('+') + 1);
// Replace each '+' in data string with a space.
}

keyValue = unescape(keyValue);
// Unescape non-alphanumerics

if (FORM_DATA[keyName]) {
FORM_DATA[keyName] = FORM_DATA[keyName] + separator + keyValue;
// Object already exists, it is probably a multi-select input,
// and we need to generate a separator-delimited string
// by appending to what we already have stored.
} else {
FORM_DATA[keyName] = keyValue;
// Normal case: name gets value.


}
}


return FORM_DATA;

}

FORM_DATA = createRequestObject();
// This is the array/object containing the GET data.
// Retrieve information with 'FORM_DATA [ key ] = value'.


// -->


</script>