Re: Passing INPUT field as parameter

From:

"Andrew Thompson" <andrewthommo@gmail.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.help

Date:

14 Jul 2006 12:07:14 -0700

Message-ID:

<1152904034.743072.62270@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com>

Monica wrote:

All suggestions are greatly appreciated!!!

I suggest you fix that sticky '!' key for starters. ;-)

Here's my problem. I have a search field that a user can enter
information into then click a search button. I need to be able to pass
whatever they enter into the field as a parameter to another page. The
link to the other page is working, but the text is not getting loaded
into the parameter. How can I go about doing this?

Here is a code snip:

<form name="form2" method="post"
action="searchresults.jsp?designer=<%=request.getParameter("designer")%>&category=<%=request.getParameter("category")%>&textfield=<%=request.getParameter("textfield")%>">

As far as I vaguely recall, if you want to get data included in a FORM,
and do not want it editable by the user, it is necessary to put each
parameter and value inside a hidden input field.

For further details, see...
<http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/interact/forms.html#hidden-control>
<http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/interact/forms.html#h-17.4>

HTH

Andrew T.