Hey guys,
Is there anyway or passing a POST form variable to a new window? Tried googling for it but my googling skills suck...
Haven't played around with Javascript for a while, can it even be done?
Can't give a link because it's an internal site I'm working on.
calculator posted this at 21:16—25th November 2007.
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Hi Renegade,
You can use a server side script (PHP, ASP etc...) to retrieve data passed from a 'post' method.
On page 1:
<form action="page2.php" method="post"><p><label for="name">Name:</label><input type="text" name="name" id="name" /></p>
</form>
'
On page 2 before the Doctype:
<?phpif(isset($_POST['name'])){
$myFromVar = $_POST['name'];
}
?>
'
and wherever you want the data to appear on page 2:
<?php echo $myFromVar ; ?>'You should also check that the data that is passed is of the right format by 'cleaning' it. Ie. if you have a drop down menu called 'color' with only 3 values (blue, red, green), I would do something like:
<?phpif(isset($_POST['color'])){
switch($_POST['color']){
case 'blue':
case 'red':
case 'green:
$myColor = $_POST['color'];
break;
default:
exit('Error');
}
}
?>
'
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Renegade posted this at 01:54—26th November 2007.
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Oh yes, that's about what I did but, the new window is not picking up anything:
This is more or less what I have at the moment:
tools.php
<form action="javascript: fnOpenWin('redirect.php?action=connectionhistory');" method="post">username: <input type="text" name="username" /><br />
<input type="submit" value="search" />
</form>
'
js.js
function fnOpenWin(url) {window.open(url);
}
'
redirect.php
if($_GET['action'] == "connectionhistory") {$url = "http://www.example.com/tools.php?username=" . $_POST['username'];
}
'
Doing an echo of $url just gives me "http://www.example.com/tools.php?username=" so for some reason, the post variable is not being passed.
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pr0gr4mm3r posted this at 05:12—26th November 2007.
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If you already Googled it and didn't find any help, it may not be possible. The browser is probably not posting the information because you have a script in it's place, and not a web page.
Some alternatives:
Hey! It compiles! Ship it!
calculator posted this at 12:30—26th November 2007.
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Hi Renegade,
How about:
tools.php
<form action="redirect.php?action=connectionhistory" method="post" target="_blank">'
or xhtml strict compliant:
in the separate js.js file
window.onload = function() {if(document.getElementById('myform')){
var myform = document.getElementById("myform");
myform.target= "_blank";
}
}//end window.onload
'
and in tools.php
<form action="redirect.php?action=connectionhistory" method="post" id="myform">'You could also make the target ="_blank" a window.open with sizing capabilities quite easily by passing the href var to js if you need to.
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Renegade posted this at 18:11—26th November 2007.
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Oh cool, thanks for that Calculator, I solved it by using target="_blank" didn't even know you could do that with forms...
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calculator posted this at 20:13—26th November 2007.
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No worries, glad I could help