Peter J. Boettcher — Thu, 18 Apr 2002 21:44:04 +0000

There really is no difference between processing your form in the current asp page or passing the results to another, they're both asp pages.

It shouldn't throw an error if it is blank (make sure you put quotes around it, otherwise you might run into null/integer problems), if you're doing any validation on those vars just verify they're not blank before you start.

Feel free to post back with anymore questions, that's why we're here.

Angela French — Thu, 18 Apr 2002 16:29:59 +0000

I think Abhishek Reddy is right. I need to do my form validation on the same page as the form -- then I wouldn't have the need to redirect back. I'm new at ASP. This is only my 3rd application. The way I've done my validation, run stored procedures, etc., is to submit the form to a separate page that contains all the form processing code, then redirect back to the original form page.

So... How do i put it all in the same page? Any issues I need to be concered about? I guess I thought something like var=Request.Form("fieldname") would throw an error the first time the page is loaded since the form hasn't been filled in yet. Does it just ignore it untiil the form is submitted to the same page?

I will be working on this today. May I right back if I run into trouble?

Peter J. Boettcher — Thu, 18 Apr 2002 12:01:54 +0000

As Abhishek said, ASP is server side so it doesn't gve you control over client side stuff like windows. Sometimes when I have to do stuff like this I combine ASP into client-side javascript, for example:

<?php
Dim LoadPage

LoadPage = "findClient.asp?error=invalid"
?>

<?php
=LoadPage
?>

if (IsPage != "") {
window.open(IsPage)
}
</script>

Abhishek Reddy — Thu, 18 Apr 2002 11:40:49 +0000

Why not do whatever execution is done that results in the redirect command to be done in the popup itself?

Sorry my answer may be vague but I'm not sure of the details of your script.

Could you please post what the script does/how it works?

ASP is server-side. It can't control how the browser handles client-side stuff like new windows and so on. That's why it'd help to know some more details, to find somewhere to throw in the JS code that'll do what you need.