Assiging a Session Variable in a HREF tag

[mdr2271]

I am trying to assign a session variable when someone clicks on a hyperlink. A querystring assignment won't work for what I need so am trying to figure out how to get a session variable assigned on when someone clicks on a hyperlink.

 

[DotNetGnat]

you mean something like this

session("blah")=somevalue

and url should look...

http://myserver/mypage.asp?myvalue="&session("blah")

then you can access myvalue on that page...

-DNG

 

[Sheco]

Clicking is a client-side activity.

...Of course clicking a link will cause the browser client to request a file from the web server.

Now if the request file is a script then it could certainly take some server-side action like setting a session variable...

 

[DotNetGnat]

yes Sheco is correct...try something like this:

<a href= "#" ONCLICK = 'ViewDetail("<%=session("blah")%>")'>Click Here</font></a>

<script language="VBscript">
Sub ViewDetail(myval)
Window.Location= "mypage.asp?myval="&myval
End Sub
</script>

then you can access myval on mypage.asp using request.querystring("myval")

-DNG

 

[Bullschmidt]

I am trying to assign a session variable when someone clicks on a hyperlink. A querystring assignment won't work for what I need so am trying to figure out how to get a session variable assigned on when someone clicks on a hyperlink.

Well lots of things like search engines and banner ads have a tabulator page that they go to with info about the ultimate URL location contained in the querystring:

http://www.mysite.com/tabulator.asp?URL=www.theultimatesite.com/somepage.htm

Best regards,
J. Paul Schmidt, Freelance Web and Database Developer

http://www.Bullschmidt.com

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