Putting Javascript value into ASP 2

[Fendal]

Hi, All

Does anybody know how I can put and use the value of fname into my ASP code,

<script>
var fname="John Smith";
</script>

<%=fname%>

I would normally use,

Dim fname
fname="John Smith"

or even

document.write(fname);

in javascript, but on this occasion I need to get the variable from the javascript (if it can be done),

Thanks.

 

[Sheco]

You can write ASP in JavaScript instead of VBScript if you prefer.

I'm not really sure about your question... Are you asking about sending a value from the client browser script to the server? If so you can do that by submitting a form, using an HTML anchor with QueryString, or by using xmlhttp.

 

[Sheco]

Is there confusion here about when the script executes?

The ASP runs on the server, the output from the ASP is sent to the browser client. The browser then parses this output and runs any client-side code... by the time this happens the server-side code is done and finished.

Remember that your Active Server Page as the source script code for two separate software programs that run on two separate computers that talk to each other over HTTP... this is different from normal software development so its easy to lose sight of that.

 

[DotNetGnat]

ya just use the same thing...<%=fname%> inside the javascript....

-DNG

 

[Fendal]

Hi, Sheco

I'll explain it a little more, I am getting the javascript from another site (not mine, so I can't edit it), I'm using

<script src='[URL unfurl="true"]http://domain.com/j.asp?profiles=4327'></script>[/URL]

on the profiles page it contains plain javascript, things like,

var fname="a name";
CL="red";
Ht="6Ft2Inch";
Lo="UK"

I was hoping to put those variables into an asp code on the same page, or put them into form inputs to be sent to another page.

Thanks for your posts.

 

[Fendal]

I did try that DotNetGnat, maybe I should try it again, should that work?.

 

[Fendal]

oh, I see what you mean "inside the javascript", I can't edit the javascript.

 

[Sheco]

I'm think I'm confused.

Do you want an ASP running on Server #1 that fetches the text of a .js file from Server #2, makes slight alterations to that text, and then returns the altered text to the browser?

 

[Fendal]

Yeah thats it.

 

[Sheco]

If the .js file on Server #2 is static then can you just grab a copy of it and make your alterations to the copy? That would certainly make this a lot easier.

If the .js on the other server is dynamic then you'll need to grab a new copy each time.

 

[Fendal]

It's the latter, I think this is about to get very complex, I'll have to think of a better(easier) way.

Thanks, Sheco.

 

[Joulius]

What you need is to fetch the content of the j.asp page.
Something like this:

Dim sURL, oXML, sContent
sURL = "[URL unfurl="true"]http://domain.com/j.asp?profiles=4327"[/URL] 
Set oXML = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
oXML.Open "GET", sURL, False
oXML.Send 
sContent = oXML.responseText
'sContent is the content of the page fetched
'Now you should parse and extract the information needed from it
Set oXML = Nothing

I hope this helps!

 

[Fendal]

Thanks, Joulius, I'll look into that.

 

[Fendal]

That works great, thanks Joulius, one additional question though, when the content is returned some obscure/rare characters like " ¡ " display as question marks, is there away to fix that.?

Thanks.

 

[Joulius]

Could you post your code and the content retrieved here?