Form Redirect - ASP Related

**kryptokid** · Mar 17, 2002 23:39

Hi, I have the following code (the part in red is what I want to do but don't know the code for):

<form method="post" action="http://mailgate.server-mail.com/cgi-bin/mailgate" name="helpform">

<input type="hidden" name="recipient" value="daniel.wahry@det.qld.gov.au">
<input type="hidden" name="subject" value="Help-Feedback Form">
<input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="http://www.moreton.tafe.net/thanks.asp?type=(Whatever value is selected in the E-mailSubject select box)">
<table width="100%">
<tr>
<td width="45%">E-mail Subject

/td>
<td width="55%">
<select name="E-MailSubject">
<option value="Error Report">Error Report</option>
<option value="Feedback">Feedback</option>
<option selected>Please Select...</option>
</select>
</td>
</tr>

As you can see I want to redirect to a specific page depending on what the user selects. I thought it would have been relatively easy, so I had this post in the Beginner's section but no-one could help me. Has anyone here got any suggestions?

Thanks
Daniel

**dhtmlgod** · Mar 18, 2002 04:57

You can run the select box values for a seris of If statments like so:
[vbs]
eMailSubject = requst.form("E-MailSubject")
If eMailSubject = "Error Report" then
response.redirect("ErrorReport.asp")
elseIf eMailSubject = "Feedback"
response.redirect("Feedback.asp")
else
response.write("Didn't select a subject!""
end if
[/vbs]

**shane** · Mar 18, 2002 08:42

I don't think D's method will work as it'll be the cgi script doing the redirect. I'm not sure how cgi does redirects but if it sends a redirect command to the client, rather than a server side redirect, then the thanks.asp page will have not access to the original form values.

If this is the case I can see 2 ways of doing this.

1) A bit of JavaScript that sets the redirect value before submitting the form. The thanks.asp page can use the querystring value as D suggested.

I've changed the name of the 'E-MailSubject' form element to EmailSubject. You'd also need to add an action for the onsubmit event for the form element, onsubmit="setRedirect();".

Code:

<script type="text/javascript">

function setRedirect() {
	
	var strUrl;
	var objRedirect = document.getElementById("redirect");
	var objBase = document.getElementById("redirect_base");
	var objEmail = document.getElementById("EmailSubject");
	
	if (objRedirect && objBase && objEmail) {		
		//Build the redirect url
		strUrl = objBase.value + "?type=" + escape(objEmail.value);
		//Set the new url
		objRedirect.value = strUrl;
	}
	
	return true;

}

</script>

2) Modify the cgi script to determine the page to be redirected to. I've got no experience with cgi so maybe someone else can help with this.

Edit:
Forgot to add that you'll need to add another hidden form field 'redirect_base' with the value set to the url of the ASP page that the cgi will redirect to.