ASP Form Action Question

Im having a little trouble doing some ASP form coding.

First off.

What im trying to do is
1st ASP Page:
Is a search page where someone can enter in a customer id or lastname

2nd ASP Page:
is a processing page
where it checks whether was entered is correct and if not will be redirected to another page

3rd ASP Page:
If the input was correct and has passed the processing asp page it will lead to here which is the selected page
which is the result of the search in the database from the first asp page

the trouble im having is...

I need to retrieve the input from the 1st ASP page to be used on the 3rd ASP page
but i cant because the 1st ASP page FORM ACTION is directed to the 2nd ASP Page.

Googling it up... I have read that a FORM can only perform ONE action.
Is there a way for my 3rd ASP page to gain access to what was in the input on the 1st ASP page?

Thanks

Rev

 

Yes definitely there is a way to do this.
Make use of session variables.

you can store that value in session variable on 2nd page.
ie. Session("lastname") = Request("lastname")

and now on the 3rd page you can access that session variable.
ie. lastname = session("lastname")

Hope this helps...

 

hey cool thanks
But it gives me an error saying that the data i input was not an int
how do i go about surpassing this error?

 

The more common way to do this type of thing would be to append it to the redirection and then use request.querystring on the next page to gather the information.

That said though, why are you using 4 pages (input, validation, results, error)? Why doesnt the results page do the validation and pass to error if there is a problem?

 

Show us your current code...

 

Well, just as asta.... said,

Something like the below;

First page -> sends the data you wants to use - <Form>....</Form>
Second page -> recieves the data - data=Request.QueryForm("data")
Second page ->Response.Redirect "third_page.asp?data="&data
Third page -> Recieves the data - Request.Querystring("data")

Cheers!