How to properly display data from a post

mvealey · August 1st, 2003, 08:37 PM

A question on basic usage for a learner.

So far I've discovered you can display user data posted to a form in one of two ways. The book (ASP 3.0) says to use a dim and display that...

<%@ Language=VBScript %>
dim strData
strData = Request.Form("data")
<HTML>
<BODY>
<%=strData%>
</BODY>
</HTML>

...but requesting the data directly from the form seems to work just as well...

<%@ Language=VBScript %>
<HTML>
<BODY>
<%Response.Write Request.Form("data")%>
</BODY>
</HTML>

The second way seems cleaner but I haven't seen this as an example in the book. (I'm only at page 113.)

Is there a reason for this? Is it 'bad form'?

TIA,
Mike

chintu · August 5th, 2003, 01:27 PM

I really dont see why you 'should' and 'shouldnot' do in either ways, but the first one has its own advantages, like for a scenario where you are passing the same value through multiple forms(that is from the page where the form value is written to another page)or anything specific where you want to use/refer a variable, probably storing the value in a variable would be a good approach, other than that i think its a waste creating a varible for the sole purpose of displaying it!!!

Chintu