Not able to read a cookie in the next page.

aashish · February 26th, 2004, 10:36 AM

Hi Friends..

I have the problem to read the cookie which is like this :

1. I am passing value for some string to next page through it is using that value on that page.. that is woking. now problem . .I want to send the same value on the next page .. but not using that value on that page. but when I am updating data and coming back on original page it shoud read that cookie .. So I can get back that data from data base which i was extracting on the first original page with the updated value.
anybody's help most welcome..
in advance thanks.
aashish

Aashish Shah

planoie · February 26th, 2004, 10:43 AM

So what exactly is the question? Are you unclear of how to use cookies? Where you should create the cookie? Where to read the cookie?

aashish · February 26th, 2004, 10:57 AM

should i have to post the code tooo ...
Matter is that ....

I am passing the school number from page1 as a cookie. and I will get all the detail of the students on page2. No the second page there is the data fields which have the detail have every student id have to hyper link which takes user to next update page where I am passing the student id as a cookie. Now as soon as i submit the updated field I am just redirecting the page original page menas page 2. where the whole details of the students are there.. but I am not getting the data b'cos I am not able to get the cookie value of the school number . so what I want to do .. if I can store that cookie value of school number on the update page and when I press the submit button it should pass the value of school number back on the page so I can get the data with update for the same school which I was showing before ..
Now should i have to post the code on the site too.. or you can help me with this discription.. I am new for the cookie collection thats why..
thanks
thanks

Aashish Shah

stu9820 · February 26th, 2004, 11:17 AM

You can use Session State.

Session("myItem") = "Hello"

Response.write(Session("myItem"))

aashish · February 26th, 2004, 01:09 PM

thanks I get the problem .. it is working now..
thanks a lot ..

Aashish Shah

planoie · February 26th, 2004, 01:13 PM

I'm having a hard time understanding your question and scenario, but perhaps this will give you enough information to go on.

It sounds as though you need to carry a value around between pages. As stu9820 suggested, the use of the session collection is ideal for this. On any page where you need to SAVE the value so that other pages can use it, you just need to assign the value to a session collection key:

Session("myItem") = "Hello"

Then on any page that needs to USE that value, you just retrieve the value from the session collection by the same key name you saved it with:

myLocalPageVariable = Session("myItem")

Then you can use that for whatever you like. You will need to cast the value from the session to the appropriate type in order to use it properly because the session collection returns an Object.

Peter
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