Hi all

Just wondering why I get a syntax error with this code:

if

request.Form("main_section.asp?id=5") then response.Redirect("articles.asp")

end if

else

.....rest of code.

Am I doing this correctly?

I'm getting a syntax error:

Microsoft VBScript compilation error '800a03ea'

Syntax error

/st-pre/main_section.asp, line 7

if
--^

where if is the if you see above in the code.

thanks

Adam

I see an if right below where you wrote, "Just wondering why I get a syntax error with this code:".

I think you need to have the if and the request.form(...) line on the same line.

HTH,

Snib

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And the response.Redirect("articles.asp") on the next line. You may be able to do an inline statement, but you wouldn't use the "end if".

Brian

thanks guys

I've done what you said and no syntax error, but it just ignores the if statement now?

any ideas?

cheers

Adam

And what does this do:

If Request.Form("main_section.asp?id=5") Then

Request.Form will look at a HTML form control submitted to the server. I don't think you have a control with an HTML name attribute with a value of main_section.asp?id=5, do you? e.g.

<input type="text" name="main_section.asp?id=5" />

So, I think you're after something else. What are you trying to accomplish?

Imar
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Hi Imar

sorry, this is what I was supposed to be saying:

if request.querystring("main_section.asp?id=5") then

response.Redirect("articles.asp")

else

basically what I've got is a menu that calls data on a dynamic page depending on the id of the data. However, one of the pages I'm trying to accomplish need a different approach; this page is called articles.asp and has the id of 5; hence, if the querystring id=5 I want it to jump to articles.asp and not the normal dynamic page.

does this help?

thanks

Adam

Change the querystring line like this:

if request.querystring("id") == 5 then response.Redirect("articles.asp")

HTH,

Snib

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You are right Snib. But just a small change in that.

Got to remove one of those "=" symbols. It should look like,

Cheers!

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Oops, I am still not used to ASP! '==' is the syntax JavaScript and PHP use in this situation (both areas I specialize in).

Sorry :-)

Snib

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great, thanks for the input guys.