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johnmcginnes
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July 25, 2009
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dynamic switch to page based on drop down

  • July 25, 2009
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Hi, i have a website and on page 1 i have a drop down with 3 values, each of these 3 values represent a different page that needs to load when the one submit button on the form is pressed, i have looked at some javascript to do this but the problem with this was it seemed to lose the session variable values on the second page (i have loads of other data entered on page1 and need to use it on page 2 to display on the screen. Have you any ideas how to do this? Thanks very much - Andy

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DwFAQ
DwFAQ
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July 25, 2009

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/426785

Lawrence_Cramer
Lawrence_Cramer
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July 25, 2009

Doing this is really pretty basic, but it will take a bit of coding. You could have the form submit to an action page, this page will set all the form variables to session variables and then use the selected page from your page drop-down as the variable to populate a location tag (I'm a CF guy, so it's <cflocation> but each language has it's version of this.)  The user will them be taken to the appropriate page and all the data will be available to populate the page.

If you do not want this data to persist after landing on this page, be sure to kiil the session varuiables at the bottom of your page.

Hope this gets you going in the right direction.

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