Greetings, I am creating a website where the first page has a FORM that collects a special PIN. After the user "submits" an ASP is called that has various text boxes within another FORM. My problem is that if the PIN exists in my database then I want to populate the text boxes with existing information for the user to update, but, if the PIN doesn't exist then they can enter new information. I can't seem to figure out how to put dynamic information into the text boxes? Is it possible to do this? Note, the database lookup and text boxes are all the same page. Thanks.
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Using ASP, you would do something like this.
VB ASP Logic...I'm assuming you know how to read a database with ADO.
' Get the field values
Field1 = ""
Field2 = ""
If Not myRecordSet.EOF Then
Field1 = myRecordSet.Fields(0).Valu
Field2 = myRecordSet.Fields(1).Valu
End If
.....
HTML Forms Logic...
<INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME="Field1" VALUE="<%= Field1%>" SIZE=20>
<INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME="Field2" VALUE="<%= Field2 %> SIZE=20>
That's how easy it is.
Rob
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by: garrethgPosted on 1999-10-14 at 11:53:01ID: 2127575
Prehaps all you need is just to write into the INPUT's VALUE attribute via whatever mechanisim you're using in ASP?
<INPUT TYPE="text" VALUE="the results of your DB lookup">
<TEXTAREA>the results of your DB lookup</TEXTAREA>