How to Pass Parameter PLACEHOLDER through URL?

yifangusa

Hello There,

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

I understand that by using ? and &, we can pass parameter VALUES through URL. However, in my case, THE PARAMETER PLACEHOLDERS need to be passed instead. For example,

<input id="myId" type="text" name="myName">
...

The "myName" will have a value through user's input(code is omitted here). Now I need to pass "myName" as a placeholder (not its value) through URL:

What should SOMETHING (above) be replaced with to represent the placeholder myName? I tried $myName and it didn't work.

Thanks in advance for your help!!!

devinemke

yifangusa wrote:
What should SOMETHING (above) be replaced with to represent the placeholder myName? I tried $myName and it didn't work.

not sure i quite understand what you're after but if you want to pass the field name then do just that: replace "SOMETHING" with "myName".

yifangusa

replacing "SOMETHING" with "myName" WOULD NOT work because VALUE is expected after "=". However, "myName" here is a PLACEHOLDER. In another word, I need to pass the placeholder (not Value itself) through URL. For example

String myName = "JohnDoe";

<A HREF="Another Program.jsp?myParameter=JohnDoe"> will certainly work. However, that's not what I needed. I need to pass "myName" to the URL, not "JohnDoe".

devinemke

yifangusa wrote:
I need to pass "myName" to the URL, not "JohnDoe".

which is precisely what i suggested

yifangusa

Sorry for misunderstanding here. However, the problem is that: <A HREF="Another Program.jsp?myParameter=myName"> would NOT yield "JohnDoe" when you do request.getParameter("myParameter"). It would simply return a string "myName". I need to get "JohnDoe" here when calling request.getParameter("myParameter") in called JSP. Any idea how to return "JohDoe" if you only know the placeholder of "JonDoe" is "myName"?

Thanks again!

cretaceous

in php :
echo '<A HREF="Another Program.jsp?myParameter=$myname">';

or in html:
<A HREF="Another Program.jsp?myParameter=<?php echo $myname; ?>">