thanks to every body who responded
----- Original Message -----
From: DAVE TOWNSEND <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 'Evan Chua-Yap' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 8:11 AM
Subject: RE: hellouser variation: is it possible??
> Just to check, I am assuming that you have taken one JSP and split it into
> two? Thats what it looks like anyway. Heres a quick idea of what is going
on
> here.
>
> Your first JSP needs no beans or anything, doesn't even need to be a
jsp
> page, html will do fine. When the form is filled out, the information is
> sent in the request to the second page. It is in the second page that you
> can choose to have a bean (see why I say choose later). I've adapted your
> code here:
>
> getName.jsp (or .html)
>
> <html>
> <body>
> <form method=get action=showName.jsp>
> Your Name: <input type="text" name="username" size=25><br>
> <input type="submit" value="Submit">
> <input type="reset" value="Reset">
> </form>
> </body>
> </html>
>
>
> showName.jsp
>
> <jsp:useBean id="myNameHandler" scope="session"
class="myForm.NameHandler"/>
> <jsp:setProperty name="myNameHandler" property="*"/>
> <html>
> <body>
> Hello, <jsp:getProperty name="myNameHandler" property="username" />!
> </body>
> </html>
>
> That should work for you. The trick is understanding the second line
of
> the second file. When you use the <jsp:setProperty> like that, it attempts
> to fill out the myNameHandler fields with information from the request
> header. Here you have one item in the request header - username, so it
will
> call myNameHandler.setUsername() to set it from whatever the user entered.
>
> There is another alternative, where you don't even need beans,
although
> this becomes pointless if you want to use the info in multiple pages:
>
> showName2.jsp
>
> <html>
> <body>
> Hello, <%= request.getParameter("username") %>!
> </body>
> </html>
>
> This simply pulls the info out of the request.
>
>
> Hope some of this helps.
>
> Dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Evan Chua-Yap [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 01 September 1999 18:14
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: hellouser variation: is it possible??
>
>
> hi all!
> i just downloaded the early JSP Tutorial chapters. In the chapter
> for handling forms, the hellouser example uses an include directive
> to show the submitted name.
>
> i was wondering: is it possible to specify a 'submit' action that goes
> to a different .jsp page, and show the submitted name on that page??
>
> here's what i have right now, but i get a Cannot Compile error for
show.jsp
>
> is there a way to get it to work?
> (Note: adding <jsp:useBean id="myNameHandler" scope="session"
> class="myForm.NameHandler"/>
> right before i do the getProperty doesnt help)
>
> getName.jsp
> --------------------
>
> <html>
>
> <body>
>
> <jsp:useBean id="myNameHandler" scope="session"
class="myForm.NameHandler"/>
>
> <jsp:setProperty name="myNameHandler" property="*"/>
>
> <form method=get action=showName.jsp>
>
> Your Name: <input type="text" name="username" size=25><br>
>
> <input type="submit" value="Submit">
>
> <input type="reset" value="Reset">
>
> </form>
>
> </body>
>
> </html>
>
>
>
>
>
> showName.jsp
>
> ------------
>
> <html>
>
> <body>
>
> Hello, <jsp:getProperty name="myNameHandler" property="username" />!
>
> </body>
>
> </html>
>
>
>
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