ASP Request.Form - Exercise

Reading and writing HTML Form data

Objective: Use ASP to read and write HTML Form data

Background and Overview

This lesson illustrated the use of the ASP Request object to read and reference one or more pieces of user data submitted in an HTML Form command using the POST method. This exercise will give you the opportunity to create a short ASP script that will do this and then write the data back to your own browser.

Instructions
Write an ASP script named readform.asp that will reference and write the contents of the textbox (txtName) submitted through HTML Form command in the postform.html file.
Downloads
The HTML file, postform.html, needed for this exercise is a part of the asp-scripts.zip download file located on the course Resources page.

Hints
1. The HTML page supplied uses the POST method to submit the form for processing. The action field in the FORM command is not filled in. You will need to insert the name of the ASP file into this field.
2. As in the lesson example, you will be using the Form collection of the Request object to retrieve and reference the data in the textbox field.