How do I?

URL Cookie thingy...

[Galdas]

Yeah... I'm making an online Christmas card.

What I want is for someone to send the URL to a friend, and have in the mid section "To whoever," when the reciever opens it. This is to be done through the use of a cookie placed in the URL.
I know that, what I don't know is how to do it.
I'm pretty sure I saw a tutorial on how to do it, but I can't find it anymore.

Could someone please direct me to one?
OR and I HATE asking this:
Tell me the syntax

Thanks a heap. :)

[edited by: DrDoc at 12:13 am (utc) on Dec. 28, 2004]
[edit reason] No URLs, thanks. See TOS [WebmasterWorld.com] [/edit]

[RonPK]

Hello Galdas, welcome to WebmasterWorld.

There is no such thing as a cookie in a URL. A cookie is a piece of information that gets sent by a server in an HTTP header. The client stores it as a file (IE) or puts it into a larger cookie-file (other browsers). If it's a temporary cookie it won't be stored at all.

What you might try is to create URLs like this:

domain.tld/card.php?name=Jack%20Jones

and then let a server side script parse the URL and display the name.

[Galdas]

Yes, That's what I wanted... although The data isn't transfered in a linear pattern... That was part of the problem.

Thanks!

[edited by: DrDoc at 12:14 am (utc) on Dec. 28, 2004]

[adni18]

so you want to get the info variables from the address bar?

page.html?cardid=8462974928&simplifiedtextimput=Jack+Jones

[adni18]

<script language="javascript">
<!--

stones=window.location.href.split("?")[1].split("&");
for(var i=0;i<stones.length;i++)
{
rocks=stones[i].split("=");

var x=rocks[0];
var y=rocks[1];
alert(x+" = "+y);

}

//-->
</script>

[Galdas]

THANKYOU! :)

Erm, one tiny little thing though... where exactly do I put this, and how do I link the text in the textbox to the URL?

THANKS A LOT! :P

[adni18]

You put the script in the window that will read the variables from the URL, and as for the textbox thing, do you want the user to type in a URL and have jscript open it in a popup window?

[Galdas]

No... They write a name, and the words from the text box defines what info is called up in the page.

Sorry for the trouble :)

[chriswragg]

If you create a form that uses the GET method:

<form name="example" method="GET" action="yourpage.htm">

This would submit the data as:

.../yourpage.htm?input1=abc&input2=123

Hope this helps

[Galdas]

Thankyou, it does :)