Using JavaScript to Pull Variables into an HTML Page

Urgent

[marketmaster]

I have a CGI-Based script that generates variables used throughout the program.

I'm trying to figure out how to pass those variables to an HTML page. A portion of the script is as follows:

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#!/usr/bin/perl

$lib="../lib";
require "$lib/config.pl";
# Pull in required libraries
require "$lib/dbmember.pl";
require "$lib/dbcompany.pl";
require "$lib/ez_html.pl";
require "$lib/web_basic.pl";
# Global variables
# Read in form data
%in=&Get_Form_Data;
# Validate login
&OpenMemberDB;
&Login;
&OpenCompanyDB;
%fields = &LoadMember( $in{'login key'} );
%sponsor_fields = &LoadMember( $fields{'parent'} );

foreach $traffic_prog (keys %def_tkey)
{
$sponsor_fields{$traffic_prog}=$def_tkey{$traffic_prog}
unless $sponsor_fields{$traffic_prog};
}
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This code is from a CGI script that generates an HTML page. My goal is to use the $sponsor_fields{$traffic_prog} variable in the called HTML page as follows:

[myss.sitesell.com...]

I've been told that this can be done through JavaScript. I'm not a programmer and I feel alot more comfortable working with JavaScript than CGI.

This is the last piece of the puzzle before I can launch my site. To see exactly what I'm trying to do, please go to <snip> and look at the right frame. I'm trying to populate each of the books in that frame with a member's ID.

Can you help me?

Paul Cordle

p.s. The script is a modified version of the "LifeStyleNetworker Special Edition" and my site is on ThirdSphereHosting.

(edited by: Brett Tabke)

[DrDoc]

Hello marketmaster, and welcome to Webmaster World!

Well, all you have to do is pass the variables on to the HTML page in a query string. Say that you want to pass the word foobar on to foo.html

Simply have the Perl script open foo.html?foobar

print "Location: path_to_page/foo.html?foobar\n\n";

In foo.html you need the following JavaScript:

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
var thestring = location.search.substring(1);
</script>

Now, the variable

thestring

contains foobar. Whenever you want to use it, for example in a URL, use the JavaScript function

document.write

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
document.write('<a href="' + thestring + '.html"'>Link text</a>);
</script>

However, if the HTML page is entirely generated by the Perl script (not opened using the

print "Location: path_to_page/foo.html?foobar\n\n";

construct) it is even easier.

Whereever you want the value to appear, enter the variable name (in the Perl code, the Perl generated HTML section).

Example:
<a href="$sponsor_fields{$traffic_prog}.html">Link text</a>

You can even use a combination of the two:
<a href="foobar.html?$sponsor_fields{$traffic_prog}.html">Link text</a>

When the page is rendered, $sponsor_fields{$traffic_prog} will be replaced with whatever value it has.

I hope this helps. I'm sorry I didn't notice your post earlier.