Passing Data from One Form to Another

**toptiger** · 07-26-2006, 04:15 PM

It took me awhile but I was able to pass information from textboxes on a form on one page to textboxes on a form on a second page. It works fine, but when try to submit the form information on the second page (recipient) to the server I get an error: "Referring form output.htm?name=name&email=email&submit=submit does not exist". Page 1 is "formtest1.htm" and page 2 is "output.htm". I Can't find what's causing this error. Could anyone take look at the two pages below and give some idea of what's wrong? Thanks.
formtest1.htm
<FORM NAME="form1" ACTION="output.htm">
<p>
<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="name" size="30" value="Name">
</p>
<p>
<INPUT TYPE="text" size="30" name="email" value="Email">
</p>
<p>
<INPUT TYPE="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
</p>
</FORM>
</body>
</html>
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output.htm
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
<FORM NAME="form1" method="post" action="/cgi-bin/fmail.pl">
<input type="hidden" name="recipient" value="tpearson@twcny.rr.com">
<input type="hidden" name="subject" value="Question Form 1.0">
<input type="hidden" name="thankurl" value="http://www.jrclancy.com/thankyou.htm">
<p>
<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="name" size="30">
</p>
<p>
<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="email" size="30">
</p>
<p>
<TEXTAREA NAME="comment"></TEXTAREA>
</p>
<p>
<INPUT TYPE="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
</p>
</FORM>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"></SCRIPT>
<script language="JavaScript"></script>
</body>

**funkdaddu** · 05:42 PM

Change the name of your submit button. There is a form function called submit(), the browser gets confused. I changed it to submitButton and then changed your last line to:

Code:

document.form1.submit();

or

Code:

document.forms['form1'].submit();

to call the submit function and it worked. You need document.forms not just document.form to call it by name.

**toptiger** · 07-27-2006, 09:07 AM

Thanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately, I still get the same error message on form 2 when I try to submit to the server. Please understand that this occurs when I enter name and email information on form1 (formtest1.htm) and pass the information to form2 (output.htm). After completing this info transfer when I click submit I get the error message: "Referring form output.htm?name=name&email=email&submit=submit does not exist"

However, form 2 submits perfectly if I simply keyword the info into form2 and click submit. So, the problem occurs only when I pass information from one form to another.

**funkdaddu** · 07-27-2006, 11:48 AM

Uh, after looking at your live version on your site (http://www.jrclancy.com/formtest1.htm) - the error "Referring form output.htm?name=name&email=email&submit=submit does not exist" is a Perl error from the script you are submitting to - not a JS error. I have no clue what the Perl code is so I can't give you any help. But why are you submitting a form to another form? Why not just submit the form directly to the script?

**toptiger** · 07-27-2006, 04:59 PM

Thanks for the followup

You mau be right, but if that's the case why does form2 (output.htm) work perfectly when to send it alone to the pl script (after typing in the data). If I'm able to pass the data from form1 to form2 it seems to me it should work.

**funkdaddu** · 07:29 PM

OK, I see, but if form2 works - why even have form1? From my point of view, we're trying to fix a script you don't even need...

**toptiger** · 07-28-2006, 08:16 AM

I need to position a very simple form on a page with very limited space and then, on submit, have the user be directed to another page where we can collect additional data. It's a layout problem and there's not a lot of flexibility.

**funkdaddu** · 02:14 PM

Ok, that makes sense... try this:

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

<html>

	<head>
		<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1">
		<title>Untitled Page</title>
		<script type="text/javascript"><!--
window.onload = function() {
	queryString = location.search.slice(1);
	dataSets = queryString.split("&");
	if (dataSets != "") {
		sentData = new Array();
		for (i in dataSets) {
			sentData[dataSets[i].split("=")[0]] = dataSets[i].split("=")[1];
		}
		document.form1.yourname.value = sentData["name"];
		document.form1.email.value = sentData["email"];
	}
}
//-->
</script>
	</head>

	<body bgcolor="#ffffff">
		<form action="/cgi-bin/fmail.pl" method="post" name="form1">
			<input type="hidden" name="recipient" value="blah@blah.com"> <input type="hidden" name="subject" value="Question Form 1.0"> <input type="hidden" name="thankurl" value="thankyou.htm">
			<p><input type="text" name="yourname" size="30"></p>
			<p><input type="text" name="email" size="30"></p>
			<p><textarea name="comment"></textarea></p>
			<p><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit"></p>
		</form>
	</body>

</html>

One think to take care in is not to name your inputs "name" or any other object attribute. If you call document.form1.name it's thinking your are requesting the name of the form, not the object "name". I renamed your input to "yourname". The same thing with your submit button. There is a form function called submit. If you call document.form1.submit is it the function or the input field? These types can cause problems later on, it may be why your form didn't work with your old script.

**toptiger** · 07-29-2006, 09:57 AM

No, that doesn't work. Same error message. Perhaps it is the perl script after all.

**funkdaddu** · 07-29-2006, 12:29 PM

It's the Perl script. if I turn of JS, it still craps out. One thing I noticed is that if you fill out the form from output.htm, it works, but output.htm?name=Name&username=Email&submit=Submit (like from the previous formtest1.htm ) gives an error. I think the Perl script is looking up the referring URL, and because it has a querystring attached to it it gets confused... sounds like the pl script to me.