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Pass variable from .js to .ipl

bettineski

I have a variable called "documentName" (string) and I'm trying to pass it to an ipl file.

I can call the .ipl file from the .js, but I can't seem to pass the string across.

What is the trick to it?

javascript&colon;
[html]
var params = new Object();

// note: i have tried documentName AND String(documentName) both.
params.documentName = documentName;

IWDatacapture.callServer("http://apwcms/iw-bin/pge_custom/price_summaries.ipl", params);
[/html]

I can't seem to figure out what to do on the .ipl side, though.

I've seen some code samples like this:
[html]
my $in = new CGI;
my $documentName = $in->param('documentName');
[/html]

But then I get errors about: "Can't locate object method 'new' via package "CGI" and then I start wondering if I'm barking up the wrong tree.

It seems like this should be simpler then I'm making it.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

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nipper

I use:


use TeamSite::CGI_lite;
my $cgi = TeamSite::CGI_lite->new();
$cgi->parse_data();
my $dcrName = $cgi->escape_html_data($cgi->{form}{dcrName});

I am guessing it cannot find CGI.pm

bettineski

TeamSite::CGI_lite;

It looks like CGI_lite is used for form submissions?

It looks like the CGI_lite will work, but I'm not sure how to modify this line to fit my needs as I'm not actually passing in form or a dcrName:

$cgi->escape_html_data($cgi->{form}{dcrName});

nipper

use documentName instead of DCRName in the cgi->form line

Make certain you assign a string to that, Perl has no idea what a JS structure is

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bettineski

use documentName instead of DCRName in the cgi->form line

Make certain you assign a string to that, Perl has no idea what a JS structure is

It's working perfectly now!

Thank you so much, seriously, you have no idea.

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ISCBorisB

Just to clear out some misunderstanding...

That works because you do send a Form - or rather callServer does it on your behalf. callSerer works by sending
asynchronous http request from the Data Capture Form hidden Frame. Since you've omitted third callServer's Parameter (isGet),
the method is "Post". So, within the script that processes the request you can use standard CGI Modules. Entries of the
Posted Form are named as your JS "Object" attributes.