moving information from one web page to another

[Donna Bachner]

I'm doing a website in HTML and want to get information from one page to another. It's a mock e-commerce site I want to price to follow with the pages. I have the following which does not work. Note the alert works.
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

function purchase(checkboxform)
{
var num = checkboxform.length;
for(var i = 0; i< num; i++)
{
if(checkboxform[i].checked)
{
alert("Brunelleschi's Dome is "+checkboxform[i].value);
document.write("cart.html.form1.Price.value = checkboxform[i].value");
}
}


}
</script>

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[Pavan Keely]

Donna,

Are those HTML pages opened in the browser when you access this script ? If you have window reference to the other page, then you can use,

windowRef.form1.Price.value = checkboxform[i].value.

If you don;t have those pages open in the browser and the second page is the result of a form submission (or some other way) then you can use cookies/hidden HTML fields/server side sessions. Not sure what you are looking for.

[Donna Bachner]

It's a submission page I am taking a product to a shopping cart. If it's server side we are not supposed to mess with it. but I would like to know how anyway. Thanks

[Pavan Keely]

You are not supposed to mess with server side ? Anyways, you have to use session variables to do these.

If you didn't mean to mess up with server side, what was the specified script written for ? To set that value in one of the hidden varibles in the same page ?

[Pavan Keely]

If you don;t want to do that on server side, you can client side cookies for that.

[Donna Bachner]

How do you do that?

[Donna Bachner]

I think I got the idea of making a cookie from the w3c. I'll let you know if it works.

[Pavan Keely]

Donna,

I found a resource for you.

http://www.echoecho.com/jscookies02.htm

In the first page, you set the cookie for the price or whatever that is and after the submission page comes back to the client, you can read the same cookie. Please see the functions text provided in that URL. Basically, you set and get the cookie using document. cookie.

I hope this helps.

[Donna Bachner]

I think I got it working thanks for the help.