Is hidden field required..?

[sureshl]

Am facing a problem, with this script...
I want two fields to be written by star , in order to hide . and this script does it , but ,
wat actually is my page opens directly with star letter , rather i need to open my page with the phoneno and email aftr clicking the button i want to make a change to the star to the respective fields ..........
How can i do this...plz suggest??

vbscript
function getPhone(text)
dim textsize 
textsize = Len(text)
text = Left(text,5)
For index = 0 to textsize
text = text & "*"
Next
getphone = text
End Function
 
Function getEmail(text)
dim textsize
textsize =Len(text)
dim atpos
atpos = instr(text,"@") - 5
text = Left(text,5)
For index = 0 to textsize
if atpos = index+1 then
text = text & "@"
else
text = text & "*"
end if
Next
getemail = text
End Function

Set oConn = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
      Set oRs = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
      oConn.Open "Provider=SQLOLEDB; Data Source = ria; Initial Catalog = northwind; Integrated Security = sspi;"  

 sSql =  "SELECT  phone,email,id FROM tbl1  userid =4 "
  oRs.Open sSql, oConn 
     While not oRs.EOF 
Response.write("<table><tr><form method='post'><td >phone : </td><td>"&getPhone(ors(0))&"</td><td width='10%'align='right'mail :</td><td>"&getEmail(ors(1))&"</td><input name='submit' type='submit' value='check'><input type='hidden' name='nameid' value='" & ors(2) & "' ></form></tr></table>")
	   oRs.MoveNext()
    Wend  
	ors.close
	oconn.close  
	
if request.form("submit")="check" then

i=1
end if
if  request.form("nameid") <> "" then
set star1 = oConn.Execute("select resid from tbl1 where id= '" &request.form("nameid")&"'")
if not star1.eof then
sl = "UPDATE tbl1 SET star = '" & i & "' where resid= '" &request.form("nameid")&"' and userID = " & userid 
oConn.Execute sl
End if
End if 
	
	%>

[Nicodemas]

So that I may fully understand the answer you seek, are you saying you want your code to output the phone number and e-mail address in plain text, and then when a user clicks on one or the other it will obfuscate part of the relevant string?

OR, are you asking for the reverse scenario where the relevant strings are obfuscated and need to be clicked on to remove the stars?

[sureshl]

want my code to output the phone number and e-mail address in plain text, and then when a user clicks on one or the other it will obfuscate part of the relevant string......

Page should open like ..
21323
dsad@dsa.com
check (button) aftr clicking

then
213***
ds**@*****

[Nicodemas]

I would suggest a JavaScript solution instead of an ASP solution. I suggest this because the answer you seek is only for an update to the Document Object Model.

An ASP solution for what you are asking would require a full HTTP Request/Response cycle to complete the process. The ASP is much slower than using JavaScript would be; and, the ASP solution would cause more server overhead.

Go to the JavaScript forum and ask the experts there the following question, and provide them with the following sample code:

JavaScript Experts,

I have the following HTML. How could I use JavaScript such that when a user clicks on the checkbox in each row the phone numbers and e-mail addresses are partially obfuscated with asterisks?

<table><tr><form method='post'><td>phone:</td><td>21323</td><td width='10%' align='right'>mail:</td><td>bob@example.com</td><input name='submit' type='submit' value='check'><input type='hidden' name='nameid' value='6' ></form></tr></table>

By the way, I found an error in your code. Modify line 35 of your code below to this. You didn't close a TD tag properly.

Response.write("<table><tr><form method='post'><td>phone : </td><td>"& getPhone(ors(0))&"</td><td width='10%' align='right'>mail:</td><td>"&getEmail(ors(1))&"</td><input name='submit' type='submit' value='check'><input type='hidden' name='nameid' value='" & ors(2) & "' ></form></tr></table>")