Issue with setting hidden value from url

[JCCDevel]

Hi All,

I'm not too proficient in Javascript but am trying to help a friend
out. Bascially, the page we are having trouble with is loaded with a
numerical value in the url string. Example:

http://www.webpage.com/v4/payment_pg.php?FeeCalcTotalDecimal%20=49.50

I then parse the string to get the total. I then want to assign the
value to a hidden form value
(document.form1 .FeeCalcTotalDe cimal.value) The hidden value is to be
used to post to a bank's website.

I'm sure this is just a syntax issue, but I'm stumped. Keep getting
"document.form1 .FeeCalcTotalDe cimal.value is null or not an object."

<CODE>

<script language="JavaS cript">

function parseGetVars() {
var getVars = new Array();
var qString = unescape(top.lo cation.search.s ubstring(1));
var pairs = qString.split(/\&/);
for (var i in pairs) {
var nameVal = pairs[i].split(/\=/);
getVars[nameVal[0]] = nameVal[1];
}
return getVars;
}
</script>

<script>
var g = parseGetVars();
for (var i in g)
document.writel n('Your total fee is $' +g[i]+'<br>');
document.form1. FeeCalcTotalDec imal.value = '+g[i]+' ; THIS ISN'T
WORKING!!


</script>
<br />
</font</div>
<table width="715" height="52" border="0">
<tr>
<td align="center" width="374" height="48"<for m
name="form1" method="post" action="https://secure.linkpt.n et/lpcentral/
servlet/lppay">
<input type="hidden" name="txntype" value="sale">
<input type="hidden" name="storename " value="10011848 58">
<INPUT type="hidden" name="chargetot al"
value="FeeCalcT otalDecimal">
<input type="hidden" name="suppressT itle" value="true">
<input name="Submit" type="submit" id="Submit" value="Submit">
</td>
<td width="331">
</div>
</form></td>
</tr>
</table>

</CODE>

Thanks in advance for your help!

JCC

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Re: Issue with setting hidden value from url

JCCDevel wrote:

I'm not too proficient in Javascript but am trying to help a friend
out.

FOAF? Yeah, sure ;-)

[...]
I then parse the string to get the total. I then want to assign the
value to a hidden form value
(document.form1 .FeeCalcTotalDe cimal.value) The hidden value is to be
used to post to a bank's website.
>
I'm sure this is just a syntax issue, but I'm stumped. Keep getting
"document.form1 .FeeCalcTotalDe cimal.value is null or not an object."

The script is located before the control in the markup; the control does
not exist at that point. Besides, your markup is not Valid[1] and you are
using proprietary syntax. Use instead, after the control was parsed:

document.forms["form1"].elements["FeeCalcTotalDe cimal"].value

[1] http://validator.w3.org/


HTH

PointedEars
--
realism: HTML 4.01 Strict
evangelism: XHTML 1.0 Strict
madness: XHTML 1.1 as application/xhtml+xml
-- Bjoern Hoehrmann

[Evertjan.]

Re: Issue with setting hidden value from url

JCCDevel wrote on 17 apr 2008 in comp.lang.javas cript:

document.form1. FeeCalcTotalDec imal.value = '+g[i]+' ; THIS ISN'T
WORKING!!
>

reason1:

The form form1 is not yet declared and so not yet part of the DOM.

reason2:

<INPUT type="hidden" name="chargetot al"
value="FeeCalcT otalDecimal">

Should be something like:

<INPUT type="hidden" name="FeeCalcTo talDecimal"
value="">


=============== ==============

Why use outmoded
<script language="JavaS cript">
and
<script>
where
<script type='text/javascript'>
is the standard?

Why split the script in two?

Change 1
document.form1.
to
document.forms. form1.

<table width="715" height="52" border="0">
use css styles instead!

In the end,
better fill the hidden input with serverside code.
ASP example:

<INPUT type="hidden" name="FeeCalcTo talDecimal"
value = '<% = serversideValue %>'>


--
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

[JCCDevel]

Re: Issue with setting hidden value from url

On Apr 17, 12:05 pm, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedE...@we b.de>
wrote:

JCCDevel wrote:

I'm not too proficient in Javascript but am trying to help a friend
out.

>
FOAF?  Yeah, sure ;-)
>

[...]
I then parse the string to get the total. I then want to assign the
value to a hidden form value
(document.form1 .FeeCalcTotalDe cimal.value) The hidden value is to be
used to post to a bank's website.

>

I'm sure this is just a syntax issue, but I'm stumped.  Keep getting
"document.form1 .FeeCalcTotalDe cimal.value is null or not an object."

>
The script is located before the control in the markup; the control does
not exist at that point.  Besides, your markup is not Valid[1] and you are
using proprietary syntax.  Use instead, after the control was parsed:
>
  document.forms["form1"].elements["FeeCalcTotalDe cimal"].value
>
[1]http://validator.w3.or g/
>
HTH
>
PointedEars
--
    realism:    HTML 4.01 Strict
    evangelism: XHTML 1.0 Strict
    madness:    XHTML 1.1 as application/xhtml+xml
                                                    -- Bjoern Hoehrmann

Thank you both for your suggestions. I have asked my friend(and yes
Thomas, it is for a friend - she is strictly a designer and hasn't had
to do this type of thing before) to plug this into her page. I'm used
to using server side code and her page is just stand-alone. I truly
appreciate your help!