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[HaveTrouble]

My website has 2 types of user setup - customer and seller. My server has 1 folder with all ASP available to customer and 1 folder for seller. There are some pages (view invoice) common to both users that I wish to put into a common folder so I only keep 1 source code. Customer and seller can search for customer # and pull up a list of invoices. Then click specific invoice # to view invoice.

So my common folder will include:
1. a search page that will post to itself to display a list of invoices matching the search criteria
2. view invoice page.

I put a invoice.asp to customer/vendor folder to include special formating for each user type:
<!-- include file="format.asp" -->
<!-- include virtual="\common\invoice.asp" -->


My \common\invoice.asp looks like:
<%
if request("custname") = "" then
%>
<form action=searchaccount.asp method=post>
<input type=text name=custname>
<input type=submit name=test value=test>
</form>
<%
else
.... SQL TO SEARCH INVOICES AND DISPLAY RECORDSET
end if
%>

However, when I click the button, it looks for the searchaccount.asp under customer or vendor account. How should I solve this problem ?

Thanks.

 

[Turkbear]

Hi,
Where should it be looking ( where is the asp page)?



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[HaveTrouble]

\common\invoice.asp should post to itself. But instead of looking into \common\ folder, it's looking into customer\invoice.asp.

 

[damber]

when I click the button, it looks for the searchaccount.asp under customer or vendor account.

The action tag has the value "searchaccount.asp" this is a relative url that the browser will append to the current location of the web page it is viewing. In this case your url is something like:

http://www.example.com/customer/viewinvoice.asp

When the browser encounters a relative url it adds it to the current 'directory' e.g.:

http://www.example.com/customer/searchaccount.asp

If you want it to post to a specific page *not* relative to the current location, then use something like this in the action field:

action="/common/searchaccount.asp"

This will go to the root of the domain and add the action url e.g.:

http://www.example.com/common/searchaccount.asp

you can also use ../../.. type directory traversals in the url if you want it to remain relative.

\common\invoice.asp should post to itself.

Then you should really have the action setting look something like this:

<form action="<%=request.servervariables("SCRIPT_NAME")%>" method="post">

or

<form action="/common/invoice.asp" method="post">

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[HaveTrouble]

It works ! thanks !

One more question:
the page that call common\searchaccount.asp is in \customer\ and \vendor\ folder. It looks like:

<!-- include file="format.asp" -->
<!-- include virtual="\common\invoice.asp" -->
<!-- include file="addbottom.asp" -->

in \common\invoice.asp, if certain variable not set, then need to direct user to \common\accountSearch.asp. This is the code:

if acctNumber = "" then
server.execute "/common/invoice/accountSearch.asp"
else
..... NORMAL PROCESSING
end if

The execute function works but the addbottom.asp is not showing. Any advice ???

 

[HaveTrouble]

never mind. I figure it out. Thanks !

 

[HaveTrouble]

New question related to include files:

the page that call common\invoice.asp is in \customer\ and \vendor\ folder. It looks like:

<!-- include file="format.asp" -->
<!-- include virtual="\common\invoice.asp" -->
<!-- include file="addbottom.asp" -->

invoice.asp has a form that will send user to \common\invoice_save.asp once form is submitted. invoice_save.asp needs to run in the parent page so format.asp and addbottom.asp will be available. How can I achieve that ?