I’m quickly going to show you how to pass a variable into window.location – I’ve recently read a few discussion forums where people have been struggling with this. It’s really simple to accomplish, and that’s why it’s so frustrating when getting stuck on a problem like this.
The Scenario
1 2 3 4 5 6 | //your variable var data = "brightcherry"; //you want to pass the variable into the window.location URL window.location.replace("/admin/products/view.php?data=brightcherry); |
As said, the solution is simple, and from what I’ve seen, people seemed to be getting confused with the syntax of the quoting. There are a few solutions to this getting this to work.
Solution 1
1 2 3 4 5 6 | //your variable var data = "brightcherry"; //passing the variable into the window.location URL window.location.replace("/newpage/page.php?id='"+product_id+"'"); |
Solution 2
1 2 3 4 5 6 | //your variable var data = "brightcherry"; //passing the variable into the window.location URL window.location.replace("/newpage/page.php?id=" + product_id); |
I hope this blog post has managed to ease someone’s frustration 🙂
nice..
But what if there are two variables.
//your variable
var data = “brightcherry”;
var data2= “test”;
for two variables, do it the same way as his second code;)
//example from my project:
// polozka and eshop are variables
window.location = “sprava.php?smazat=”+polozka+”&sprava=”+eshop+””;
The post was helpful, but I already knew about the GET method of variable passage. Is there a way, for security purposes, to pass the information via POST? I currently use cookies and would rather do something more secure since cookies can be created by a user…
@Jackson Technically, so can POST data, though it does take a tiny bit more doing; it’s trivial with a browser plugin such as Firebug. Don’t ever think POST data is by itself secure.