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When I use a form to call a method on the controller, I want the page to refresh, and the url to show the passed variable ASP MVC

Answer 1

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Input fields in forms can only change the querystring portion of a URL and only if you use 'get' as the method.

The dinner id is probably being passed as a 'post' value. This will be hidden in the page's http headers, but will over right the values in the visible url.

You can change the url a form posts to in Html.BeginForm, but not dynamically based on form input, unless you use javascript to change the form's action.

An easier thing to do might be to return a RedirectToAction result from your controller:

return RedirectToAction("Index", new { id = 102 ]);

But you'd need to make sure you only did this on post requests.

Richard 2010-04-15 08:09:28

Answer 2

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If you are using ASP.NET MVC HtmlHelper BeginForm() method, keep in mind that by dafult it uses the POST method.

I Think the easiest way is to do this via RedirectToAction result.

View:

<body>
    <% Html.BeginForm("Select", "Home"); %>
            <select id="dinners" name="dinners">
                <option value="100">dinner 1</option>
                <option value="101">dinner 2</option>
                <option value="102">dinner 3</option>
            </select>
            <button type="submit"></button>
    <% Html.EndForm(); %>
</body>

Controller:

    public ActionResult Index(string id)
    {
        int Id = 0;
        if (!IsValidFacilityId(id) || !int.TryParse(id, out Id))
        {
        return Redirect("/");
        }

        return View(CreateViewModel(Id));

    }

    public ActionResult Select(string dinners)
    {
        return RedirectToAction("Index", "Home", new {id = dinners});
    }

Ivan Butsyrin 2010-04-15 08:17:25

Thanks for the tip. What code changes do you recommend?

MedicineMan 2010-04-15 15:55:24

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