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Old July 1st, 2003, 09:54 PM
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ASP and Access hyperlink fields
This is crazy... I know there has to be a way to do this but I just can't figure it out.

I have an asp calendar. Nothing complicated really. People enter the data through a form... it writes to a database... and when you click a day it retrieves from the database. The problem is one of the fields is a hyperlink to more information about the event on another website. The text of the link shows but it doesn't actually link.

I have the field in the database set up as hyperlink and not text and I'm pretty sure that the asp code I should be using starts out Response.Write.... I just don't know what to do next... I've tried everything imaginable... below is what I thought it should be but this didn't work

Response.Write "<a href="Rs("Web_Link")">"

I'm sure I'm missing something painfully obvious but I'm fairly new at this so please help
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Old July 2nd, 2003, 02:36 AM
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Response.write "<a href=" & Rs("Web_Link") & ">"


The way you have it indicates to the server that the string terminates at the end of the href= string.
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Old July 2nd, 2003, 03:44 AM
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Unless your field type 'Hyperlink' puts " " around the text, then you'd need the above but modified like this:

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Response.Write "<a href=""" & Rs("Web_Link")  & """>link</a>"
Why aren't you using a varchar field type, out of interest?
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Old July 2nd, 2003, 09:20 AM
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Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

That worked once I changed the field type to text. I'm fairly new at this and for some reason, call me crazy, it seemed logical to me that if there is a field type for a hyperlink that the hyperlink information would be transfered as well just by putting in the Response.Write Rs(XXX) of course I found out differently.

What do I do if I want the link to be Mailto:something@something.com instead of a web address?
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Old July 2nd, 2003, 12:39 PM
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You could test for the '@' character in the field:

Code:
myfield = RS("Web_Link")
If instr(myfield,"@") > 0 then
    thelink = "mailto:" & myfield
Else
    thelink = myfield
End if

Response.Write "<a href=""" & thelink & """>link</a>"
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Old July 2nd, 2003, 01:26 PM
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what if all the entries in the fields were e-mail addresses and the name of the fields were Email_Link and not Web_Link is there a way to just stick the mailto: comand in there somewhere?
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Old July 2nd, 2003, 01:29 PM
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Not sure I understand what you mean...
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Old July 2nd, 2003, 01:31 PM
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I don't need it to know the difference between a web link and an e-mail link. I just need to know how to set up both. There would be two form fields. One for web links and one for e-mail links.
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Old July 2nd, 2003, 01:36 PM
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Code:
fldEmail = RS("Email_Link")
fldURL = RS("web_Link")

If (fldEmail <> "" or (fldEmail = "" and fldURL <> "")) then
    If fldEmail <> "" then
        thelink = "mailto:" & fldEmail
    Else
        thelink = fldURL
    End if
    Response.Write("<a href=""" & thelink & """>link</a>")
End if
Dead simple to be honest.
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Old July 2nd, 2003, 02:15 PM
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That's still a lot more activity than I need.

I have a form. People fill it out and another page displays everything they fill out. One of those things is an E-mail address. Now that I know how to make the web address an actual link how do I make the e-mail address and actual link and not just text?
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Response.Write("<a href=mailto:" & RS("Email_Link") & ">" & RS("Email_Link") & "</a>")
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