Need querystring example

<i><b>Originally posted by : Amber (awaltz@cinci.rr.com)</b></i><br />Hello<br />I need to be able to thoroughly understand what exactly a querystring is and how it is useful in the real life ASP world. The example I saw in the book was cheesey and of no help. Could someone please give me a real life example of how they use querystrings in everyday life of an ASP programmer? <br /><br />Thanks in advance<br />

<i><b>Originally posted by : merLin (driggins@lockbox.com)</b></i><br />QueryString's are one of the most important means of passing data among an application in ASP. It is more efficient then Session variables and is extremely simple to grasp. Here is an example that will hopefully help you.<br /><br />Say you have an application, and every page on your app needs the clients user id or account id, in this case, jsmith. You need a way of keeping track of this throughout your entire app. Apply the following:<br /><br />All pages must have an .asp?acctid=jsmith<br /><br />To get this value in your asp page, call this:<br /><br />acctid = Request.QueryString("acctid")<br /><br />This will assign jsmith to the local variable of the page. Then you can do with it what you need, such as passing it to a stored procedure to access Rights or Files or whatever you need.<br /><br />This is a very generic example and this method of getting data is one of the simplest in ASP. If you have any more questions feel free to email me and I'll give you a more detailed explanation.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />------------<br />Amber at 5/10/2000 1:57:15 PM<br /><br />Hello<br />I need to be able to thoroughly understand what exactly a querystring is and how it is useful in the real life ASP world. The example I saw in the book was cheesey and of no help. Could someone please give me a real life example of how they use querystrings in everyday life of an ASP programmer? <br /><br />Thanks in advance<br />