I would like to use a common used id as a primary key for several pages

<i><b>Originally posted by : Pingh (pingh@m-ei.com)</b></i><br />Hello<br /><br />current;y this is my situation<br /><br />i have one page main.asp that collects user data, and then submits it to a database. I would like i then to transer one field called USERID to another page donations.asp.<br /><br />Donations.asp then collects more user info and using the same UDERID as a primary key in the second database i would like it to record this info, that way i can link the information with the corresponding person.<br /><br /><br /><br />my supivisor told me to submit is as follows:<br /><br /><br />response.redirect "donations.asp?USERID=" &"'" & _<br />Request.Form("USERID") & "'"<br /><br />however this seems to leave is in such <br />a way that USERID is always a string type variable, that wont convert to a INT no matter how hard i try.<br /><br />please help<br /><br />how can i pass this wihtout using the url bar.<br /><br /><br />