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Mehrad Rafigh
Mehrad Rafigh

Reputation: 156

Get Data from HttpGet Action Method and pass them to HttpPost Method

I am just asking myself wether it is possible to get values from an HttpGet Actionmethod and pass them to the HttpPost Actionmethod.

Here is the Code:

ContactAdminController

public class ContactAdminController : Controller
    {
        [HttpGet]
        public ActionResult SendMail()
        {
            return View();
        }

        [HttpPost]
        public ActionResult SendMail(ContactAdminViewModel contactAdmin)
        {

            if (ModelState.IsValid)
            {
                if (DQL.CheckUsernameAndEmail(contactAdmin.username, contactAdmin.email))
                {
                    Mail.SendMail.SendForgotPassword(contactAdmin.username, contactAdmin.email, contactAdmin.message);
                    return RedirectToAction("LogIn", "Account");
                }
            }
            else
            {
                ModelState.AddModelError("", "Your username is not associated with the email adress");
                return RedirectToAction("LogIn", "Account");
            }

            return RedirectToAction("LogIn", "Account");
        }

    }

SendMail.cshtml

@model MvcApplication1.ViewModels.ContactAdminViewModel
@{
    Layout = null;
}

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>
<head>
    <title>SendMail</title>
</head>
<body>
    <div>
        <p>
            @Html.LabelFor(m => m.username, "username")
            @Html.EditorFor(m => m.username)
            @Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.username)
        </p>
        <p>
            @Html.LabelFor(m => m.email, "email")
            @Html.EditorFor(m => m.email)
            @Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.email)
        </p>
        <p>
            @Html.LabelFor(m => m.message, "Your message")
            <p>
                @Html.TextAreaFor(m => m.message, new { cols = "35", rows = "10", @style = "resize:none" })
                @Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.message)
            </p>
        </p>

        <p>
            @Html.ActionLink("Send", "SendMail", "ContactAdmin")
        </p>
    </div>
</body>
</html>

ContactAdminViewModel

public class ContactAdminViewModel
    {
        [Required(ErrorMessage = "You need to fill in a username")]
        public string username { get; set; }
        [Required(ErrorMessage = "You need to fill in an email adress")]
        public string email { get; set; }
        [Required(ErrorMessage = "You need to fill a message for the admin")]
        public string message { get; set; }
    }

My problem is that I don't really know how to pass the values from the EditorFors and TextAreaFor to the HttpPost SendMail method. I didn't find anything appropriate on stackoverflow nor did I found any Solution from the asp.net Homepage. I hope someone could help me :) Thanks in advance

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1354

Answers (1)

Bhushan Firake
Bhushan Firake

Reputation: 9458

You are not creating a form to submit to the controller, are you? You can do this in Razor by using BeginForm FormExtension like this 

@using (Html.BeginForm("SendMail", "ContactAdmin", FormMethod.Post))
{
   //Your form here with submit button
}
  • This method writes an opening <form> tag to the response. When the user submits the form, the request will be processed by an action method.
  • You can use this method in a using block. In that case, the method renders the closing </form> tag at the end of the using block.
  • This method has many overloads but this allows to define FormMethod:The HTTP method for processing the form, either GET or POST.

So, as you want to POST to the controller, SendMail.cshtml will become

@using (Html.BeginForm("SendMail", "ContactAdmin", FormMethod.Post))
    {
<div>
        <p>
            @Html.LabelFor(m => m.username, "username")
            @Html.EditorFor(m => m.username)
            @Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.username)
        </p>
        <p>
            @Html.LabelFor(m => m.email, "email")
            @Html.EditorFor(m => m.email)
            @Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.email)
        </p>
        <p>
            @Html.LabelFor(m => m.message, "Your message")
            <p>
                @Html.TextAreaFor(m => m.message, new { cols = "35", rows = "10", @style = "resize:none" })
                @Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.message)
            </p>
        </p>
        <p>
            <input type="submit" class="button" value="Send" />
        </p>
    </div>
}

Upvotes: 1

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