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c#asp.net-mvc
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Reputation: 27

How to manipulate data from HTML input tag with ASP.NET MVC

I'm trying to create a web application using ASP.NET MVC (though I'm still a beginner so I don't know much about C#, I only used VB.net). I want my ASP.NET MVC application to store the content of the HTML input tag like username and password to sign in to my application but it didn't work out.

(PS : I'm still a beginner so please make it as simple as it can get)

I already tried many tutorials before coming here, but none of them seems to work. Here's is the code I tried 

// in the Model: 
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;

namespace MoviesApp.Models
{
     public class Movie
     {
         public string id { get; set; }
         public string name { get; set; }
     }
}

// in the controller
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Mvc;
using MoviesApp.Models;

namespace MoviesApp.Controllers
 {
  public class MoviesController : Controller
    {
    // GET: Movies
      public ActionResult Random(string movieid, string moviename)
        {
           var movie = new Movie();
           movie.id = movieid;
           movie.name = moviename;
           return View(movie);

        }
    }
}


 //in views :
 @model MoviesApp.Models.Movie
 @{
    ViewBag.Title = "Random";
    Layout = "~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml";
  }

<form method="post" action="Random">
    <input type="text" name="movieid"/>
    <input type="text" name="moviename"/>
    <input type="submit" value="save" />
</form>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 409

Answers (4)

TheKingPinMirza
TheKingPinMirza

Reputation: 8912

The default MVC controller route defined in App_Start/WebApiConfig.cs is 

        routes.MapRoute(
            name: "Default",
            url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
            defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
        );

Hence, call controller method as following

https://localhost:44397/Movies/Random?movieid=Shrek&moviename=first

Get vs Post

Upvotes: 1

Y-H
Y-H

Reputation: 27

I think it worked since my link changed to : https://localhost:44397/Movies/Random?movieid=Shrek&moviename=first

but my method is now get and the attribute is httpget insted of httppost would you please explain what post and get are and when should i use post or get ?

PS: when i added httppost to the controller and set the method to post and the action to /MoviesController/Random it gave me the error ressouce cannot be found

Upvotes: 0

ibrahim genc
ibrahim genc

Reputation: 38

I think action should look like this. And [HttpPost] in the controller

<form method="post" action="/Movies/Random">

Upvotes: 1

Rob
Rob

Reputation: 11788

Please try adding this to your controller method (you use POST instead of GET in your client side code):

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Random(string movieid, string moviename)
{
   var movie = new Movie();
   movie.id = movieid;
   movie.name = moviename;
   return View(movie);
}

Upvotes: 1

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