[Javascript] Passing parameters to a new page

[Nick Wiltshire]

On Wednesday 16 May 2007 08:40, Del Wegener wrote:
> Good Morning;
>
> On my algebra website I have a button labed QUIZ at several location on
> each of many pages.  Each of these locations has a NAME.  The intent is
> that clicking on this button takes me to a new page which presents an
> interactive quiz on the material associated with the location of the
> particular button that was clicked.
>
> Is there any way for me to pass NAME to the new page ?  I would like to
> avoid server-side programming like PERL or PHP.
>

One option that may work is a cookie. I'm not familiar with possible 
implementation, but it could work.

> If I can do that, then the quiz can select the appropriate questions from a
> flat-file database of questions.  Otherwise I will need a separate quiz
> page for each of the buttons.  They would be identical except for one
> variable containing NAME.  I have that working but would like to replace it
> with a more efficient method.  In total there may well be over a thousand
> such quiz pages.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Del
>
>
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