I want to pass the current date(yyyy-mm-dd) in a hidden form element. What is the most non-confusing method of accomplishing this task.

Regards,

Kevin

what???

Yeah... I know my question is a little vague. Ok a lot vague. I'm posting form results to a SQL database. I want to pass the date of form submission with the record insert but I want the date insertion to be hidden from the user. I think I've found a solution but still welcome the experience of others.

Thanks

What server-side language are you using?

In ASP it would be something like:

<pre id=code><font face=courier size=2 id=code>
input type="hidden" name="dateToday" value="&lt; % = Date() % &gt;"
</font id=code></pre id=code>

(There shouldn't be spaces around the value, but I could not get it to display otherwise).

Hope this helps.

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Marja Ribbers-de Vroed
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Marja's answer is fine, but alternatively don't submit the value from the form at all. Submit everything else from the form to the database. Set up your "Form Submission Time" field in the database witha default value of <b>getdate()</b> (SQL Server) Now() or Date() in Access, this will automatically complete the date each time a record is added to the table.

Regards

Owen.

Multiple Parameter UD4 / Access 2000 Database Search Tutorial:
www.tdsf.co.uk/tdsfdemo

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