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hey

this may be a basic problem, but i am quiet new to asp/javascript. so i seek some help on this.

i have declared a global array in javascript, say....

var gfarray = new Array()

then i populated the same with sql recordset using vbscript or watever is the default language of ASP. like this...
---declaration and opening of recordset etc....
<%
set rs=server.createobject("ADODB.Recordset")
rs.open "select count(*) from subject_master", objcon, 1,3
cnt = rs(0)
rs.close
redim ar1(cnt)
redim ar2(cnt)
rs.open "select * from subject_master"
i = 1
for i = 1 to cnt
'response.write (cnt)
ar2(i) = rs("subject_area")
rs.movenext
next
rs.close

rs.open "select * from guest_faculty", objcon, 1, 3
rs.movelast
gfno=rs(0)+1
response.write(ubound(ar2))
%>

then populated the combo like this...

<%
for j = 1 to cnt
%>
<option value="<%=ar2(j)%>"><%=ar2(j)%></option>
<%
next
%>

now to retrieve the values of that array i am calling the function...

function generateOptions(){
var opt='';
for (var i=0;i<ar2.length;i++)
{
opt+='<option value="'+ar2[i]+'">'+ar2[i]+'</option>\n';
}
}

this function's supposed to fill the combo..,
but it is giving no values...the array is vacant...
please help me on this...

thank you
tdd

[administrator]

The generateOptions function is a JavaScript client-side function, while your array ar2 is server side array. You cannot access server-side variables (in your case array) form your client-side script.

However you can write the values of the ar2 into a JavaScript client-side variable, which of course can be accessed client-side...
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