Question

I am starting up with mvc and designing a simple login procedure.
I have view with login screen with two inputs username and password.
but apparently not able to get how can i pass the values of inputs from my view to controller
i am using razor. here are my snippets.

<table>
    <tr>
        <td>
            UserName:
        </td>
        <td>
            @Html.TextBox("userName")
        </td>
    </tr>
        <tr>
        <td>
            Password
        </td>
        <td>
            @Html.Password("Password")
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td colspan="2">
            @Html.ActionLink("login", "SignIn")
        </td>
    </tr>
</table>

and my controller looks like this.( i am able to redirect to controller using action link just fine.just about passing values.)

public ActionResult SignIn()
{
    //string userName = Request["userName"];
    return View("Home");
}

Answer 1

You can enclosed above html stuff inside form container where you declared form submission method as POST.

@using (Html.BeginForm("SignIn", "Controller", FormMethod.Post, new { id = "form1" }))
{
    <table>
    <tr>
        <td>
            UserName:
        </td>
        <td>
            @Html.TextBox("userName")
        </td>
    </tr>
        <tr>
        <td>
            Password
        </td>
        <td>
            @Html.Password("Password")
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td colspan="2">
            <input type="submit" value="login" name="login" />
        </td>
    </tr>
</table>
}

Then, you can put Post Action in your controller:

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult SignIn(FormCollection frmc)
{
    /// Extracting the value from FormCollection
    string name = frmc["userName"];
    string pwd = frmc["Password"];
    return View("Home");
}