Question

I just started ASP.NET MVC (coming from WebForms) and I’m struggling with some really basic concepts.

I want to create a single page that uses a textbox for date input. I would like the date input to be passed to the index of my controller which looks like this:

  public ActionResult Index(int month,
                              int day,
                              int year){

        var visitors = visitorRepoistory.FindVisitorsByDate(month, day, year).ToList();

        return View("Index", visitors);
    }

Up to this point I have used scaffolding with strongly typed views so everything was kind of glued together for me.

What would/should my view look like? Would I use an actionlink (this is a get request after all, right?) and not a submit button.

Thanks.

Answer 1

EDIT after comment:

Simplest way is to make the search input page post (not get) back to some other method, parse the date out, then redirect to the Action you have specified.

If you want to do it through get, then you can use some Javascript trickeration to link to whatever they type in, but I recommend the former.