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Josef
Josef

Reputation: 109

Form Data Not Being Sent In ColdFusion

I am trying to study ColdFusion (just starting out) and got stuck while doing some testing.

Basically, I am trying to pass data from form.cfm to storage.cfm. However, the data does not seem to get passed/sent.

Here is form.cfm (please ignore the markup, this is only for testing and I am absolutely new to CF so you might see something awful :D)

<cfparam name="userId" default=0/>
<cfparam name="firstName" default=""/>
<cfparam name="lastName" default=""/>
<cfparam name="address" default=""/>

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <title>Learning CF</title>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
</head>
<body>
  <h2>Persons Table - <cfif userId EQ 0>Add<cfelse>Edit</cfif></h2>
  <form action="storage.cfm" method="POST">
    <input type="hidden" name="userId" value="#userId#">
    <cfdump var="#userId#"/>
    <br/><br/>
    <label>First Name:</label>
    <input type="text" name="firstName" value="<cfoutput>#firstName#</cfoutput>"><br/><br/>
    <label>Last Name:</label>
    <input type="text" name="lastName" value="<cfoutput>#lastName#</cfoutput>"><br/><br/>
    <label>Address:</label>
    <input type="text" name="address" value="<cfoutput>#address#</cfoutput>"><br/><br/>
    <input type="submit" value="Submit">
  </form>
</body>
</html>

the cfdump here tells me userId is 0. Here is storage.cfm

<cfparam name="form.userId" default=""/>
<cfdump var="#form.userId#"/>

When I hit submit, what shows up in storage.cfm is only

#userId#

Upvotes: 2

Views: 858

Answers (1)

Abhishekh Gupta
Abhishekh Gupta

Reputation: 6236

You need to enclose the userid between cfoutput so that it can be evaluated. Or better just wrap the form inside cfoutput.

<cfoutput>
  <form action="storage.cfm" method="POST">
    <input type="hidden" name="userId" value="#userId#">
    <label>First Name:</label>
    <input type="text" name="firstName" value="#firstName#">
    <label>Last Name:</label>
    <input type="text" name="lastName" value="#lastName#">
    <label>Address:</label>
    <input type="text" name="address" value="#address#">
    <input type="submit" value="Submit">
  </form>
</cfoutput>

Upvotes: 11

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