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Reputation: 1

Passing value from CFM to CFM for processing

So I have this code below. What it invokes is a query from the database which outputs all the brands of cars I have in the database. It then displays them in a dropdown list, hence this code below.

<h2>Car brand Option</h2>
<cfform name="mycarchoice" action="mainpage.cfm"> 
    <cfinvoke method="brandMatch" component="thecars.brand" returnvariable="getbrands">
    <cfselect name="mycarchoice.getbrands" 
    query="getbrands" 
    value="brand_name" 
    display="brand_name">
    </cfselect> 
    <br><input type="Submit" value="Submit" method="post">
</cfform>

I want to pass the users selected option to the mainpage.cfm so that I can do some processing on it. I have added mainpage.cfm as the action to be done when submit is pressed.

However, I don't know how to catch the value on my mainpage.cfm. What do I do/how do i start of so that I can write some code using what ever option my user selected from the code above as the input for whatever code I want to write on the mainpage.cfm.

Any examples would be ideal.

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 124

Answers (1)

Dan Bracuk
Dan Bracuk

Reputation: 20804

Step 1 - This becomes simpler if you change the name of your cfselect control so that it does not contain a period. For the sake of this answer, we'll assume that you changed this:

<cfselect name="mycarchoice.getbrands"

to this:

<cfselect name="chosenbrand"

Step 2 - on mainpage.cfm, the users selection is available as a variable in the form scope. It's name will be form.chosenbrand. You can verify this by starting your mainpage.cfm with this code:

<cfoutput>
#form.chosenbrand#
</cfoutput>
<cfabort>

Once you know that the variable is there, you can process it as required.

Upvotes: 1

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