Hi All,
Think my brain might be a bit fried but is there an easy way to add on a url variable (ie searchresults.cfm?variable
I know about <form name="searchrefine" action="#cgi.script_name#?
but i want to pass values that the user is inputting inside the form so we don't actually have them yet to forward!
Cheers,
Brad
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The reason that i want them passed through url variables is cause they need to stay when doing multi page searches, ie when they access page 11 of records etc, the info is there via the url variables, and also there are multiple forms on the page.
Would i be able to stick that ONCLICK="javascript:callme
Cheers,
Brad
Thanks for the quick follow up guys.
It looks like form action=get seems to be the way to do this. I'll go have a read up on it as have been using post till now. All the time i learn new stuff, it just allows me to see how much there is yet to go!
Thanks for the info about the form as structure, it hadn't occured to me. Will be very useful.
Going to spread points again!
Cheers,
Brad
brad- one more note. actually it is preferred to use action="get" when searching, this way the user can bookmark the search results if they want to. if you use post and they bookmark the search results page, it is likely they will get an error (unless you plan for it), and if not an error, they won't get the results they bookmarked.
i don't always follow that methodology because I'm lazy at times (not that its hard to change "post" to "get" but that i would need to go replace all my form. with url. and its not a simple s&r all the time), but its worth doing just because of that.
thanks for all the excellent input, didn't know that substand and will certainly come in useful.
just for the record for anyone else that reads this thread down the line, referring to:
http://www.houseoffusion.c
you can't use method="get" with a cfform tag, has to be a regular form tag OR you have to pass to an intermediate page that will append the url variables using cflocation=
Cheers,
Brad
Brad, that last bit sounds a little too complicated. I think you would only have to test for the existence of a form field - letting you know that the user is coming from the page where they've entered criteria - and then use a few lines of code to move form variables to url scope:
<cfif isdefined("form.search_cri
<cfscript>
for(key in form){
if(NOT isDefined('url.#key#') AND NOT key IS "FIELDNAMES"){
SetVariable("url.#key#",tr
</cfscript>
</cfif>
If you put the preceding code at the top of your search results page, you could then use either form or url variables as your incoming search criteria.
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by: anandkpPosted on 2003-08-28 at 03:45:06ID: 9239109
Hi Brad,
why u want to use URL values - why not use FORM.
I am saying so - bcos u ahve it submitting it to itself - so the form values will be defined
no need to submit thru URL
& if u think going by URL is the best way for u
then use javascript to populate teh variables in URL
eg :
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" TYPE="text/javascript">
<!--
function callme()
{
document.frm.action="pagen
document.frm.submit();
}
//-->
</SCRIPT>
<form NAME="frm" METHOD="post">
<input NAME="username" VALUE="">
<img src="/images/submit.gif" ONCLICK="javascript:callme
</FORM>
copy this code & run on ur machine to see how it works
hope it helps
let me know
K'Rgds
Anand