FORM Validation Using Hidden Form Variables to an Action Page

?? not sure what you mean ........

i always use POST never GET ??

Does GET not convert everything to URL's which is the opposite to what i want !

JT

not sure what you want

I think what you want is to avoid users from playing with the values in the URL, right ?

So what you can do is use POST for your forms. This way the values will never go in the URL querystring.

And if you want to pass on to the next page and take the values along/.....put all the values in hidden fields in a form and use javascript to submit the form

<form name=something>
<hidden fields....
</form>
<script>
document.something.submit();
</script>

makes sense?

Yes but as mentioned above i have a self posting framework

<form name="dsp_form"method="post" action="dsp_form.cfm<cfif cgi.query_string NEQ "">?#cgi.query_string#</cfif>">
</form>

Because of the form validation benefits as mentioned in my opening question

Cheers

JT

Hi jturkington,
 
you can still have self posting form using form variables instead of the hidden variables.

Regards,
---Pinal

Also if you are worried about security, I would use encrypt() and decrept() function to encrypt it.

Never thought of encrypt() pinaldave but sounds like to much work.....

Is there anyway to pass the FORM/HIDDEN variables to the next page of a self posting form without using Javascript/URLs as this sometimes in my situation could be turned off.

I am thinking about using the FUSEBOX 4.1 frameworks as it converts everything to ATTRIBUTES through the index.cfm page..

Help !

JT


 

Sorry pinaldave i might have got myself confused here

how do you use the "post method" with a self posting form ??

Cheers

JT

Just to recap my situation

Keep posting form to itself until validation/actions are successful THEN REDIRECT to another .cfm page with all the FORM variables being passed with it instead of sticking them in a URL link..

Cheers

JT

Try this please:

<form method="Post" action="#CGI.cgi.query_string#">

<input type="text" name="myname" value="">

</form>

Sorry still not explaining the problem clearly enough...

My self posting form works fine its when i REDIRECT out of this form to another form i cant get the FORM variables to follow.... for example CFLOCATION only accepts URL variables

what about CFHTTP ?

JT

Hi jturkington,
 
cfhttp for something outside of your domain it is not advised to use in the case of internal file location (cflocation is good for that) and i think you should use encrypt then.

Regards,
---Pinal

So the answer is basically if you have a self posting form and you want FORM variables to be redirected to a different .cfm page it cannot be done ?!?!

JT