> I'm not sure what you're asking and want to be. > Ben and Isaac (a biblical sounding pair if ever > I've heard one) have already shown you several > methods for accessing arbitrary form fields. > My confusion is your mention of <CFPARAM>.
> CFPARAM has nothing specifically to do with > Forms - it's there to provide default values > for known variables that may, for some reason, > not be received. Its most often used for the > FORM and URL scopes but can be used for any > scope at all. I was confused by this at first and thought wat I was reading about PHP was a description of a pre-generated array containing an array of any possible combination of characters of any length, starting with "A" and ending with an indeterminate number of extended ascii characters... Then it dawned on me that he probably hadn't discovered the form scope yet and was doing something like this: <cfparam name="x" default=""> instead of this: <cfparam name="form.x" default=""> I'm still not entirely certain how that comes across as the question he asked, except perhaps that he's trying to scope his variables as say "variables.x" instead of "form.x" without first copying them down from the form scope into the variables scope, so the server produces an error when it doesn't see "variables.firstname" even though the firstname input element was a text input. I'm trying to remember if <cfparam name="x" default=""> inserts a value into the variables scope if there's a form field matching that variable name... It's been so long since I've used cfparam without scoping the name that I can't remember what the behavior is. s. isaac dealey 954.522.6080 new epoch : isn't it time for a change? add features without fixtures with the onTap open source framework http://www.fusiontap.com http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/author/4806Dealey.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:207524 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
