Thanks, your comments are appreciated. It's my goal to make this as simple as possible. Like someone said earlier, at some point it's just easier to use the cfmail tag. That's not what I'm shooting for, although I can easily see how this could become extremely complex if not managed properly.
I'm going for a standard two column form: label on the left, field on the right, with some very basic validation (required fields, and email is about it). <!----------------//------ andy matthews web developer certified advanced coldfusion programmer ICGLink, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 615.370.1530 x737 --------------//---------> -----Original Message----- From: Michael Traher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 8:09 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Generic CF form handler A word of caution on this path. Part of our team embarked on a similar idea some months ago. To take the drudgery out of form creation and make forms adhere to various standards. They produced some custom tags that when combined would render a form including js validation and was also partly database driven so that the labels could be in multiple languages. All sounds great, but the reality was that the custom tags slowly became more and more complex to cater for more and more form layouts and peculiarities and combinations of form fields and special validation etc. Eventually using the custom tags required more knowledge and time than to create the form from scratch, and debugging some problems became almost impossible. So it was scrapped and slowly removed from live code it had found its way into. Not saying yours will be the same, just sharing our experience. :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:239892 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
