Hello all! I am new to ColdFusion and web development in general, and have only had cursory training in programming (Python).
I have a need for a web page that will accept either an absolute number or percentile from the end-user (I'm still having trouble w/ the 'form' functionality of HTML), and then set the variable (or parameter?) "rows" to the number chosen, then choose THAT number of records at random from the database (MSSQL). Then I would like to display them (in no particular order) in plain-old HTML, CSS and other stylization is not important at this point, solely the functionality of the page. Here is my code: <cfquery name="rs" datasource="#application.dsn#"> SELECT * FROM DONOR </cfquery> <cfset displayRow = randRange(1,rs.recordcount)> <cfparam name = "rows" default = "5"> <cfoutput query="rs" startrow="#displayRow#" maxrows="#rows#"> <br /><h3>#displayRow# #first# #last# #flag#</h3><br /> </cfoutput> The table name is 'DONOR', and the fields I want to display from it are 'first', 'last', and 'flag'. I'm wondering at this point why when I run the page, the output indeed picks a random record to start with, but then displays the next four sequentially instead of choosing the other four at random. I am more than happy to post a screencap of my browser output if need be. Your help is much appreciated as I am quite stumped and I hope you all can point me in the right direction. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:353832 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
