Hello All, I appreciate everyone's help on my other posts and think I'm coming to understand CF a lot better than I did before I started posting here a few days ago, so kudos to you, friends!
My latest issue w/ my burgeoning new website is the input.cfm page, where an end-user may (in theory) enter a donor's information into a webform, click submit, and the data will subsequently be inserted into the SQL Server (2005) table dbo.DONOR, which while it's under development, has only six fields: kcid (auto-incrementing PK/UID for the database) and the other five which you see in the code below and are probably pretty self-explanatory. I have tried creating an empty structure called 'form' before applying the code and finally settled on a block of <cfparam> statements to set the vars to a default. I can't see a way around this because NOT doing so causes the form to indeed show at the top of the webpage, but it is followed by a CF error page. INCLUDING the <cfparam> tags or <cfset var = ""> or form = structNew(); causes the error output to go away but results in TWO recordsets being sent to the DB, one blank (except for the PK which is set up to auto-increment in SQL) and one with the correct info, and taking the next PK number. I also tried setting the fields to NOTNULL = TRUE in SQL but to no avail, apparently "" translates into something besides null on the server-side. Here is the code, I would greatly appreciate your thoughts on what I'm doing wrong and how to rectify it: <html> <head> <title>Input form for new donor</title> </head> <cfparam name="form.first" default=""> <cfparam name="form.last" default=""> <cfparam name="form.flag" default=""> <cfparam name="form.supe" default=""> <cfparam name="form.phone" default=""> <body> <div> <hr /> </div> <form action="input.cfm" method="post"> <table> <tr> <td>Donor First Name:</td> <td><input type="text" name="first" id="first" value="" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Donor Last Name:</td> <td><input type="text" name="last" id="last" value="" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Donor's Immediate Supervisor:</td> <td><input type="text" name="supe" id="supe" value="" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Supervisor's Phone Number:</td> <td><input type="text" name="phone" id="phone" value="" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Has this employee provided a sample in the past 30 days? (Y/N):</td> <td><input type="text" name="flag" id="flag" value="" /></td> </tr> </table> <input type="submit" value="Enter New Donor"> <br /><a href="index.cfm">Back to homepage</a> <br /><a href="random.cfm">Random Donor Generator</a> </body> <cfquery name="addDonor" datasource="test"> INSERT INTO DONOR (first,last,flag,supe,phone) VALUES ('#form.first#','#form.last#','#form.flag#','#form.supe#','#form.phone#') </cfquery> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:353891 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm