Hi Kola, Problem with doing that is that of course when displayed on the page the characters are formatted in URLencoded format which makes it quite difficult for the user to edit them.
Anyway I can display them as usual, but encode them for sending them to the next page? cheers will -----Original Message----- From: Will Swain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 23 November 2001 12:55 To: CF-Community Subject: RE: form variable not being passed I'll give that a go Kola, Thanks for your help. will -----Original Message----- From: Kola Oyedeji [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 23 November 2001 12:51 To: CF-Community Subject: RE: form variable not being passed Sorry my bad I think if you enclose it in URLencodedFormat it should ensure that chracters passed in the form are valid! Kola Oyedeji |Web Developer |ekeda elthorne gate |64 high street |pinner |middx |ha55qa t +44(208)429 7333 f +44(208)429 7339 |www.ekeda.co.uk > -----Original Message----- > From: Kola Oyedeji [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 23 November 2001 12:43 > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: form variable not being passed > > > Will, > > try enclosing it in HTMLEditFormat() I think that escapes all > those hi- > ascii characters > > HTH > > > > > Kola Oyedeji |Web Developer |ekeda > elthorne gate |64 high street |pinner |middx |ha55qa > t +44(208)429 7333 f +44(208)429 7339 |www.ekeda.co.uk > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Will Swain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: 23 November 2001 11:43 > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: RE: form variable not being passed > > > > > > figured it out. this is a line from the source of the first page: > > > > <input type="Text" name="composer" size="40" > maxlength="100" value="L > > Jan�čk"> > > > > that # is the problem. > > > > i need to figure out how to escape it. > > > > cheers > > w > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Will Swain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: 23 November 2001 11:18 > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: RE: form variable not being passed > > > > > > Thanks Kola, > > > > well, Erika is having a look at the code, but from what I can > > see in the > > source, everything looks hunky dory. What seems strange is > that in the > > debugging info it recognises that there is a url variable > > called e but on > > the page it doesn't!! > > > > I will have a trawl through the forums. > > > > Cheers > > > > Will > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Kola Oyedeji [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: 23 November 2001 11:11 > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: RE: form variable not being passed > > > > > > Will > > > > What is in the form field? Also what browser/platform? > > > > Have you double checked that the form is correctly formmated > > in the source? > > Are there any > > duplicate form fields? > > > > If all else fails check the forums on the allaire site I dont > > think you're > > the first person to have this problem > > > > HTH > > > > Kola Oyedeji |Web Developer |ekeda > > elthorne gate |64 high street |pinner |middx |ha55qa > > t +44(208)429 7333 f +44(208)429 7339 |www.ekeda.co.uk > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Will Swain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: 23 November 2001 11:02 > > > To: CF-Community > > > Subject: RE: form variable not being passed > > > > > > > > > Nope, thats there. Also, there are about 15 other form > > > fields, all of which > > > are being passed. > > > > > > I reckon it must have somemthing to do with the content of > > > this record, as I > > > have tried other records and it works fine. > > > > > > Question now is what? > > > > > > will > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Kola Oyedeji [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: 23 November 2001 10:56 > > > To: CF-Community > > > Subject: RE: form variable not being passed > > > > > > > > > sounds like you may have forgot to include method=post in > the form! > > > > > > HTH > > > > > > Kola Oyedeji |Web Developer |ekeda > > > elthorne gate |64 high street |pinner |middx |ha55qa > > > t +44(208)429 7333 f +44(208)429 7339 |www.ekeda.co.uk > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Will Swain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > Sent: 23 November 2001 10:51 > > > > To: CF-Community > > > > Subject: form variable not being passed > > > > > > > > > > > > Hey clever people. Why would a form variable not be passed? > > > > > > > > I have a form, and it is passing everything but an ID > > > > variable over to the > > > > next page. It is most bizarre: > > > > > > > > Error Occurred While Processing Request > > > > Error Diagnostic Information > > > > > > > > An error occurred while evaluating the expression: > > > > > > > > > > > > #Form.operaID# > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Error near line 30, column 57. > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > -------------- > > > > ---- > > > > > > > > Error resolving parameter FORM.OPERAID > > > > > > > > The specified form field cannot be found. This problem is > > > > very likely due to > > > > the fact that you have misspelled the form field name. > > > > > > > > The error occurred while processing an element with a general > > > > identifier of > > > > (#Form.operaID#), occupying document position (30:56) to > > > > (30:69) in the > > > > template file > > > > c:\inetpub\wwwroot\_clients\glyndechat\cmt\opera_edit2.cfm. > > > > > > > > So, I notice in the debugging info that it is passing the > > > > same missing form > > > > variable as a url variable too: > > > > > > > > HTTP Referrer: > > > > http://192.168.0.1/_clients/glyndechat/cmt/opera_edit1.cfm?e=4 > > > > 3&refresh=1043 > > > > 05 > > > > > > > > so I think, ok, I'll use #url.e# instead. Except when I try > > > > that, I get an > > > > error saying Error resolving parameter URL.E. > > > > > > > > What could be causing this problem? Any ideas? Help me out here? > > > > > > > > will > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
