> Thanks! That fixed that problem. I have another one > now.... > If I call a file like this...
> <cffile action="READ" file="#page#" variable="output"> > .. then display it like this.... > <textarea > name="contents"><cfoutput>#output#</cfoutput></textarea> > .. I run into a problem if the variable output has a > textarea tag contained > within it. <snippage> Say no more... I had to deal with this issue with my CMS application. It's the same problem that occurs with text fields and users entering double-quotes where you've used something like <input type="text" name="blah" value="#myvalue#"> To the browser (because variable output / evaluation occurs on the server), this appears as though you've simply typed in <input type="text" name="membername" value="Jim "the Man" Davis"> or <textarea name="mytemplate"> <textarea name="something else"> </textarea></textarea> Of course, because of the nature of html and browsers, you already know what happens: The browser see's the double-quote and ends the attribute or the </textarea> and ends the textarea... The way around this is to create the form first, then populate the values _after_ the form has finished rendering, using javascript. The qForms API ( http://www.pengoworks.com ) can make this a much simpler process... For instance, <form name="myform"> <textarea name="mytemplate"></textarea> </form> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"> function loadMyForm() { document.myform.mytemplate.value = "#jsstringformat(myvalue)#"; } </script> Something like this works okay, but every time you add a text field or a textarea to the form, you also have to add lines of javascript. With qForms and a tiny bit of wddx it's possible to populate a 500 field form with the same half-dozen lines it takes to populate a 5 field form. I.e.: <form name="myform"> <textarea name="mytemplate"></textarea> </form> <cfloop index="x" list="#myquery.columnlist#"> <cfparam name="form.#x#" type="string" default="#myquery[x][1]#" /> </cfloop> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"> function loadMyForm() { theform = new qForm("myform"); <cfwddx action="cfml2js" input="#form#" toplevelvariable="formdata" /> theform.setFields(formdata); } </script> Gotta love reusable code. :) One caveat -- the <cfwddx> call will jsstringformat everything accept an instance of </script> ( in which case, you run into the same problem you had before with the form fields ) ... You can escape </script> as something like <\/script> but you can't do it prior to the cfwddx call, and since the cfwddx call outputs directly to javascript, this means if you need to allow javascript blocks within your textarea, then you'll have to convert your variables to javascript manually. Which isn't too tough -- just replace the cfwddx tag with this: formdata = new Object(); <cfloop item="x" collection="#form#"> formdata["#jsstringformat(x)#"] = "#ReplaceNoCase(jsstringformat(form[x]), "</script>","<\/script>","ALL")#"; </cfloop> Sorry about the line breaks, you know, email and all... :) hth s. isaac dealey 954-776-0046 new epoch http://www.turnkey.to lead architect, tapestry cms http://products.turnkey.to certified advanced coldfusion 5 developer http://www.macromedia.com/v1/handlers/index.cfm?ID=21816 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm
