That did the trick, thanks! Very annoying to realize these differences between POST and GET this late in the game ;-) I'll test later to see if Mozilla does the same thing.
Pete ----- Original Message ----- From: <"Everett>; <Al <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 3:44 PM Subject: RE: Differences in SELECT type="multiple" on POST and GET methods > > The application I'm working on originally used POST methods > > for form submissions. On SELECT TYPE="MULTIPLE" fields, the > > output was handled very nicely and the data was posted as > > "somefield=value1,value2,value3" if multiple items were > > selected. This made dealing with the values very simple for > > many reasons. > > > > However, for various reasons, I have had to convert > > everything over to use the GET method for form submission. > > On the same SELECT TYPE="MULTIPLE" field, the data is now > > sent as "somefield=value1&somefield=value2&somefield=value3" > > > > Is there a simple way to "convert" the data that looks like > > "somefield=value1&somefield=value2&somefield=value3" into > > values that look like "somefield=value1,value2,value3"? Do I > > loop through it treating SOMEFIELD as a collection? Is there > > an easier or more straightforward way of doing this? I'm > > using CF5 Ent. > > Well, I would have thought that URL.somefield is still > "value1,value2,value3" but that's apparently not true. Hmph. > > You could treat the string as a list with & as the delimiter and use a loop. > > <cfset newstring=""> > <cfloop list="#CGI.QUERYSTRING#" index="i" delimiter="&"> > <cfif ListFirst(i,"=") EQ "somefield"> > <cfset newstring=ListAppend(newstring,ListLast(i,"="),",")> > </cfif> > </cfloop> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
