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My CFFORM are creating JS errors at the browser level in a ColdFusion MX
hosted environment. Why?
Thursday, 18 September, 2003
In a dedicated or hosted ColdFusion environment you will more often than
not, for security reasons, find that your host has "moved" some crucial
folders required by MX from an area directly accessible from your own web
root.
There are many valid reasons for doing this - but a key side-affect is that
whenever you use the CFMX built-in form validation of the CFFORM tag - your
page will produce JS errors because the location CF expects the crucial
_javascript_ libraries is no longer accessible.
Under CFMX the "scriptsrc" tag is a new feature added to the CFFORM tag, for
example:
<cfform scriptsrc="lib/cfform.js" name="MembersLogin"
action="">
But I just discovered an easier way that will allow you to continue to
freely use the CFFORM functions of field validation WITHOUT having to -
unless extreme circumstances - use it as we did with CF5 and earlier. I ran
into this problem with a rather large application (over 5Mb compressed)
called "FuseTalk" (http://www.fusetalk.com) but fixed the problem by doing
the following:
1. In your "wwwroot\mysite\" folder create a folder called "cfide".
You should now have, say a c:\inetpub\wwwroot\cfide\ folder.
2. As a sub directory in this folder create a folder called "scripts".
You should now have, say a c:\inetpub\wwwroot\cfide\scripts\ folder.
3. Copy the two key .js files that CFMX already puts in the
wwwroot\cfide\scripts folder and copy them up to your current
development/production site. Copy ONLY those two files.
Your own "cfforms" should now work as intended by Macromedia - and FuseTalk
also without have to finde/replace any instance of CFFORM and add the
SCRIPTSRC attribute. I'm sure MANY FuseTalk templates use the CFFORM tag so
this is the best way to make sure ALL of your apps, not just FuseTalk, will
work with no more form validation/_javascript_ errors.
My next step is to put my own scripts in the same folder -
wwwroot\mysite\cfide\scripts\ and see what happens.
NOTE: Linux/Unix users may need to retain CASE for folder names. CFIDE is
uppercase but the SCRIPTS and script filenames are lowercase.
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