<cfinput type="text" name="name" value="#htmlEditFormat(form.name)#"
required="yes" message="Please enter your name.">
Forgot to heed my own advice...
-joe
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 08:02:34 -0400, Joe Rinehart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Roberto,
>
> The trick is defaulting all of your form values and then always giving
> your input a value="" attribute.
>
> Very quick example:
>
> <!--- Form defaults --->
> <cfparam name="form.name" default="">
>
> <!--- Form validation --->
> <cfset errors = arrayNew(1) />
> <cfif not len(trim(form.name))>
> <cfset arrayAppend(errors, "Please enter your name.") />
> </cfif>
>
> <!--- Show Errors --->
> <cfif arrayLen(errors)>
> <p>Please correct the following errors:</p>
> <ul>
> <cfoutput>
> <cfloop from="1" to="#arrayLen(errors)#" index="i">
> <li>#errors[i]#</li>
> </cfloop>
> </ul>
> </cfif>
>
> <!--- Show Form --->
> <cfform name="myForm" action=""> > <cfinput type="text" name="name" value="#form.name#" required="yes"
> message="Please enter your name." />
> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />
> </cfform>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Roberto Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 02:30:03 -0400
> Subject: keeping form data during server-side validation
> To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Hi all,
>
> Maybe this topic has been covered before, but I'm not sure what keywords
> I'd use in Google or in the list archives to find related messages.
>
> I want to validate data from a form (missing fields, password field and
> re-enter password field, etc.), and reload the form page with an error
> message. However, when I do this I lose all data entered, and the user has
> to reenter everything again. If I display an empty page with a message like
> "use the back button to go back to the form and correct the information",
> by using the back button in the browsers users do get the fields populated.
>
> Do you have specific instructions/steps to get that effect (going back to
> pre-populated fields) using CF (instead of using the back button in the
> browser)?
>
> Another option would be to do the validation client-side with _javascript_,
> but I'd rather do it server side on the browser.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Roberto Perez
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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