The popular way to do this is with AJAX tools such as CFAJAX, ajaxCFC, JSMX etc.
On 7/19/06, Andy McDuff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm relatively new to CF (although Ben's WACK book is being throughly > digested) but fine with SQL, DB design and no problems on general coding. > I'm working on a small test app to display courses being attended by > students. The idea is to put everything on one single HTML page. At the top > of the page would appear a drop-down list of students (retrieved via > cfselect tag & SQL from a CFC), and on the bottom-half of the screen would > appear the courses being or have been attended. There are 3 tables: student, > course and student-course (many-to-many relationship broken out to two sets > of 1-to-many), student-course being the link table. Nothing fancy for the > moment... > > What's the best way to do this? Use IFRAME's? If so, what's the general > approach? How do I pass the selected student (from the top frame) in order > to query the courses and display them in the bottom-half of the screen > (without having to use a button)? Is this done via Javascript or can this be > done via CF? > > Any help / guidance / pseudo-code would be gratefully appreciated. -- CFAJAX docs and other useful articles: http://www.bifrost.com.au/blog/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/message.cfm/forumid:4/messageid:247140 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
