It's more than just the "popular way. It's also quickly becoming the industry standard. CSS for presentation, markup for identification, JS for data connectivity and validation as well as to add the dynamic client side to things.
> -----Original Message----- > From: James Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 7:57 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: One-to-many application on one screen > > 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:247180 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
