Hi all, I'm seeking ideas / opinions on the following problem: I want to have form, a "Save" and "Cancel" button. When clicking on "Save", it reads the form contents and updates the database. The standard way to do this is to do your CFFORM and call another CFM file where (action="blabla.cfm") which reads the form variables, updates the database and then do a CFLOCATION back to the main application. Of course, the CFLOCATION means re-loading the whole app and re-initiating your CFC's, etc..etc..
Now I'm into Ajax and using AjaxCFC and think have found a solution to avoid the page refresh which is what I'm trying to achieve. I'm also comfortable with JS and DOM manipulation, etc...Basically, I keep the CFFORM structure within the HTML, replace the "Save" button to be "button" type (and not "submit") with an 'onclick' to a new JS function. Within the newly-created JS function (called from 'onclick'), I use a combination of getElementbyId's (that is, I place ID's on the fields) to read the contents of the fields and place them in an array. Finally, I make an Ajax call passing the array and then, finally, in the CFC do the work of updating the database. Then in the JS callback function, the idea is to display a message to the user a simple message "Updated" (positioned with CSS, etc.) I don't know if that all makes sense to any of you folks out there. My basic question is: am I over-engineering here and / or is there another approach / easier way in order to avoid screen-refreshing when processing forms? Thanks, Andy Madrid, Spain ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:268147 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
