You are better to copy the CFFORMS scripts into you own web site anyway, regardless of whether or not the hosting company has it all set up perfectly. Becuase that way you have more control over your own site's environment. ANd you can tinker around with the CSS files changing the look and feel of your forms to suit the styles of you site.
I copy the scripts into all my sites, and i dont use CFIDE as the folder either. That's in case someone else somewhere on the server (or the host) has a mapping called /CFIDE I set up an application variable called application.scriptsource (and while I"m at it, i set another application variable called application.formskin). The scriptsource variable typically looks like this: <cfset application.scriptsource = "/cfforms/scripts" /> <cfset application..formskin ="/cfforms/scripts/xsl/silver.xsl" /> The folders I copy into my sites are: CFIDE (i rename it ) ..../scripts .../../css .../../xml where i need a wysiwyg editor in the site, I also copy that in here too so that goes to: .../../fckeditor Then you can play around with the CSS and XSL files to your hearts content without affecting other sites. (I recommend leaving the XSL alone unless you know what you're doing - it bit me badly at first!) In the case above, the style sheet you can play with silver_style.css. You'll find the form loads fast, you have site-wide control over the look and feel, and the client-side validation works as advertised unlike earlier versions of CFFORMS. You still need to have server-side validation as well, just as you do with roll-your-own javascript validation but using XML forms has sped up the production of forms for me amazingly. In fact i have written a code generator that does a lot of the donkey work for me, reading the metadata from the database table and writing a form for each of the fields, which i can then tweak and play with to suit my specific needs. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month On 3/14/07, Les Mizzell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For lack of a proper CFIDE mapping on the server, if I copy the CFIDE > "scripts" folder to the root of my site, shouldn't the below work? > > > <cfform action="contact_process.cfm" > scriptsrc="../scripts/" > method="post" > name="contact" > preservedata="true" > preloader="no" > format="xml" > skin="halosilver" > id="form_contact" > > > > I get: "CFFORM skin name halosilver not found." > > Same with anh of these > "scriptsrc="../scripts" > "scriptsrc="/scripts" > "scriptsrc="/scripts/" > > > Ideas? > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 The most significant release in over 10 years. Upgrade & see new features. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJR Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:272607 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
