<cfif isdefined('form.ask')>
<cfset session.myVar = form.mySelect />
<cfoutput>#session.myVar#</cfoutput>
</cfif>
<cfoutput>
<form action="#cgi.script_name#" method="post">
Questions to ask on CF-Talk:
<select name="mySelect">
<option value="how">How?</option>
<option value="who">Who?</option>
<option value="what">What?</option>
<option value="where">Where?</option>
<option value="when">When?</option>
<option value="Where can I get the CFWACK?">Where can I get the
CFWACK</option>
</select>
<input type="submit" name="ask" value="Ask" />
</form>
</cfoutput>
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Bobby Hartsfield
http://acoderslife.com
-----Original Message-----
From: erik tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 4:01 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: get the value of the drop down and pass it to the cfquery
> What do you have the submit button doing? Does it actually submit to
>
> the server, or just forward to the next tab?
>
> For CF to process information, you have to make a server trip of some
>
> kind.
>
> If you are making the server trip, but not seeing the information
> passed, what are you naming your dropdown, and how are you referencing
>
> it in the query?
>
> --Ben Doom
>
The button supposed to submit so I can set the session variable to the next
tab
> erik tom wrote:
> > I need to be able get the value from the drop down and pass ethis
> value to cfquery function which located on the second tab of the form.
> Once i selected the drop down item i clicked on the submit button and
> going to the second tab but nothing getting passed to the query.
> Help?????
> >
> >
> >
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