On 4/14/2010 8:39 PM, Doug Ford wrote: > > Hi Folks - > > I am wracking my brain trying to figure out how to get the results I am > looking for. > > Here's the background - > > I am dealing with dynamic environment allowing losers, I mean users, to enter > in field names. This is a business product so anything is possible. > > When a user of the product creates the columns, they have no knowledge of > coldfusion or sql, so if a person enters in "VIN #" as a piece of information > they wish to capture, "VIN #" becomes a column header. > > Now then, on any given random form my system would be creating, I won't know > how many fields or their names. > > If a person creates 5 or 500 fields, I have no clue, and I won't know what > column names they could ultimately create. > > I have been toying with getColumnList() to display the column titles, but how > would I get the actual data out of it? > > I have tried using evaluate on the field names, but when it comes across VIN > #, the system blows up. > > Any and info is appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Doug
Consider abstracting the database schema. Hold the column names in a table with an ordinal key. Store the column contents in another table with a foreign key back to the columns. Never trust user input. That is how I would start to break it down. -- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/8/a4/60 Twitter: http://twitter.com/RogerTheGeek MissHunt: http://www.misshunt.com/ (Home of the Clean/Dirty Magnet) NCDevCon: http://ncdevcon.com/ 2010 Raleigh ColdFusion Conference ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:332898 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
