If you are only dealing with 20-30 items it would be faster to write a bunch of conditionals instead of trying to find or develop something generic. If you are going to reuse this throughout the site then making a generic function would be more worth the investment.
-Mike Chabot On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Gerald Guido <[email protected]> wrote: > > Here is the situataion: The user submits a form to edit a record from the > database and I want to capture the changes that were made and send them off > in an email. Does anyone know of an easy(ish) way to compare the original > data set (be it saved as a query row, bean, structure,array etc.) with the > potentially updated data and then sniff out and report the individual > changes with out writing a boat load of conditional logic? There are about > 20 or 30 individual items I want to check for and all of them come from a > single database record and all of the form fields are named the same as the > database columns. > > I am on CF 7 Pro and MSSQL 2005. > > Many TIA. > > G! > > -- > Gerald Guido > http://www.myinternetisbroken.com > > "Wait. We can't stop here. This is bat country." > -- HST > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:334026 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
