If the value isn't changing after the page is rendered you may be able to use document.write java script to write the variable to a CF variable that you can pass to the CFC. I've done that before and it works fine, so long as the variable doesn't change after the page is rendered.
Robert Harrison Director of Interactive Services Austin & Williams Advertising I Branding I Digital I Direct 125 Kennedy Drive, Suite 100 I Hauppauge, NY 11788 T 631.231.6600 X 119 F 631.434.7022 http://www.austin-williams.com Blog: http://www.austin-williams.com/blog Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/austin_williams -----Original Message----- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 3:57 PM To: cf-talk Subject: How do I pass this jQuery variable as arguments to a cfc method? Hi, all... I've approached this problem from every direction I can think of and with reference to many, many websites, but I still can put together an answer. I have this HTML in a form: <cfoutput query = "qGetSpecials"> <div class="special_title_container"> <span class="title_checkbox_span"> <input id="special_id_#special_id#" class="special_title_checkbox" value="#special_title#" type="checkbox" name="special_title"> </span> <span class="special_title_span">#special_title#</span> </div> </cfoutput> Which is output into this: <input id="special_id_26" class="special_title_checkbox" value="First Special" type="checkbox" name="special_title"> <input id="special_id_27" class="special_title_checkbox" value="Second Special" type="checkbox" name="special_title"> <input id="special_id_28" class="special_title_checkbox" value="Third Special" type="checkbox" name="special_title"> This jQuery processing the inputs: $(document).ready(function() { $('#newsletter_preview_button').click(function() { var specialTitleID = $('.special_title_checkbox:checked'); $('.special_title_checkbox:checked').each(function(index,value) { var specialTitleID = $(this).attr('id').split('_').pop(); var specialTitleID = 'specialTitle_'+specialTitleID; alert(specialTitleID); <--- [ this alerts the three input values, 26, 27, 28, individually when form is submitted ] }); values = { emailNewsletterGreeting: emailNewsletterGreeting, specialTitleID: specialTitleID } (Followed by AJAX code...) And this cfc method: <cffunction name = "mProcessEmailNewsletterForm" displayName = "mProcessEmailNewsletterForm" hint = "Processes Email Newsletter Form" output = "true" access = "remote" returnType = "struct" > <cfargument name = "emailNewsletterGreeting" type = "string" required = "no" /> <cfargument name = "specialTitleID" type = "string" required = "no" /> <cfset emailNewsletterStruct = structNew() /> <cfset emailNewsletterStruct.email_newsletter_greeting = '#arguments.email_newsletter_greeting#' /> <cfset emailNewsletterStruct.specialTitleID = '#arguments.specialTitleID#' /> <cfreturn emailNewsletterStruct /> </cffunction> But, the cffunction above doesn't know what to do with the value, "specialTitleID", when it's received. Or, rather, I don't know how to change it in the jQuery code or the cffunction code so that each specialTitleID can be separted into individual cfarguments. I've tried specifying cfargument name="specialTitleID" as type="array", type="list", type="string", but I get a JS error in Firebug no matter what I try. I'm sure it's simple, I just haven't handled a multi-valued variable going via AJAX to a cfc method before. (or that I remember...). Suggestions, anyone? Thanks, Rick -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation." Henry Kissinger ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:357431 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
