You could just run your form through this tiny plugin, prior to submitting your ajax request
https://github.com/cutterbl/CFQueryToForm/blob/master/resources/scripts/jquery/jquery.serializejson-0.2.js Steve 'Cutter' Blades Adobe Community Professional Adobe Certified Expert Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer ____________ http://cutterscrossing.com Co-Author "Learning Ext JS 3.2" Packt Publishing 2010 https://www.packtpub.com/learning-ext-js-3-2-for-building-dynamic-desktop-style-user-interfaces/book "The best way to predict the future is to help create it" On 1/16/2014 1:22 PM, Steve Milburn wrote: > You cant break the string into individual arguments. It will be one > argument that contains a string with comma separated values, which can be > easily handled with CFs list functions. I'm not sure what you want to do > with them in your CFC, but you can loop through the values like so: > > <cfloop list="#arguments.specialIDList#" index="local.loopIndex"> > ... here you have access to each value individually to work with.... > </cfloop> > > > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Rick Faircloth > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hold the horses! >> >> I changed the join from: >> >> specialIDList.join(); >> >> to: >> >> var specialIDList = specialIDList.join(); >> >> and it worked! >> >> I think the var, specialIDList, was not available to the ajax function >> since it was being recreated >> in the .each loop. >> >> So, now do I have to loop over the multiple variables in specialIDList on >> the server side with CF >> in order to break the string into individual arguments? >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Rick Faircloth <[email protected] >>> wrote: >>> Hi, Steve... >>> >>> I just gave that a try, but still get an error in Firebug: >>> "500 Element SPECIALIDLIST is undefined in ARGUMENTS" >>> >>> Also, in the console, I still get what appears to be the same when I use >>> console.log(specialIDLlist): >>> [ "27", "28", "26" ]. >>> >>> Perhaps something is missing on the cfc method side? Here's that code: >>> >>> <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 = "specialIDList" type = "string" >> required >>> = "no" /> >>> >>> <cfset emailNewsletterStruct = structNew() /> >>> >>> <cfset emailNewsletterStruct.EMAILNEWSLETTERGREETING = >> '#arguments.emailNewsletterGreeting#' >>> /> >>> <cfset emailNewsletterStruct.SPECIALIDLIST = >> '#arguments.specialIDList#' >>> /> >>> >>> <cfreturn emailNewsletterStruct /> >>> >>> </cffunction> >>> >>> >>> ??? >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Steve Milburn <[email protected] >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Inside your .each loop you want to push specialID to your array like so: >>>> specialIDList.push (specialID). Afterwards when you are preparing your >>>> values object to be sent to the server you do specialIDList.join to put >>>> them into a string. >>>> On Jan 16, 2014 12:32 PM, "Rick Faircloth" <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Here's the client-side code: >>>>> >>>>> $(document).ready(function() { >>>>> >>>>> $('#newsletter_preview_button').click(function() { >>>>> >>>>> var emailNewsletterGreeting = $('#email_newsletter_greeting').val(); >>>>> >>>>> var specialIDList = []; >>>>> >>>>> $('.special_title_checkbox:checked').each(function() { >>>>> >>>>> var specialID = $(this).attr('id').split('_').pop(); >>>>> specialIDList = specialID.join(', '); >>>>> >>>>> }); >>>>> >>>>> console.log(specialIDList); >>>>> >>>>> values = { emailNewsletterGreeting: >>>> emailNewsletterGreeting, >>>>> specialIDList: specialIDList >>>> } >>>>> >>>>> $.ajax ({ cache: false, >>>>> type: 'post', >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >> 'email-newsletter.cfc?method=mProcessEmailNewsletterForm&returnFormat=json', >>>>> data: values, >>>>> success: function(response) { >>>>> >>>>> alert('Success!'); >>>>> >>>>> } >>>>> }); >>>>> >>>>> }); >>>>> >>>>> }); >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Raymond Camden < >>>> [email protected] >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Rick Faircloth < >>>>> [email protected] >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> Hmmm... >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I tried using the specialIDList.push(specialID) approach, and I >> get >>>> the >>>>>>> correct >>>>>>> output in console.log, [ "27", "28", "26" ], but I also get the >>>> error >>>>> in >>>>>>> Firebug, >>>>>>> "500 Element SPECIALIDLIST is undefined in ARGUMENTS. >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> I also tried using specialIDList = specialID.join(', ') and I >> still >>>> get >>>>>> the >>>>>>> same >>>>>>> output in console.log, [ "27", "28", "26" ], but I also get the >> same >>>>>> error >>>>>>> in Firebug, >>>>>>> "500 Element SPECIALIDLIST is undefined in ARGUMENTS. >>>>>>> >>>>>> Ok, so you passed specialidlist, right? Can you show us your latest >>>> code? >>>>>> >>>>>>> So, the cfc method doesn't understand speciaIDList when it's sent >> in >>>>> the >>>>>>> form >>>>>>> above, even when I specify the argument as "array" type. >>>>>>> >>>>>> Remember, we are sending the data over the wire as a string. So your >>>>>> argument should be string. >>>>>> >>>>>> But for now, let's see your client side code again please. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:357452 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
