Yes, I'm experimenting.
I don't have the lattest Ben Forta book. The one I have I couldn't find a
reference to wddx.
The examples and help in CF 4.01 don't help much.
The reason I started expirimenting was that I built a form that
automatically generates forms
by querying the table structure and creating the appropriate field type ie
text, hidden, checkbox etc. Then submits the info to the database.
That works fine for submitting data. The problem is now I want to recall a
record and fill in the
form with the recalled info. I got stuck there.
So its kind of worthless to build automatic submission forms if there is no
automatic edit form:o((
Jeff Craig
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brendan Avery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 6:57 AM
Subject: Re: wddx??
> first off -- what is it that you want to do with wddx? the <!DOCTYPE...
> header seems to be out of place here. typically, if you're serving up a
> page as wddx content, you don't want anything but the packet itself (makes
> it easier on the application making request).
>
> wddx is NOT a replacement for HTML code. it is a way to format your data
> in a standard way so that it can be exchanged between different
> applications and environments. i can't think of any situation where you'd
> want to output a wddx directly to the end-user.
>
> could you be more explicit with what your goal is? or are you just
> experimenting with wddx to see what it is? the simple answer to the last
> question is that the wddx engine eliminates the tedious task of writing
> parser code for situations where you want/need to transfer data, usually
in
> the case of serving data to another machine (like another webserver). say
> that webserver uses <CFHTTP> to request some data from another webserver
> which responds with a wddx packet so that the calling webserver only has
to
> use the built-in CF wddx parser to get the data it needs.
>
> that's what i use it for anyways. an example of a system i built that
uses
> wddx is:
> http://myneighborhoodbb.com21.com
>
> every form submission on that site actually parses the form data then
sends
> form data to another server (that in turn communicates with about 8+ cable
> internet service providers via form posts and wddx) which in turn responds
> to the webserver with a wddx packet which is parsed and then the end-user
> response page is built from the parsed data.
>
> the site would have been hellah tedious without wddx. (actually it still
> was, but it coulda been worse...)
>
> :)
>
> --brendan avery / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> At 06:40 AM 1/12/2001 -0600, you wrote:
> >ok I'm trying to have peace talks with wddx.
> >Here is the code the wddx packet and the way the page looks. So now what?
> >Is there something majic to creating a usable webpage from here OR does
it
> >become an exercize in string manipulation?? OR should I go CFML2js and
> >deal with javascript?? Any advise would be appreciated.
> >
> >CODE:
> ><cfquery name="qryTest2" datasource="northwind">
> > select top 1 CustomerID, ContactTitle, ContactName
> > from customers
> ></cfquery>
> ><cfwddx action="CFML2WDDX" input="#qrytest2#" output="qoutput">
> ><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
> >#qoutput#
> >WDDX PACKET
> >
> ><wddxPacket version='0.9'><header></header><data><recordset rowCount='1'
> >fieldNames='CUSTOMERID,CONTACTTITLE,CONTACTNAME'><field
> >name='CUSTOMERID'><string>ALFKI</string></field><field
> >name='CONTACTTITLE'><string>Sales Representative</string></field><field
> >name='CONTACTNAME'><string>Maria
> >Something</string></field></recordset></data></wddxPacket>
> >
> >PAGE:
> >ALFKISales RepresentativeMaria Something
> >
> >
> >
>
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