I see you have two Radio buttons with the same name, I would
suggest using a single conditional input button where you check for
the value Yes or No in a CFIF surrounding the button itself
Tristram Charnley
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Fongemie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 28 March 2001 06:26
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: dynamic radio buttons?
>
>
> Hello cf-talk,
>
> OK. I'm using a table for content management called news (db is
> oracle). In that news table is a field called live that needs to be
> either YES or NO.
>
> When a user fills out addnews.cfm the form passes the field live as
> hidden and a value of NO.
>
> So, I'm creating a form that will allow a user to edit the news
> record. The live field is important and I'd like radio buttons that
> will dynamicly populate with the value of the live field,
> corresponding to the passed url ID.
>
> I'm having trouble with the radio buttons.
>
> I'm trying:
>
> <cfquery NAME="news" datasource="#application.DSN#" >
> SELECT newsID, headline, news, live
> FROM news
> WHERE NEWSID =#newsID#
> </cfquery>
>
>
>
> <cfform action="newseditaction.cfm" METHOD="POST">
> <input type="hidden" NAME="newsID" VALUE="#newsID#">
>
> <p>
>
> Date Entered: #date_entered#<br>
> Headline: <cfinput type="Text" name="headline"
> value="#trim(headline)#" message="Please enter a headline"
> required="Yes" size="50" maxlength="150"><br>
>
>
> News: <cfinput type="Text" name="news" value="#trim(news)#"
> message="Please enter the news" required="Yes" size="50"
> maxlength="150"><br>
>
> Live:
>
> <cfinput type="Radio" name="live" value="#trim(live)#"<cfif
> live is "NO">checked="No"</cfif>>
>
> <cfinput type="Radio" name="live" value="#trim(live)#" <cfif
> live is "YES">checked="Yes"</cfif>>
>
>
>
> <INPUT TYPE="submit" VALUE="update this news">
>
> </cfform>
>
>
>
> I get the following error:
>
> Just in time compilation error
>
> Invalid token found on line 40 at position 55. ColdFusion was
> looking at the following text:
>
> <
> Invalid expression element. The usual cause of this error is
> a misspelling in the expression text.
>
>
> Can radio buttons be used to update? What am I doing wrong?
>
>
> thanks for any help!
>
> Best regards,
> Jeff Fongemie mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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