RE: [ cf-dev ] search problems

Tue, 06 Apr 2004 15:02:52 -0700

thanks agin, but if i wanted to show the search results in another page how would i do that, and what if there is nothing in my database could i have some sort of a sign saying there are no items that match your search??

From: "Damian Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] search problems
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 22:48:59 +0100

Sanjay,

When you do a SELECT query (when you say "search" you mean "SELECT") you
are asking the database for records. This you have done. However, you
haven't asked the coldfusion template to display those records. This is
done using the cfoutput tag so you should read about that.

For instance, after your query in your search.cfm if you were to put:

<cfoutput query="rsSearch">
        #employee_name#
</cfquery>

You would receive results supplying all the employee names.

There is another way to check if you have results of your query, this is
to use <cfdump> which I have showed you before. In this case you would
use:

<cfdump var="#rsSearch#">

This will output on the page any data resulting from your query called
rsSearch.

Note that cfoutput is the tag you need to learn to use when you are
wanting to display data to a user.

HTH
d

-----Original Message-----
From: sanjay sidar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 06 April 2004 19:11
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] search problems

Hey guys i have this code that is supposed to search for data in my
access
db.  Now i have created a form in which the search is avaliable, (called

form2.cfm) the way you search on this form is by a drop-down option ie
choose a county, and you can select a country from the dropdown list.  I

have created an action page called search.cfm, (which is below), now
there
is info in my database, but when i try to search for it nothing comes
up,
and another thing im confused about is that if say the user tired to
search
for a person's name which does exisit in my db, how do i display that?

as you may have guessed im very new to this language, so any help would
be
much appreciated:-)

sanjay, p.s the code for the action page(search.cfm is below)


<body>
<cfquery name="rsSearch" datasource="sanjay_1">
        SELECT employee_name, company_name, country, region,
position,department, section, random
        FROM tblAdmins
        WHERE 1 = 1
        <CFIF isDefined("form.employee_name") and form.employee_name neq
"">
        AND employee_name = '#form.employee_name#'
        <CFIF isDefined("form.company_name") and form.company_name neq
"">
        AND company_name = '#form.company_name#'
        <CFIF isDefined("form.country") and form.country neq "">
        AND country = '#form.country#'
        </CFIF>
        <CFIF isDefined("form.region ") and form.region neq "">
        AND region = '#form.region #'
        </CFIF>
        <CFIF isDefined("form.section ") and form.section neq "">
        AND section = '#form.section #'
        </CFIF>
        <CFIF isDefined("form.position") and form.position neq "">
        AND position = '#form.position#'
        </CFIF>
        <CFIF isDefined("form.department ") and form.department neq "">
        AND department = '#form.department #'
        </CFIF>
</cfquery>


</body>

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