I was building an app a few months ago and I wanted to pass around a series
of related variables. What I had was a form for editing products. I wanted
to pass around the variables to multiple places, but didnt want to hardcode
every variable as attributes when using cfmodule. So what I decided to do
was name my form elements like so.
product.id
product.name
product.description
Then I modified formurl2attributes to search for a period in the form
variables. If found it would then create a structure for that variable and
give it the appropriate keys, ie. id/name/description. Then when passing
the variables around I only had to pass the structure.
The code was something like this...
<cfif isdefined("form.fieldnames")>
<cfloop list="#form.fieldnames#" index="field">
<cfif Find(".", field)>
<cfset vTempVar = Mid(field,1,Find(".",field) - 1))>
<cfif NOT IsDefined("#Evaluate(vTempVar)#")>
<cfset "#vTempVar#" = StructNew()>
</cfif>
<cfset "#field#" = Evaluate(field)>
<!--- normal formurl2attributes code here --->
</cfloop>
</cfif>
I just thru this down quick, didnt test it so it might not be accurate, I
also feel a little under the weather today. But you get the point. This
concept came to mind again recently when studying PHP, the PHP server does
this for you automatically. I can see where it would be powerful. Anyone
have any ideas/comments/suggestions?
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