[Reactor for CF] best practices for multiple page form submission

Dan Vega Wed, 16 Aug 2006 13:50:35 -0700

I would like to get everyone opinions on this subject. First off thanks to those who helped me with this issue earlier. Even though my problem is fixed and working I would like to find out what everyone else would do. I have a multiple step form submission, you could even think of it as a checkout process although its not. I am using reactor and here is a basic concept of what im doing

** load my reactor records into session vars
<cfparam name="url.step" default="1">
<cfparam name="url.clientId" default="0">
<cfif NOT structKeyExists(session,"client")>
    <cfset session.client.customer = application.reactor.createRecord("client").load(clientId=url.clientId)>
    <cfset session.client.address = application.reactor.createRecord("address").load(userId= session.client.customer.getUserId())>
    <cfset session.client.creditcard = application.reactor.createRecord("CreditCard").load(userId=session.client.customer.getUserId())>
    <cfset session.client.user = application.reactor.createRecord("users").load(userId=session.client.customer.getUserId())>
    <cfset session.client.advisor = application.reactor.createRecord("advisor").load(advisorId=session.client.customer.getAdvisorId ())>
</cfif>

*** if the form is submitted validate the data and set the variables into session scope

<cfif structKeyExists(form,"next.x")>

    <cfif form.step EQ "1">
        <cfset session.client.user.setUserId(form.userid)>
        <cfset session.client.user.setUsername(trim(form.username))>
        <cfset session.client.user.setEmailAddress(trim(form.emailaddress ))>
        <cfset session.client.user.setEmailAddress2(form.emailaddress2)>
        <cfset session.client.user.setPassword(form.password)>
        <cfset session.client.user.setPassword2(form.password2 )>

        <cfset session.client.user.validate() />
        <cfset errorCollection = session.client.user._getErrorCollection() />

        <cfif NOT errorCollection.hasErrors()>
            <cfset url.step = 2 >
        </cfif>

    <cfelseif form.step EQ "2">
        <cfset session.client.customer.setAdvisorId(form.advisor)>
        <cfset session.client.customer.setMarital (form.marital)>
        <cfset session.client.customer.setResidence(form.residence)>
        <cfset session.client.customer.setSat(form.sat)>
        <cfset session.client.customer.setAct(form.act )>
        <cfset session.client.customer.setMethod(form.method)>
        <cfset session.client.customer.setStatus(form.status)>

        <cfset session.client.customer.validate() />
        <cfset errorCollection = session.client.customer._getErrorCollection()>

        <cfif NOT errorCollection.hasErrors()>
            <cfset url.step = 3>
        </cfif>
      </cfif>

**** collect data in a form based on the step
<cfif url.step eq "1">
<fieldset>
<legend>User Details</legend>
<input type="hidden" name="step" value="#url.step#">
<p>
<label for=""><input type="text" name="username" id="username" value="#session.client.user.getUsername()#">
</p>
<p>
<label for="" Address:</label>
<input type="text" name="emailaddress" id="emailaddress" value="#session.client.user.getEmailAddress()#">
</p>
<p>
<label for="" Email:</label>
<input type="text" name="emailaddress2" id="emailaddress2" value="#session.client.user.getEmailAddress()#">
</p>
<p>
<label for=""><input type="password" name="password" id="password" value="#session.client.user.getPassword()#">
</p>
<p>
<label for="" Password:</label>
<input type="password" name="password2" id="password2" value="#session.client.user.getPassword2()#">
</p>

<p>
    <input type="image" name="next" id="next" src="" alt="Proceed to the Next Step" width="77" height="30" border="0" align="right"
</p>

</fieldset>
</cfif>

**** finally after all data has been collected and validated, save all of the data in a transaction (now shown yet)

    <cfif url.step eq "6">

            <cfset session.client.user.save(false)>

            
            <cfset session.client.customer.setUserId(session.client.user.getUserId ())>
            <cfset session.client.customer.save(false)>

            
            <cfset session.client.address.setUserId(session.client.user.getUserId())>
            <cfset session.client.address.save(false)>

            
            <cfset session.client.creditcard.setUserId(session.client.user.getUserId())>
            <cfset session.client.creditcard.save(false)>

            
            <cfset ugRecord = application.reactor.createRecord("users_groups")>
            <cfset ugRecord.setUserId(session.client.user.getUserId())>
            
            <cfset ugRecord.setGroupId(4)>
            <cfset ugRecord.save()>

            <cfset structClear( session.client)>

    </cfif>

I would just like to know if there is a better way of doing this, again it works but it just doesnt seem clean at all to me and I would like a better way of doing it. I have 500 lines of code that looks unmaintainable to anyone else!

Thanks for everyones time

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