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brianism
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January 19, 2010
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Creating 3 part telephone input

  • January 19, 2010
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Hi. Does anyone have an idea on the best way to change a variable called "NPHONE" into a 3 part telephone input instead of one input?

My problem is this is on a very very large site and is used in so many places that changing the database to fields such as "nphone1", "nphone2", "nphone3" is not feasible.

I am wondering if there is a way to take change what is already there into something like this:

<input type="text" maxlength="3" name="nphone1"> - <input type="text" maxlength="3" name="nphone2"> - <input type="text" maxlength="4" name="nphone1">

Then possibly set the existing form field name of "NHPONE" to equal the 3 form fields above?

I think this code below is setting another variable called "NPHN1" to equal what the original "NPHONE" variable was.

<cfset structinsert(arguments.formData,'NPHN1',arguments.formData.NPHONE)>

Would there be a way to swap out the above line of code to set "NPHN1" to equal my 3 new phone fields?


Thanks in advance for your time.

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    Correct answer TiGGi

    It's possible to break your phone string into a comma delimited list and save into that same db field so somethng  like 800,555,5555 instad of 800-555-5555. This way you can loop through the list when displaying.  Also if you use form to save this data u can use same form field name for all 3 and it will automaticaly pass it in comma delimited format.

    for the form you would do

    <input type="text" maxlength="3" name="nphone"> - <input type="text" maxlength="3" name="nphone"> - <input type="text" maxlength="4" name="nphone">

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    TiGGiCorrect answer
    Inspiring
    January 19, 2010

    It's possible to break your phone string into a comma delimited list and save into that same db field so somethng  like 800,555,5555 instad of 800-555-5555. This way you can loop through the list when displaying.  Also if you use form to save this data u can use same form field name for all 3 and it will automaticaly pass it in comma delimited format.

    for the form you would do

    <input type="text" maxlength="3" name="nphone"> - <input type="text" maxlength="3" name="nphone"> - <input type="text" maxlength="4" name="nphone">

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    brianismAuthor
    Inspiring
    January 20, 2010

    Thanks. I didn't realize that you could split up input like that with the same field name.  That should solve my problem!

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    Dan_Bracuk
    Inspiring
    January 19, 2010

    I'd concatonate them on the action page myself.

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