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Anonymous
March 16, 2013
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Searching for a URL in a form field!

  • March 16, 2013
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I need help searching one of my form fields for any URL’s that are being passed to my list.

In the form field I am receiving content that looks like the following:

nhiccdppqfstupxo, <a href="http://.com/">abc</a>, abc, abc, http://.com/ abc, abc bz.

I need to use a RE function to check the form field for “http” and if it’s there abort the script so that it doesn’t send out to my list.

The problem I am having is that when I use CF functions I receive an error because of the quotes that are in the form field. 

Anyone have any ideas as to how I can test for URL’s in a form field?

Thanks for any help that you can offer!

  CTownNick

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Dan_Bracuk
Inspiring
March 17, 2013

What function is giving you the error?

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Anonymous
March 17, 2013

Dan I was using REfind but I got the answer in another post that I posted.

What I had to do was sent up a field and load the form field into it, like the following...

<cfset stringToSearch = '#form.xxx#'>

 

<p>

<cfset foundit = '#FindNoCase("http",stringToSearch)#'>

<cfif foundit gt 0>

        <cflocation url="http://www.somewhere.com">

        <cfabort>

</cfif>

If there is no URL in the form field the rest of the script runs.

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Anonymous
March 17, 2013

Dan,

This is how I set the code up:

What I had to do was set up a field and load the form field into it, like the following...

<cfset stringToSearch = '#form.xxx#'>

(notice the single quotes, the code would not work if I used double quotes because there are double quotes in the URL that they entered, that was what was killing me in the first place using Refind!)

<p>

<cfset foundit = '#FindNoCase("http",stringToSearch)#'>

<cfif foundit gt 0>

        <cflocation url="http://www.somewhere.com">

        <cfabort>

</cfif>

If there is no URL in the form field the rest of the script runs.

Again thanks for taking the time to help me, I appreciated it very much!

Nick

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