How to you save form data on a form submitted to itself?

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November 22, 2013
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I haven't touched cold fusion in 10 years so I'm a bit out of practice. I have a request from a user to save the form data on a form she submitted. I looked at the code and even made it just a simple form with no cf tags at all. And it still deletes the form data, is there a way to save it when the user clicks submit? I've tried adding the preservedata = "true" and that doens't help either. Any thoughts would be great.

Thanks

Laura

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tribule

Brainiac

Laura, use hidden form fields to pass the data in the form forward. This is the most common way of passing form data back to the same template.

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mayer4Author

Participating Frequently

I'll give it a shot thanks.

Carl Von Stetten

Brainiac

@mayer4,

When you say "save form data", are you referring to saving the data to a database? Or some other persistence mechanism? Can you clarify what you want to achieve?

-Carl V.

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mayer4Author

Participating Frequently

Sorry about that. The original page shows all the data. The form gets entered and then the user clicks submit....

and now the form data is gone with the data from the search displayed.

Thanks

Laura

Carl Von Stetten

Brainiac

If you are submittiing the form to itself (to the same page that contains the form), then what I do typically is:

Add <cfparam> tags at the top of the page to define defaults for the form fields, usually an empty string: <cfparam name="form.myField" default="">
Put the form inside a <cfoutput> block.
Put the default values into the form fields: <input id="myField" name="myField" type="text" value="#form.myField#">

Now the form will show the value that was submitted to it. No hidden form fields required.

-Carl V.

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