Passing an ID in a URL as a variable

[north_dave]

I am trying to do the following...

Take a URL www.site.com and append it with www.site.com/index.cfm?id=3 where id can really equal any number.

I can do this and pass the data on the same page like so

REFER TO ATTACHED CODE PLEASE...

This will work in the scope of the page I have it written. What I am doing is adding the subject with the addition of a number to very some email for marketing.

I am using the same template form to have users fill out and then <CFMAIL> to send the mail out with #subject# being pulled from the page that I have CFSET the URL.ID. If I do a <CFSET subject="this is the email subject"> without the URL.ID things work fine.

Is there any way I can pass the URL.ID number to my template to correctly label my subject line?

Thanks!
Dave

[tclaremont]

Although using variables in a URL is not really recommended, will this work?

www.site.com/index.cfm?id=3&URL.ID=#URL.ID#

[north_dave]

tclaremont your idea did not work for me. I can actually get a variable number by appending like so www.site.com?id=5 where 5 is the number I assigned to the page. I can then get that to show as output like

<CFOUTPUT>
Here is the number #URL.id#
</CFOUTPUT>

I will get 5. The problem is when I try to pass that as the a variable called subject to an email it does not work.

Dave

[Newsgroup_User]

> I will get 5. The problem is when I try to pass that as the a variable called
> subject to an email it does not work.
>

How are you passing it has a subject to an email?

<cfmail ... subject="Something is #url.id#" ...> has always worked for me.

[north_dave]

That's right I am doing something similar. subject="blah blah #URL.id#." but I am trying to pass this variable #Subject# through an CFINCLUDE of my form / email template.

[tclaremont]

I am with Ian on this one. We need a better explanation of what is going on.


If you use the following:
www.site.com/index.cfm?id=3&URL.ID=#URL.ID#

Do you get an error? Variable not defined? What is the failure mode?