Textbox Entry - Set as Two Variables 2

[sysadmin07]

Hi,

I'm trying to send a user-entered field from a textbox into two ColdFusion variables. For example, if I have
<input name="test"> and I want it to also equal "test2", how would I go about setting them equal?

Thanks.

 

[sysadmin07]

Can anyone please help? I've looked everywhere, but cannot find any examples.

Thanks.

 

[GUJUm0deL]

On the action page just set the variable to the form value.

ON FORM PAGE:
<input name="test">

ON ACTION PAGE:
<cfset test1 = "#FORM.test#">
<cfset test2 = "#FORM.test#">

If this is not what you need then please give more info so we can help better...

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[sysadmin07]

Thanks for the help. I've tried your suggestion, but I'm getting a "Variable TEST is undefined" error. Test and Test1 are getting written to a database, so should I modify the notation for this?

I've written it as shown below and also tried it your way, to no avail:

ON FORM PAGE:
<input name="test">

ON ACTION PAGE:
<cfset "#test1#" = "#FORM.test#">

 

[GUJUm0deL]

You can't do something like cfset "#test1#". Test1 has to be the variable name, not a variable itself. Why do you have the cfset as #test1#?

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[sysadmin07]

I have cfset as #test1# because it's the name of the database record that I'm trying to set equal to #test#.

Thanks.

 

[sysadmin07]

Tried about every combination I could think of, but nothing is happening. Here are some details:

-Form page
-Page name is formtest
-<input name="test">

-Action page (separate CF page, btw)
-<cfset test1 = "#formtest.test#">

Is this correct? If so, I can't get it working.

Thank you for your help.

 

[GUJUm0deL]

I have cfset as #test1# because it's the name of the database record that I'm trying to set equal to #test#.

Are trying to see if the FORM.test value matches #test1# (which is a dB record)? What do you plan on doing if the values match?

Why not do a <cfif>?

<cfif #queryName.test1# EQ #FORM.test#>
Record matches
<cfelse>
Does not match
</cfif>

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[sysadmin07]

I always want them to be equal, so I don't need a cfif (thanks for the suggestion though). For example, if "hello" is entered into the "test" textbox, I want "test1" to also have that value; so when they're written to my database, both fields will have equal values.

Thank you

 

[jstreich]

<cfset test1 = "[red]#formtest.[/red]test#">

Should be, regarless of the name of the page before:

<cfset test1 = [green]form.test[/green]>

[green]form[/green] is a variable scope, [red]formtest[/red] is a page name which coldfusion doesn't need or care about.

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[sysadmin07]

After setting them equal using <cfset test1 = form.test>, I'm trying to set a textbox's value to test1. I can't seem to get it to output correctly. I've tried every combination I can think of (e.g. value="#test1#"). What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

 

[GUJUm0deL]

Will the checkbox be checked as well? Or, just set the value of the it to #test1#?

Show us some code you've done so far and we can help tweak it.

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[Dave3462]

If the variables are only used for inserting the value of #form.test# into the two db columns, why use variables at all?

Example1:
INSERT INTO db_TBL(test1,test2)
VALUES('#form.test#','#form.test#')

Only if there will be further need to manipulate the values (ie.. using a CF Function to add, remove, change the value in any way) do you really need to set a variable.

Example2:

<cfset test1 = "#FORM.test#">
<cfset test2 = "#FORM.test#">

INSERT INTO db_TBL(test1,test2)
VALUES('#test1#','#test2#')

OR
Example3:

<cfparam name="test1" default="Your default value">
<cfparam name="test2" default="Your default value">

INSERT INTO db_TBL(test1,test2)
VALUES('#test1#','#test2#')

 

[Dave3462]

OOPS,
Disregard example3 in last post. Wouldn't work..

Dave

 

[sysadmin07]

Thanks for the help. I've listed some information below for clarification, as I still can't seem to get this working. I'm now looking into creating a session variable and the main problem seems to be trying to output the contents of the "test2" session variable in a textbox, which is explained below.

User enters various information on form page via textbox
-Form page
--Page name is formtest
--<input name="test">

-Action page (separate CF page)
--I simultaneously enter the textbox info into an Access database and also want to set the session variable "test2" = "test" (unless it should be performed on another page)
--I would also like to have a textbox on this page showing the contents of the session variable "test2," but I can't get it to work properly. I've tried every combination I can think of, but no luck (e.g. <CFSET session.test2="#form.test#">

 

[sysadmin07]

Okay, so I've gotten the session variable established, however, I'm having an issue calling it as a value in one of my textboxes. Here are the relevant chunks of my code on my action page:

<cfset session.test2=form.test>

<input name="test3" value="#session.test2#">
//This part won't work. The session.test2 value can't be called as the initial value of a textbox for some reason. The textbox's value will be shown as the text "#session.test2#" instead of the value stored in session.test2