Very Old Coldfusion Code Suddenly Crashing

[zzapper]

Hi
We have some code which hasn't been updated for years (I think mainly written for CF4.5). The Web hosting company swears they haven't upgraded the CF Server S/W either.

This is the type of error:
Element CHKSHOWTOPICS is undefined in FORM line xxx

even though there is a CFParam at the top
<cfparam name="form.chkShowTopics" default="">

The solution is to insert the following in the form
<input type="hidden" name="chkShowTopics" value="">

MY QUESTION: Why is this suddenly happening after 5 years or so? Is it a server setting?



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[LyndonOHRC]

You should post some code of a template that is failing. I'm wondering if the variable was being created on the client with javascript and your client machine has changed. Just a wild guess though.

Lyndon

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