Lesson 4. Using Forms with ColdFusion

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Forms are an important aspect of many successful Web sites. Forms are available in HTML; you don't need ColdFusion to build them. But you do need ColdFusion to process the information that is entered into forms ”the information you collect from your audience and use to build order pages and to perform a host of other tasks . You can, for example, use ColdFusion to email information that was submitted from a form, store or update information in a database, or simply redisplay the information.

In this lesson you will be working with a simple contact form used to send comments or questions.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

In this lesson, you will:

  • Learn the basics of HTML forms

  • Use server-side validation

  • Display information from a form

  • Generate default form variables

  • Email form information once it is submitted

  • Use HTML with your emails

APPROXIMATE TIME

This lesson takes approximately 1 hour to complete.

LESSON FILES

Starting files:

Lesson4\Start\basicform.cfm

Lesson4\Start\formoutput.cfm

Completed files:

Lesson4\Complete\basicformfin.cfm

Lesson4\Complete\formoutputfin.cfm

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Macromedia ColdFusion 5. Training from the Source
Macromedia ColdFusion 5 Training from the Source (With CD-ROM)
ISBN: 0201758474
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2002
Pages: 99
Authors: Kevin Schmidt

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