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ColdFusion 9 Developer Tutorial

You're reading from   ColdFusion 9 Developer Tutorial Create robust professional web applications with ColdFusion

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849690249
Length 388 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

ColdFusion 9 Developer Tutorial
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
1. Preface
1. Web Pages—Static to Dynamic 2. Basic CFCs and Database Interaction FREE CHAPTER 3. Power CFCs and Web Forms 4. ORM Database Interaction 5. Application, Session, and Request Scope 6. Authentication and Permissions 7. CFScript 8. CF AJAX User Interface 9. CF AJAX Forms 10. CF AJAX Programming 11. Introduction to Custom Tags 12. ColdFusion Powered Views 13. Control Logic Processing 14. Guide to Unit Testing Beyond this Book Tools and Resources Index

Getting data to our edit page


The current page looks similar to the page where we put the form. To get the data from our database onto the page, we need to do a few things here. First, let us change the action of the form tag to product_edit.cfm. We can modify the processing section of the page first, which will make things simpler. Add the following code to your product_edit.cfm page:

<!--- Processing --->
<cfparam name="url.id" default="0">
<cfscript>
  objProduct = createObject("component","product").init(dsn="cfb");
  objProduct.load(url.id);
</cfscript>

We need the default value set so that we do not receive an error message if the page is called without an id. After we set our default, we will see that we have created an object from our CFC object class. This time, we are passing the Data Source Name dsn into the object through the constructor method. This makes our code more portable, and ready for reuse. Once we have an instance, we set the current record using...

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