Help with "if...then" statements in Coldfusion

[sterek]

I'm a novice programmer trying to write a conditional statement coldfusion page for our site. There are 4 questions for the users to complete. Three of them are radio 'yes' or 'no' buttons. The 4th questions is a checkbox question with 3 options. Selecting different answers to the 4 questions produces different results. We do not have a database so I can't do a query. How can I program this so they can get the correct outcome?

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[iza]

at the first place, do you HAVE TO use coldfusion, or can you use jscript ???
what do you mean with "produce different results" : do you want the user to be redirected to other pages ? or only a different message ?

if you want to use cfusion and not to redirect, you'll have to set 2 pages :
- on the first one is the form, with the form.action set to the url of the 2nd page (say <form ... action=&quot;my_second_page.cfm&quot; ...> ... </form>)
- on the second one you now have the selected values for each radiobutton/checkbox, and that's where you you can write your conditionnal statement
<cfif check_on eq &quot;on&quot;>...</cfif><cfif radiobt eq &quot;value&quot;> ...</cfif>

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[sterek]

Thanks. I don't have to use coldfusion, but I don't know how to program it in javascript.

The user will not be directed to a new page - they will only get a different message. There are a total of 9 message the user could get by answering the questions different ways. So, there can really be no CFPARAM set.

I have the form and the action pages set up. I have one huge conditional if...then statement set up and I'm getting a problem with the message that is displayed depending on how the user answers the questions.

Please feel free to check out my test page at:

http://www.seeclearly.com/formpage2.cfm

--- go ahead and test it and you will see what I mean. Thanks. [sig][/sig]