How to determine the type of Input?

[lizok]

Hello, i was wondering is there a way to determine the type of input used on the form?

i have a bunch of dynamic fields that i create on the fly: some are checkboxes, some are radio buttons, etc.

in Javascript id would be document.form.element.type

How would i do that in CF? (on Submit i am trying to determine the type of the input and then process the value of that input field)

thank you

 

[philhege]

The only info passed to the form action page is name/value pairs. You'd have to roll your own identifier collection or create metadata tags, i.e., for each element, have a correlating hidden form field that holds the element type, like

<input type="hidden" name="Myfield_type" value="checkbox">


<input type="checkbox" name="Myfield">

HTH,



Phil Hegedusich
Senior Programmer/Analyst
IIMAK

http://www.iimak.com

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[lizok]

Thank you for response. Maybe i am complicating things. i generate CF page on the fly. Some fields are checkboxes, some radio buttons. i was thinking about how will i know how to process data from those fields on the action page? if the dynamic input field is checkbox, i was thinking to check what type it was. if it's a checkbox then i'd use isdefined() and then update DB with value from that checkbox. and so on....maybe there is an easier way to do that

 

[ecobb]

Name all of your form elements so that you can later determine what they are.

<input type="checkbox" name="cb_MyCheckBoxfield">
<input type="radio" name="rb_MyRadioButtonfield">

---[i]action page[/i]---

<cfloop list="#form.fieldnames#" index="f">
  <cfif ListFirst(Form["#f#"],"_") EQ "cb">
      This is a Check Box:  #FORM[f]# - #f#
  <cfelseif ListFirst(Form["#f#"],"_") EQ "rb">
      This is a Radio Button:  #FORM[f]# - #f#
  </cfif>
</cfloop>

Hope This Helps!

ECAR
ECAR Technologies

http://www.ecartech.com

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[lizok]

thank you so much...i felt there was an easier way out