htmlEditFormat and form submission 1

[jimmyshoes]

The urls I am working with look like this

page.cfm?somevar=1&anothervar=2

<form name="someForm" action="#urlStr#" method="post">

This works fine. I get the form variables and the url variables

However if I use htmlEditFormat as follows

<form name="someForm" action="#htmlEditFormat(urlStr)#" method="post">

then anothervar comes through as amp;anothervar=2

Why is this? Should I stop using htmlEditFormat(...), or is it bad practice to add variables to the action url when submitting a form

 

[cfSearching]

Why is this?

It is because of the "&". Ampersands are the delimiter for url variables. They indicate where each key/value pair ends and another begins:

page.cfm?key1=value1&key2=value2&key3=value3

or is it bad practice to add variables to the action url when submitting a form

No it is perfectly fine. You just have the wrong function. URL variables should be encoded with URLEncodedFormat.

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[jimmyshoes]

Thanks very much for your help

 

[cfSearching]

Welcome

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