Sending something to URL

[ITGL72]

I have done this before and now I simply cant find the code snippert on how I did it.
Heres what I am trying to accomplish.

I have a form with one form box. I enter an ID# in this form box. Click submit, and I want it to go in the URL at the end of something that looks like this for example:

http://www.website.com/cgi-bin/carpgen?carpid=(HERE

I WANT WHAT I PUT IN THE FORM BOX)

I think I used the GET method on the one box form.
Anyone have the quick fix to this? below is what I started with, obviously not correct :-(


<CFFORM METHOD=&quot;GET&quot; ACTION=&quot;

http://www.website.com/cgi-bin/carpgen?carpid=&quot;>

<CFINPUT TYPE=&quot;Text&quot; NAME=&quot;carpid&quot; MESSAGE=&quot;Must Enter ID!&quot; REQUIRED=&quot;Yes&quot; CLASS=&quot;INPUT&quot;>
</CFFORM>

 

[Silvano]

you can use onsubmit event to set the action attribute of the form tag:

onsubmit=&quot;JavaScript:window.frmName.action.value='

http://www.website.com/cgi-bin/carpgen?carpid='+window.frmName.carpid.value;&quot;

Sylvano
dsylvano@hotmail.com

 

[pcorreia]

What you're describing is exactly the behavior of the GET method of form submittal. When you specify

method="GET"

, the user agent appends the form fields as name/value pairs to the request URL specified in the

action

attribute of the form. It sounds like this is exactly what you are looking for, and you were really close to figuring it out. It's simpler than you thought.

<form method=&quot;GET&quot; action==&quot;[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.website.com/cgi-bin/carpgen&quot;>;[/URL]
   <input type=&quot;Text&quot; name=&quot;carpid&quot; class=&quot;INPUT&quot;>
</form>

Unfortunately, even if you specify

method="GET"

for a

<cfform>

, ColdFusion overrides it and specifies

method=POST

in the

<form>

element on the resulting page. This is just one of the many drawbacks to using

<cfform>

. I recommend you stick to regular

<form>

and

<input>

tags and handle the validation yourself You could even adapt the functions that ColdFusion uses; just &quot;View Source&quot; on any page that uses a

<cfform>

tag.