Enhancing The Trip Maintenance Application; Using An Html Form To Collect Data - MACROMEDIA COLDFUSION MX 61-GETTING STARTED BUILDING COLDFUSION MX Getting Started

Enhancing the Trip Maintenance application

In this lesson and the next, you will create the code to implement the remaining maintenance
buttons on the main Trip Maintenance application page. The remaining buttons are Add and
Edit.
You will develop the data entry form to capture new trip information and validate the data
entered against Compass Travel business rules. You will then modify the data entry form to edit
existing trips. In the next lesson, you will continue to build on this application by adding logic to
insert and update the data to the Compass Travel database.
The following list identifies the trip edit components that you will create in this lesson.
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Trip Edit page
and edit existing trips. The page will be launched from the Add and Edit buttons on the main
Trip Maintenance application page (tripdetail.cfm). The fields required to capture trip
information are the same as those on the Trip Detail page that you used to display trip
information in
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Trip Edit Action page
passed from the Trip Edit page into the trips table of the Compass Travel database. In this
lesson you will only add the logic to validate the data entered on the Trip Edit page.

Using an HTML form to collect data

Based on the data requirements determined in
Application, the following figure shows the Trip Edit data collection page:
94 Chapter 8: Lesson 4: Validating Data to Enforce Business Rules
You will create the Trip Edit page (see the following figure) to add new trips
Lesson 3: Creating a Main Application
You will develop an action page that will insert or update trip data
Page.
Lesson 1: Preparing to Build the Sample