Chapter 26: Retrieving And Formatting Data - MACROMEDIA COLDFUSION MX 61-DEVELOPING COLDFUSION MX Develop Manual

CHAPTER 26
Retrieving and Formatting Data
This chapter explains how to use HTML forms to control the data displayed by a dynamic web
page. It also describes how to populate an HTML table with query results and how to use
ColdFusion functions to format and manipulate data.
Contents
Using forms to specify the data to retrieve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560
Working with action pages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564
Working with queries and data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567
Returning results to the user . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570
Dynamically populating list boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574
Creating dynamic check boxes and multiple-selection list boxes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576
Validating form field data types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579
559