CF linking with variables

[standal]

I want to give some background information first:

I am making an online book selling/trading for a small group of people. They
can request a book or sell a book. On the form where they add their information
(addbook.cfm), I want it to only display certain fields depending on what they
want to do. So if they wish to sell a book, I do not want the book requesting
field to be viewable.

I have an index.cfm page that will send them to addbook.cfm, but I want to
have two links: "Selling a Book" and "Requesting a Book". Depending on which
they click, they will only see the fields pertaining to their choice.

On addbook.cfm I have <cfparam name=decidebk default="sell"> where decidebk is
my variable that holds the information. around the table rows I have
<cfif decidebk is "buy"> (table row with this field) <cfelse> (table rows with
selling information) </cfif>

I was thinking that on the index page I would have
<a href="addbook.cfm?ID=#decidebk#">Sell a Book</a>
I dont think this is right, though, because I'm not sure how to tell it to
show the information for "Requesting a Book".

I know this is extremely long and probably very confusing but I have tried so
much to no avail. Anything will help!!

[Paul Whitham TMM]

If you have the ability to create links to the page from another with the
options specified then you are partially on the right track.

On your index page have links like this

<a href="addbook.cfm?action=Sell">Sell a book</a>
<a href="addbook.cfm?action=Request">Request a book</a>

Then on your addbook page start with the following

<cfif is defined("URL.action")>
<cfset decidebk = URL.action>
<cfelse>
<cfset decidebk = "Sell">
</cfif>

Then you can use this variable to show or hide the fields.

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Regards

Paul Whitham
Macromedia Certified Professional for Dreamweaver MX2004
Valleybiz Internet Design
[url]www.valleybiz.net[/url]

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> I want to give some background information first:
>
> I am making an online book selling/trading for a small group of people.

They

> can request a book or sell a book. On the form where they add their

information

> (addbook.cfm), I want it to only display certain fields depending on what

they

> want to do. So if they wish to sell a book, I do not want the book

requesting

> field to be viewable.
>
> I have an index.cfm page that will send them to addbook.cfm, but I want

to

> have two links: "Selling a Book" and "Requesting a Book". Depending on

which

> they click, they will only see the fields pertaining to their choice.
>
> On addbook.cfm I have <cfparam name=decidebk default="sell"> where

decidebk is

> my variable that holds the information. around the table rows I have
> <cfif decidebk is "buy"> (table row with this field) <cfelse> (table rows

with

> selling information) </cfif>
>
> I was thinking that on the index page I would have
> <a href="addbook.cfm?ID=#decidebk#">Sell a Book</a>
> I dont think this is right, though, because I'm not sure how to tell it

to

> show the information for "Requesting a Book".
>
> I know this is extremely long and probably very confusing but I have

tried so

> much to no avail. Anything will help!!
>