Newbie help please

[mitel_ford]

I am creating a basic shopping cart. The products are retreived from a database
and looped through and displayed on the page. Each product has a text field for
the user to enter a quantity and a 'buy now' button to add to their cart. The
buy now button works fine, I use URL variables and the <cfinsert> tag to update
the cart with the info associated with whichever buy now button is pressed. The
value of the text field needs to update the quantity field in the same database
table but without submitting the form the variable is undefined using
#form.text_box_name#. I need an entry box that updates as soon as the user
changes it and that I can name and include in a URL, or something that will do
the same job.

Please help!!!!

[Aegis Kleais]

Coldfusion cannot do this. It is a Server Side Application language. If you
want something on-the-fly, you'll either need to use something that can
maintain an active connection, like Flash and Actionscript, or client-side
technology such as Javascript. You could use Coldfusion to dynamically write
the Javascript. The Javascript can then use onXXX event handlers to change the
data right as the user alters it.

Also, I would be careful submitting values in the URL. Users can break
systems by looking at the syntax and then passing SQL Inject commands that can
give them data they should not have.

[Little Ronnie]

I new to the Dreamweaver world so please excuse my ignorance.

I created an online form and I am trying to get the information enterned
into the form into an email. How do I get that information into an email?

I am using Dreamweaver 8.

[Murray *ACE*]

There are only two ways to process form data -

1. Use mailto:name@domain.com as the action of the form
2. Use a server-side scripting method to a) harvest the form's data, b)
process it in some manner, e.g., enter it into a database, c) formulate and
send an email to one or more email recipients, and d) redirect the visitor
to some ending page

Method 1 is quite simple, and is also the least reliable. It depends both
on your visitor having an email client already installed on their computer -
this eliminates public computers, or home users without email clients
installed (more and more it seems) - and on the installed email client
responding to
the mailto call. It is not possible to use this method *and* send the
visitor to a
thank you page as well.

Method 2 is the preferred method, since it eliminates the problems of method
1, but it means that you have to grapple with server-scripting somehow (ASP,
CF, PHP, perl, etc.).

You would have to decide which of these methods is best for your needs,
but if it's Method 2, then start by asking your host what they provide for
form
processing.

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"Little Ronnie" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:ed7ghn$o1f$1@forums.macromedia.com...

>I new to the Dreamweaver world so please excuse my ignorance.
>
> I created an online form and I am trying to get the information enterned
> into the form into an email. How do I get that information into an
> email?
>
> I am using Dreamweaver 8.
>