Form Submission Error Messages

If you enter a movie title into the field and submit the form right now, you will receive a ColdFusion error message like the one in Figure 12.2. This error says that file form1_action.cfm can’t be found.

Figure 12.2. ColdFusion returns an error message when it can’t process your request.

This error message is perfectly valid, of course. You submitted a form to be passed to ColdFusion and processed it with a template, but you haven’t created that template yet. So your next task is to create a template to process the form submission.

Get Adobe ColdFusion 8 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 1: Getting Started now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.