Using Automatic Server-Side Validation
Server-side validation is the safest and most secure form of form field validation, but it can also become a maintenance nightmare. ColdFusion to the rescue!
ColdFusion enables developers to embed basic form validation instructions within an HTML form. These instructions are embedded as hidden form fields. They get sent to the user’s browser along with the rest of the form fields, but they aren’t displayed to the user. When the user submits the form back to the Web server, however, those hidden fields are submitted too—and ColdFusion can then use them to perform automatic field validation.
These hidden form fields serve as validation rules, and ColdFusion can generate them for you automatically. It does ...
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