Adobe ColdFusion 8 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 1: Getting Started

Adding Data with ColdFusion

Now that you learned all about forms and form data validation in the previous two chapters, it’s time to combine the two so as to be able to add and update database table data.

→	See Chapter 12, “ColdFusion Forms,” to learn about HTML forms and how to use them within your ColdFusion applications.

→	See Chapter 13, “Form Data Validation,” for coverage of form field validation techniques and options.

When you created the movie search forms in Chapter 12, you had to create two templates for each search. One creates the user search screen that contains the search form, and the other performs the actual search using the ColdFusion <cfquery> tag. ColdFusion developers usually refer to these as the <form> and action pages, ...