Understanding <CFFORM>
In Day 7, "Changing the Contents of a Database with ColdFusion," you learned how ColdFusion works with standard HTML forms to insert and update data stored in a database. The examples in that chapter showed how to create a Web input form using the HTML <FORM> tag, and how to designate a ColdFusion template as the action page of that form. When a user filled out the form and pressed the "submit" button, the collected data was sent to the designated ColdFusion template in the form of a URL.
ColdFusion's <CFFORM> serves as a more feature-rich replacement for HTML's <FORM> tag. <CFORM> works with similar elements like <FORM>, it also requires a defined ACTION page, and also submits collected data via a URL. But it goes beyond ...
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