Tag Documentation

cf_sebForm

Description

cf_sebForm provides a simple interface to handle client-side validation and server-side validation. It can also handle simple CRUD interactions with a database or send email. Alternatively, it can call a specified component method after handling validation. The output of cf_sebForm can be skinned and/or customized.

Attributes

Action Type: (all) table | email | CFC | form
Data Retrieval Method: (all) table | query | CFC
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Attribute

Req/Opt

Default

Description

formname

optional

 

A name for the form.

name

optional

 

Shortcut for the "formname" attribute.

id

optional

 

The "id" attribute for the form.

pkfield

required

 

The name of the primary key field for the table cf_sebForm should use. Required for use with table and query.

recordid

optional

URL.id

The value of the primary key field for the record being edited. If left blank or invalid, then cf_sebForm will add a new record on submission.

forward

required

 

The url (absolute or relative) of the page that the user should be forwarded to upon completion of the form submission.

action

optional

 

Name of ColdFusion page to execute when the form is submitted for processing. Use of this attribute will eliminate automatic server-side validation and processing by this tag.

librarypath

optional

/lib/

The URL of the client-side script files.

datasource

optional

 

Datasource name. If left blank, cf_sebForm will not attempt to add or update and database records.

dbtable

optional

 

The name of the database table that cf_sebForm should use. Required if a datasource is provided.

skin

optional

 

The skin used by cf_sebForm (from librarypath/skins). Current options are [carpediem,graybar,panels,plain]. You can also make your own skin (see below)

skinpath

optional

#attributes.librarypath#skins/

The path to the CSS files for each skin.

skins

optional

 

An optional structure to define any custom skins. Each key name should match the name of the skin being defined. Each key should be a structure defining attribute names with default values for the skin.

format

optional

semantic

Set format of form. If a format is provided by the skin, that will be used if set here. Config attribute will override format attribute.

  • semantic
  • table

pktype

optional

identity

Type of primary key field used by the database. Identity is used for any auto-increment datatype.

  • guid
  • identity

objname

optional

jsqForm

The name of the qforms object for this form. You must set this manually if you plan to have more than one cf_sebForm on the same page.

altertable

optional

false

A boolean value. If set to true, cf_sebForm will attempt to create or alter the table used for the tag to match the fields provided (it will add fields, but it will not remove them).

dbtype

optional

 

The code for the database that you are using. Required if database is provided and altertable is true.

  • msa
  • sql
  • mys

config

optional

 

An optional structure that can be passed in to change the output by cf_sebForm.

validations

optional

 

An optional structure to define any custom validations. Each key name should match the value of the "type" attribute used to indicate this type. The value of each key should be the regular expression to validate that type.

enctype

optional

 

Sets the enctype attribute of the form tag. Note that you do not generally need to set this attribute as cf_sebForm will automatically set it to the correct value for a file upload if one is present.

method

optional

post

This is the same as the method attribute in a <form> tag.

  • get
  • post

target

optional

 

The target frame or window for the form submission.

CatchErrTypes

optional

 

A list of error-types that should be caught by cf_sebForm as part of server-side validation.

debug

optional

false

Normally sebForm will suppress errors retrieving data for the form. Set debug=true to have it rethrow any errors retrieving data for the form.

returnvar

optional

sebForm

The name of a variables returned by sebForm with information about the form.