Feedback: How to update/edit data using Cold Fusion

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How to update/edit data using Cold Fusion

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I've done identical on our Intranet for accessing our phone book via the web page. However, I think your method of adding a "from" variable is too restrictive/cumbersome. Simply check for the existence of the variables needed for your application to function.

By taking this approach on our phonebook application, a novice Perl user at our site was able to easily write a script so that

$phone <lastname>

works quite well without launching a browser on systems with Perl!

Note that I don't explicitly check if it's a URL or FORM variable type; why restrict it to either method?

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I hope she will write another article on how to do multiple updates.

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Very worth reading

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Your article just saved me about 2 days worth of headaches and coding errors. Thanks :)