Comments on: Unwanted ColdFusion form validation

By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:35:11 +0000

On a related note, form variables named with “_time” will burn you in a similarly mysterious manner. http://brad.melendy.com/?p=11

By: Michael Sharman

Michael Sharman — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 23:43:28 +0000

I updated the post with some more info…see the Update area

By: todd sharp

todd sharp — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:33:55 +0000

grrr..stripped my tag –

“cfform just creates a form…”

By: todd sharp

todd sharp — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:33:29 +0000

Remember though – cfform just creates a on the client. There must be some automatic validation on the server when a form is submitted regardless of the tag used to create the form. How else would CF know to validate on the action page other then by creating form fields with the suffix syntax that they’ve come up with? I do see how you’d get tripped up though.

By: Michael Sharman

Michael Sharman — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:26:33 +0000

Hi Todd,

I remember reading your post, note the difference here is that I wasn’t using cfform, just a plain old form tag.

Odd eh?

By: todd sharp

todd sharp — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:19:54 +0000

Been there…

http://cfsilence.com/blog/client/index.cfm/2007/2/27/cfform-Server-Side-Validation-Gotcha

By: Ben Nadel

Ben Nadel — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:02:31 +0000

Yeah, I think that is such a silly form of form validation. I with that was something that could be turned off. Does anyone actually use that any more?

I have had to change the way I name date variables in general just to work around that. Where I used to have “start_date”, I now have to have “date_started” because “_date” validates as a date.

I think this was in use back in like CF 2 or something when error handling was much more difficult.

By: Tom Chiverton

Tom Chiverton — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:06:13 +0000

s/strange/expected behaviour/