Question

Hi I have the following code. I am trying to figure out how to get test_xml= xmlEditor.getXmlAsString(); line into a coldfusion variable from this script.

I have tried.

 <cfset myXML = qQuery[test_xml]>

This returns nothing. Here is the raw script below. Can anyone tell me what I am missing.

 //get output xml from edited
$('#xml_output').click(function() {

        try {
            test_xml= xmlEditor.getXmlAsString();
            //file_xml= xmlEditor.W
            //test_xml1= encodeURI(test_xml).replace(/%5B/g, '[').replace(/%5D/g, ']');

            //GLR.messenger.show({msg:"Generating file...", mode:"loading"});
            //GLR.messenger.inform({msg:"File saved Successfully.", mode:"success"});
            $('.final_area').val(test_xml);
            $('.final_xml').css('display','block');

        } catch(e) {
            GLR.messenger.show({msg:"Something went wrong, Please try again later....",mode:"error"});
        }
});

Answer 1

If you are trying to get a variable back to coldfusion from javascript, you are going to need to look into something like AJAX.

You could use something like this to send the variable to a cfm page:

$.post("variable.cfm" + jsvariable,function(data,status){
   alert("Data: " + data + "\nStatus: " + status);
});

This would sent the jsvariable variable back to the coldfusion page, where you could return what you wanted to, what is returned would be in the data variable.