Question

I have a page that has around 30 different entry fields, one of the top fields is a textfield and after this is filled in, I want to populate a dropdown and a textfield. I currently have it calling a javascript function, however my main problem is that I need to query the database to find out what value to populate the fields with.

Here is the type of thing I was trying to do:

function populateState(){

<cfquery name="getState" datasource="#application.dsn#">
    SELECT STATE_CODE, CODE_ID
    FROM LERG_LATA_V1 LEFT OUTER JOIN Code ON STATE_CODE = CHAR1_TX
    WHERE NPX = #NPANXX#
</cfquery>
}

And then after that I would need to read the result and select that element. Any suggestions on how to do this? Most of what I am finding on my google searches are saying you cannot mix cf and js since they execute at different times.

Answer 1

You need to either create a state JavaScript array with your query, and then reference that in your javascript, or use the built-in cfselect tag binding to make this happen. Here’s a simple example of how I do this:

http://www.dansshorts.com/post/cfselect-binding-and-selectedvalues

Dan