Question

I have written this piece of CF code to get and display the data from database. (Actually to populate text fields.) The problem: I am not getting values from the query, but I am correctly getting the number of records.

How am I supposed to access the values returned by the query via a cfloop? Below is my work.

<cfquery name="data_query" datasource="#dsn#">
  SELECT 
    id,
    name
  FROM learning
</cfquery> 


<cfloop query=data_query">
  <li>
    <div class="list_div clearfix">
      <input type="text" value="#URLDecode(name)#">
    </div>
  </li>
</cfloop>
</cfquery>

Answer 1

You have two options:

1. Wrap the vars output line with <cfoutput /> tags:

   <cfoutput>#id#: <input type="text" value="#name#"></cfoutput>

2. Use <cfoutput query="data_query"> loop instead of <cfloop ...>

For the sake of cleaner code I would prefer the second option so your code would be:

<cfquery name="data_query" datasource="#dsn#">
    SELECT 
        id,
        name
    FROM learning
</cfquery> 

<cfoutput query="data_query">
    <li>
        <div class="list_div clearfix">
            #id#: <input type="text" value="#name#">
        </div>
    </li>
</cfoutput>