Why have my CFFORM's suddenly broken - using CFFORM in a hosted environment
Previous versions of ColdFusion, ie: pre-CFMX,
generated the CFFORM validation JavaScripts on the fly. CFMX differs in that it
now included in a seperate file "cfform.js" in the CFIDE/scripts folder.
Unfortunately you might, as I am, be using a shared hosting environment (often
called "multi-homed" where, for good reason, the CFIDE folder is not accessible
as a web folder in the usual way. Often the hosting provider will password
protect the CFIDE folder our move it out of a web accessible folder altogether.
The same thing applies to the CFWDDX tag so if you are having a similar issue
the fix is the same(ish).
Step 1:
Upload the CFFORM.JS file (located in your localhost/cfide/scripts folder) to
your web site root.
Step 2:
In your "application.cfm" template add the following line of code. You may need
to adjust the IP address but try 127.0.0.1 by default as this will usually work
in a hosted environment anyway.
Make sure the CFFORM.JS file is located in your web site root or in a
subdirectory (adjust the URL if needed).
Step 3:
Now replace your existing opening CFFORM tag with the following:
<cfform scriptsrc="#Request.CFFORM_JS_LIB#"
...>
The scriptsrc attribute is new to CFMX. Use the other CFFORM attributes (name,
enctype, etc) as you normally would except that under CFMX the method="post"
attribute has been deprecated and is no longer required except.
Your CFFORMs should now work as they always did previously and you will no
longer receive embarrassing JS error alerts.
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