Passing two form variables in a single URL

Question

I'm running the following form inside abc.cfm.

// Parameters Defined

     <cfparam name="startdate" default="#DateFormat(dateAdd('d',-40,now()), 'yyyy-mm-dd')#">
<cfparam name="enddate" default="#DateFormat(dateAdd('d',-1,now()), 'yyyy-mm-dd')#">






     <cfform format="HTML" action="datedownload.cfm" method="get" >


    <cfformgroup type="horizontal">

      <cfinput type="dateField" name="startdate"  width="100" value="#startdate#">
      <cfinput type="dateField" name="enddate"  width="100" value="#enddate#">
      <cfinput name="submitApply" type="submit" value = "Apply">

        <cfinput type="button" name="download" value="Download" onclick="window.location.href='datedownload.cfm?startdate=#form.startdate#&enddate=#form.enddate#path=http://abc.xyz.com/username/July30/datedownload.cfm'"> 




        </cfformgroup>



        </cfform>

Everything is printing fine with the following code in datedownload.cfm

Startdate: <cfdump var = "#startdate#">
End Date :<cfdump var = "#enddate#">

Except that, the Enddate is printing full path along with it as follows:

Startdate: 2013-06-20 End Date : 2013-07-29path=http://abc.xyz.com/username/July30/datedownload.cfm 

How can I remove the stuff starting from path?

Answer 1

If I am reading this correctly, you are getting an error that startdate and enddate are not defined in the form scope when you try to load download.cfm. Since you are passing those variables to download.cfm as part of a query string (by submitting the form using GET), they would not be present in the form scope.

I can think of 2 quick and easy solutions:

First, you can change your reference to form.startdate and form.enddate to url.formdate and url.enddate respectively. Variables passed in as part of the query string (like when you do a GET) become part of the url scope, not the form scope (liek when you do a POST).

Second, you can param the variables like this in download.cfm:

<cfparam name="url.startdate" default="#DateFormat(dateAdd('d',-40,now()), 'yyyy-mm-dd')#">
<cfparam name="url.enddate" default="#DateFormat(dateAdd('d',-1,now()), 'yyyy-mm-dd')#">
<cfparam name="form.startdate" default="#url.startdate#">
<cfparam name="form.enddate" default="#url.enddate#">

This will first param the values in the url scope to the same values you have in the page that displays the form, then it will param the same variable names in the form scope to the same value of the same variable names in the URL scope.