Dynamic textfield creation in coldfusion - forms

Question

I'm fairly new to Coldfusion, we are using MX 7, and i'm trying to figure out how to populate a page based on user input. The goal is to have the user specify how many products they want to input into an order form and display that many textfields.
Any help would be appreciated.
EDIT: I found how to do this using jQuery but i'm still having a problem populating the textfields with information from the database. Here is what I have:
function fillfields(oSel){
var oForm=oSel.form;
switch(oSel.options[oSel.selectedIndex].value){
case '0': break;
case'1':oForm.ShipCompany2.value="#company_name.Company#";
oForm.ShipName2.value="#company_name.Name#";
oForm.ShipLine3.value="#company_name.Address1#";
oFrom.ShipLine4.value="#company_name.Address2#";
oForm.ShipCity2.value="#company_name.City#";
oForm.ShipState2.value="#company_name.State#";
oForm.ShipZipcode2.value="#company_name.ZipCode#";
break;
case '2':
break;
case '3':
break;
}
}
This won't work. Is there another way to populate this?

Answer 1

Somewhere in your CFM page, you have code that looks like:
function fillfields(oSel){
var oForm=oSel.form;
switch(oSel.options[oSel.selectedIndex].value){
case '0': break;
case'1':oForm.ShipCompany2.value="#company_name.Company#";
oForm.ShipName2.value="#company_name.Name#";
oForm.ShipLine3.value="#company_name.Address1#";
oFrom.ShipLine4.value="#company_name.Address2#";
oForm.ShipCity2.value="#company_name.City#";
oForm.ShipState2.value="#company_name.State#";
oForm.ShipZipcode2.value="#company_name.ZipCode#";
break;
case '2':
break;
case '3':
break;
}
}
Modify this to:
<cfoutput>
function fillfields(oSel){
var oForm=oSel.form;
switch(oSel.options[oSel.selectedIndex].value){
case '0': break;
case'1':oForm.ShipCompany2.value="#company_name.Company#";
oForm.ShipName2.value="#company_name.Name#";
oForm.ShipLine3.value="#company_name.Address1#";
oFrom.ShipLine4.value="#company_name.Address2#";
oForm.ShipCity2.value="#company_name.City#";
oForm.ShipState2.value="#company_name.State#";
oForm.ShipZipcode2.value="#company_name.ZipCode#";
break;
case '2':
break;
case '3':
break;
}
}
</cfoutput>
This will pick up the fields from the company_name structure, assuming that the company_name struture exists when you are rendering this section of code.