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Ray Camden

Raymond Camden

coldfusionjedi.com

Created:
23 January 2006
User Level:
Beginner
Products:
Coldfusion

Validating Input Parameters with ColdFusion

Team Macromedia member Raymond Camden presents a topic on validating input parameters. This presentation covers what is, essentially, a very simple topic: ensuring that the values your web application expects to receive (such as URL parameters, form parameters, and so forth) are actually valid.

Although this is an important topic, websites rarely validate such parameters. After this presentation, you'll learn how easy it is to create an error handler based on input validation (see Figure 1).

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Validating form input

Figure 1. Validating form input

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About the author

Raymond Camden is a software consultant focusing on ColdFusion and RIA development. A long time ColdFusion user, Raymond has worked on numerous ColdFusion books including the ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit and has contributed to the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update and the ColdFusion Developers Journal. He also presents at conferences and contributes to online webzines. He founded many community web sites including CFLib.org, ColdFusionPortal.org, ColdFusionCookbook.org and is the author of open source applications, including the popular BlogCFC (www.blogcfc.com) blogging application.Raymond can be reached at his blog (www.coldfusionjedi.com) or via email at ray@camdenfamily.com. He is the happily married proud father of three kids and is somewhat of a Star Wars nut.