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Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Getting Started / November 2006Help**I need the Best way to have a logged in user access their profile to update
I am using coldfusion mx and mysql. I would like to have my users after they login be able to click a link for "Update your Bio" and it takes that logged in user to a form that allows them to update their personal information thats already on the mysql table. I wasnt sure if I need to use a session variable OR what would be the best approach. ANY assistance is GREATLY appreciated. Mark Assuming you have uniquely identified the user, retrieve his profile from the database. Display the profile form and populate those form elements where there is data available from the database. Explain to the user he can change information, delete information or add new information in the form. Be sure to indicate which fields are manditory. When the user clicks the "Update Profile" button, the action page should perform a SQL update with the unique user id in the WHERE clause. No session variable is necessary, as you can pass the unique user id as a hidden field. jdeline, Thanks for the reply. How will the users browser know what his id is when he clicks the "Update profile" button. What variable will be holding his logged in information that will know what record to update in the action page? You can use an <input type="hidden" name="someName" value="#someIdValue#"> to make the user ID part of the form. It is then submitted with the rest of the form data to the action page and utilized the same as any of the other datum provided with the form. Well this will not actually take them to the action page yet. When they login on there homepage is an option to update there information. Then when executed takes them to an action page but only for their information. When they login on there homepage is an option to update there information. Then when executed takes them to an action page but only for their information. And I presume that this edit action page will have a form and that form will submit to another action page to process it. Correct, but only see a session variable holding the users id when needed during the session. UNLESS there is an easier way. |
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