Setting either a session variable or form variable in CF - coldfusion

I have a JavaScript and jquery fee calculator that uses functions to figure out the fee total and then they display as so
<div id="totalPrice"></div>
Is it possible to set that totalPrice to a coldfusion session variable or form variable so I can use that amount on a few other pages... Like there checkout page and there payment page?
Any help is greatly appreciated I just didn't know if this is even possible?
function calculateTotal()
{
var titleFees = initialRegFee();
titleFees += specialFee;
var divobj = document.getElementById('totalPrice');
divobj.style.display='block';
divobj.innerHTML = "Estimated Transfer Fees $"+titleFees;
}
Example of how the div display works
http://jsfiddle.net/hwcu7e05/5/

To set a variable from JavaScript (browser) to ColdFusion session or form scope, simply post the value(s) using a HTML form post, or an Ajax post (e.g. using jQuery) to a cfm page, and you will see the variable in the Form scope. Then you are free to set it to a Session scope.

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django saving product id when clicking on a button

I have a ListView that displays a list of results (eg products) which are looped through in the template. Each product in the list has a button which the user can choose to select the product.
I would like to store the product id selected by the user in the session so I can use it later. (It will be used in the next view where the user will sign to pay for item and also to pass into external api request to check stock)
What's the best way to store the product id in the session for use later
Currently I tried this in the template:
<a class="btn btn-cta-primary" href="{% url 'users:signup' price_id=quote.priceId %}">Proceed</a>
Which I thought would pass it to the next view where I could write it to the session with
self.request.session['price_id']
(perhaps it's best to immediately save it to the session when the button is clicked?)
You can use javascript to store session. Below is an example to store session using jquery
$('#id_of_button').on('click', fucntion(e){
sessionStorage['product_id'] = 'PRODUCT_ID'
})

CFWheels: Display form errors on redirectto instead of renderpage

I have a form which I am validating using CFWheels model validation and form helpers.
My code for index() Action/View in controller:
public function index()
{
title = "Home";
forms = model("forms");
allforms = model("forms").findAll(order="id ASC");
}
#startFormTag(controller="form", action="init_form")#
<select class="form-control">
<option value="">Please select Form</option>
<cfloop query="allforms">
<option value="#allforms.id#">#allforms.name#</option>
</cfloop>
</select>
<input type="text" name="forms[name]" value="#forms.name#">
#errorMessageOn(objectName="forms", property="name")#
<button type="submit">Submit</button>
#endFormTag()#
This form is submitted to init_form() action and the code is :
public function init_form()
{
title = "Home";
forms = get_forms(params.forms);
if(isPost())
{
if(forms.hasErrors())
{
// don't want to retype allforms here ! but index page needs it
allforms = model(tables.forms).findAll(order="id ASC");
renderPage(action="index");
//redirectTo(action="index");
}
}
}
As you can see from the above code I am validating the value of form field and if any errors it is send to the original index page. My problem is that since I am rendering page, I also have to retype the other variables that page need such as "allforms" in this case for the drop down.
Is there a way not to type such variables? And if instead of renderPage() I use redirectTo(), then the errors don't show? Why is that?
Just to be clear, I want to send/redirect the page to original form and display error messages but I don't want to type other variables that are required to render that page? Is there are way.
Please let me know if you need more clarification.
This may seem a little off topic, but my guess is that this is an issue with the form being rendered using one controller (new) and processed using another (create) or in the case of updating, render using edit handle form using update.
I would argue, IMHO, etc... that the way that cfWheels routes are done leaves some room for improvement. You see in many of the various framework's routing components you can designate a different controller function for POST than your would use for GET. With cfWheels, all calls are handled based on the url, so a GET and a POST would be handled by the same controller if you use the same url (like when a form action is left blank).
This is the interaction as cfwheels does it:
While it is possible to change the way it does it, the documentation and tutorials you'll find seem to prefer this way of doing it.
TL; DR;
The workaround that is available, is to have the form be render (GET:new,edit) and processing (POST:create,update) handled by the same controller function (route). Within the function...
check if the user submitted using POST
if it is POST, run a private function (i.e. handle_create()) that handles the form
within the handle_create() function you can set up all your error checking and create the errors
if the function has no errors, create (or update) the model and optionally redirect to a success page
otherwise return an object/array of errors
make the result error object/array available to view
handle the form creation
In the view, if the errors are present, show them in the form or up top somewhere. Make sure that the form action either points to self or is empty. Giving the submit button a name and value can also help in determining whether a form was submitted.
This "pattern" works pretty well without sessions.
Otherwise you can use the Flash, as that is what it was created for, but you do need to have Sessions working. their use is described here: http://docs.cfwheels.org/docs/using-the-flash and here:http://docs.cfwheels.org/v1.4/docs/flashmessages
but it really is as easy as adding this to your controller
flashInsert(error="This is an error message.");
and this to your view
<cfif flashKeyExists("error")>
<p class="errorMessage">
#flash("error")#
</p>
</cfif>

How can my Iframe content inherit the hosting domains CSS?

Here is the situation:
I have a webservice that returns a form.
This form is then used by many other sites in an iFrame element.
I need the form to "wear" the hosting site's background, color, or in other words CSS (but i will settle for background and logo if this is easier).
My webservice and the other sites are not on the same domain.
I have full control over my webservice and i can define general requirements for all sites.
What is the best way to handle this?
There are several ways to accomplish this:
1 - Pass in a stylesheet as a parameter into the iframe:
Pass in a CSS stylesheet as a query parameter in the src attribute of the iframe. This is perhaps the easiest method, and it gives the owner of that stylesheet more control over how the form looks on that person's site.
<body>
<!-- This is the client's website -->
<!-- This is your form -->
<iframe src="http://example.com/form/abc/?css=http://example.com/file/formStyle.css" />
2 - Pass in the color and logo into the iframe:
This is the same basic idea as in the first example, except you're not referencing an external stylesheet:
<iframe
src="http://example.com/form/abc/?color=#AAAAAA&logo=http://example.com/logo.png" />
3 - Use PostMessage:
Another option is to use the postMessage API. With postMessage, you can pass a message from one context to another, across domains. Thus, the client page could pass the background color to the iframe page, and this could be reused to pass other types of information and data as well.
Iframe code:
// register to listen for postMessage events
window.addEventListener("message", changeBackground, false);
// this is the callback handler to process the event
function changeBackground(event)
{
// make sure the code you put on the client's site is secure. You are responsible
// for making sure only YOU have cross domain access to his/her site.
// NOTE: example.org:8080 is the client's site
if (event.origin !== "http://example.org:8080")
return;
// event.data could contain "#AAAAAA" for instance
document.body.style.backgroundColor = event.data;
// do other stuff
}
}
Top Level Client Page:
// pass the string "#AAAAAA" to the iframe page, where the changeBackground
// function will change the color
// targetOrigin is the URL of the client's site
document.getElementById("theIframe").contentWindow.postMessage("#AAAAAA", targetOrigin);
This solution only works in modern browsers, including IE8, FF3.6+, Chrome 13+, Safari 5+, etc. See the Mozilla Developer Center for more information on HTML5 postMessage.
How to pull the CSS parameter from the query string?
Use the gup function in the iframe page to get the value of the CSS parameter:
function gup(name) {
name = name.replace(/[\[]/, "\\\[").replace(/[\]]/, "\\\]");
var regexS = "[\\?&]" + name + "=([^&#]*)";
var regex = new RegExp(regexS);
var results = regex.exec(window.location.href);
if (results == null)
return "";
else
return results[1];
}
Afterwards, you can then use it to create a link CSS tag:
// get url parameter from iframe src:
var cssPath = gup("cssPath");
// create link and append to head
var linkElem = document.createElement("link");
linkElem.setAttribute("href", cssPath);
linkElem.setAttribute("rel","stylesheet");
document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(link);
OR
var color = gup("color");
document.body.setAttribute("style","background-color:" + color);

How to redirect to page which has GET parameters after login using the {{next}} variable in django

I am using allauth to provide registration and login in my django site. Everything else seems to be working fine other than that I am having problems to redirect the person to the current page after login.
I have a page where I have some interview questions and a typical url for it would be like
/questions/?company=google
This page contains a list of questions for the company google, but to view the answer the person needs to login. The answers are displayed in a dropdown box. However when the user clicks on login a request is sent to the login page as follows
/login/?next=/questions/
And the get parameter which was actually there in my actual page is not sent because of the & in my url. How can I solve this problem. It does not look nice that the person is redirected to a different page from where he/she tried to login.
I know sending the next parameter as a GET variable is not the solution, but is there a way I can send the redirect link as a POST variable from the template.
I tried another thing, in my view that displays the questions list. I set session variables which contains the url of the current link . If a user clicks on login, in my login view I check for this particular session variable. If it is set then I redirect to that page.
However the session variable is not received in the login view, I am not sure but I think the session is reset when the user goes to the login view.
Any suggestions are appreciated.
Have you tried
next = request.get_full_path()
This will return correct path with all queries ( see docs ) , you can then pass it as GET param to redirect url e.g.
full_path = request.get_full_path()
return HttpResponseRedirect('%s?next=%s' % (reverse('login'), full_path))
You should encode the URL-parameter in this case. You want to send a variable like /questions/?company=google, but as you mentioned the ?, = (amongst others) characters are special ones. It has a special meaning when embedded in the URL. If you encode the variable with URL encoding, it becomes %2Fquestions%2F%3Fcompany%3Dgoogle. If you assign that to the parameter next, the URL becomes: /login/?next=%2Fquestions%2F%3Fcompany%3Dgoogle. This should redirect to the correct place on login.

Django Flowplayer overlay does not submit form

I am trying to use flowplayer's overlay to load an external page that has a django form built in.
However the overlay loads the page but the submit button simply refreshes the page.
How do i actually submit the values entered in the form?
<script src="http://cdn.jquerytools.org/1.2.5/full/jquery.tools.min.js"></script>
<script>
$(function() {
// if the function argument is given to overlay,
// it is assumed to be the onBeforeLoad event listener
$("a[rel]").overlay({
mask: {
color: '#ebecff',
loadSpeed: 200,
opacity: 0.9
},
effect: 'apple',
closeOnClick: false,
onBeforeLoad: function() {
// grab wrapper element inside content
var wrap = this.getOverlay().find(".contentWrap");
// load the page specified in the trigger
wrap.load(this.getTrigger().attr("href"));
}
});
});
</script>
<div class="bananas">launch</div>
my view boom has a model form.
Without seeing the actual view code, it's hard to give a helpful answer. In the future, please be sure to do so...
If you don't have the overlay programmed to redirect to the page, then submitting it to that same url might process/save the data without you noticing. Is the data being saved, or does absolutely nothing happen when you click 'submit'?
Generally, this is how it works: you need to be posting to a url, defined in urls.py, that points to a view function in your views.py. (These names are merely convention, and can be called whatever you like) You mentioned that you have a view named 'boom': is it defined in your urls.py like this?
url(r'^path/to/boom/$', 'model.views.boom',),
Check that this is defined and that your form is posting to it.
The view must then contain logic to process the request and return a response. Posting to that url will transfer a cleaned_data dictionary of form variables that can be accessed over the field names defined in the form. It looks like this: x = form.cleaned_data[x]. Check the form for its validity with form.is_valid(), and then do your processing. This can involve saving objects, running arbitrary code, whatever you wish.
To find out more, be sure to read the excellent documentation.