So we have a news/announcement function that pulls info from a database and displays it
<cfquery name="announcement" datasource="#application.datasource#" dbtype="odbc">
SELECT top 2 * FROM NewsEvents
WHERE type = 2 AND active = 1 AND publish_datetime <= #now()# AND show_on_home = 1 AND item_datetime >= #createOdbcDate(now())#
ORDER BY item_datetime ASC
</cfquery>
What we're trying to do is display a piece of HTML within these announcement blocks, conditional on one of the two blocks NOT being the most recent of the two blocks.
The HTML is wrapped in this code:
<cfif announcement.recordCount gt 0>
<cfloop query="announcement">
<cfoutput>
html
</cfoutput>
</cfloop>
<cfelse>
<cfoutput><p>There are currently no announcements.</p></cfoutput>
</cfif>
I want one component of the HTML to only be displayed for the BOTTOM announcement, the one that is not the closest in item_datetime. Any thoughts on how to accomplish this?
You're ordering by date, so just do something like this:
<cfif CurrentRow EQ 1>
We're showing the first record, so show some stuff.
</cfif>
CurrentRow is always available in a loop to show you which record of the query you're currently on. So given your current query (and some made up data straight outta my head, you'll end up with this output:
Record 1: August 29, 2011
We're showing the first record, so show some stuff
Record 2: August 30, 2011
You're sorting by the date ASC, so the oldest record is first, while the newer record is last. I would recommend that you change your sorting to DESC, or you're never going to get newer records once you've added a third announcement after the first two. You could then resort them on the CF side to be in the display order you're after.
You can add a modifier to your CFQUERY statement like so. I would also modify your CFIF recordCount statement to look for more than 1 record at this point.
<cfif announcement.recordCount gt 1>
<cfoutput query="announcement" startRow="2">
<!--- Throw my output here --->
</cfoutput>
<cfelse>
<p>There are currently no announcements.</p>
</cfif>
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I'm running ColdFusion 2016. I have a cfloop which pulls in data from a query, all other ColdFusion queries work fine on the page and if I pull in the same variable in an output outside the loop, it works fine, except the loop is giving me an error. The error output says:
Variable GPS_LATITUDE is undefined.
Which is correct, as in the database there is no GPS_LATITUDE but there is a GPS_LATITUDE1.
I need to add the loop number on the end of the variable so as it loops pulls in the data gps_latitude1, gps_latitude2, gps_latitude3 not just gps_latitude.
My loop code is...
<cfoutput>
<cfloop index="i" from="1" to="3">
<td><p>#gps_latitude[i]#</p></td>
<td><p>#gps_longitude[i]#</p></td>
</cfloop>
</cfoutput>
Any guidance much appreciated.
#elixieru, You can't directly give gps_latitude[i]. which is not check your query which is consider it as Array. I can imagine your scenario and give my sample code about how to get an same columnName with
<cfquery name='test' datasource="mytest">
select * from test
</cfquery>
This is my sample query. It's having column name as address1, address2 etc... I'm going to get the data about address1 & address2 like your scenario.
<cfloop query="test">
<cfloop from="1" to="2" index="i">
<cfset a = test["address#i#"]>
<cfoutput> #a# </cfoutput> <br/>
</cfloop>
</cfloop>
Here I'm looping over the query and so some simple / index loop based on my count ( Address1,2,3,4,5 etc ). For now I'm just use 2 like from 1 to 2.
Here I've store the test['address#i#'] in variable a and print that variable. Now test['address#i#'] it will consider as test.address1
I hope my sample help you more.
I am moving one of our applications from ColdFusion 9.01 to ColdFusion 11 and encountered a situation where I cannot get the date formatted the way I want it using "DateFormat". I read through the docs since things have changed in CF versions, but I honestly can't figure out why this isn't working. It worked beautifully in CF 9. I know it's probably something very easy, but I am just not seeing it.
The query (Oracle DB) provides me a list of the last 30 days and the loop is simply to reformat the date output from "2014-07-01 00:00:00.0" to a more friendly looking display of 01-Jul-2014 except that I cannot get it to format as "dd-mmm-yyyy" it just spits back the original output from the query. I hard coded the date where normally there would be a cfquerparam. Any ideas?
<cfquery name="qryDateArray" datasource="#request.db#">
select trunc(to_date('07/01/2014', 'mm/dd/yyyy') + 1 - rownum) as ref_date
from dual connect by rownum <= 30
</cfquery>
<cfloop from="1" to="#qryDateArray.recordcount#" index="j">
<cfset qryDateArray.ref_date[j] = DateFormat(qryDateArray.ref_date[j], "dd-mmm-yyyy")>
</cfloop>
<cfoutput>
<cfdump var="#qryDateArray#">
</cfoutput>
I could not test this on CF11 since I do not have it handy. I did verify that your code though returns results as you explained when I ran it on my CF10 environment here. So what you can do is add a column to the query object and define it as a varchar and add your formatted data to that. This in turn dumped out the formatted dates.
<cfquery name="qryDateArray" datasource="#request.db#">
select trunc(to_date('07/01/2014', 'mm/dd/yyyy') + 1 - rownum) as ref_date
from dual connect by rownum <= 30
</cfquery>
<cfset aryData = [] />
<cfloop from="1" to="#qryDateArray.recordcount#" index="j">
<cfset ArrayAppend(aryData, DateFormat(qryDateArray.ref_date[j], "dd-mmm-yyyy")) />
</cfloop>
<cfset QueryAddColumn(qryDateArray, "STRDATE", "VarChar", aryData) />
<cfoutput>
<cfdump var="#qryDateArray#">
</cfoutput>
If dependent on the query column names then could use something like Ben's method explained here to do some renaming of the columns: http://www.bennadel.com/blog/357-ask-ben-changing-coldfusion-query-column-names.htm
It'd be great if you'd given us a portable test case rather than one that relies on your database, but I suspect it is because ColdFusion has become more rigid with its type management of query columns.
So CF considers your ref_date column to be of type date, so when you try to put the formatted string back into the query column, CF tries (and succeeds) to convert the string back into a date.
Aside:
I have to wonder why you don't format the data string in the DB from the outset, and just return it the way you need it, rather than returning something else, then looping over the thing to adjust it..?
I'm not sure my title explains this very well. Frankly, I'm not sure how to put it into words, but here goes:
I am capturing variables from dynamically created form fields on another page, that have been submitted to a page containing the code below. So far, everything works as I want it to. I'm getting the dynamically named form fields. Now I need to add the subtotal dollar amounts together to create a grand total. Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to get the individual totals out of the loop so I can do the math for the final number, due to their dynamic nature.
This part of the code below generates the subtotals, and I need to be able to add all of them together to get a grand total, but I can't figure out how:
#dollarformat(val(getticket[item].ticketprice * form[item]))#
Maybe I need to take a different approach...suggestions/help appreciated.
Here's the full code:
<CFLOOP LIST="#form.fieldnames#" INDEX="item">
<cfoutput>
<cfquery datasource="outertixdb" name="getticket[item]">
select * from tickets
where ticketid = '#item#'
</cfquery>
#getticket[item].ticketname#: #dollarformat(getticket[item].ticketprice)# x #form[item]# = #dollarformat(val(getticket[item].ticketprice * form[item]))#<br/>
</cfoutput>
You would need to set the name attribute of your cfquery using the following format:
<cfquery datasource="outertixdb" name="#getticket[item]#">
To handle the total, you would first need a variable before the cfloop
<cfset total = 0 />
Then, inside the loop, you simply add the price of the ticket to the total
<cfset total = total + getticket[item].ticketprice />
Also, you should be using cfqueryparam in your query. You can read more about it here
Lastly, if you do not need all the data in the tickets table, do not use 'select *..', only pull pack the data that you need.
Not sure I completely understand, but it sounds like you are simply trying to look up a bunch of ticket records, by "id". Then display the individual costs, plus a grand total. If that is all your doing, just give the fields the same name: ticketID. For example:
<input name="ticketID" value="1" ...>
<input name="ticketID" value="22" ...>
<input name="ticketID" value="45" ...>
<input name="ticketID" value="16" ...>
Then the values will be submitted as a list ie 1,22,45,16, which you can feed into your query using an IN clause. That lets you grab all of the data in a single query. (Generally you want to avoid running queries within a loop because performing a separate database query for each id generates a lot of unnecessary overhead and degrades performance).
* Change the cfsqltype as needed
SELECT TicketID, TicketPrice
FROM YourTable
WHERE TicketID IN ( <cfquerparam value="#FORM.ticketID#"
list="true"
cfsqltype="cf_sql_integer">
)
UPDATE:
form[item] is the value of the quantity select from the previous page.
That is a confusing naming convention. I would recommend using a slightly more intuitive name like "quantity". Something more descriptive of the contents. You can still use the ticket id to generate unique names, ie quantity_#ticketID#. For example, using the same ticket id's as above:
<input name="quantity_1" ...>
<input name="quantity_22" ...>
<input name="quantity_45" ...>
<input name="quantity_16" ...>
Once you have the results, there are several ways to generate a grand total. The simplest being to initialize a variable before your loop, then increment it as you iterate. Use the query ticket ID to grab the quantity value from the FORM scope:
<cfset grandTotal = 0>
<cfoutput query="yourQuery">
<!--- extract quantity value --->
<cfset currQuantity = FORM["quantity_"& yourQuery.ticketID ]>
... display price ...
<cfset grandTotal += val(yourQuery.ticketPrice * currQuantity )>
</cfoutput>
GrandTotal <cfoutput>#grandTotal#</cfoutput>
I would recommend throwing out the whole dynamically named query thing.
<cfset total = 0>
<CFLOOP LIST="#form.fieldnames#" INDEX="item">
<cfquery datasource="outertixdb" name="getticket">
select * from tickets
where ticketid = <cfqueryparam cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar" value="#item#">
</cfquery>
<cfset total += getticket.ticketprice />
<cfoutput query="getTicket">
#ticketname#: #dollarformat(ticketprice)# × #form[item]#
= #dollarformat(val(ticketprice * form[item]))#<br/>
</cfoutput>
</cfloop>
Output your total as needed
I am a lot more at home manipulating arrays and objects in php or javascript, and do next to no work with coldfusion.
I have one query pulling data from mysql. I would like to store results list or array ( or simpler approach)
WHile looping over a second query from msql that generates html output I need to see if one value is contained in prior mysql array or list.
Have tried playing with varierty of cf array/list methods and really not sure what best approach is to resolve following if.
CF version is 9
<cfquery datasource="Mysql" name="premium_submitters">
SELECT submitter_id from table
</cfquery>
<!--- Need loop to store to array or list??--->
<cfquery datasource="Sql" name="main_data">
SELECT * from table
</cfquery>
<cfoutput query="main_data">
<cfif #submiiter_id# <!---is in Mysql array/list return boolean---> >
</cfif>
</cfoutput>
Use ValueList to get the value of one column of a query into a list.
<cfquery datasource="Mysql" name="premium_submitters">
SELECT submitter_id from table
</cfquery>
<cfset submittersList = ValueList(premium_submitters.submitter_id)>
<cfquery datasource="Sql" name="main_data">
SELECT * from table
</cfquery>
<cfoutput query="main_data">
<cfif ListFind(submittersList, main_data.submitter_id) gt 0>
<!--- is in list, do whatever --->
</cfif>
</cfoutput>
I have a drop down list that is generated by two loops. The inner loop generates a series of numbers ie from 0 to 23. The outer loop, is a query loop that selects the correct value from the 23 numbers based on the values stored in my database.
My issue here is that those two loops conflict that results in displaying the numbers from 0 to 23 twice. How can keep both loops but avoiding this issue? This problem also cause issues when the form is submitted by trying to submit the form twice and deleting the user's input.
This is my code:
<select id="openHours#CountVar#" name="openHours#CountVar#">
<cfloop query="doctorHours" >
<cfloop from="0" to="23" index="OpenHours">
<option value="#openHours#"
<cfif TimeFormat(doctorHours.openTime,'HH') EQ OpenHours AND CountVar EQ doctorHours.day > selected="selected"</cfif>>#OpenHours#</option>
</cfloop>
</cfloop>
</select>
This is my CFDUMP for that query
query
RESULTSET
query
CLOSETIME DAY DOCTORID OPENTIME
1 1970-01-01 16:00:00.0 4 2011041516290025478779 1970-01-01 10:00:00.0
2 1970-01-01 16:00:00.0 1 2011041516290025478779 1970-01-01 13:00:00.0
3 1970-01-01 16:00:00.0 2 2011041516290025478779 1970-01-01 13:00:00.0
CACHED false
EXECUTIONTIME 0
SQL select doctorID, opentime, closetime, day from doctorBusinessHours where doctorID='2011041516290025478779'
You should return only the hours you need and then loop for the dropdownlist creation:
DATEPART(hh,yourdate) will return the hours for your datetime value:
<cfquery name="doctorHours" datasource="#ds#">
SELECT doctorID,DATEPART(hh,openTime) As OpenHours, DATEPART(hh,closetime) As CloseHours
FROM doctorHours
WHERE day = #CountVar#
AND doctorID='#docID#'
</cfquery>
ValueList will transform your query results into a list:
<cfset openTimesList = ValueList(doctorHours.OpenHours) />
<cfset closeTimesList = ValueList(doctorHours.CloseHours ) />
ListContains will return the index of the value within your list:
<select id="openHours#CountVar#" name="openHours#CountVar#">
<cfloop from="0" to="23" index="OpenHours">
<option value="#openHours#"
<cfif ListContains(openTimesList,OpenHours) NEQ 0 >
selected="selected"
</cfif>
>#OpenHours#</option>
</cfloop>
</select>
You can use the same strategy for the closeTimesList.
Hmmm....the number of values displayed in the code above will be equivelant to the number of records returned by the query X 23. If you're query returns 2 records you will see 46 options and so on. It seems like you believe the query has only 1 record. I would suggest perhaps it has more.
Try LIMIT 1 or TOP 1 in your query - or use Maxrows (as suggested in the comments)... but make sure you know what you are including and what you are excluding. You need to know why your query is not what you expect :)