Application.cfc Form Validation

Hi all. I posted this question on the
site I got the
example from, but they removed my question for whatever reason so
I'll try here:
Please click the link for the code:
Click Here
I tried this example, and it works, however a couple of
things I'm trying to figure out:
1. The validation errors change their
order each time you re-submit, is there a way to control
that?
2. I tried populating the form
elements with what was posted, but the form isn't posting anything,
and I'm looking to see if anyone else has this problem
Thanks.

Hey.. Not sure what happened to my 2 points above. The
preview looked fine before I submitted it. Weird!
Anywho.....
Thanks for your reply Dan.
This (amongst other code) is what they put in there:
<cffunction name="onError" returntype="void">
<cfargument name="exception" required="true" />
<cfargument name="eventName" type="String"
required="true" />
<cfif isDefined('exception.StackTrace') AND
isDefined('exception.errors')
AND exception.StackTrace contains
'coldfusion.filter.FormValidationException'>
<cfset session.validationError = exception.errors />
<cfset session.stFormData = duplicate( form ) />
<cflocation url="#cgi.HTTP_REFERER#" addtoken="false"
/>
<cfelse>
<cfthrow object="#exception#" />
</cfif>
</cffunction>
So,why would this be a bad idea?
Oh, and if the above code makes it ok to add to
Application.cfc, then my quesitons 1 and 2 were:
1. The validation errors return in different orders every
time the form is posted, and was wondering how to control this.
2. I couldn't get the form to post any values.

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>i am trying to migrate an application with forms and reports.
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>rep-file and rdf-file are in the same dir as fmb-files
i am working with oc4j standalone (without as)
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#dateDiff('n' , ARGUMENTS.appscope.appStarted,now())# minutes.">
</cffunction>
<cffunction name="onSessionStart" returntype="query"
output="true">
<cfquery name="tracking" datasource="creative"
dbtype="ODBC">
INSERT INTO tracking (REMOTE_ADDR, HTTP_USER_AGENT,
TRACK_DATE)
VALUES('#REMOTE_ADDR#', '#HTTP_USER_AGENT#',
#CreateOdbcDateTime(now())#)
</cfquery>
</cffunction>
<cffunction name="onRequestStart" returntype="boolean"
output="true">
<cfset request.datasource = "my-db">
<cfset sitePath = "
http://www.myweb">


<cfloop
list="#removeChars(cgi.path_info,1,len(cgi.script_name))#"
delimiters="/" index="variableSet">
<cfscript>
variableName = "url." & listGetAt(variableSet,1,'.');
expression = listGetAt(variableSet,2,'.');
</cfscript>
<cfparam name="#variableName#" default="#expression#">
</cfloop>

<cfreturn true>
</cffunction>
</cfcomponent>
Thank you.
Phoenix

I did a dump and got it to error out, so it is recognizing
the session, but it doesn't add any info to the DB. I also had to
change it, I had it like this:
<cffunction name="onSessionStart" returntype="query"
output="true">
<cfquery name="tracking" datasource="my-db"
dbtype="ODBC">
INSERT INTO tracking (REMOTE_ADDR, HTTP_USER_AGENT,
TRACK_DATE)
VALUES('#REMOTE_ADDR#', '#HTTP_USER_AGENT#',
#CreateOdbcDateTime(now())#)
</cfquery>
</cffunction>
Changed it to this:
<cffunction name="onSessionStart" returntype="any"
output="true">
<cfquery name="tracking" datasource="creative"
dbtype="ODBC">
INSERT INTO tracking (REMOTE_ADDR, HTTP_USER_AGENT,
TRACK_DATE)
VALUES('#REMOTE_ADDR#', '#HTTP_USER_AGENT#',
#CreateOdbcDateTime(now())#)
</cfquery>
</cffunction>
it was erroring on the query attribute before in the session
function. Even that change didn't get it to work properly.

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