Cfquery within javascript

Question

hi,
I am trying to do the following:
I wrote a cfquery within javascript function as below:
<script language="javascript1.2" type="text/javascript">
<cfquery name="query1 datasource="abc">
</cfquery>
<cfif query1.recordcount neq "0">
    <cfoutput query = "query1">
       <cfquery name="query2 datasource="abc">
  select * from table1 where name=#query1.name#
       </cfquery>
    </cfoutput>
     alert(<cfoutput>#query2.RecordCount#</cfoutput>);
</cfif>
</script>
The alert value is 1 but the debugging section shows 0, and 0 is the correct value. is there something wrong that I am doing.
If so can you please point out...

Answer 1

The problem comes from how CF and JS work: Coldfusion is a "Server Side" language while Javascript is "Client Side". This means the server runs through all the CF code in your page and sends the finished product on to the user's browser which THEN starts handling the Javascript.
I'm not sure of your intended outcome ... do you want a series of "alerts" as soon as the page loads? If you are using the alert for debugging (just to see what is being returned, you can replace it with <p> tags and you will see the output on screen. Try this:
<cfif query1.recordcount neq "0">
     <cfoutput query = "query1">
          <cfquery name="query2 datasource="abc">
          select * from table1 where name=#query1.name#
          </cfquery>
          <p>#query2.RecordCount#</p>
     </cfoutput>
</cfif>
2 more notes:
you don't the inner "cfoutput" around you record output if you are going to use cfoutpu to loop over your query.
the output line needs to be INSIDE the loop or you'll only output the last iteration.