How to insert a value into a table

Question

I have an ordering system. It displays all the orders by
customer ID. If an order is complete, a check number is entered for
the corresponding line item, otherwise it is left blank.
My code uses the following code to display the form. All are
display fields only, except for the last one, where the check
number can be entered.
<cfoutput query="qryDetail" group="partNumber">
<tr>
<td valign="top" class="TitleText"
align="center">#lineItem#</td>
<td valign="top" class="TitleText"
align="center">#OrderNumber#</td>
<td valign="top" class="TitleText"
align="center">#partNumber#</td>
<td valign="top" class="TitleText"
align="center">#dollarformat(qryDetail.unitValue)#</td>
<td valign="top" class="TitleText" align="center">
<cfinput type="text" name="checkNumber#keyID#">
<input type="hidden" name="keyID"
value="#qryDetail.keyID#">
</td>
I use something like the following to update the table with
the check numbers entered.
<cfloop index="KeyID" list="#form.KeyID#"
delimiters=",">
<cfquery name="qryUpdate" datasource="dbName">
update tblChecks
set checkNumber = '#Evaluate("form.checkNumber#KeyID#")#'
where custID = '#form.custID#'
and KeyID = '#KeyID#'
</cfquery>
</cfloop>
Now we have another table that will contain the customer
order history. If the check number was entered for a particular
line item, I need to insert that line item nubmer into this table,
along with some other columns. I tried to use the same loop, then
other loops, but cannot seem to get this to work. Seems simple
enough, but I obvisouly am missing something.
How would I insert the line item number (only if a check
number was entered for that line item) into the table ?

Answer 1

Here is the code with the queries commented out :
<cfloop list="#form.fieldnames#" index="field">
<cfif left(field, 11) is "checkNumber" AND
len(trim(form[field]))>
<cfset keyID = listlast(field, '_')>
<cfset lineItem = listgetat(field, 2, '_')>
<cfset checknum = form[field]>
<!---cfquery name="qryUpdate" datasource="dbName">
UPDATE tblChecks
SET checkNumber = '#checknum#'
WHERE custID = #form.custID#
AND KeyID = #keyid#
</cfquery--->
<cfoutput> loop is
field: <b>#field#</b><br>
checknum: #checknum#<br>
lineitem: #lineitem#<br>
keyID: #keyID#<br>
</cfoutput>
<cfelse>
<cfoutput>Else is
field: <b>#field#</b><br>
form[field]: #form[field]#<br>
len: #len(trim(form[field]))#<br>
</cfoutput><cfabort>
</cfif>
</cfloop>
This is the output. If I do not put in cfabort, the code just
drops thru and I never see any output display, so I use cfabort to
stop so I can see the output.
loop is field: CHECKNUMBER_11_218
CHECKNum: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
lineitem: 11
keyID: 218
Else is field: CHECKNUMBER_1_24
form[field]:
I entered the x's into checknum for line item 11, so that is
correct.
I then took out the comments from the update query and tried
it again and it updated for line item 11 (you were right, I had to
take out the single quotes in the query). I then removed the
commets for the insert query and it did not insert. I tried the
whole thing again and tried to add to line item 10 and it dropped
straight to the else part, displaying :
Else is field: CHECKNUMBER_1_24
form[field]:
len: 0
So it seems the if statement if failing the second time thru
the loop :
<cfif left(field, 11) is "checkNumber" AND
len(trim(form[field]))>
This is my input statement :
<cfinput type="text"
name="checkNumber_#lineItem#_#keyID#">
I am really confused now. It seems to work the first time
thru the loop, then the second time it fails.