<cfinput type="checkbox"> Validation

[zoid777]

Hello friends,
I want to validate this two checkbox variables on an action page and also an update page

<cfinput type="checkbox" name="gender"checked>
        </label></td>
        <td>Female</td>
        <td><label>
          <cfinput type="checkbox" name="gender">
        </label></td>

by default I checked one of them, how can I check if it is checked and what is the best way to store this in the database and have the right checkbox checked when you want to update the form.

[cmhampton]

You need to specify a value for each one.

For instance:

<cfinput type="checkbox" name="gender" value="Male" checked>
      </label></td>
      <td>Female</td>
      <td><label>
      <cfinput type="checkbox" name="gender" value="Female">
      </label></td>

When you process the page, the Form.Gender variable will contain either "Male" or "Female" depending on which is checked (or "Male,Female" if both are checked, which can be used as a list incidentally). Make sure to use
<cfif IsDefined("Form.Gender")> before checking for the values, otherwise it will throw an error if none of the checkboxes are checked, unless you've created it with <cfparam>.

<cfparam name="Form.Gender" default="">

<cfif Form.Gender EQ "Male">
   <!--- Do something --->
<cfelseif Form.Gender EQ "Female">
   <!--- Do something else --->
</cfif>

[zoid777]

Thanks a lot cmhampton, that was helpful.