Topic awaiting preservation: coldfusion dilemma

alright. yes, i'm newly registered. hello there. i've been visiting here most of my designing life (read anywhere from 6-9 years. memory fails me. often), finally kicked procrastination to the curb. now that the introduction is over with....

here's what i'm trying to figure out in coldfusion.
i have a page with seminars on it. some have more than one date.
when the user clicks a "register online" button for this seminar, they can, well, register online. but the script has it automatically come up as the first date, if more than one.
they're sent an email confirming their registration, once complete.

all this is well and good. this is what i need to figure out.
i need to have the option of chosing which date they want to register for. i've put in checkboxes, but i need...for lack of better terms...i need the server to remember which date they clicked on and bring that to the registration page.

then, once the registration for this is done, i need to be able to put in the date they chose, into the confirmation email as well.

admittedly, i'm just learning coldfusion. work has me getting my feet wet with this, and though i have a coldfusion book, i'm by nature a designer oriented woman. so this makes my ears bleed after a few hours. and i can't find exactly what i'm looking for in this book.

i know there's a way to do this. i just don't know where to look to find it.
anyone out there have any suggestions? that don't involve cake or jello?
much appreciated.

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i havent looked at coldfusion but can you not just pass it in the url?

Not a coldfusion person either, but basically all scripting languages that involve a browser has some way to retrieve input from the webpage, in PHP it's arrays named for example $_POST, $_GET, $_COOKIE (all of those are part of the $_REQUEST array)
In ASP you can find them in response.xyz (if I remember correctly)

I'm 100% sure something like this exists in coldfusion as well.

Took a quick look on google and if you have a link with an url that looks like this:
pages/index.cfm?Color=red

in index.cfm you can pick up the value of the variable like this:
<CFOUTPUT>#URL.Color# came from the other page</CFOUTPUT>

for data coming from forms something like this example can be applied:
http://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.asp?p=30497&seqNum=6

Now, note that I don't know diddly squat about coldfusion, but the prnciples are the same as any other language
/Dan

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