The single quotes tells Cold Fusion to treat the information as a string and the pound signs tells CF that that it is refering to a variable. Updating a database. This step will show you how to manipulate a database from the web. First we need to select which record we would like to edit. We already have a CF file that shows us the contents of our database, so lets expand on that.
Lets give the user a chance to edit any of the entries.
The link will go to our update template, and we will need to pass it the ID of the entry we would like to edit. The new line is in bold above. The web will transmit variables from one page to another in the URL of a page. We have prepopulated the form fields with the results of our query. Th other interesting feature of this form is that we make use of the hidden type of form field.