Using Forms

You can use forms in ColdFusion applications to:

Gather user input.
Provide the front end for search engines.
Allow your users to add and update database records.

When a form is submitted, its data is stored in form variables. Inherently, forms can't store or manipulate these form variables but you can pass them to an associated page called an action page. It is the action page that processes the data collected on the form.

To see how forms work with action pages, sample this training snippet.