ColdFusion - Creating column names dynamically with CFLOOP

Question

I have a table that records the name of uploaded documents, up to 14 per record. The columns are named thus:

TABLE tblDocuments
COLUMNS documentID (int, not nu         


        

Answer 1

(The original question was already answered. But just to illustrate ...)

A more flexible structure is to store the documents as rows. So basic table might be:

TABLE:    tblDocuments
COLUMNS:  DocumentID  (unique record id)
          UserID
          DocumentName

Using this structure, you could retrieve all existing documents for a single user with a simple query

     SELECT documentID, documentName
     FROM   tblDocuments
     WHERE  userID = 

.. and display them with a simple output loop. (Note, I added "documentID" as hidden field to identify existing documents ..)

   ...
   
   
   (current file name: #documentName#)

If the query contains less than 14 files (or whatever your maximum is..), you can use the query.recordCount to determine how many additional file inputs to display.