Brett asks:

Hope all is well, I have a CF8 issue and I was hoping that you might have a work around. I have a cfselect that is bound to another cfselect. In the second cfselect I pass two parameters to the function called in the bind. The second parameter is a comma seperated list and it is causing all kinds of errors that i am passing two many arguments to the cfc.

<cfselect name="market" id="market" class="Normal"
required="YES"
bind="cfc:COM.LocalJobs.GetMarkets({specialty},'#Form.Market#')"
display="Market"
value="Market"
bindonload="Yes"
multiple="yes">
</cfselect>

The value that is being passed back to the cfc (Form.Market) is a multiple slection from this cfselect. This is what is causing the error. Have you come acrossed anything in your journey that might help resolve this?

The first thing I did was create a simple example so I could test. I began with this file:

<cfset x = "alpha"> <cfform name="mainform"> <cfinput name="first"> </cfform> <cfdiv bind="cfc:test.stringconcat({first},'#x#')">

And then wrote my CFC method to just return the combination of the two arguments sent:

remote any function stringconcat(a,b) { return a & b; }

I ran the code to make sure it worked as is. When entering "foo" into the form field the div display fooalpha, as expected. I then edited x to be alpha,beta and immediately got:

You cannot specify more arguments to a CFC function than it declares.

Error parsing bind cfc:test.stringconcat({first},'alpha,beta')

What the heck? It's clearly passing two arguments. But get this. I modified my CFC to temporarily allow for a third arg. When I did that and viewed source on the CFM, I saw this in the JavaScript:

'bindExpr':[['a','first','','value'],['b','alpha],['c',beta']]

For some reason ColdFusion assumes that I am trying to pass additional arguments. If I didn't have single quotes around them I could see that. The result would have been something like {first},alpha,beta. I tried to "trick" the compiler. I used "'alpha','beta'". I used a space between the words and the comma. Nothing worked. I finally recommended he use another delimiter. Depending on the nature of your data that may or may not be acceptable. He suggested a semicolon and I can confirm it works.

So obviously this is a bug - right? Has anyone seen this before and come up with a nicer workaround?