Hey guys - I have a form on a page that creates a coupon code (something like 879COUPON) and emails it to the user when they submit the form. They are also taken to a thank you page after submitting the form.

What I want is to pass the variable (879COUPON) via query string to an outside URL (www.notmysite.com?id=879COUPON) when the thank you page loads.

I use ColdFusion to generate the code, so is there a ColdFusion way to automatically send the query string when the second page loads? Or do I need to do some kind of ColdFusion/JavaScript hybrid?

very rusty with CF not used it in a good many years (happily)

<cfset>remoteurl = "othersite.tld?id="</cfset>
<cfset>coupen="879COUPON"<cfset>

<cfoutput><a href=#chr(34)##remoteurl##coupen##chr(34)#>Anchor Text</a></cfout>

Or something like that
May have got my quotes and literals mixed up though, CF is not something I kept up with. I was hoping never to use it ever again!

Thanks chrishirst!

This is an excellent start for me. I rarely need to use CF, but I know what you mean. I hate using it.

One more question: is there a way to not output a link, but to have the link and query string automatically sent when the page loads?

There is but I can't recall offhand how to request a remote URI with CF

<cfhttp> figures in there somewhere though

might have go delving in the dark recesses of my programming archives

Thanks for putting me on the right trail. Appreciate your time. I'll look into it.