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ColdFusion MX funkiness

I’ve discovered a thing to be cautious of when developing using Coldfusion MX (it appears to be no longer an issue in CFMX 7):

When creating form fields, don’t make the field’s name end in ‘_required’.

Doing so triggers some sort of automatic Cold Fusion validation processing.

You’re quite likely to see an error like: “Form entries incomplete or invalid.”

So to prevent any futher hair-pulling on anyone’s part, I’m recording this fact here for posterity.