Passing Information in Query

I created a query with a list of names and when i click on one of the names i should be accesed with a new page that would display that person information.. i don't know how to pass the information. do i have to use paramaters? if so, how?

the list link may look like this

somefile.cfm
---
<a href='newpage.cfm?name_id=1'>One of your name list</a>

then create the sql query on ur new page with following
eg. URL.name_id

example:

newpage.cfm
---
<cfquery name='getInfo' datasource='yourdsn'>
select
*
from
your_table_name
where
name_id = '#URL.name_id#'
</cfquery>


<cfif getInfo.RecordCount gt 0>
<cfoutput query='getInfo'>
#TheName#<br/>
#TheAddress#<br/>
#PhoneNum#<br/>
</cfoutput>
<cfelse>
Sorry no person infomation reffer from ur id request
</cfif>

You want to pass the values in a URL (or in the form action if you are using a form). An example:

http://mysite.com/index.cfm?myvariable=10

Passes a variable called URL.myVariable to the target page with a value of 10.

This sort of thing is covered in the first few chapters of any ColdFusion book and is extremely fundamental to using ColdFusion. If you're having questions on topics like this I would *strongly* urge you to buy a book and go through the examples.

Thanks alot.