Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / September 2004

I have two text fields; the first with a + or - in it and the second to hold a
number.  (I would have just had the one box and let the user input either a +
or - but boss-lady wants different)
so how do i parse two form fields, into one database entry.  for example if I

I am trying to sort a display page by ascending date and am having a problem.
It doesn't seem to be taking the month and year into account, so for instance
for the month of august you get the records sorted but with the few days we
have had of september in amongst it, which they ...

I want to show the first x words of a story. The script I use is:
#ReplaceNoCase
    (REReplace(text,"^(([^[:space:]]*[[:space:]]*){#maxwords#}).*","\1"),'<br>',
chr(10),'ALL')#

Does anyone know if it's possible to return a binary stream from a CF page? i.e. the equivalent of the Response.BinaryWrite() function is ASP.
Thanks,
Kevin.

If i have session variables that contain structures, for example:
session.Pay.orderInfo where orderinfo is a structure or an array. and
session.Pay.clieInfo where the clieInfo is a structure or an array
can i use named locks, with different names on different parts of the session ...

I have hit a total roadblock and it is impossible to move on. CF still can't
find the ColdFusion Component castlefnord.securityBACK.com.state.
Where does this catlefnord come from? It isn't in the code in application.cfm
and also I don't know where the securityBACK part comes ...

any one know how to : after a user log out from a page, the browser remembers
the same user if one hits the back button. Any solution. I am using <cflogin>
and <cflogout> scope.
Below does not work. !!

Is it possible to change the Action attribute for the Form?
Here's where I'm at: The main page of the application has links to several
reports. All of the reports need a date parameter for the where clause in the
CFQUERY. I could build a date picker into each report, but I was ...

I am sending it via the url in the cfhttp 'get' request. I dont think I can use
'post' here, because I dont know what to use for the cfhttp param that is
required for 'post' operations. In otherwords there isnt some variable name I
can use, to justify using post. If I am not ...

I have a system which currently allows a group of users from one company to
logon and manipulate data within my db. I just got a requirement through to
allow user from another company to do the same thing, but obviously only
affecting their own data. What I thought initially was ...

I am sending email through CFMAIL.. my outgoing mailserver requires
authentication. now what should I do now.. Pls advise as there is no other way
of defining username and password in the CFMAIL tag so that it can accept and
send email.

I am trying to call a simple stored procedure I have written in in Oracle 8i:
CREATE OR REPLACE function getInfo(primaryKey in number)
return varchar2 is firstName varchar2(250);
begin

I am outputting the values from two tables in a  Db into two rows.  The
structure is in place I am just not sure how to ADD the values together and
then output the results on the next ROW. The one thing that I do not want to do
is accumulate the totals as I go. I have included ...

I'm not that well versed in IIS, but we've run into a problem that I can't
seem to figure out.
We have a very simple site that was created in ColdFusion that was working
just fine...until...a co-worker tried to undo IIS lockdown...as you all

I am having difficulty getting a string value returned to a cold fusion page
when invoking a call to a Microsoft .NET Web Service.  Here is the code I am
using:
<cfparam name="badge" default="">