Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / October 2004

I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how I can handle this job?  I have
an email that is generated via data and sent to the web user upon submission of
a form.  It works great.  Now the challenge is to send that exact same message
two days later!

With the variable #remote_addr# , we can get the client IP number,
how is it possible to send an alert message to that client ?
(through javascript, maybe ?)
Any help, sugestion,

We recently upgraded our CF server from 5.0 to MX 6.1.  My CFFTP application no
longer works.  When I list the directory on the FTP server it shows all of the
files with 0 size.  When I copy them, same result.  The files appear to be
copied but without content.  This worked in 5 ...

I have some stored procedures on different databases and based on the option
selected, the stored procedures has to be excecuted @ runtime. Now the
connection has to be @ runtime. How do I do this with CFStoredProc tag. Can I
specify the server name, password etc., the ...

Is the only way to output a query results set to a excel compatible file to
create a CSV format file?  When I use the <cfcontent
type="application/vnd.ms-excel"> tag it converts an HTML table into a Excel
spreadsheet in the browser but what I'd like is a way to directly write ...

I have the following code and it takes 6 seconds just to loop through the
recordset...that only has 50 records in it.  Six seconds for 50 records...am
I doing something wrong or am I expecting too much?  My recordset is created
from a CFObject.  I have included part of that code ...

I have a scheduled application that is supposed to run every 10 minutes.  I
have it scheduled to run daily every 10 minutes from 3 am to 11 pm.  It is not
running.  THe only time I can get it to execute is if I go the the ColdFusion
administrator and manual execute the scheduled ...

Hi I am trying to upload a file. I have a text file that conatins the path the
to the directory I want to upload to. I am using the code below:
If i hardcode the variable of the path using cfset then it works fine.
I was thinking that maybe it is tring to do the cffile upload ...

I've tried to search the exchange forum but couldn't find what I was looking
for and wondered if anyone was aware of a tool to do this.  I have a textarea
field I want a user to be able to perform some non-destructive editing on (I'll
be using a tool that lets them highlight and ...

I have a form that i'm trying to submit to itself - meaning to the
same page. The way i "capture it" is i put a <cfif form.value neq "">
, the form adds a record to a database. The problem is that if i hit
refresh the form is resubmited (and it adds yet a new record to the

Hello;
I am trying to write a redirect type of script. This redirect is being created
so 2 web sites can reside on the same ip address. I need this script to make
the url in the address bar show just the url address and not the path it is

I'm using part of the following code to get users to upload images to the
server:
<form name="upload" action="step2.cfm" method="post"
enctype="multipart/form-data">

I am trying to present a date on a web site as October 3, '02.   Using
dateformat CF doesn' seem to allow using ' in the mask.  I get the error
#dateformat(now(),"DD MMM YY")#
In function DateFormat the format mask parameter, which is MMM DD 'YY, has an

The union query below will work fine if I replace '#FORM.city#' and hard code
this to something like 'chicago' . My #StartRow# and #Endrow# links will fail
(#FORM.city# variable not found) with the '#FORM.city#' but work fine with a
city hard coded instead of the form variable.

need some assistance... doing a URL recordID template.
Need to do a <cfinclude template="<cfoutput>#PageInfo.Page#</cfoutput>"> to
include the selected page into the area.
The template is working fine.... title varies as requested per selected