Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / October 2004

The duplicate function converts objects (CFCs) to structs making their methods
useless.  Does anyone have a way around this problem?  Copying the internals of
objects one item at a time would be a nightmare not to mention inefficient.

I have a udf that i want to include with the code that uses it - we re-use code
a lot and i'd prefer to have specific functions within the code where they're
used.
however, sometimes i include the code several times into a given page.  I

Has anyone worked on a recursive function or a custom tag to insert elements of
an xml file into a structure? Any idea how I can do this or some related
articles? The function has to be recursive because I dont know how many levels
deep my tree structure is.

I have now managed to get an application working that allows users to upload
word documents along with other info such as the title, date and notes for the
attached doc. This info is all stored in a database. What I need to do now
however is to create a page where the users can ...

Ok why is it when I do this query
<cfquery name="CheckInfo" datasource="MyDB" maxrows=1 dbtype="ODBC">
SELECT * FROM MyContacts
Where email = '#email#'

I am trying to create a text file using the CFFile Action = "Write" tag.  My
Output of the CFFile tag needs to contain lines that contain quotation marks,
but those quotes are messing up the CFFile tag.  For example:
<cffile action = "write"

Hi all. I am trying to create a simple page that lets a user upload a word
document along with a few fields that he has filled in in a form. I am having a
problem however. I followed the example given in the macromedia technote to
just get the file to upload. That works fine. But ...

I'm trying to create and manipulate word document.  I'm able to find some
example on how to create word document using <cfobject>  Now, I need to be able
to find/replace some text.  I cannot find any example on how to do it.  Does
anybody know where I can find a good reference ...

hi,
I have an application where I need to open some MS word files in side a frame,
any ideas on how to do that?

I am having trouble reading some message headers using CFPOP. On some message,
the "From" or "TO" lines are blank when retrieved by CFPOP although they are
definitely visible when looking at the message with my mail program. It seems
to happen on a variety of messages sent by ...

I have been running the following code (a simple loop counter from 1 to 100K)
on multiple boxes to test performance and have been getting weird results.
Here's the code:
<cfset s=getTickCount()>

I have a pdf file that I use to print forms on a daily basis. I am having to
print these forms one by one for each record.
Is there a way to loop a pdf file for all the current records I need to print,
so that I can click one link, pop the pdf in the browser with all the records

In a <cfscript> on certain conditions I would like to automatically link to
another page, similar to the windows.location.replace() function in javascript.
Is this possible in <cfscript>?
Many Thanks.

I havent seen any answer to my problem in the forums, so here it is:
I need to detect if a database is a MSSQL or Access database via ODBC... Is
there any query I can do to do that?
Also, I would like to detect a specific installation of ColdFusion. I used to

I allready asked this in the "databes_access" newsgroup, but with no luck.
I'm trying to make a "small" search option for a database that I'm using.
Part of the code looks like this
<cfif checkbox EQ "checkbox">