Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / October 2004

Is there a way that you can browse or view the files on a remote server?  I
know you can get files with CFHTTP, but I want to list the files that are in a
directory on another server (kind of a combination of CFDIRECTORY and CFHTTP).  
I imagine such a thing would be viewed as a ...

I'm trying to create a form that captures the selection from a drop down menu
from the previous page. I've declared two URL variables for each selection, one
for the name of the selection and one for the email address for that selection.
I have displayed the name and email ...

i have a question about cfquery.  Is it ok to have mulitlple statements in one
cfquery. For example as i have below a delete followed by a bunch of updates in
one cfquery.   My code below does work but i was just wondering if this is a
good thing to do in ColdFusion.  Anything ...

I am trying to loop over the first level <outline>nodes of the Root element.  
There are 8, but the Len function keeps returning a count of the total
<outline> nodes in the XML doc.  It should return only 8.  To make it even more
confusing, sometime the Len function returns '33', ...

I will be working without a database, if anyone could give me advice on how to
do this.
What is required is to change country and languages (english, spanish, french,
etc) via a url that is posted by a form. Ths correct currency should be

My search box sits within the header.  it works just fine when on other pages
except my product detail page.  seems like it is passing the hidden ID into the
form which makes it go to the cart.cfm page.
Attached is my search results page, my product detail page, and my header ...

I have looked all over the place for help with this and no one seems to have
the answer, but lots of people (on the google board) have the question.
I'm getting the following error whenever I try to comsume a webservice.  It
doesn't seem to matter if it is a .cfc or a .asmx or ...

Thought I posted this the other day but cannot find it!
How does one get a date print out to show January 1, '02
Using #dateformat(date(),"MMM DD 'YY")#  hoses.  ANyone have a workaround of
am I having a brain f ....

Is that a method to browse a network dirve?.
I can browse a local drive of a computer, but I unable to browse the network drive or mapped drive.
Thanks
Hing

I would like my site to send a notification (for example an e-mail to me or
whatever person I would choose), each time a certain item reach a certain date.
For example each time a book is due back, I would like me and the person who
borrowed it to be notified by e-mail.

I need to create two select lists side by side where the items from the list on
the left can be moved to the list on the right. So that I can store the
selections in a table. I've seen a few custom tag solutions in the Developer's
Exchange but what I'd like is a recommendation ...

I am working on my UDF for checking a form. I have several fields that are
required and other error checking methods to make sure e mail is correct and
birthdate is enter in the right format etc etc.
The problem I am having is finding out if a certain structure exists in my

When you call a method in a component using <cfinvoke>, does it create an
object in the jvm and call the method on the new object  or does it  treat it
as a static method in a class?
eg. <cfinvoke component="bob" method="sayHello"/>

I would like to not show the CFID and CFTOKEN in a Coldfusion page on the web.
The reason that users are bookmarking the page and when they use the bookmark
later they are getting a session drop or session invalid problem.  The basic
problem is that they CFID and CFTOKEN does not ...

Is it possible to have a CFPROPERTY type  = to some CFC.
For example: (returnResponse.cfc)
<cfcomponent displayname="Return Response">
<cffunction name="getStatus" returntype="string" output="No" displayname=""