Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / November 2004

hello,  ok here is what i need . i need to loop over an insert query. sounds
simple but i have tried a few ideas and i have hit a wall. its very easy to
loop over when you insert just one field but when you have multiple fields its
a whole different story any help would be lovely ...

I am trying to allow an upload of an mp3 via a cffile upload, however i
cannot restrict uploads to mp3 only, is this possible via cffile?

Im having trouble customizing the order of output from a query. sql cannot do
what i need because it orders numerically or alphabetically. I need it to sort
based on fixed input.
For example. If I have records that contains a string and an id, and if the

I'm running CF5 on Solaris. I have a Java class that I access from within a cf
page. When I pass a String to a Java Method, all Non-ASCII chars such as ???
are being replaced by a question mark '?'. I encounter this problem only on the
Solaris Installation. The same code runs ...

We have a stratum 1 time server in Dallas, TX and would like to create a
snippet of code to work through a cold fusion server to display the exact day,
date, time on a web page from this server at 66.141.181.7
(TIME.WARDNETWORKS.COM) - does anybody know where i can get this code ...

I'm getting the strangest errors when I attempt to have Java connect to a
datasource that I've set up in JRun.  The error:  
java.lang.reflect.UndeclaredThrowableException  at
$Proxy1.getConnection(Unknown Source)  at

I need to change this javascript funtion into all javascript.  I need the cfif
isdefine, and cfoutput removed.  Could someone PLEASE show me how to do this?  
Thanks,  
function getSymbols()

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We recently upgraded our version of CFusion to 6 (from 5). We had developed an
intranet knowledge sharing application using CFusion 5 and thought that this
would work without adjustment on CFusion 6. Among other smaller problems, we

Hi all. I'm building an extranet that has its own authentication and
authorization modules and we have purchased a web app that is ASP based. I want
to control access to the ASP app without allowing customers to go through the
URL and bypassing the front end. I don't think ...

I'm developing a page where I have 8 images lined up (horizontal) and I would
like some text under each img. I'm learning CSS and trying to do this without
tables. How do I go about getting some text to appear under each image. Also, I
defined each image as a link that would open ...

Has anyone ever tried creating dynamic GIF's using ColdFusion?  I would like to
do something like this: <cf_CreateBarGif' width='140' height='20' value='23'
scale='100'>  This would create an image 140x200 with a bar 'thermometer' that
is at the 23% mark.  Also, I'd like to put ...

Would it be possible to create a forum or helpdesk in coldfusion?
If so how would someone go about this, its an area I would really like to look
at but I dont know how.
Any pointers or example code would be greatly appreciated

Is there any way to get ColdFusion to generate standards compliant code? I am
trying to build my site in XHTML 1.0 but the code that ColdFusion creates is
not compliant. I appreciate that it obviously still works correctly, but it is
still very aggravating.

Hi, I hawe a query in one modul. Then I want to give the query to a custom tag
<CF_Out> that writes the output of the query. Is this possible? I have tried to
take the query name and send it to the tag <CF_Out q='queryName' i='outvalue'>
and then make a loop in the cf_out tag.  ...

I'm having some troubles displaying an HTML message retrived with CFPOP.
The issue stems from the fact that the inline image is base64 encoded when
sending. This is fine and it has a MIME boundry ID.
The problem is, CFPOP decode the attachment to its original filename and