Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / November 2004

I have a database call that displays thumbnail images.  Default, they display
vertically, one beneath the other.  I have read through the 'repeated region'
help screens and have not come up with anything I can make work.  My current
extension which is installed in DW is ...

I'm getting a strange error on my production server CFMX 6.0 that I'm not
getting my development and staging servers:
Invalid list index 8. In function ListGetAt(list, index [, delimiters]), the
value of index, 8, is not a valid as the first argument (this list has 7

I have a comma-delimited file (exported from excel) that contains commas within
the fields.  I am trying to parse the file into a db and am having problems
with the fact that some of the fields have commas within them so they of course
are being seen as two fields.  Anyone have ...

How do I create a loop to create a set of numbers with 13 figures each?? I have
this piece of code below but sometimes it creates numbers with 12 or 14
figures!!!  Thanks in advance  Marcus
<cfquery name="getNumbers" datasource="#db#">

Is it possible to place two values onto one option in a pull down select list?
Like you can pass two or more variables on a URL link with
?one=1&amp;two=2&amp;three=3 and so on.  So if the user selected say the option
'Jan' (see below) then two dates would be passed i.e the start ...

How can we prompt the user on the website about the session is going to timeout.

It's late, I'm tired and i just can't figure this one out.  I'd like to display
a list of images and a brief bit of information about each image directly
underneath each image (title of image, number of hits, etc.) These will be
sored somewhere and won't be seen until run-time.  ...

Is there a way I can get the file name that was chosen for uploading before the
actual uploading takes place. I select my jpeg through my form but it stores it
in a .tmp file before uploading it. thus, i don't know what the name of the
chosen file is until after it is uploaded. ...

I read the ColdFusion docs and got a little confused with scopes.
If I define a variable using the "var" keyword within a function, does
that variable belong to an unnamed or variables scope?
So is:

How do I add time to a date? I have a date like
#CreateODBCDateTime('2004-11-12')# how can I add current time like 19:56:08
to it?
Jens

I have a link to a pdf file on a CF page which users can click and IE will
open correctly.
However I want to measure hits by user and therefore changed the link to go to
a cf page that first records the hit and then displays the file. Cant get the

I have debugging turned on on my test server. One of the .cfm pages just
returns XML and no display content. However the debugging info is being
appended to the bottom of this and invalidating the page.
Is there an escape command to stop this being appended?

I need to create a random password so then I can insert it into a database. How can I do that? I think that I may be able to create a random variable?
iam:D