Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / December 2004

Hey all, this is a little hard to explain but most of you have probobly seen
something like it before. I want to make one of those things that says how many
users and how many guests are on my site at a given time. So like it would say,
'there are 2 users and 1 guest'. Getting ...

I am having a problem with sessions 'disappearing'.  The site i am working on
has a check that the user is logged in on every page.  The problem is as
follows:  1.i log in and successfully view the first page  2. i click to
another page, it seems that the session has gone awry ...

hi.   i have a cf component that i just moved from one server to another. i'm
trying to invoke it from within coldFusion so i can just make sure it's
working, that's all.   i put my component in a file called: components |
analytics | tracker2.cfc. this lives in here: C ...

I have created a menu header using DWMX and FW.  It is a simple javascript
rollover.  I am trying to set it so that when I visit the index page, the
graphic for that link will show a solid image and when I am not on that page it
does a simple mouse over using javascript.  I am ...

I have a two dimention array. The first is a row number and the second are thw row elements.
I want to sort the rows by a value of one of its row elements.
How?

Does anyone know how to definitively log out of a session using
include_CheckAuthority.cfm?  I have tried combinations of:  <cfset bLoggedIn =
False> <cfset session.level = 0> <cfset session.id = ''> <cfset Cookie.UserID =
''>  Which gives the appearance of logging out, but does ...

I'm working with an RSS feed that has nodes with a colon. CF pukes when it sees them. Is there something I need to do to handle that?
Example:
itms:albumLink
itms:albumPrice

This might be an IIS issue... But I have set up custom errors for my website.
But it gives a windows generic error for .cfm 404's and the custom file for
.htm or .html 404 files...  Anyone know if I need to tweak an IIS setting?

server = win2003 advanced CF MX6.1 IIS 6 MSSQL 2000 Lots of HDD space Lots of
RAM  I have created an image gallery upload that allows internet users to
upload jpeg files to the server.  attached is the code for the upload routine.  
the page is broken into 2 routines seperated by ...

We've got course codes and course codes.  The problem is that the subject
portion and the numeric portion are stored as one unit in one field.  :(  What
I'd like to do is seperate these two pieces.  Primarily, I really need to
'grab' the text piece, eg, the 'GOVT' part of: ...

We have a customers who pay for access to certain files. Once they
successfully download the file we must block any further access to the file.
How can we known when the file gets downloaded successfully in its entirety? If
the download is interrupted, the user must keep his ...

I made a report using Cfchart, it does work fine at home, (JPG format) when
uploading at the Host, the graph is not displayed, I have the red cross instead
of the graph JPG image. (no error message) If I look on the image properties ,
ihave :  http://www.pl-arts ...

I'm using components and cfobjects a lot lately, but I'm creating them by hand.
Why would you use the CreateObject by itself instead of using <cfobject>?
What is the advantage?

My goal is to have a button the user can click to download a csv file created
from a database.  I have already created the csv data... the thing is I would
prefer not to have to create a file on the server that they then download... is
there a way just to either create the file ...

i have a CFC calling a complex stored procedure. when i query the SP from Query
Analyzer i get results however, i get variable undefined error when i run the
CF page. i've tested this by inserting a simple query into the SP, so i think
its the complex query.   thanks NF