Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / December 2004

In the following code in cfmx:  <cfsetting requesttimeout='5'> <cftry> <cfloop
index='a' from='1' to='9999999999' ></cfloop> <cfcatch type='Any'><cfdump
var='#cfcatch#'> </cfcatch> </cftry>  cfdump appears to fail because it somehow
throws another timeout exception while ...

Guys Ive found the following regex on an old forum topic, but the regex
explanation isnt very good. Could someone give me a explanation as to whats
going on? Im only just starting with regex so be gentle. From what I can work
out the regex removes links from a web page, but I ...

I am trying to retrieve weather information from the National Weather Service's
web service using the NDFDgenByDay() method. My problem is that I am running
Cold Fusion 5. I've tried using CFHTTP, but only recieve the configuration
information as XML. I realize this would be easy ...

I have an MX app in production that will be gathering emails from various
spots and archiving their attachments to the hard drive (Windows Platform).
Is there any 'industry leading' AV solution to automate handling of attached
viruses when downloading mail/saving to file through ...

master.  This is the line of code: iif(IsDate(loadRequest.created_dt),
de('#ParseDateTime(loadRequest.created_dt)#'), de('#now()#'))  What I am trying
to do is if loadRequest.created_dt is a valid date ...

I'm in my second CF job right now and am wondering the best way to become
efficient at it. At my last job they didn't care how good the code was, just as
long as it worked. I programmed low traffic sites so it didn't matter.
At my current position they are extremely concerned ...

I export data to an Excel file, and create a cell which calculates its value
from other cells.  It's a money value, and I would like the contents to be
'currency' formatted.  Ideas?  Thanks in advance.

Hi All, I'm on a shared server so I do not have access CF Adminstrator or the
error log files.  Is there a way that I can log the errors that hit my
application either in a file or in my DB?  Thanks, Ryan

Hello,
I am currently developing in CF MX and would like to know the best way to
allow users to browse to a directory to set a file location.  Ex: Need to set

and looks/formats nicely in IE, but in other browsers, the tables are expanded
so that the entire layout of the site is off. Any suggesstions on how to clean
up?

I have a list of variables in cfscript that I want to put in a list variable
with a loop:
Column1
Column2

Hello guys, I am trying to find the mime type for cfm templates. Like, for .asp
we have text/asp. I have found something for coldfusion.   type =
magnum-internam/cold-fusion  is it correct? does anyone know about it?  Any
help will be much appriciated.  Cheers

I know there's something in the forum about this, but it has been
unavailable to bet into for about 3 days for me now, and it's still down.
Anyway, I'm trying to pull images from a database.  It's a Foxpro database,
I didn't create it, but I have to use it.  I can connect fine to it ...

I am sucessful in creating a Nodus eStore Advantage COM object, but the syntax
for connecting to the object is rejected by Cild Fusion.  Somehow, I;d like to
create a 'wrapper object' so that I may address the object method using
acceptable CF syntax.  The app developers haven't ...

We are finding the limitations of the CF5 CFLDAP tag:-   We have a round-robin
dns name pointing at 3 readonly directories sitting infront of 2 masters...  
(all Sun-ONE-Directory 5.2 and CF5 running on Solaris 8)  When attempting an
insert (action=add) CF5 cannot handle the ...