Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / December 2004

Hi All,  When do you normally get this error message 'element XYZ is undefined
in SESSION'.  Session mgt is enabled in the application file.  I check if a
session varibale  is defined, else set the session variable.  When I test it
with about 5 - 6 different users. I get no ...

I have a method that runs a select * query and then stores the results in a
variable.  The variable needs to pass each result through to another method to
do something else.  Right now I have it so that the variable only passes the
first row (I guess).  But can somebody help me ...

Hello, I'm stuck.  I wrote a recursive function to find the appropriate end
html tag for a given open tag taking into account nested tags.  If I call the
function from within another function such that the return from the recursive
function is used directly as an argument, that's ...

I have some long running queries that I would like to have displayed as they
are being retrieved on the page.  I have a forum that displays all the thread
for a particular forum.  This page takes a while to load and I would like to
have it render and display as the records are ...

I have a table that has categories in it.  I am trying to set up a query and
output that tests what the categories are so that it sets them up in the
right place.  Maybe to even assign them to a variable.  Can you break a
query return out into varaibles?  For example.

I have created forms before and automatically when pressing enter on them, for
example a search, it processes the search button request. If the clear button
was coded before the search button it was run the clear instead! Wasn't sure
how to fix that except swap them round. Got a ...

I am having a problem updating a date/time field in Access. When the form field
has a date, then the update goes fine. If the form field is blank, then the
update fails with: 'data type mismatch' error. ACCESS data field is not
required in database. Can anyone tell me what is ...

<!--- THIS LOOP AND STRUCTURE CONTAINS ALL THE QUESTION ID'S THAT NEED TO BE
PUT INTO THE DB --->
<cfloop index="loopcount" from="1" to="#ArrayLen(session.exam)#">
<cfoutput>

I have a query :  <CFQUERY='vinquery' DATASOURCE='emslink'> SELECT SERIAL_NO
FROM EQ_MAIN WHERE EQ_EQUIP_NO=UPPER('#equipno#')  The eq_equip_no was CFSET
from an earlier query.  My  output   <CFMAIL query=<'another query'>  
#vinquery.serial_no# doesn't show up.

My query  returns an Oracle error.
The query is simple:
SELECT NUMBER FROM MAIN_TABLE WHERE ID_NO= #ID#
I get an invalid ORA-00904 column. However, the #ID# was <cfset> in the code.  

In the main browser window, I have a list of products in a user?s order, and a
button to launch a popup window which contains a list of other products the
user maybe interested in adding.  When the user enters a quantity for products
in the popup window and submits the form, the ...

When I execute this custom tag, I got an incorrect syntax error because of the
single quote I used for employee.day_timestamp   in there :  I got this custom
tag from macromedia site and cannot edit the file. what should I make a change
here?  <cf_xls_to_file xtf_query='SELECT    ...

Hello gang, it's me again with quite an advancement with my search engine.
I have a form on a page that call this page and it searches in the database
for the "contentTitle" and the "contentBody".
If the search produces no results I have to give some sort of eroor message.

Ok, I have looked and looked and looked. So now I will finally just ask.   I
have a shared hosted CFMX 6.1 site, Windows 2k Server, and maybe I have access
to the CFADMIN but dont tell...   I need to do something to get the page count
of a PDF file on my server. I have tried a ...

Hello,  I was just looking to getting some feedback about how hard the
Coldfusion Certification exam is.? I have Developer Study guide from ben forta,
is that enough?  And i work with CF everyday.  Anyone pass this exam and if so
how was it? Thanks for you feedback