Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / January 2005

Dreamweaver can't find the location of my CFC's when using the cfinvoke tag.
When I browse, the CF code works fine, yet when I click into a file or attempt
to select code in Dreamweaver, it pops up a dialog box with an OK button that
says:

Can one component have a method with the same name as a method in the
component it is extending?
If so, how does one call the method in the component being extended?
Thanks

We have implemented a banner ad management tool for a client.  The tool allows
user to define a rich-media ad by telling where the "include" file resides (and
that file contains any rich-media code).
We're running into a problem on a high-traffic site using CFFILE to call the

I am trying to upload file paths from a form input (type="file"), i only wish
to enter the actual file name into the database, but it is entering the whole
path, which of course is on the users local machine. How can i cut down the
form entry so that it only writes the file name ...

i am trying to use the Session.urlToken in order to identify sessions to build
a dynamic History line on Wap
everything works fine when i am testing on the pc browser ( it is unique for
each session)

Let's say a CF app is in www.mysite.com/ and is shared by all users.  Users can
create their web sites, which is accessed as something like
www.mysite.com/users.cfm?id=123 , where id=123 tells the app who the user is.  
How can I change that so the user's site is accessible as

Does anyone have a simple example of cfinvoke?  I need the invoke example as
well as what you would have on the server you are invoking.  I would like to
send from one CF Server and message to another CF Server to run a page and pass
a variable back.  Something like...

I'm using the below <CFIF> in my "Email me the Visitor Action" cfm file.
When someone signs up for Quote Type number 5,  I never get the text in
between the
<CFIF> e-mailed to me. I sense it is because I am not using an escape

My web host allows the use of the CFCONTENT and I was planning on using it to
provide dynamic downloads to users.  However, this plan has been thwarted.  
While I can use CFCONTENT to push out  text files I can't get it to push out a
zipped file to save my life.  I was wondering ...

I'm creating charts that I need to send to PowerPoint from the web. I've used
the following code to send data to Excel, but I'm having problems trying to
send anything to PowerPoint.<BR><BR><CFCONTENT TYPE =
"application/vnd.ms-excel"><BR><CFHEADER NAME = "Content-Disposition"

I'm selecting data from 3 tables and joining them on various ID fields. The
results are populated into a form that a user can then edit and submit. One
table contains a list of audience types and the user/audience table contains
the userID and the audienceID (this table can have ...

What I want to do is use ListToArray(myfile, CR) to parse the file on the
CarriageReturn (line feed, end of line, whatever you want to call it). I can
not seem to get this to work. If I join all the ...

I'm sure there are others you have run across this problem so I'm hoping for
some advice. Here's the scoop; I have a cookie in my app that keeps track of
which accounting period the user is working in, I'll call it cookie.gl_month.
If the user wants to change which period they ...

I would like to parse form.formfields to get the name of the fields (which are
the same as my database columns) and the value that those fields hold (which is
what I want to insert into the database columns).  I am assuming you would use
a loop to insert all of this  information ...

I am having trouble maintaining line breaks in a CFMAIL tag.  I am wanting to
display the contents of a TEXTAREA field in my mail, but I can't seem to get it
to work.  I have tried two seperate methods:  Method #1: As noted in a post in
the forums, I used #paragraphFormat(form ...