Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / January 2005

Need a secure way of adding cfincludes and cfmodules to a https pages?
We are in the process of redesigning our site from a framed site to
non-framed, thus all our pages now have includes and modules for the required
headers, footers and such.

Help please, we installed CFMX 6.1 on Linux RedHat 9.0 and did the latest
update for it, and since then we don't get anything in the cfctch when we dump
it, all we get is  Unkown Type  anyone knows a solution?  Thanks

Just wondering what is the most popular way of setting your coldfusion DNS
in your applications??
I do it on the application page using cfscript like this.
<cflock timeout="20" throwontimeout="no" type="exclusive"

Hello, I've seen applications out there (from which I cannot see the source!)
where they took data from ColdFusion and then ran that into an Excel file on
the web using XML.  Is there a tutorial or a walk-through for this? I can't
seem to find any help on it... I have a page from ...

I have a query result that I need to write to a file so that I can email the
results.  Since this is a web site with many users, I have to create a unique
filename.   The file extension has to be .csv. Originally I was using
GetTempFile() to generate unique filenames and then ...

I have been able to successfully connect to my LDAP server using CFLDAP,....
but I am tring to seemlessly connect to Lotus Notes Webmail app without the
user having to login again. Has anyone been able to do this?

i have an ODBC connection set up linked to an XLS file. when a user wants to
see the file's contents, i query the file to display its contents which places
a lock on the file. if the user wants to update the data i write a bogus query
to remove the lock, then i am able to use ...

I'm working with a co-worker on the following problem:  I have two dimensional
array.  Some number of rows and 6 columns.  How do I sort the array by the
values in column #5?  Or Sort by two columns, by 5 and then by 6?  Does anyone
have any ideas?  I was thinking putting the ...

is it possible to programmatically disable an ODBC connection using CFQUERY? i
have an ODBC connection to an Excel file, but i can't rename, copy or remove
the file because of the connection CF has made in the CFadmin. If i can disable
it, then i can do what i need to do and then ...

What can I do in the following scenario? I need SQL tricks or some CF ideas on
this one.
In the attached code you see 3 rows in my resultset attached. What I want is
to only retrieve the only english record and the japanese record, without the

Can how would I do this? I have a value that comes from a database, we'll call
it 'main.repNum'. Sometimes it's only one word, but sometimes it's two or more
seperated by commas. (text, text). I output the value of main.repNum to a page
and send it via a link to a search results ...

I have a client that wants us to output credit card numbers so it can process
them offline (i.e. they are not using a payment gateway).  I want just looking
for best way to securely provide the client with a list of their credit card
numbers on a periodic basis.  Thanks, Bruce

My site has just been moved from  the development server to the live server -
both running IIS and CF MX, although obviously not with the same configuration.
I had been using some code to parse out cgi.path_info into extra name/value
pairs. for example: index.cfm/cat.234/page ...

Hi all,  I need to find a way to display large quantity of data in a timely
fashion.  I have a couple of reports that returns more than 20,000 rows to
display.  I kept getting the timeout error.  The server has set a time limit on
the connection of 3 minutes.   I use cfstoredproc ...

In all forums when you make a reply to a message, that message is written in
the form with a '>' symbol before each line: '> hello'  How can i do this? I
have a little forum here, and users are complaining, that they cannot see the
message they are replying to.  Thanks for your ...