Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / January 2005

I'm trying to implement a keyword search box on my site.  I would like to strip
the following words/characters/punctuations before querying the database.  I'd
like to remove the words 'the, and' , &, ', ' , commas and periods.  This
is the code I have in the processing file. ...

why is it that CF can't create an object of this WSDL:  
http://68.229.244.3:8888/wshelper/service.php?class=upsRateRequest&wsdl  
running it thru the www.xmethods.com WSDL testing tool seems fine, but this
code:          <cfobject

I use this coldfusion code for output.  <cfquery name='users'
datasource='baze'> select member, first, last, age, city, email, phone from
dbo.tbldata where age between #age# and #age2# and city=#city# order by age
desc </cfquery>  <cfoutput query='users' startrow='500' ...

We're trying to use Validate on an cfinput, type text.  The field is not
required, but we keep getting an error that the form field value is invalid if
the field is left blank.  We tried using required='no' but still get the same
results.  We really don't want to validate using ...

I don't know if our basic problem is with our soap client (webmethods) not
properly parsing and decoding the referenced elements, or what, but is there a
way to have the soap responses that are returned by 'remote' functions on CFC's
NOT USE multi-reference elements? it returns ...

I was wondering if it's possible to schedule an email reminder to be sent once a week (every friday).  If so, how would I go about setting something like that up?
Thanks much,
v_roma

i am admist of a small problem. the client im working for needs to have his
excel file dumped into a table. first i thought how easy, i'll just use DTS to
grab the file via FTP and transfer the data that way. but, for some reason the
FTP connection (the CF web server) in DTS ...

We have setDomainCookies='Yes' in our cfapplication tag and we are finding the
sessions seem to get 'lost'.  Here's the course of events:  1. log in posts to
page with NO redirect, which sets the session variable, but no cookie is set.
2. session variable seems to be set on this ...

Before we upgraded to MX where I work, we were runnning 4.5. Under 4.5,
all that was required to unlock an Access DB was to go into the
datasource definition and update it without making any changes.
This no longer works in MX. Searching the web for a solution yields page

i need to remove carriage returns/white space from the beginning and end of a
string only. i tried trim but that didnt work.  any ideas? tia NF  here is a
text sample ----------------------------------      

I am having to make a call to a web service that is expecting an array of
complex items and I can not get this to work.  I for the life of me can figure
out what is wrong with this call.  I have been able to hook up to every other
web service call to the system expcet for this ...

I want to create a calander. What I have is a database query to sort out the
end date of the calander (MAX(DATE)) and the statdate is Now(). Now I don't
want to show the months with no activities.
Can somebody point me to the right direction? I have tried different things,

Hi,  I try to disable caching on the client browser for certain web page by
adding the following command on the top of secure page.  <CFCACHE
action='ClientCache' timespan='#CreateTimeSpan (0,0,0,0)#'>  It seems to be
working ok on firefox but not MS I.E. here is when MS I.E. ...

Does anyone know how to maintain Session on multi-domain name? For example,
when I login as a user on 123.sample.com, then both 456.sample.com or
789.sample.com can authorize my login session.
(But how can i restrict 999.sample.com is other case?)  Thank you!

I am a new coder and I have a question or 2. It seems that I have created a
form that I am not sure how to process. The form is a series of colums and rows
(generated from a query) with a single input (text) field that represents a
quantity (field name is 'quantity'). I also ...