Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / January 2005

We are running a listserve and want to build a page that collects and displays
the emails sent to the list and I'm wondering if anyone has any good tips on
the best way of making this happen.  If someone could point me in the right
direction regarding methodology that would be ...

One of my clients asked me today if CF can get files and zip them up using
PKZip.  I know CF can move files around on the file system of the server, but I
didn't know about the PKZip.
Has anyone ever done this?  If you have, a little shove in the right direction

I have a list of inventory items, each with a subcategory heading. To the left
of the heading I need to place a subcategory photo. The list of items are in a
column below the heading.  The photo is larger than the item rows. I need to
have the photo span the items. However, a ...

I have just gotten started working with XML.  The reason I will be using it is
to get information from another system.  A user will fill out a form on my
website.  I will then need to send some of that info to the other system (which
i don't own) and get information back.  I know ...

We have a busy website that uses a third party XML feed. Basically what
happens is:
1) The visitor completes a form specifying their criteria.
2) A request is sent to the third party for results matching the criteria.

I am currently querying a db thru ODBC that contains massive records and
searching using CF. Initial problem is that the search query for a specific
record is taking too long. I was told I should be using an ISAM search after
the initial search which would make the results appear ...

Is it possible in CFMX 6.1 to add spaces and CR/LF into a xmlDoc type ?
Because when i read an XML file, parse it, add nodes with the xmlElemNew and
then write the file whith the toString fucntion, all the new nodes/tags are
on the same line with no spaces / ident.

Hi, anyone aware of a custom tag to allow on-the-fly communication with the
post office on their postage rates? I'm aware of ones for UPS, but this is for
regular mail, like first class and priority mail.  Thanks.

I was wondering how I could obtain the actual filename of the file on the
users? computer (((path would be in a <input type=?file? name=?newfile?>
field))) before it is uploaded.  Let?s say they have a file named Doc1.doc and
in the file field before it is uploaded the path on ...

I am having trouble using cfindex to populate a Verity Collection from a
database query on my Production server. It works fine on the Test Server (both
IIS and CFMX), with exactly the same size of Recordset, but on the Production
server it  falls over with a  java.lang ...

I'm generating a text file which contains content as follows:
-------------------------------------------------------------
CLIP IDs Fetched: Oct 20 2004 12:08PM
-------------------------------------------------------------

I'm looking to process a text file in a similar fashion as the old 'grep'
command. I want to be able to put conditionals on the lines, say within
<cfloop> and if they meet a certain <cfif >condition </cfif> then to manipulate
a variable associated with the line.  I've looked at ...

Hello,
I have a login script on my site. It sets up a small series of session
variables.
I am running CF 5, patched, on a very new server, with ample memory and

I am curious if anyone would know of a quick way to look at a table that has a
datetime field and be able to average the number of records per hour over
several weeks and organize them by day of the week... Something like this:
Records from Jan 10, 2005 to Jan 24, 2005 Mon 12am - ...

I am trying to combine data from two tables. The user provides a start and end
date.  I need to retrieve multiple records from Table 1. Then I need to
retrieve all the records from Table 2 that match the JobID in Table 1. One  
record in Table1 can be equal to many  records in ...