Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / January 2005

This should be fairly easy I think, but it's giving me many headaches.  I'm
using a query to pull names and codes from a database.  Then I use
cfdirectory and some variables I create to get the list of filenames that
are pictures of people.  There should be matches between the codes ...

We have a problem with IIS 5.0 web logs, and the use of search engine friendly
URLs. We are using URLs in our ColdFusion 5.0 applications of this form:
  template.cfm/id/ABCD
instead of full-blown CGI Style usage:

I'm trying to find a way to determine if a date and time falls within a
date/time range.
Logically, this is what I'd like to do:
<CFIF {ts '2005-01-28 10:00:00'} IS BETWEEN {ts '2005-01-28 07:00:00'} AND {ts

I have a value that is not always a fixed length. The variable is configured
like so:
AES_ITx_1, AES_ITx_20, etc.
Where x can be any number. So, if I want to know the number after "_IT", how

I am working on a search engine. I am attempting to link a 'Company Name' list
box and a 'Site Name' list box. I want the 'Site Name' box to be dependant on
what is selected in the 'Company Name' list box and I don't really know where
to begin. I've looked at other code using ...

Thanks in advance for any help.  I am trying to get a list of the months that  
occur between two dates.  I could use CFLOOP with an index of 1 to 12 to loop
through my promotions like the example below,  but this is not very
efficient....  It will need to evalute the dates of ...

I have a form page the allows users to fill in
"search" requirements, which are then passed
as form.variables to a query on the form's
action page.

Having trouble setting values in a structure of arrays using dynamic variable
names. People buy a 1 or 2 year subscription. I need to defer the subscription
price over the entire length of the subscription.   For example, a $150 - 1
year subscription starting in December 2004:  ...

I have a column that stores a categories location in a pathup column.  So far,
I can query all sub-cats for all levels that belong to a parentID of 134 using
the built-in SQL function PATINDEX.  This works if the values in that column
are stored in this format:   ^1^134^136^ ...

Our site has a feature that allows users to include hyperlinks on their pages.
Unfortunately, these links frequently become stale without the user's
knowledge. I'm looking for ways to store the http output from the original link
so that we can display the original contents when ...

I like to add to all email adresses in a Text a href tag.
For Example:
Input: "some words karpowitz@standpunkt.com some other words"
output: "some words <a

Hi,  I am looking for a counter that will count the number of times that a file
(ie doc, pdf, xls etc etc) has been downloaded from our site.  Obviously this
would have to be recorded when the user starts the download, but we want it to
be hidden from the user.  Does anyone know ...

I am loading a xml file with cffile, then parsing it with <cfset xml =
parsexml(xmlvar)>
The XML seems to be without any errors in DreamWeaver.
I keep getting an error like: Document root node is missing, although it is in

Hello, I finally started to try to learn cfc's this morning. Can't get it to
work and I don't understand the documentation. Would someone give me a real
basic example please. Please assume I know nothing.  For example on the .cfc
page within component tag I want to query a user ...

Hey All. I think I might be coding a little over my head on this one, but I
want to know how I can delete a number of records from my database at one time?
What I have in a messanger service and I want users to be able to delete old
messages. So What I did is put a check box next ...