Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / March 2005

I have recently created a search interface and using Verity. I have indexed
several directories on the server, HOWEVER, there were certain directories that
I didnt want to be searched. I couldn't figure out how to do that, so I decided
to include a cfif statement on the results ...

I'm using CF 6.1 as a front-end to a MySQL database that happens to contain
extended ASCII characters (e.g., accented vowels). CF displays the characters
correctly onscreen, but if I use CFFILE to try to output to a file the
characters are converted to something strange -- ...

Ok this forum is exactly what I want to try to do, but how do i do it? It will
allow me to bold and http://www.cnn.com
in  a text box. But I have no idea how to do this with coldfusion. It appears
to be just javascript, however is coldfusion calling this? anyone have any

anyone have any starters on how to import values from one web page to post to
another and allow the page to dynamically update?  There are rates from one
page I need to post on my intranet.  Please help!

I am very familiar with query of queries.   But I think, maybe, I just
realized, you cannot create (in MX 6.1) a query of queries of a query that was
created using queryNew function?  Can't be?  Please?  Any workarounds other
than ANOTHER queryNew kludge?  I get an error ... ...

When I open a window using  <a href=''
onClick='zoombig('studentphotozoom.cfm?file=#bigpic#','winbigpic','yes')'>Photo<
/a>  Closing that window  gives me a 'Directory Listing Denied' because it
truncates to url  versus <form> <input type='Button' value='Photo'

I am working on a paperless transaction system, that will make use of the new
cfdocument tag. How ever I am not using a remote webpage or file. I am using
local files that are run through a process.  When I try to run the code below,
all it outputs is the line within the ...

I'm trying to insert an entire XML node - it completely matches the other nodes
in the XML Doc. But CF just gives me errors (An error occured while trying to
add an XML node to an element.  
The right hand side of the assignment is not of type XML Node.  )

Hi,   What I have is a Windows 2000 machine with Novell installed on the server
where ColdFusion is running.  We have another file server that is mapped to the
O: on this machine.  The problem is that when I try to access a folder on the
O: (either using O:\file or ...

I have a dynamic field that tells the news that Coldfusion outputs on a
hompage. How can I limit the number of characters that news.News shows on
the page and just have it hyperlink to a full story.
<table width="100%">

How can I use CFHTTP to get and display a JPEG image without having to save the image to a directory?  The mimetype is recognized, but it doesn't display the image.

I have a directory which contains cfm and NON-cfm files. The user has to login
before accessing the site. I am using session variables to track
authentication.  However, most of the files are HTML. Is there a way to make
sure the user has logged in before viewing the HTML files. ...

I was playing around with flash forms in MX7.  I want to bind a quesry to a cfgrid.  I looked at the demo on the MM site, and am trying to do the basic scripting just to see how it works.
I keep getting an error saying that the value of query="client" is invalid.
Sample code:

I am currently using a cfm script to call a web service on another machine.  I
can call some of the methods but, I am having a problem with a method I need to
call.
Basically, the web service has a s:simpleType in the wsdl that is a restricted

Hi,  I am trying to use the CFLDAP tag with the following code:  <cfldap    
server='kaads.kant.local'   action='query'    name='getme'  
username='cn=johnpa'   password='password'   attributes='dn'  
start='DC=kant,DC=local'>  However, I am getting the following error: