Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / April 2005

Hi there,  I am accessing this Java object from CF that interacts with the
database. I can't directly access the database using CF (long story) so I've to
use this java object but the problem is that when I access this java object, i
recevie the exception that 'No suitable driver ...

I'm trying to find multiple instances of a word inside a string. The problem
with the ColdFusion 'Find' function is that it only finds the first occurence.
I need to find all occurences.  Even just the number of occurences might be
sufficient.

So I have a CFForm and a CFGrid in a Flash Form, on my query i get over 3000
records and it takes a long time to display the grid, so i would know how can i
split the records on multiple pages so that i only have 300 records / grid ??
Thanks

I do not get an error when locking a shared scope and returning it from a UDF,
but my question is: is it actually being locked?  I want to do this for two
reasons... I don't want to place the cflock code all over and... I cannot
duplicate the value of this variable because it is ...

Hi all,  I have an application list all the pdf and word doc file for each
item. Each entry is a link, click will open the file, then you can print the
file.  Like below: Item 1: <a href ='item1pdf.pdf'>Pdf format</a>, <a
href='item1word.doc'>Word format</a><br> Item 2: <a href ...

cfdirectory listing...  Here is my problem... I am listing directorys and when
each directory is listed I want to list the contents of that directory. If you
visit my site. www.timothyrubel.com you will see that I am able to create a
list of directorys and to list the contents of ...

My project involves the following:
Customers will create power point presentations and save them as web pages.
This creates an index file and a subdirectory which has all the supporting
files (images, javascript, etc). For example, if I have a power point

I have an survey application where I want users to be able to click on a link
and a slice of data (the survey results for that survey instance) will be
exported to an Excel file with a unique name.  But instead of returning the
file to the user I want it to be e-mailed to a ...

Attached code for better layout:
CF automatically escapes single-quotes when outputtting values in queries.
(Reason: Preventing of sql-injection)
Up to CF5.0, this worked rather well, but since CF6.0 (maybe 6.1), this

I need to show several items on a page, in horizontal rows with 6 or 7 items to
a row. I have the first row, but I don't know what code I need to change to get
the next 6 or 7 to show on the next row. Here's the code: THANKS!!
<cfset ...

I am new to all this and am looking at creating a collection and an index using
verity spider on our CF MX 6.1 server.  I noticed for MX 7, additional files
are required
(http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=50f419a).  Is

Any thoughts on how to mimic result of submitting form data via POST Method?  I
have some code that sanitizes some submitted formfields and i'd like to
redirect the user to another page and carry over that data but not reveal it in
the URL.  

Hi, i have another complex problem i cannot figure out. I have a string called
#file_name#. The string's value is a filepath and file name of a file. Like
this. <cfset file_name = 'e:\www\root\files\fileone.zip'>  What im trying to do
is remove the path and leave the file name ...

I want to be able to make a pull down menu - like the <select  feature of
cities.   I have a database with users and the cities.  I want allow people to
do a search on a specific city from the database.  However, the list of cites
come from a database.  

Here's an example of the code....
<cfchart format="flash" labelformat="percent" >
    <cfchartseries type="pie" datalabelstyle="value" query="qMsg2"
itemcolumn="realname" valuecolumn="times" serieslabel="Times"></cfchartseries>