Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / April 2005

I would like to be able to detect whether or not a particular session is still
active.
The reason I want to do this is that I need to be able to implement a locking
mechanism.  My premise is that when the user locks a particular row in a table

Hey
I'm running a QoQ using session variables - every thing works fine until I try
to refer to a QoQ column. Let me write the example:
1. application.qoq contains a valid dataset from a direct query to MS SQL

Is there any way that Coldfusion could send Ringtones, pictures or games to a cellphone?

How do I change the value of a loop list variable without changing the variable
name?
For example, let's say I'm looping through form results, and I want to trim
each one.  I'll use vertical bars here ("|") to indicate the boundaries of the

Here's the deal.  I work for a wind turbine company and I have setup a flash
app that shows the wind site with spinning turbines layed out.  This updates
every minute with current information example: windspeed of each turbine,
nacelle direction, error code etc.....

I have a giant access table that needs analyzing.  I want to be able to print
out every fieldname in the table and the appropriate first row of data for each
field.  Is there a method or tag that will allow me to do this without having
to individually type out the fields...  ...

I am trying to chart the running sum of a series of data points. For example,
comapany A produces a certain number of widgets every day.  I am trying to show
a chart of the running total number of widgets produced, instead of the daily
number of widgets. Am I clear? If over 5 ...

Can someone help me with this issue?
basically - I just started using SSL secure pages on my site (shared ssl from
the host) - all my code was fine before - but now - when I jump from regular
pages to ssl secure pages - it seems that I'm losing at least some of my

Any help would be so appreciated, I have beat my head against the wall on this
one and have scoured the web trying to find an answer. I am trying to build an
email program for a client that will allow them to issue press releases. The
trick is that they need to be able not only ...

I have a query that orders things by date.  The database itself only has
dates in it, not times, so what I want to do is find items in the
database by date, then by ID - so that the latest item always comes out
first (hope that makes sense!).

Does anyone know of a way that I can navigate records from a search query from
a details window?  Let me explain.  I have a search utility where the user can
search by date range, program name, region code, etc.  Say for example they
search for all records with a Region code of ...

I am having a problem (I get no error message but no records are returned) when
more than one checkbox is selected (Year),  Works fine (returns appropriate
records) when only one checkbox (Year) is selected.
Form Page:

I am trying to build a court reservation system.
What is the best way to have a user enter a time such as 1:00 p.m. and then
validate this.
Using cfinput with the flash format but would also like to know with html.

Arcos is a framework for Coldfusion, based on hollywood.
It's aim is to help developing coldfusion web applications.
It's released under Apache licence.
It's an Alpha version

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<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick">
<input type="hidden" name="business" value="name@yourname.com">