Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / May 2005

Here is the command I'm trying to use, but wont work. How else can I acomplish
this without referring to a different page?
<meta http-equiv="refresh"
content="2;URL=edittest1.cfm?ServiceCallID=#servicecallid#">

Anyone have any idea what this message means?  I have googled it and searched
the forum board without success.
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How can I read the  value of form fields with special characters such az comma,
space, doller sign, star, slash,...  in their name?
When I dump the form <cfdump var="#form#"/> posted from a PDF form which has
fields like "16. employee/name" I can see the value. but when I try to ...

I have created vb dll that need database connection(sql server).how can i use the coldfusion datasouurce for that dll.
Advance thanks
John che

I'm trying to parse my XML File with ColdFusion and I've already made an
Object like:
<cffile action="read" file="C:\myxmldoc.xml" variable="XMLFileText">
<cfset myXMLDocument=XmlParse(XMLFileText)>

I am working on an alarm mail system that will send emails when data values in
a DB reach or exceed certain values...  I can put cfmail query="last_6hr" and
the email will send but the format is bad...   I need the email message to have
a certain format with the results of a ...

Hi, Does somebody know how should do to make a form field read only!
<form action ... >
<input name=... >
...

I moved my site from CF 5 to CF MX 6.1 (  6,1,0,63958) and as many I have
trouble displaying page in japanese (it was working fine on CF 5). I followed a
technote here and used :
<cfcontent type="text/html; charset=SHIFT_JIS"> as advised but know I get this

Hi all.  I am new to working with formatting numbers.  I have a form inputting
sales totals into a Microsoft Access database.  I need a field for total sales
and then another field for the total rounded to the nearest 100.  I tried using
the Round() function but it is just ...

I would like to know the size of a specific directory; files+ subfolders files.
I am trying to do a recursive function but it does not returns what I want...
Here is the scripts:
<cfset sRoot="#GetDirectoryFromPath(GetTemplatePath())#">

I have a page that I use to search through db entries. Some of these entries
contain HTML and other HTML-like markup and the contents of the tags is turning
up in a search. Is there a way to get the query to ignore this stuff? I have
tried a couple of things but have had no luck. ...

I am having a problem with session variables in IE, Mozilla test fine.
When i set session.username = 'abc' things work fine when I set
session.username = 'a_cb' bad things happen. Any ideas? There are other
sessions being set, but that is the one that throws it all off.

Does anybody have a recipe for forcing scientific notation?   Maybe something like C's sprintf function ...
EG:  "sprintf (buffer, "%5.3E", ...);"
Thanks,
-- MikeR

Hey, I'm having a problem getting it to delete just one file from the server. I
have a admin system set up and it shows directory information on one of the
folders. I'm using cffile action="delete" and the file="the path". Also, I have
a form with a delete button and on delete it ...

I'm trying to build a diagram of how Coldfusion works and it suddenly dawned
on me that I'm not 100% sure. None of my doorstoppers (average size of a
computer book these days is half a tree) have a model that explains it either.
Anyway here is my erm ... best guess. Can you let ...