Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / May 2005

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I am using a hosted server  and have no control over their settings. They say
the Timeout for CFMail is set to 20 seconds.
The problem I'm running into is that I have a CFLoop that  triggers one
<CFMail></cfmail)> tag per loop (one email per loop). based upon a bunch of

I'm using the following code to display a .pdf file in my browser:
<cfcontent type="application/pdf" file="D:\wwwroot\PDFConvert\temp.pdf">
this works fine on my development machine, but when i put the code on our
production machine it does not display the PDF in the browser, ...

I have this tag. All works great except I have 3 of them on the page. They
do display at random but they display the same banner at the same time. I
need them to display seperate of each other but I figure there must be a way
of doing this without create 3 seperate tags. Here's ...

Ok so here is what I need some help with
I have created a loop to buy my script some time to process everything
the loop works fine and my code after does what is needed however
each time it loops through it creates a line brake on my page (I really don't

I am creating a session variable that is a structure. Each key in the structure
stores a query that I created via QueryNew. I can output the query via cfdump
and I can also access a value from the first row by accessing the column
directly, but when trying to loop through the ...

I have a javascript menu that I would like to access a coldfusion application variable "Application.changeordername".
Any ideas on how to do this?

I have a series of text boxes that are generated in a form based on a query.  
They have the same name but have a digit attached to the end (text1, text2,
text 3).  I need to sum these in another textbox (sum2).  I am doing this with
Javascript on blur for each text box.  I'm ...

Not sure if this is within CF or MySQL, but I have a item with I want to
multiply quantity by a negative dollar value. The number and amount are both
prepopulated from a MySQL database. It seems to not calculate the negative
number and resets it to 0 on the display page after the ...

I would like to create a Site-Wide error message that is emailed to the
administrator.  I have a lot of the information I want to put in but I can not
figure out how to include the code snippet that is included in the standard
CFMX 6.1 error message.  This is very helpful in ...

I am using application.cfm to password protect all my files in a given
directory on our server.  However, there are a series of html pages that are
generated into the directory that i would also like to protect.  Is there a way
to do this with the application.cfm?  Or is there a ...

I'm planning on making HTML email stationery templates that users can select,
then they can type in their own text, and when the emails are sent,  I'll
combine the stationery template with the user message.
Is there a an add-in or a way to embed a basic HTML editor into CF so ...

I trying to change all the entries in a column of a table to titlecase. I have
a custom tag that does the case change but I can't get it to work in the
following query:
<cfquery name="UpdateRes" datasource="#application.dsn#">

Is there any way that you can store a MP3 in a database and query the DB for the length of a track.  I am working on a artist site and I want to display the how many minutes each track is.

Is there a way to update the summary information of pdf and powerpoints files?
I have several PDF files in the need to be index but it gives better result
with the full File Summary Information
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