Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / May 2005

I need to verify that user are entering 9 alpha-numeric characters.....no more...no less. Could someone tell me what the correct expression is for that?
Thanks!

Sounds like a character encoding issue. CFMX defaults everything to utf-8, so
maybe try using the cfContent tag to set your encoding to the proper character
set. ie:  <cfcontent type='text/html; charset=iso-8859-1'>  or if your output
is xml:  <cfcontent type='text/plain; ...

I have a sort of main application CFC (only running MX6) in which I declare a
struct containing database table names. For example:
this.dbtables = structNew();
this.dbtables.links = 'links';

Is there a way to warn a user that a CF session is about to expire?
Thanks,
Heather

I have moved my CFMX 6.1 code to CFMX 7. I utilize the CFLOGIN framework for
user authentication and authorization. I have disabled the "Save Class Files"
under the Caching section of the CF Administrator. When I try to login, CF
never runs the CFLOGINUSER component in my ...

Hey Guys!  I am new to web services have read through the basics.  I see how
you need to set up the cfcomponent.  What does the "add web services" in CF
admin do for you?  Also, is the CFC module where you would put your logic to
create and XML document?  If so, is that where the ...

Can someone help Please.  Not till I read a message in this board did I found
out that the <cfmailparam file> tag only uploads files from the server.   The
PROBLEM: Files will not exist on server, we have 3rd party hosting.  Right now.
I'm creating a mail page where a user fills ...

I'm have a problem get a web service to work (Verity Ultraseek). I have read
lots of documentation about CF and web services including the LiveDocs stuff
and I believed I was on the right track, however it simply doesn't work. From
what I have read I came up with the following ...

I've got a ColdFusion page on one server and a Java page on another server. I
need to make a request from the CF page for data such as "Company Name" or
"Company Phone Number".  The Java page (on a different server) will do some
processing and return the data to the ColdFusion ...

I upgraded our server over the weekend to MX7 enterprise. I have a problem
with charts now that do not work as they did in MX6.1. An example is this one
and the problem seems to be with the seriesplacement="stacked" parameter and
only one column of information being returned. So ...

Hi,
I have problems that passing a JavaScript variable back to CF in a JavaScript
item change event.  For example, a user selects a state in one dropdown list,
all the cities in the state should appear in another dropdown list.

could anyone help me out in sending sms thru coldfusion server....as for as i
know that can happen only with coldfusion 7 server.kindly clarify if that can
be done using coldfusionmx 6.1 server.....any help would be really
appreciated.........

I am updating an application to display photos uploaded by end users.  The
original application assumed that the photo file names were sequential, which
they are not.  Thus I get a "red X" on occasion.  I am trying to write some
code which will first check to see if the photo ...

I am using cfheader and cfcontent to deliver a dynamically generated excel
document to the browser.  On delivery of the excel document I want to delete it
from the server using the cfcontent tags deletefile parameter, but whenever I
add that paramater and set it to yes, I am ...

i have 3 file in a directory .... i want to create a zip file in same directory and add these 3 files in this new created zip file?
but how?
do you help me?