Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / May 2005

I have a cfcatch routine that I am including in my forms that emails the
administrator when an error occurs.
I would like to have this code in a generic cfm page and just include it at
the bottom of each form.

I am currently using a standard HTML form in which a user must enter certain
data (required).  The form has 2 submit buttons, 1 of which changes the default
form action to go to a different page.  This second submit button does not
require the same information to be passed as the ...

I had an idea recently to include a description of the database within my
application's XML config file. The idea being that upon initialization of the
app, I could check the datasource to make sure it's setup how it needs to be
for the app to work.

I have the following:
<cfset input ="
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How can I generate/display on a page/  Unicode characters based on unicode
scalar values?
I know ColdFusion function chr() works very good for characters up to 65535
(U+FFFF), but how can I render unicode characters that have a scalar value

In another thread previously I tried to address this issue. Somebody claimed
that removing the term PUBLIC from my internal DOCTYPE declaration solved the
issue, but it is not working for me still. In case it would help in outside
eyes debugging this, I've included all code that ...

Is it possible to change the timeout on a users session variable after the session has been initialized?
If so, how?
Thanks!

I need to allow users to upload an access db (containing 1 table) and import
the data into an Oracle db.  The Access db's are from an older application that
is being replaced with a new CF app.  Can anyone share some direction on how I
can accomplish this?

Let says I have a server running a system probe on another server.  If the web
page is found not to be responding, then I would like to have one server
remotely restart the Cold Fusion Service on another server.  How can I do this?

Macromedia recommends (Developer's Guide, chapter 13, "Managing the application
with Application.cfc") that application-wide utility functions be placed in a
CFC (specifically, one other than Application.cfc).  I did some speed tests and
it seems to me that a CFC method call is ...

I have a .cfm page that uses cffile to copy itself with the dynamic form
content to create the new .cfm file. It works fine and creates the file. You
can view the file in a browser. The problem is.... When you clear the cache and
delete the cookies the variables loose their value ...

hello! I am using cfntauthenticate to log in employees to our intranet on our
domain. It works great! However we have increased our security around here and
employees are now required to change their passwords every 60 days. There is a
14 day notice that warns you that your ...

What is the best and most acurate way to round a number to 2 decimal places.
It has the be a correctly rounded number not just a mask..
eg: round 3.347 to 3.35

Is there a way to use the onSubmit action in a cfform since coldfusion uses
that to run it stuff for verification?
   Thanks in advance!!

I UPLOAD a file and UPDATE the record in my database.  I uploaded a file called
test, and in my upload folder its named test but in my database it looks like
this C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\ACF1D92.tmp.  Here is my code.
<cf_fileupload