Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / June 2005

I would like to create a site with some easy-to-remember URLs, e.g.
www.mysite.com/about or www.mysite.com/archives/2005/6/This_is_a_page_title. Is
there a way to have ColdFusion parse URLs such as these into variables and
values? I am hoping to avoid messy URLs such as

I want to use Microsofts MapPoint Webservice, wich is username/password -
Protected, with MX7.
I tried with the following:
<cfinvoke

Well, I have posted this question practically everywhere yet I have no
answers and even worse, I really don't know where to go next.  If there
is someone that could recommend a support path, I would *really*
appreciate it as this is causing big problems for me.  Here are the ...

Is there a way to dynamicly auto complete a text field.  Like when someones
starts to fill in the Last name field, as soon as there is only one match that
matches what they type it finishes it.  Like here are the employees: Bill, Bob,
Sue.

Running MX7 on Win2000 / Apache.
I have a structure in the session, but it won't let me access all the pieces.
Here is a dump of Session.Sylantro.CallFwd showing the object "forwarding":
http://www.theprophet.net/dump.gif. However, trying to actually access the

Is there an alternative to GetTemplatePath() so that I can return the URL
instead of the absolute path from the server?
I want
http://home.constps.org/index.cfm

Is it possible to retrieve application ?A? cookies by application ?B??
I have a below scenario  ?
    In application ?A? there is a link, which takes user to application ?B?. If I
right click on the link; and copy past in to a new browser, application ?B? is

using cf mx ms sql 2000. i have an update form that contains a field for date a
procedure was signed. the problem is if the procedure was not signed, the user
doesn't enter anything into the date field. but when they click the update
button the update query inserts 1900-01-01 00 ...

Can anyone please help me? I want to be able to drill down to some specific
information using drop down menus. I want the user to be able to choose an item
from the first drop down, and depending on what they choose in that drop down
will populate the items in the next drop down ...

Is there a way that I can check to see if a page exists?  I was thinking it
might be possible with CFHTTP or something along those lines but am not sure.
I am working on a web app and there is a part where it creates a path base on
a string and I need to be able to verify if the ...

I know this can be done because I've seen it. I just can't remember how its
done. I'm using cfmx7 with ms sql 2000.
I'm inserting products in a pretty simple table where one of the column is an
IDENTITY (prodID) which means an ID is automatically assigned to the new

How to return an entire query resultset from custom tag to the calling page ?
Thanks for your help.
vmrao

I'm urgently looking for a code which will automatically  sends a formatted
page, including the fonts and layouts
via email. I do know how to send a mesagge via email, with all the details to
be sent, but the message does not

Is it possible to customize the behavior of standard tags? I would like my
application to perform a few extra steps prior to the execution of certain
tags, such as <cflocation>. Obviously I could simply insert that code prior to
the <cflocation> tag, or create a legitimate custom ...

it seems like i get the error when inserting records into a MS Access database
if the fields are null. :
Error Executing Database Query.  
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