Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / August 2005

Hi All, I am trying to get a better understanding of creating sessions/storing
session variables withing application.cfc.  Is is possible to create a
application.cfc and include onApplicationStart, OnSessionStart, and
onRequestStart to create login session variables for a site??  ...

I am using CFDIRECTORY on a server (not one I control or have any access to
other than uploading files).  When the files output there are two there
indicated with a '.' and a '..'.  My coworker says these are part of DOS (the
server is old).  I have tried to get rid of them in ...

I am trying to find a way to strip almost all HTML code from a webpage,
but keep lists, paragraph (<p>) and breaks (<BR>) in tact.
In real use I have created a form that has three fields:
- URL of webpage

I have decimals to 2 places like:
34.37 Id like to become 34.50
34.51 id like to become 35.00
I want to always round up to the next 50 cents or dollar

I've seen this done on a few websites. How can you pull the text from the db,
check to see if its so many characters, if so it cuts it off after the last
character, adds a ... Read More link?
Anybody know how to achieve this?

I've been having a blast creating custom xml files for my charts using
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/7/htmldocs/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/
wwhelp.htm?context=ColdFusion_Documentation&file=00001431.htm.  I'm starting to
build a corporate dashboard and it would be ...

Hi.  I want to display the data from a table for the current month.  For
example, I only want to display the sales data from August for this month.  I
have set up a query, and it is not working properly.  I am getting the error
message "[Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] ...

Looking for a native or extra ability to access serial / usb ports locally from
inside coldfusion, to provide data (read / write byte streams) for processing
in the application server.
Has anyone done this? Does anyone know how it is done / can be?

We use a session variable to track users throughout our site, it is set
when they login with their id from our database.  I recently created a
form for users to submit preferences.  The form is prepopulated with name
and address, and they have to fill in the rest and submit it.  ...

Hello this is Luke Dusett with Apex Systems Inc. I'm currently working on a
Cold Fusion requirement for one of my direct clients in Charlottesville, VA,
and am looking for qualified candidates everywhere I can think of with
experience with the FuseBox Methodology! Basically, if ...

I have several CFCs exposed as web services.  Since my recent upgrade a few
days ago to MX 7 from MX 6.1 these CFC Web Services NO LONGER WORK.   The
upgrade is the ONLY change that has been made.  When attempting to call one of
the previously working services I get the following ...

Think I am just getting tierd tonight of looking at the screen...could use
another pair of eyes!  Using Coldfusion to generate a query based off of
checkbox selections.  I am passing the value of #checkbox# to my query.  This
process was working fine when my imageid's where all ...

I've written an AJAX framework to POST data to a webpage, and the the CF
webpage would parse it and put it into a DB and return the updated dataset.
The problem is that CF isn't recognizing the POST data. I do a CFDUMP of the
form variable, and I get nothing. I write a simple ...

Okay I know i have been posting like a madman, its just i have so many ideas,
and not enough skill to pull them off. Flame me if you must. Anywho on to my
problem. I am trying to add an extra level of security to my administration
section. So what I have come up with is, have a ...

cfinput validate="time" will not allow 20:00-20:59
I found another post to this effect but no response was ever posted.
I have applied all the updates and hotfixes I can find and it still displays
this problem.