Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / August 2005

I'm still getting familiar and comfortable with CFCs and trying to make my
ColdFusion apps more object oriented.
For app configuration settings I had played with XML files, but due to the
relative difficulty of working with them as opposed to say, a simple coldfusion

I am trying to change the value of a cfinput within a loop.
<cfform name="t">
<cfset classcode1 = 'somevaluefromanotherpage'>
<cfloop index="i" from="1" to="1">

I'm using the "in" function to pull out data from a database.  I am pulling
employees who are in a certain dept but I'm listing them on a page title
"Employees that are working in one or more departments in the school. I only
need there name to appear once because a HREF is ...

I currently have a search page with multiple forms and  fields along with an
associated 'submit' button for each search that links to an appropriate search
page. It looks rather "clunky"
I would like to stream line the page and create a master "Search Page" that

I was wondering if anyone could reccommend a good tool/component for creating
an online scheduling calendar that I could purchase the code for. The site is
for a private tutor who wants to be able to have people sign up for tutoring
sessions online. The calendar would show her ...

Have an application where I need to download a file using CFHEADER and
CFCONTENT. I would like to close the window after the user either Opens, Saves,
or Cancels the download. Has anyone been able to figure this out yet?

I am trying to finish up an algorithm and I need a little advice is regard to
Exclusive OR (XOR) and it's use in CFMX 7 with hex and decimal numbers. So:
I have two numbers. One of which is hex and one of which is decimal. I get the
hex number using the following:

I am looking to be able to set certain variables in my Application.cfm file
based on a url.
We have several regional sites and really only the dynamic content changes on
the english portion of the site.

I Need to read the file from a file browse form component, but for some reason
it's not working, I also need to read the file but it does not have any column
headers (Column Names) so that I can insert this text file into the MSL SQL
database. If any knows about how to get this ...

Does anybody have any example code that would clearly demonstrate how I might
create an Excel XLS file from scratch, I don't want to populate an existing
one, but actually make a fresh XLS sheet from data retrieved from a SQL query
to our SQL dbase.

The search function is down right now so I'll post this directly to the forum
(although I suspect it's been answered a few time before).
I'd like to authenticate users against our NT domain but I'm rather unfamiliar
with this process and my readings to date haven't clarified ...

Would some tell me what the check I am doing wrong.  The query is working,
however I am getting an error at the cfreport tag.  This example is taken right
off the macromedia website.  Please advise.
ERROR:

Need help, here is the situation:
I have a table with one field (say name). To input names in that table users
go to a form, where they choose from a combo box, how many names they want to
enter. Suppose they enter 12, now a screen will come with a form (a single form

I am using ColdFusion 5, and am trying to insert an image into a SQL 2000
database image field.  
Here is my code - (I've tried cfsqltype of cf_sql_blob, cf_sql_binary,
cf_sql_longvarbinary):

Create a simple HTML form with two text fields ,
myfield
myfield_date
type something in "myfield" but leave "myfield_date" blank then