Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / December 2005

Is it possible to get mails from a gmail account using CFPOP?I tried the
following code
<cfpop action="getheaderonly"
server="pop.gmail.com"

i have a html file with embedded images.i m trying to read the contents of the
file using cffile action="read" and display the content of the variable out of
the cffile, the content is displayed but the images are not displayed........
could anyone help me on this......

I am using MYSQL 5.0 for client varible datasource. I defined CDATA and CGLOBAL
tables with the required colums.
I am getting the following error when running my application:
500 Operation failed on the data source named "clientdb".

I would like to use the RandomAccessFile java class to perform a binary read
on a file stored on the server and use its its result in the same cfm template.
Can you please tell me how to invoke this java service through ColdFusion?
Thanks!

could anyone help me to read a pdf file and display the contents using COLDFUSION

After several tries, I was never able to call a web service that runs
on a Windows box and authenticates with Digest, NTLM or Kerberos
authentication. Are there any workarounds for this?
I know I can set the Win box to use clear authentication, but then

I have a form with a textarea that gets sent to 1000 people. Now I want to
make these email personalized, meaning they have a "Hello John Doe" at the
beginning of the email.
Since not all email will start like this I want that the user can place the

I do need to create a form, where the users can add photo's to a form, and that
upun submit the photo's are loaded to the database.  Loading the photo's to the
database should be no problem, but HOW do i let a user add photo's to the form.
Could someone help me with a code.

I need to return more than one value using CFRETURN in CFFUNCTION.I did read about creating a structure.Does any one know how that will work and even the syntax.

Sorry, I didn't mean to post the same question twice.  After I posted it for
the first time, I got a ColdFusion error saying unexpected error has just
occurred.  I thought it didn't go through and that's why I hit back and
submitted again.

Creating a signup sheet for a timeslot, I want to show that a timelost is taken
and prevent people from checking   it.  I have an algorithm in my mind, posted
here:
Algorithm:

Hey everyone. For a long time I have been fighting to try and find a good
navigation system. I do not know flash at all, nor am I very good with
javascript or dhtml, I know I'm kinda useless. Anywho I was wondering if anyone
knows of how I can get a better menu that what I have ...

I am making a select in which I want someone to choose their country, but I
want to place some conditional code, so that when the United States is chosen,
the html input field comes up for a state. I think this will require some
javascript.

We have a working webservice that should run now under https. But now the
error appears:
coldfusion.xml.rpc.ServiceProxy$ServiceMethodNotFoundException: Web service
operation "echoString"  with parameters {TEXT={test call},} could not be found.

I need to calculate a date a certain number of weeks from holiday.  For
example, find a date that falls 6 weeks after Labor Day.  My biggest
problems lies in calculating the date of Labor Day since it's always
different but always falls on the first monday in September.  Any ideas