Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / April 2007

I have got javascripts galore for form validations.  Alphanumeric entries,
numeric only entries, email entries, etc.  However, I have a client who wants
to prevent users from being able to enter "garbage" data into the form fields
prior to form submission (there is an area of the ...

Normally, I use the following to create an excel file
<cfcontent type="application/msexcel">
<cfheader name="Content-Disposition" value="filename=myfilename.xls">
I have a multi-select combo box (e.g. employees)

I've got a concern regarding the way in which coldfusion is treating date/time
columns in a database.
In my opinion when I select a column that is let's say timestamp type - the
object in a query is CF's date/time object. I've checked the query by

Result Set:
2007-04-03 06:05:00.0, 2007-04-03 06:05:00.0
So as you can see in the attached code I'm trying to find the character "-" in
my valueList, which it should as you can see in the above result set.  It's not

Hello I'm new here and I'm also new with coldfusion. I need help because Im
building a job search website and I need help on what query or any tips on how
to create a multiple keyword search on a table. like on any other jobsites....  
e.g from my search form there are categories ...

Sorry about the first message with no title. I'm over multi-tasking.
I want to use CF to track the use of reports on our network. I would like to
have the user click on a link, have CF log the user info behind the scenes and
then pass that link to the requesting machine. The ...

I want to use CF to track the use of reports on our network. I would
like to have the user click on a link, have CF log the user info behind the
scenes and then pass that link to the requesting machine. The reports are on
our network and are run by the Business Objects 5.0 client ...

anyone helps me to loop over a query name, "FindUpperLvl".
Once "getInfo" query does not have any record, it will excute the
"FindUpperLvl" query and FindUpperLvl query should loop until it finds one
record.

hi i have a form for users to input links to various social networks they
belong to....this form is prepopulated with http:// to encourage people to
input the correct data, the cfinputs validate url to ensure that a correct web
address is being passed, and validateat is on submit ...

My website has been built in CF5 and I display proprietary information to my
clients, but I don't want that information copied.  Is there some way of
preventing the copying of the information to my competitors?  Is there software
for this?

My web hosting providers offers scheduled tasks through their admin
interface. Only problem is that the offer schedule tasks on certain hour
intervals. eg, every 3 hours, every 6 hours, etc.
Is there a quick way to code something to run a template at a specific

I have some nice CSS to develop a horizontal drop-down navigation menu similar
to what's used on this site. But I cannot figure out how to dynamically
populate the menu and submenu items.
The parent and child items are stored in a single table with this structure:

There are a few different examples of this on here, but nothing quite like I
need to do. I have a table in my DB with an ID, name and parent fields. I need
to output this info in my ui but I am having trouble grouping them.
Query results:

I am trying to find out how to add together a number of fields and input the
answer as a percentage, I am using a Access db, is it best to do it on a
seperate action page,  on the DB or on the display page. and how?
 I have a cell that outputs the avg of a number of results from ...

i am using a nested cfoutput to group my database output......
the query output  is
<cfoutput query="fans" group="name_usr" maxrows="40">
 #iname_usr#(name of fan)