Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / April 2007

I have ColdFusion version 7,0,2,142559  installed on a Windows 2003 server.
I have a page that occasionally works and occasionally returns '18' and that's
all it says on the webpage. In the application log, the only additional
information is the line number it thinks the error is ...

ok in my application.cfc I have
<cffunction name="onApplicationStart">
<cfset Application.Max_Number_Attempts =3>
cffunction name="onSessionStart">

This is the situation.  I am parsing xml and putting it into a cfquery.
This is the basic structure of the xml
<year count=1 value=90>
   <tag1>300</tag1>

Hi,
I'm using MSSQL2000 at the moment on a shop/cms app.
A good friend of mine (who doesnt do coldfusion at all)  has told me it would
be a good idea to learn about stored procedures in MS 2000/2005 because they

This is going to be an ugly post, fair warning! :)
I have a form that gets it's labels and text input field names dynamically
from a database.  Rather than having the form hardcoded, we are able to add new
columns to a table and the form automatically adds new labels and fields ...

How to display the formatted text from access memo field using coldfusion without loosing the formating of the text

I am trying to set a session to log attempts, I have a page that displays an
Identity question, I need to track how many times the y try to answer it.  Can
somebody help me.  Here is my code.
<cfparam name="session.attempts" default="0">

Is there anyway to have a returntype set and return different data types based
on conditions. i.e. Do a query but if the query has no records return false, or
a message (string). Meaning you are potentially returning either a query if
there's a match or a string, boolean etc if ...

I would like to find a way to restart just one of the applications that I have
running on my server with out having to restart coldfusion.  Restarting
coldfusion would restart all of the application running.

How to display the formatted text from access memo field using coldfusion without loosing the formating of the text

I have this script and am wondering if there is anything wrong with it.  It
doesn't work.  All its supposed to do is turn on a layer when the yes radio
button is clicked.  Any ideas?
[Q]<cfform >

Does anyone know of a way to redisplay the value in a form field of type=file
where a user browsed to a file to upload
and then returns to the form entry screen after submission b/c of validation
errors?

Is there the way to prevent the hacker by putting some thing from the where clause on the SQL statement?
Thanks

Hi, the code below works in IE, but when I open rss.cfm in Firefox, I get error
message: XML Parsing Error: xml declaration not at start of external entity
Location: http://soohoo/crimestoppers/test/rss.cfm
Line Number 2, Column 1:"  How can I fix this?  Thanks so much -C

I did a forum search here for this before posting but didn't really find a
definitive answer.
Is there a good tool to generate RSS feeds when you're using ColdFusion as a
platform?