Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / May 2007

Is it possible when submitting a form to a Coldfusion server to keep form data
from being fully decoded?
My application has the basic architecture of an interface page and a
submission page.

I'm trying to configure the onRequest() method to filter called pages based on
roles that I set in the onSessionStart() method.  For testing purposes, though,
I've commented out the session variable I'm using to set that role.  What's
happening now is, I am simply unable to open ...

I am running the HSSFWorkbook java object to create Excel Spreadsheets. The
"est_outgoing_cost" variable is getting populated at 1.51. When I open the
created spreadsheet the cell displays 1.51. However the actual value for the
cell is 1.50999999046325. Any ideas why it's ...

Does anybody know where to find a comparison about the different CF frameworks?
I've been away from CF for awhile and since I've gotten back into it, I've
noticed a few more frameworks have been developed (maybe they existed before
and I just didn't know about them).

I am trying to search a field based on a multi pick drop down search search.
This works really well when the has the exact value in it. But is there a why
yo do this while adding wild cards on.
For example this search

Can someone please tell me what is wrong with this code?
It processes through without any errors, but does not register as a log in.
BTW, I barely understand what's going on in this code myself. I found it on
the web a while back somewhere.

I have an ecommerce application that sends out information to CC processors to
validate a credit card.  One processor uses a cfx tag, and another uses xml via
a cfhttp post.  My problem is that if the requests hang or timeout, my servers
performance significantly degrades.  I ...

I have an event management application that sends registration confirmations
and details to registrants via email. Nothing big or unusual there. However,
the client insists on keeping their mail server with a separate company.
We have been sending our emails out via cfmail with ...

Can you programmically change the start location of the browse button to
automatically (or only) start in a particular folder on the users computer
via the web? Can you also filter out what types of files you want to look
for?

I have a html file with the charset equal to "big5-HKSCS", when I using the
cffile to read the file and using the cfmail to send out the html file, all the
Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set (HKSCS) fonts becomes "?" in the email.  
I have try to print out the content read by ...

anyone can help me to rewrite in this in less code?  thank you.
<cfif queryname.initial01.recordcount NEQ 0>
    <cfif queryname.inital01 NEQ "" and queryname.inital02 NEQ "" and
queryname.inital03 NEQ "" and queryname.inital04 NEQ "" and queryname.inital05

Why does a trailing slash "<cfmodule blah blah blah />" cause it to be called twice?? I just waited 2 hours debugging a site just to find out this was the issue.

Hi i have this query below but on my <CFDUMP VAR=#getUser#> i get massive
numbers for  SMSBought, any ideas what i need to do?
<CFQUERY datasource="#application.ds#" Name="GetUser">
SELECT CT.ClubName, CT.ClubID, CT.ContactEmail, CT.Password,

I am calling a web service with cfinvoke and I am trying to display the raw XML
reply. If I just do a dump I only get the following output:
org.tempuri.UserInfoListResult@b30ca4f5
I know I am getting a correct response because I can use the following code to

Does anyone have a reasonably simple non flash collapsible menu?
My endeavor deals with multiple subject tracks each with multiple documents
and it would be advantageous to be able to expand or collapse the tracks. I
found one but its IE only. Go figure.