Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / July 2007

I am about to pull my hair out. I can't get any data out of this XML file!  Any
suggestions would be great.
I just can't get it to work.
I have tried everything

I have 5 records in my file. I am reading file . If ID is null i want to
display null there. how can I do that
Out put i want
1

Please help.  I'm a coldfusion programmer but never mixed flash, coldfusion,
xml and sql together until now.  I'm trying to run a slide show off of an xml
file but I want it to be dynamic.  I want to be able to upload a new image, put
the image name in the db, and xml will run a ...

Hai,
    how to implement Serach Engine Friendly/Safe URL in coldfusion.
    Anybody know, then please explain it.
   Thanks in advance.

    Is it possible to read server settings through Coldfusion code.
   For eg., I want to read path for the log folder, defined in the
server settings through admin window.
   Anybody know please explain it.

I have an application that displays data for a particular day. The data is
displayed for a two week sliding window. I would also like to be able to give
the users the abilitiy for users to be able to back to previous months. I would
like to display a link for the last 3 months, ...

We are about to work on a project that is required to take a spreadsheet,
loaded from an access database, that has thousands of records and emulate it
using coldfusion. The application loads all of the data, then filters it based
on login and dynamic filters. On the database side ...

Hey all, I don't want to show the dynamic ID value in the URL string, so I am
doing an encrypt() on the page with the link, and a decrypt() on the page
showing the details.
[b]I have this working; I only need help detecting if the user manipulated the

We're keeping track of stats using the Urchin Tracking Module, and we're
inserting the script dynamically using application.cfm, to make sure it hits
all the pages.
The trouble is, it inserts it at the top, before the doctype, which throws our

I have the following problem:
When a user doesn't allow cookies, the CFID and CFTOKEN are submitted using
URLs. If the URL is being published (including the CFID and CFTOKEN) via a
hyperlink on a page or by sending it with an email for instance and someone

Using CF7, IIS, Oracle 10g2, and ODBC, it seems that requests made to CF are
not cancelled when the user cancels their http request.
So, a user clicks a link within our site. The resulting page contains a slowly
executing bit of code. The user then clicks a different link because ...

hello .
I must generate dynamically packages in .cab file  and I found on adobe's
EXCHANGE section, a CFX_LIVECAB customtag to generate cab files dynamically .
The problem it is that I am not able to make it work.

I've been going around and around on trying to get a properly formatted flat
pdf created with my data. I have to say that Adobe's ability to actually format
a multi-line field as it was presented when it was editable is frustrating.
CFMX8, pdfTK and iText all have the same ...

I would like to upload the author name, comments and other data with the cffile action=upload. Anyone already solved this or has a way of doing this?

Hello All,
I am in the process of creating a web site that has it's own look/feel and
give the users the ability to upload video to YouTube. YouTube does not
currently have an API to handle this. So, I found this script called phptube