Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / July 2007

I'm trying to evalute whether a user is uploading an MS Word file with spaces
in the filename.  We cannot have spaces in filenames on our Internet site. So,
basically, on the form page there is a field with a browse box for user to
select their file.  

Hi,
Please forgive this ignorant question, but can someone tell
me how one would go about using multiple database servers?
Just as there comes a time where one would need more than

I have a form that is being generated via a query loop.  One of the fields is
'ispercentage'&i (which the i is the index for the loop).  So the number
afterwards could be between 0 and 9.  So obviously the variable name is going
to change.  How do I place that into my sql insert ...

I am trying to write a form for my web site. I don't want to use the standard
form tags in ColdFusion that make you have to fil in fields before the form
will submit.
EX:

My current website uses old fashioned links like:
mysite.com/topic.cfm/?id=600
I'd like to rewrite them so they look like:
mysite.com/topics/this-topic-is-interesting-600

All,
I'm a newbie to CF/JAVA integration and inherited about 20 java applications
that are being called from a CF template. Smattered throughout the java code
(hundreds of places) there is System.out.println() statements. So far I haven't

I am using a custom tag CFX_IMAGE. It is a .dll file which needs to be
registered in the Coldfusion Administrator in order for Coldfusion to find this
file. I would like to register this tag automatically with code versus having
to manually register the .dll in the Coldfusion ...

I have a form that queries and retrieves up to 7 records that can match the
criteria.  I display the 7 records and add data to the record.  When the record
is submitted I transmit the record id for each of the records as a hidden
field.  When I look at the debug information I can ...

At the beginning of each page with a form that CF renders, it puts a JS
function called _CF_checkWhateverForm.  I need to find where in the guts of
ColdFusion it is creating this function.  When it tries to put the cursor in
the first failed validiation area, it doesn't check if ...

I was told to look into <cfqueryparam> to assist in fighting sql-injection
and it makes perfect sense, up until I thought of a different scenario...
This tag seems great when you are dealing with numbers or text that you can
restrict the number of characters, but what if you have ...

we use CFMX 6.1 (Build 6,1,0,hf59825_611) and JVM 1.4.2 on Win2003.
If we want to call a special web service of a third party tool for newsletter
services we get the following error:
Error Occurred While Processing Request  

Here's what I'm trying to do.
query A select * employees who have signed in today.
query B selects all employees who should sign in by job code and active
status.

I am trying to search a huge table of users to see if they belong to a certain
group. The group field would be as follows:
group_id = 1,2,4,7
In the interest of server memory, I do not want to pull the entire table and

CFHTTP tag is giving connection failure error at the same time its XML HTTP
object is working, while accessing a secured URL.
Here are the code snipet used,
<cfhttp URL="https://<url address>/2serverAuth.asp:444"

I am attempting to fix a SQL error that was given to me a little outside of
my experience. Its a CASE statement that is trying to concatenate to a
string if the conditions are met, but I am getting this error:
Cannot use empty object or column names. Use a single space if ...