Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / August 2007

I'm trying to connect to an ftp server with this tag and I can't get it to
work. It's frustrating because I can connect through standard ftp or even in
the browser. Even anon ftp sites wont work.
I'm sure my proxy is the issue. I'm behind a proxy with a password. I have

I've spent a little while looking over to google results related to this, but
haven't come across anything as yet that matches what I'm trying to do.
The goal basically is to use 'search engine safe' urls, specifically I want to
display www.mydomain.com/test but actually execute

Hi i have 2 tables, ProductsTable PT and CatToProducts CTP
i want a list productID from the ProductsTable that do not have a entry in the
CatToProducts table
i have tried

I am having a 'discussion' and being told that if AJAX calls a cfc method more
than once that callingScript1 might get callingScript2's cfreturn info on a
heavy AJAX page.
Example:

As stated in the topic. we are are using CFPOP to get some emails that have
attachments. If you go into an email client and look at the emails they have
one or two attachments each. ( blh.txt , blah.eml). Doesn't really matter which
but CFPOP is not even seeing these attachments ...

I'm thinking of building a button inot my admin section of my site that when
pushed would set an application variable or something to send people to a
different splash screen when they log in that will tell them the site is down
for maintenance. Any ideas on what the best way to ...

I'm experiencing a problem with CF7 occasionally moving into the Undelivr
folder emails that were actually sent (and received).  I have a scheduled task
that hourly moves files from the Undelivr folder back into the Spool folder,
and this has resulted in emails being sent ...

This code works like this
<cfset temp = QuerySetCell(yahooxmlquery, "src",
#xmldoc.rss.channel.item[1].xmlchildren[6].xmlattributes['url']#, #i#)>
Not like this

I am reading file and I would like to do date validation : mm/dd/yyyy format.
I am using this code but if fails if I put the wrong year.I mean 5 digit year.
Thanks
<cffunction name="validDate" output="true" returntype="boolean">

I am able to use an object tag to view a specific swf file, but I want to pass
the swf filename to the tag dynamically.  When I wrap the object tag in a
cfoutput tag I get an error message.
Is there any basic way to pass variables into the object tag?

this seems to be a common problem, but i have an exe that i can't seem to get
to run from cf. i have tried running a batch file from cf and that doesn't seem
to work either.
i have gone so far as to temporarily let cf run under admin and that didn't

Hello, one of the charities we work for wants to  NOT  allow their volunteers
to use the Internet while at work.
For CF local hosts that do not use port 8500 we can limit the Internet use by
using IE content control.

I wanted to get an idea and see what others are doing when creating forms that
allow a user to add and edit information.
Do most of you create one form that can handle adding a record as well as
editing a record?  Or do most of you create one HTML form for adding a record

Not sure if this is actually possible, but figured it was worth a shot...
I have a search page within which I am trying to allow some 'refine'
functionality, for example removing certain categories from the search results
etc.

I am trying to optimize my sites for search engines. I presently have SES URLs
like this:
generatenew.cfm/brand/2/collection/0
I would like to use keywords in my URLs instead of numbers. Each brand and