Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / September 2007

Was just wondering if there is any way of getting past passing specific
characters in the URL..
On my music website I have found that if a song has # or & or (  or ' in the
title, the link will not work...

I just upgraded our cf server from cf5 to cfmx7 on win2003 server and had
problem with the existing Esri ArcIMS 9 application. ArcIMS will not run
process any web page. CFMX7 runs fine however. Can you help?

I am trying to add another entry to the LDAP directory in Oracle Directory
Manager using Coldfusion, is this possible ?
How do I add another entry to the cn=extended properties node with a new
orclresourcename within the orclownerguid node and  the cn=resource access

I have a query that pulls a users information (Id, FirstName, LastName,
Title,etc).  I then use cfdocument to output a person's biography into a pdf.  
This is great, because we no longer have to manually create bios, as they are
now all dynamically generated.  The problem I have ...

hi,i run the cfencode.linux,but it can locate the libporting.so,so where can find it?

I am trying to find specif text -- table names - within a <cfquery> tag in all
my cfm files. I am using an extend find function in Homesite (I think
Dreamweaver has the same functionality). This expression works:
<[Cc][fF][qQ][uU][eE][rR][Yy]

The B.cfm:
<cfimport taglib="/tags" prefix="Tag">
<Tag:_ImportprocessingTime>[b]<!--- This tag show the time spended--->[/b]
do some long loop......   [b] <!--- this only needs about 5 seconds--->[/b]

seems that i can't connect to an exchange 2007 with cfexchangecalendar, 'cause
MS changed something in webDAV.
So the alternative seems to be webservices. So i tried the following:
<cfinvoke webservice="https://myserver/ews/exchange.asmx"

I have a cfselect that is being populated by cfc remotely, how do I have an
option selected by default? Using the selected attribute does not work, nor
does hardcoding an option.
Is there a way to define which option should be selected in the cfc results?

still a beginner but learning fusebox.
i have this fbx_swith.cfm
and i am trying to figure out what they mean.
can you help explain what these are.  for example.

I need help getting a CF version of the Cartweaver shopping cart to interact
with the "Hosted Order Page" implementation of the CyberSource credit card
processing system. CyberSource doesn't support ColdFusion, so I need to figure
out how to use the CyberSource-supplied PHP ...

See this page:
http://democraticpartyofgeorgia.org/events/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Week&sm=9&sd=9&s
y=2007
It's pushing the margins way out because some people are typing in long URLs

I have a cfquery that outputs a number of rows depending on how many rows are
in the database. I want to be able to only display like say 10 rows and then
have scrollbars to scroll down the rest of the records. Is there any way to do
this?

I've upgraded our customer's ColdFusion server from 4.5 to MX 7.  It utilized a
custom COM object (written in C++) which when called, returns a value.  This
worked under ColdFusion 4.5, and still works when used from .NET and VB
application.  However, now when called from ...

Have made the fatal mistake of getting the following code to work in Firefox
and then finding out one of the elements doesn't display correctly in IE.
Can someone let me know if there is a way of getting the code to work in both
or do I need to go back to the drawing board? The ...