Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / October 2007

I have a variable that is a long 0.1243453235 and I want to render it to a
percent. What function do I need to use?
And the darnest things is that I know this and cannot remember. :-)

I'm using the Java Advancer Imaging API since CF6 and made several jar files
to manipulate images (as it wasn't integrated in CF).
Today I installed CF8, put the "jai_core.jar" and "jai_codec.jar" in the
"cfroot\runtime\jre\lib\ext" folder as I did when I first developped my

<cfset
URLtoPULL="http://www.goupstate.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=RSS07&mime=xm
l">
<cfhttp url="#URLtoPULL#" method="GET" timeout="15">

I have this list called productColors:
<cfset productColors = "White, Translucent, Slate, Sand, Moss, Merlot, Latte,
Black">
And, I have a dynamic list that is not sorted correctly and is a subset of the

Hi
I have two includes and I would like to create this in xml file.  
<cfcontent file="test.xml" type= "text/xml">
<cfinclude templete="tes1.cfm">

Hi Everyone: I have been stuck for a couple of days on a couple of issues. Here
is one:
I have a COURSES table. I also have a COURSES Summary page that displays all
of the courses and related info.

I am pretty new to Coldfusion and I'm stuck on how to do a specific kind of
search in Coldfusion.
Here is the basics:
1. I am working with one table (called COURSES).

I have a form where the user is allowed to make selections and then uploads a
file to be processed. How do I process the queries off-line and send results to
the requestor via mail as a comma separated value (CSV) file?
I mainly need to know how to call the file withouth letting ...

I need to loop through a query to create an xml file.  How do I create a file
using CF?  I thought maybe cffile but I don't see an attribute for "new", just
things like append, delete, move etc...  Am I missing something here?  I've
used cfheader to send content to the browser ...

"Now with the same code on CF8 it is very slow...using CFimage or Alagad."
Let me calrify the above line of yours....Are you saying that CFIMAGE and
ALAGAD both are slow on CF8 ?
Is it slow all the time or only the first time you access this page ?

I know this is probably simple but I have never had to do it before, but how do
you use CFMX to upload an image directly to a database.  Then be able to
display that image on a web page?  I have a database with a column for an image
and it is a BLOB character format.  How do I ...

I am trying to calculate the Compound Annual Growth Rate.  I know what the
forumla is (see link below), but cannot work out how to do this calculation
within Cold Fusion... which functions to use nor how to string them together.
Was hoping someone with a bit more experience with ...

i have a cfgrid bind to a cfc which returns a structure (a
queryConvertForGrid() applied to a query resultset)
the grid works fine.
i want to add a line to the cgid's footer "XX total records found". and

I would like to add the column without populating it. Is this possible?
Thanks
Fred

I need to insert a cfif that will ensure that a form field is populated and if
it's not output a message.
Any help?
Here is what I tried: