Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / November 2007

I am currently trying to update a script on a page.  The site was accessible
to CFHTTP as recently as a few months ago, but the site changed its login
system and since then we have not been able to do this login.
Here is what I have found, I am hoping that someone will recognize ...

does anyone have any advice on best practices for backing up CF and all jobs,
etc. in the event of a catastrophe?
i have had a machine running for a couple of years with no problems and i know
that won't last much longer.

I am attempting to create XML using data from the database. I am running
into, probably, errant data from my provider and is causing a parsing error.
An error occured while Parsing an XML document.  The string "--" is not
permitted within comments.

I'm having difficulties querying cfldap - I hope someone can help.  I have the
following code
<cfldap action="query"
name="getaccount"

I am using cftransaction with insert statement
I have three  insert statement.  first statement fail still second and third
is doing insert  why? Any idea
bcz i thought cftransaction rollback recordset.

Does anyone know if there is a way the user can set the height of a cfwindow using a javascript function to resize the cfwindow.
Thanks.
Ron

We recently went with an upgrade from Version: 7,0,0,91690 to Version:
8,0,0,176276 on our dev box!
ColdFusion 8 release notes says that if we get this error in the CodeAnalyzer,
we can ignore it. However, we are getting this error even while running the

I am an avid user of Highrise, one of the features that amazes me is the "email
dropbox" where you can email a file attachment to your specified email address
@highrisehq.com and it is intigrated into the app immidiatly on the backend.  
Ive searched around for a couple of months ...

I created the folder called components to stored all the cfc files there but I
don't know the syntax to call the component from the diffrent directory.
Here what I have but it didn't work
compnents/img.cfc

i am trying to apply the patch found at this link and once i get to step 5, i
get the error that 'java' is an unrecognized internal or external command.
has anyone applied this successfully?
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb07-02.html

So for a while now, I've been thinking it would be very useful to have a web
app that would show administrators, via web browser who (say ActiveDirectory
Username/Group) has permissions to a given file or directory in our web site.  
I've been a CF developer for quite some time, ...

If I have an index page at the root level of my site that loads in the
login.cfm which is in a secure folder (SSL) does that mean that any login
information is transmitted securely? If not how can I do this?  Thanks

Are there any OCR tools or 3rd party services that can work with CF (or PHP or
some other language, if needed), and ideally work at a [b]shared[/b] CF host?  
Thus not using CFEXECUTE.  I will be having some simple images that need to be
read and translated.  Nothing fancy.

SSNs are stored as datatype nvarchar(11) on sql server 2005 . I'd like to
encrypt them in database and decryt them to display on the browser. what
datattype should setup in sql server 2005 when I encrypt 11 characters?

Why does this:
<cfsetting enablecfoutputonly="yes">
<CFSET
TemplatesAndForms=application.menuWords."#session.MyLanguage#".TemplatesAndForms