Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / November 2007

I am trying to determine the size of a structure, as in byte size, not structCount() before I include it in an error handling email.  Does anyone have a solution that does this?
Thanks.

Can you specify which database fields you want returnd to you when calling a
CFC?
Let's say I have a employee table with 50 fields in it. I only want the
first_name and last_name fields when I call a function GETNAME within my

I built an application for a daily email reminder for students taking courses.  
At the bottom of the page I added a cfmail that sends an email to myself and
lists some minor details about the report.  This works fine.  What I would like
to do is use the query information that ...

In the not to distant future my company wants to expand our site to include a
single sign-on, this will be made possible with the 3rd party group that
handles our customer info. Can someone enlighten me as the most secure method
of transferring user data between these locations? ...

I occasionally get a cflock error when running an application in the morning. I
moved several cfobject lines into the application.cfc onApplicationStart
method. Some of the methods in the objects use cflock to read a session
variable.

I have a form that has two email fields. One is used to confirm the other. I have validated an email field before, but I have never validated one email field against another. Any thoughts?
~Clay

Is there a way to share session [B]data[/B] across different CF applications?  
across different subdomains?  
The goal here is single source login that stores complex data in a re-useable
session scope.  The current installation uses wddx to serialize the data and

I have a form with many optional fields, and I have my SQL update statement
updating the database correctly when radio and checkboxes are selected.  
However, when it comes to text boxes, I can't seem to get my update statement
to "skip" them if there is no value.  The fields in ...

OS >> Windows
Sugar >> Version 4.5.1b
Webserver >> Windows IIS
PHP >> 4.3.11

I have heard a lot about hackers submitting code through forms to jack with
websites and I'm trying to avoid this without pissing off my users. Right now I
just reject a post if they use < or >. However I'm finding users are needing to
use those symbols.

Our Access database is doing something weird. Every so often (I think when
we've had a busy day in terms of traffic) a .ldb file randomly appears in the
directory where our database file resides. Whilst this .ldb file is in
existance the CF application can't read (or write) to ...

I am trying to test out the new cfexchange tags in Colldfusion 8 so that I can
integrate in with our intranet at some point but am having some difficulty.
I am just testing by using the tag:
 <cfexchangeconnection action="open" connection="myConn" server="192.168.0.20"

Using a component how would you outptut the 2 query result sets coming from a
stored procedure in a component.  I have verified that the sp is returning the
2 result sets.  I am just not sure how to output them from the component.
<cfcomponent>

coldfusion.jsp.CompilationFailedException: Errors reported by Java compiler:
jikes: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared
object file: No such file or directory .:brokenheart;

I would like to verfy that an email address is actually working before adding it to our database. Has anyone written a routine to do this that they would like to share?