Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / January 2008

Hello. I am pulling in a friend's rss feed and we are trying to figure out how
to make images display correctly. Here is a sample chunk that I pull in:
I am posting a forum image here Image: http://mysite/test.jpg
How would I be able to make the "Image: http://mysite/test.jpg" ...

I'm working on an application where two DB tables have a many-to-many
relationship.  I'm currently working  on the functionality to
associate a record from one table, Contacts, with multiple records
from another table, Companies by way of a lookup table

I need to build a page that will do the following and I'm hoping for some
guidance..
remote client open URL http://domain.com/getdata.cfm
   remote client check that the port is open then send xml string

  I have searched and also checked the documentation.  I have numbers output
from the DB that I need converted to strings for invoices.
Example:
DB outputs- "183.50"

I need some help with cfwindows, I got a page with few buttons in a cfform
that initialize cfwindows with source in another page.  Everything works as it
should cept that when I click on 1 button the rest don't work.  I am getting an
error "error processing JavaScript in markap ...

I am having troubles trying to figure out how to write a union query.  Here is
the portion of the query that is troubling me:
SELECT 0 AS Total_Weekly_Hours_Recorded, 0 AS Total_Time_Spent, SUM(Value) AS
Total_Value, 0 AS Total_Num_Checks_Trans

I'm creating a Flash Form and I have a group of 4 checkboxes, and the value
part of the input statement is as follows:
<cfif Isdefined('Form.whatever1')>1<cfelse>1</cfif>
<cfif Isdefined('Form.whatever2')>1<cfelse>1</cfif>

Here is a weird one.  I am running an ajax call to create an image that is then
updated on the page.  It keep it unique I am using a combination of the cfid
and the time and I am passing back the time as the only value from the ajax
call.  When the value comes back it is full of ...

I need to write an api that will look for a url that contain xml string..
then update the database with the xml value..
anyone have any examples of this? I've looked online haven't found much!
thanks in advance!

I am using CF6.1 on Windows Web Server 2003. I need something using the
following logic. It just does not work and I can't figure out what will.
<cfif CGI.REMOTE_ADDR GTE 255.255.255.0 AND CGI.REMOTE_ADDR LTE
255.255.255.255 OR CGI.REMOTE_ADDR EQ 225.225.225.1>

I am having problems with VCard encoding, such that my coldfusion generated
VCards are compatible with Apples Address Book, but remain unreadable by
Outlook or anything on a PC.
A link is clicked which sends a persons id to the script which then outputs

I need to run a script that will create a scheduled task in the Coldfusion
Administrator CF8. I have used a Java Object to register a custom tag and I am
wondering if you can do the same thing with a scheduled task.

Can you use Fuxbox 3.0 with CF8?  Are there any limitations or any setup involved other than the Fusebox file structure?

I have two queries that need to feed a table. The problem is that it's not
laying out correctly and I can't for the life of me figure out how to do this
and so any help on it would be greatly appreciated. I tried two different
scenarios to get it to layout correctly but I'm just ...

Hi in coldfusion how do you get the page name of the prevoius page that the
user came from
ie if i was on the home page and went to the about page i need to have a
variable of home .cfm