Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / January 2008

I need for my structure to go through a list, not just one value and I can't
see how to get it to work.  Say for example the offer code is 8 and someone has
2 8's that apply...it is only accepting 1 and the other goes unnoticed.  Would
someone please help me figure this out ...

     Is there any method to find the resolution or dimensions of a Video file
using CF. The video format is FLV. Since am dealing with only FLV files for now
- finding the dimensions of a Flash file can also solve the issue. I am in an
emergency situation and I need a solution ...

I need to count the number of checkboxes that are checked. I want to display a
message if the count exceeds 5. Can anybody please tell me how to count the
checkboxes and redirect the user to the action page if the count is 5 or less.
<form name="issuelist">

It appears that we've run into a problem with a 4K limit on the size of a
client variable when stored in the registry.  You can create the variable
larger than 4K, but when you go to read them back out their gone (their still
in the

Hello.  I need someone to create a set of ColdFusion 8 components that will
allow me to easily integrate with Amazon's Web Services; specifically
Mechanical Turk, Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) and Simple Storage Services
(S3).  All these services have APIs, but sadly no real ...

We have two servers: one development and one production.  The development
system was upgraded to CF8 several months ago.  The productions server was just
upgraded to CF8 last month.  All of the various CF systems that are running on
the development server display charts correctly ...

I need to be able to search on criteria containing periods, which Verity search
doesn't seem to like. From what I've read I need to create the STYLE.LEX file
so that I can search on criteria containing non-std characters (ie: periods),
but I can't seem to find any resources on ...

Howdy - I would like CF to basically import a SQL table into EXCEL without
creating an HTMl page. I want CF to create the excel file from scratch on the
fly - no using templates.
I want CF to name the excel column headers, then export all of the records

Don't understand why my update is adding data to the table instead of replacing
the data:
<cfquery DATASOURCE="#Datasource#">
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I'm trying to allow users to create PDF versions of web pages for printing
tables and figures to be inserted into reports sent to our clients.  These
PDF's need to be in a specific format.  The one thing I haven't been able to
figure out so far is how to get our applets to render ...

Please let me know if there is any method to find the dimensions of a Video file using CF. The video format is FLV

CF8; i have set up an ODBC data source using Microsoft Text Driver and then set
up a CF data source to retrieve the data.  This works fine for comma-separated
files.  I thought i would be able to set the format via the "connection string"
in the datasource definition ...

can anyone advise on how to read and write XMP metadata using the version of
iText that ships with CF8?
we've successfully written XMP metadata into a PDF (see attached
proof-of-concept code bolted together from a couple of sources), but this

Does there exist a script that gives you a nice pretty printout of your website
visitors in real-time?  I'd like to see a script that includes things like the
keywords they used to find me from Google, and then what pages they visited on
my site, etc.

I'm writing a help application to keep track of the development of another
(larger) coldfusion application. One of the components keeps tracks of variable
declarations, and to do this I need to search the source code for instances of
the variable name.