Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / January 2008

How can I dynamically sort a page by asc when a user clicks a link the first
time, and then desc if they click it a second time.   I can easily sort by asc,
or can add an up/down arrow.  I'm looking for the next step in sorting, where
no images are used, and they can click the ...

I need to add and xml signature using an SSL certificate for a project
requirement.  Does anyone have an example of the code to make this happen.  I
have searched high and low and found very little on the topic unless I want to
use .net.  

<cfset #evaluate("session.partnumber#x#")#=0>
You can see what I am trying to do, however this will not work
nor
<cfset evaluate("session.partnumber#x#")=0>

I am using cfwindow that pops up to give more info about an item on a form,  
each item gets its own popup up -- problem is that as you scroll down that page
the positioning stays at the top.  So, if someone clicks on more info after its
scrolled off you cant see it.   Is there ...

I want to be able to hit a button which will add a new row to the form for the
user to fill out. The code I have will add a new row once, but I am unsure how
to modify it to keep adding a row every time the button is clicked (and display
the row number alongside it). Can anyone ...

I have a RATE form that first asks "how many rates will you be adding?" that
answer generates a series of form elements based on the answer. You then have a
form grid to populate, 3 values for each rate (price, code, name).
This part works fine. The issue is now I need to INSERT ...

I have a form that populates  form fields with database records to edit.
This works fine.
When i attempt to loop through the records to update i get an error.
Obviously it has to do with my syntax of my variables (

When using createObject() to call a web service how do I pass in the user name
and password required by the service?
If I do a cfdump on the webservice object I see it has setUserName() and
setPassword() methods but they don't seem to be working.

I'm trying to take a resultset that is returned by a java call and convert it
into a query object in my CFC so that the cffunction has 'query' as its
returntype. I've found the page by  http://www.petefreitag.com/item/73.cfm
describing how to do this but when I use this technique ...

I've been trying to fix that headless error on a unix box.  it's been crashing
cf causing it to not start.  Only fix has been uninstall and reinstall CF mx 6.
except now there is no uninstall folder or file to uninstall the cf
application.

I've been experiencing some problems using some Cold Fusion XML features with a
XML structure in the Request scope.
I'm getting NullPointerException errors but just intermittently.  I would
estimate the error appears on somewhere between 1 in 15 and 1 in 30 requests.

How do i take the content of an html file and put in in an xml.
The part that's in the CDATA  are now individual html files  so I want to
take
the content of that html file and put it in the CDATA. I'm not sure if

Can I get the SessionID from J2EE session variables without enabling J2EE memory variables in the CFusionMX7 administration?
Thanks in advance :confused;

Hello Community!
I wrote some reports in coldfusion using <cfdocument> tags. When I first
tested my reports in a windows environment the spacing was neat! I even used my
ruler to make sure everything was professionally aligned. The client that ran

I have built a very simple parser using CFHTTP to grab prices and stock
availability on various products.  Using the same theory, it works fine with
some sites but no with others.  I figured I'd pick out one of them as an
example to see where it might be falling down.