Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / February 2008

I have a big application written in ASP/CF. In this application,  I added a
link to my small application in CF.  Both apps are on the same server but
separate websites.  I liked to use the user admin functionality that is
available in the big application into my small apps.  ...

Hello, I wonder whether you know the answer to this?
I want to change the names of the fields in a CFQUERY result set after I have
retrieved the results from the database (ie. I can't use "AS" in the original
SQL statement). I can think of 2 ways to do this - use the ...

I doubt that I'm the first to create a function like the one below, but I've
seen others looking for the same information comparatively recently. So here's
a simple way to avoid user-input causing XML to fail ...
I was impressed with the [B]XmlFormat[/B] functionality.... until I ...

I have a very strange situation going on on my production server.  We decided
to use all stored procedures for this application and we built it in
development using WIN2000, ColdFusion MX 7 version 7,0,2,142559 and SQL Server
2000 SP4.

I?m trying to work out how long it takes a user to complete online training.
The following query returns 271 rows form 4 different training courses, i want
to take the maximum  & minimum for each course and work out the difference.
How can I achieve this?

I am working on an intranet system that uses an external internet webservice.
In order to connect to the external webservice i have to connect to the
internet. When the internet connection goes down and i try to get data back
from the webservice the page just hangs up as it is ...

Hi,  Can someone plz point me into the wright direction,
I have a search query that takes comma-delimited list from form and search a
field with comma delimited list.
so  WHERE 1,3,56,78  = 1,2,3,4,56,53

I am amazed that I cannot find any examples of how to do this (so far).  
Basically, I need to URL encoded only these special characters, as specified in
RFC1738, section 2.2:
";","/", "?", ":", "@", "=" and "&"  (plus "+" although "+" is not required by

This seems like it should be simpler than it has been for me, but I am neither
an expert with webservices nor CF. Though not a newbie, my guess is that there
is something fundamental I am missing. I have sought answers to this and read
many articles, but either the suggestions ...

When I use <cfcontent type="whatever/ext" file="somefile.ext"> in an action
page called by a form, any code that follows cfcontent in the action page does
not execute.  In other words, cfcontent is acting like <cfabort>.  the
cfcontent tag is working exactly as expected, except ...

Hello;
I am currently upgrading a log in that I made to a directory in my web site. I
used application.cfm to lock it down and it worked nice. Now I am trying to
figure out how to upgrade my code to work on application.cfc. Can anyone help

How can I measure how much faster my server is responding after page is
cached. I don't have access to coldfusion administrator. Is there anyway I can
measure server response to page requested before caching & after caching?
thank you.

I have a flash application that uses coldfusion to interact with a database.
Im trying to get the same application to either commniicate with the serial
port via Actionscript or Coldfusion.
Is either possible?

I need to dump a query out to files, the issue is that this query has to break
by an specific code and then create the text file based on this code. But when
I try to execute it I get a Jrun Server error "Jrun 500 Null".
please take a look at the code and tell me what I'm doing ...

This is the page i want to acces via a cfm page (CF7) :
[Q]https://www.zft.adp.com/dock/[/Q]
i tried
[Q]<cfhttp url="https://www.zft.adp.com/dock/" method="GET"  port="443"