Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / February 2008

I have created a newsletter page for a client and I would like to give him the
option of sending it via cfmail but I cant seem to send the dynamic content as
I get errors with nesting.
The page is pretty complicated but comes in fine until it is in the cfmail

I was just wondering if anyone here have experienced the same situation I'm in
right now. In a nutshell, I'm noticing on my ecommerce website the cookie
holding
the shopping cart ID is being dropped after several clicks through the website

hi i have a variable which i need to check what it starts with, i have tried using a wildcard as below, but it didnt work, how can i use a wildcard in a if statement?
<cfif #form.name# eq "Max%">

I hope this is the right newsgroup.  Still learning CF.
I would like to write a simple function in Coldfusion.  By function I
mean what other programming languages typically call a function, a
block of code that accepts parameters and sometimes returns a value.

I am attempting to generate a temporary query to solve an issue I'm having.  
Right now my code establishes the query, establishes the column names and
types.  When I add in the first row with default values = "0" I get zeros all
across...(great, what I wanted).  Then I need to ...

What is the best way to encrypt a page? I did just long time ago what was call
"cfencrypt" not sure if I'm right but I recall that it was a small dos
application ....    Is there something similar now?

I'm trying to display some content from a file as an include but it is not
working, the cf syntax shows up but not the content from the database. Here is
what I mean
http://192.168.1.54/~rangeles/web/realdads/rd_pages.cfm?sectid=1&pageid=1&articl

I am wondering if anyone has any information about how well CF 8 Enterprise
will work with Oracle with encryption enabled?  I know that in the past you had
to use the JDBC or Thin client drivers for CF to make this work, but the one
downfall was that these drivers didn't support ...

My question revolves around the session scope and the proper use of it. our
site doesnt necessarily require the user to be logged in to purchase a product,
i use different session variables for different products to check the time out
period specified in the application.cfm file. ...

We are using a service the returns XML. In some cases a node exists
and in some cases a particular node does not exist. I need a solid way
to test to see if the node exists which I have not found yet. It would
appear that StructkeyExists() can not handle the complex XML structure

Can any one lend some direction on how to accomplish the following?
I am using CFGRID to display a list of users.  I would like to have the ID
column simply display the word "edit" and not show the ID of the data row.
Any help is appreciated!

I am developing an shopping cart. If the user enterers the product name in the
url, i want to display the product. rather than using the product ID. like
http://www.mysite.com/book
http://www.mysite.com/pen

Hi.I've done SSL certificate for IIS Secure pages and it's Ok now.but I cant see the SSL secure padlock on my statuse bar.
should I change something on my pages too?
thanks
aMen

Hi.I have alphabetical links to html pages so they open in the middle of the
cfm pages.
here is the code of the  alphabetical links:
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

I've created an image repository app that I'd like to add the functionality of
queueing a max of 10 images that are residing on the server by clicking on
checkboxes next to the image's thumbnails and then once the user hits the "Zip
and Download" button, it would zip those ...