Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / February 2008

In either CF 7 or CF 8, is there a way to dynamically place an image/graphic
file into an existing PDF.    Scenario is:   1. We have a PDF that's already
built 2. It has form fields 3. We use a CF tag to place an image/graphic file
into one of the form fields  I don't see how to ...

I have a query that I can dynamically sort based upon which column of data you
select.  However, I'd like to take the sorting one step further so if you click
a column a second or third time, it switches between ascending and descending
for the sort order.  I can't find a good ...

Hi,  I'm pulling a .csv file using cfhttp.  Getting the file is no problem.  Is
there an easy way to get to the names of the columns?  Below is the cfdump:  
I'm trying to get to BRAND, PROD_DESCRIPTION, and UPC quickly.  (I can use a
loop and extract, just looking for something ...

Does anyone know how to display a row which includes column header information every 10 or 20 rows in a table?  This is in a basic .cfm page.

I have a form that requires a user to input about 40 datapoints.  Once they
submit the form, the 40 datapoints are inserted into our database, calculations
are run on the data, and more data is inserted in the database.  When all the
data is in, an email is sent to the user and ...

<cfset list = 'first1 last1 <email1@test.com>','first2 last2
<email2@test.com>','first3 last3 <email3@test.com' > I want to right some
coldfusion code that returns two lists from the single list above. One like
this: 'first1 last1','first2 last2','first3 last3' The other like ...

I need to upload photos to a site, I want to make sure that they are only JPG
files uploaded, plus restrict the size.
Is there anyway to check the filesize and type before uploading? Or can
somebody upload a 20meg EXE file that would hog our bandwidth?

In a cfform type='flash', can I used javascript within?  For example, if I used
  <cfinput name='button' type='submit' value='I validate this information is
correct and wish to submit for distribution'  onSubmit='javascriptscriptcall()'
/>

Hello All.  I'm currently developing an application and i kind of ran into some
problems that i'm trying to find a possible solution. This app will be used for
many users spread out into Europe, Asia and Americas and one requirement is to
validate a given zipcode based on the ...

http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/7/htmldocs/00000217.htm#1097308  What is
best setting for cf running on a cluster?. I like to use client cookie.  
<cfapplication    name = 'application_name'   loginStorage = 'cookie' or
'session'   clientManagement = 'yes' or 'no'   ...

hi wonder if someone could help me  i have a timezone converter which i cant
get to convert right, if you submit the for on the link below you will see what
the date time should be.  https://www.thesmsengine.com/testfiles/TimeTest.cfm  
<cfset hours = left(form.SMS_Time,2)>

can a data source be created/modified from a CFML template?  If so, how?

My goal is to use a set of radio buttons in a survey to either complete the
survey, or move on to the next page depending on the answer.  'Yes' will send
the user to another .cfm page when selected. 'No' will send the user to an
.html page and submit the survey.  Using one ...

Does anyone know if there is an issue where you place a cfdiv in a cfform with
with another cfform in the cfdiv that would not allow the form to submit in the
cfdiv.  For Example:
<cfform>

Is it possible to have a user leave the site for a period of time, say 2 or 3
days, and when they come back, restore their last session and all the session
variables?  I have an idea of building a database and writing them all to the
db on each page load with the last visited ...