Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / March 2008

I have over a thousand files that are headers to other files.  Some headers are
really long and I want to limit the output to a maximum of 40 characters,
instead of outputting the file name.   I know this example doesn't work but
this is how I would output the first 40 characters ...

A co-worker and I have been wrestling with this for a day and a half now, and
not sure why it's so difficult to find valid information on it. Basically,
we're trying to get BlazeDS working with ColdFusion 8, to access CFCs. The
basic word we've heard from Adobe is 'it works,' but ...

I have been pulling my hair out trying to figure out why my CFMX7 box will not
authenticate with a secure LDAP. I have been able to query using ldp.exe from
micosoft but nothing with CF. I have been all over the Internet looking for
solutions and suggestion but nothing has ...

I would appreciate some help with a query...
I  have a  table with 3 rows  companyid, categoryid and categoryType
This is basically bunch of different category ids in one row and each company
gets a set of categoryIDs

I need someone to shed a light here...I have to retrieve all the members from a
LDAP directory using coldfusion. But I keep getting a 503 error message that
says: Request timed out waiting to execute. I can browse the LDAP directory
using a third-party software so it is working ...

I am trying to store the #CGI.HTTP_REFERER# address into my database, which
works, BUT, I don't want any characters after and including the ? in my url
for example, if I have
http://www.scooby.com/index.cfm?popo=yes&ID=22

We are using CFMX7 on a Windows server. I am trying to create a web
service by calling a CFC I
created. This cfc function accepts 3 mandatory args and 7 optional
args. The web service had been working but then at around 1:30 EST on

I am having an issue with cflayout area's and the ColdFusion.Navigate function.
But after researching my issue, it looks like it's more a CFGrid problem.  
Below is code that just loops through and writes out 20 simple grids.  But as
CF is writing them out, on the 16th one or so ...

Hopefully someone will be able to provide some insight or possible resolution
to this:
On a site I'm now managing there is a piece of code that is being used to
write out binary data (images) to the client that are located on the HDD.  This

     I am trying to call a java class using cfobject tag.
I placed my all classes under D:\cfm\ecpay\classes folder . And add this path
to jvm.config file.
I am getting class Not Found Exception while running my page.

Any ideas how I can resolve this? My code worked great on my
development server, but when posting to production, I receive a read
error on the jar file.  The file appears to have Read Write Execute
permissions when I use CHMOD. Here is the following error:

A while back i wrote a form builder. To store the results of a form submission
I decided to use wddx and save the xml string into the db, which seemed like a
good idea at the time. Further down the line this form builder has been used
for much larger forms and sheer amount of ...

I am saving some html in application scope & reading with <cflock readonly.
Will it be a problem if more than 5 requests are made per second?
Does deadlocks occurs with readonly-cflock?
Thanks

so i have never created a web service and find my self wanting to learn how. So
I found this page with examples
http://www.quackit.com/coldfusion/tutorial/coldfusion_web_services.cfm
i followed the example and built my own script just changing out my database

Hello, every:
I am using CFDOCUMENT tag to create pdf file. This is some simple text line
and images(eg. width=58 height=58). All go well,
but the last line and first line is half cutoff. The line is half show in