Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / March 2008

CFM:
<cfset wwSales = createObject("com", "ww.main")>
<cfset wwSalesReturn = wwSales.invoke("<func>getserverinfo</func>")>
The ww.main COM+ service is setup properly - as far as I can tell. Global

The quesy runs perfectly on my localhost running cf8 but wont run on our server
cf6(i think)
 Error Executing Database Query.
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I have a cfinput type="text" using the autosuggest attribute, which reads a CFC
and returns a string of values from a query.  It all works very nicely except
that I'd like to make the query a true wildcard search:
SELECT DISTINCT collegeName FROM college WHERE collegeName LIKE ...

OK, I have an application that has been working for years.  Yesterday it
stopped working and my error trapping started sending me messages with the
cfcatch.message of " Connection to LDAP Server failed"  The code hasn't been
touch in over three years.  Any ideas what is going on? ...

Anyone know the best way (if possible) to pass a variable to a trigger through
coldfusion?  Say I have a table "games" with a trigger on it that inserts the
transaction history from that table into an audit table called "games_audit".  
The app user name is defined by appuser, and ...

I've been using CFAJAXIMPORT to import all the scripts from CFIDE. I need to
include this folder to get things like CFWINDOW to work properly. I'm attaching
how I've been trying to import all the scripts but I get an error when I use
CFAJAXIMPORT. It says "Invalid usage of AJAX ...

I'm doing some form data validation and would like to add rules for files
(size and type).  Ideally I want to avoid CFFile as the validation shouldn't
have anything to do with moving the file anywhere.
I know that when ColdFusion processes an upload, it stores it in a temporary

When using cflayoutarea when the type is tabs you can put html in the title
attribute to format the text and add images. But the tooltip that is displayed
if you mouse over the tab is raw html! This is no good, Is there a better way
to define html within the tab or to change the ...

Is it possible to use an image to open a cfwindow instead of a regular button
input type?
<form>
                <input type="image" src="images/video_thumb.gif"

Is there any better way instead of passing value in url? Because in url people
can see the all values. I am passing id's in url but i don't want other to see
that. again my data is not that sensitive.
thanks

I've attached some test code, which demonstrates what I'm doing.  It looks a
bit long-winded - it's 60-odd lines - and I'd usually not post that much, but I
kind of have to here.  It's pretty simple, so I hope you don't get frightened
away by the apparent length of my post.

Hi all. I'm building a services search for our county govt. and I have already
implemented the "Did you mean:" list. And now I would like to incorporate into
that same list options to search by alternate spellings. For instance, if
someone enters "cheld" into the search field, ...

Hi,
I am fairly new to ColdFusion, but I do need help with a rather advanced topic.
My company needs to upload and protect files within our coldfusion website.  
So the files can only be downloaded by looged-in users and their links cannot

In the onSessionStart function in Application.cfc I have a database and an
ldap query to get information and settings for the user. This informations are
stored in the Session Scope.
If a new session is created, the requested pages are loaded and trying to

We have two domain names pointing to same server & need to reuse lot of code.
What will be better approach  have two sub domains(folder) under main domain
like folder1 (- domain1)
and folder2-(domain 2)