Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / May 2008

CFContent has always been tragically clunky (Send flames to
NULL@alienetworks.com); why is this so hard to get right? Here's the relevent
code excerpt from the app I have that works everywhere:
<CFHeader

Does anybody know if cfmx7 supports access 2007 database? I couldn't find any information about this on adobe website.

I have been trying to connect to my LDAP server and no matter what I do, it
won't work. When I use a LDAP browser I can connect, but not not bind. When I
use the script attached, I simply get a "Connection to LDAP server failed" I
really have no experience with LDAP and only some ...

Hello, I have a program that loops over a comma delimited list of email
addresses to send out our newsletters. I am running into the problem with CF MX
that if it reaches a bad email it will crash the program and throw an error.
Does anyone know how I could go about validating ...

I'm using cfdocument to create dynamically create a pdf that includes multiple
biographies (my sample has three records from a database) .  In some instances,
a persons biography is more than one page long.  How can I display "continued
from previous page" on those biographies ...

Is there a way to get the word count of a Microsoft Word document using
Coldfusion's COM objects?  At the moment I have code which converts the word
document to a string then counts the words however I need a way to access the
exact wordcount that is specified in the Word ...

This is tough to explain so just go with me here...
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I have some questions about session management using J2EE (jsessionid session
variable).  I'm using CFMX 6.1.
1. in the CFAPPLICATION tag can the setClientCookies="no" a bad idea?  We
don't use client variables. We have had times when CFID/CFTOKEN appear in links

I must realize a procedure ColdFusione that effects the search into folders and
subfolders
on the file System that simulates the Windows API, specially the function
PathMatchSpecW().

Is there a way to use the isDefined function to detect a cf element instead of
a form element? For example, I know the following line doesn't work, but it
should give you an idea of what I'm trying to do.
<cfif (isdefined(#FAIL#) AND #FAIL# EQ 1)>Please try again...</cfif>

Second cfImage bug I've found in a week. Tried reporting it to Adobe, but their
bug report form throws a 404 (nice).
Basically, certain JPGs will cause CF (or more specifically, Java) to throw
this error after reading them to memory, then writing it to disk:

I manage websites for a large state agency in Texas. I have a need to redo
queries that list the Local intake numbers for Long term support services
(LTSS), Area Agencies on Aging (AAA), and Mental Retardation Authorities
(MRA) by county for each of the state's 254 counties -- in ...

I am currently retrieveing files from another server via cfhttp.  Occasionally,
the files get renamed and my script throws an error.  How can I verify if a
file exists on a remote server before I make the cfhttp connection?

I'm trying to figure out how to take the select value from a cfselect and use
it to set a session variable.
I've tried calling a cfscript function...no success.
I'm not using flash...and that's the only examples I could find.

I have a CFC called "order.cfc".  Also in this app is a CFC called "user.cfc".
In my order.cfc, one of the functions will setup and create a new order for an
existing user.  The user ID is passed to the function "createOrder" in
order.cfc.