Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / July 2008

Does anyone know how to get a 'recordcount' on an xml file without turning the xml file into a query?
Many thanks in advance

I'm doing a REST request and if I put it directly into the address it works
fine. But when I do a cfhttp request it throws an error.
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2008D1817PKUG 8 Audiovox? Portable DVD Player Package Home Electronics DVD ...

I want to concat many pdf files into a big one, I read that iText is the way
do to... but I have no idea how to use the functions into my cfm pages...
I'm not sure if the iText embed in Coldfusion MX 7 has all the functionalities
(concat).

I am looking for a way to access an element with JavaScript inside of a
CFWINDOW.
The JavaScript function ColdFusion.getElementValue() proved to be very useful
in certain situations, but I need to be able to access HTML containers such as

Hi people,
I have a cfselect that's bound to an input. Typing some characters in the
input triggers the select to update it's content (which it gets as a JSON
string).

Since coldfusion doesn't support Farsi/Persian dates, I tried to use the icu4j
lib and installed it as instructed. I tried to run the attached code(sample
from a cf article) and as expected, it gave me an output in Farsi/Persian,
literally. I mean, the characters and numbers ...

I'm trying to get CFHTTP to connect over SSL with no luck.  I've researched the
solutions that call for the target certs to be placed in the cacerts and
trustStore key stores via keytool.  But, I'm still not able to get a
connection.  It was suggested that I turn on SSL debugging ...

I've searched around a little and I can't seem to find a clear answer on this
one.
I am curious to know if <cfheader> is any better or worse to use in place of
<meta> with respect to SEO things like description and keywords.

I am new to using the CFGRID tag and I think it's quite wonderful. However, I
am having an issue with getting it to update a record. I am simply doing a
simple query with the the selectmode="Edit". I can insert and delete with no
problems, works fine. If I try to just update a ...

I am trying to develop in a fusebox architecture that has already been set up.  
I have a problem when I try to go from page1.cfm to page2.cfm.  The variables,
i.e. form.name, error out as, " Element NAME is undefined in FORM.".    And it
always returns to, "sfa=main.main" instead ...

I have a small ColdFusion widget which I am able to use to collect RSS feeds
and display them randomly. Everything is working okay except for the
discription.  I am getting the same desdription for each item with the same
array key.  I am only getting the first one in the array.  ...

Guys , Is there way to find the windows installation path . c:\windows or d:\windows programatically ?
Thanks ?

I am having trouble with charts that are embedded either in <cfdiv bind> or
<cflayoutarea source=...> statements.  If the charts are generated in a
standalone page, they provide the mouseover display of the label and value of
the chartitem.  Once I embed these charts into a ajax ...

I am using CFFORM to create a form including a CFCALENDAR, the problem I have
is that the first field which is a text field (name: FN) is not focused.
I added this code to the BODY tag, and the name matches the name of the CFFORM
(checkform), yet the FN field will not function

My cold fusioon 8.0 website defines alot of functions using the CFFUNCTION tag,
however because of limitations within cold fusion, I cannot call these
functions as application or session scope variables because the server will
only allow one instance of the function running at ...