Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / November 2008

I know that OnRequestStart and OnRequest run at the top of each request, but is
there a way to consider a call (invoke) for a CFC as a request ? What I need is
to use either  OnRequestStart or OnRequest with any invoke for a CFC to do some
logic check before it excute the ...

I have a webservice inside web folder and my application.cfm file as root
level. But somehow in CF 8 its include application.cfm file in my webservice.
As I know application.cfm file run first every time i run the page. I mean
behind the seen. How can igonre this file. I am not ...

I'm stuck with generating a Word document for a client.
Basically, it needs to output legal size and haven't been able to figure that
out. The generated Word doc must always be manually resized from letter to
legal and the margins pulled up.

I am going to have a site which contains both database-driven content AND
static, HTML pages.  I haven't had much experience with using the verity search
feature and was wondering what method would work the best with the mix of
static and dynamic content?  Will verity search pick ...

I have a website with a search field that uses some basic sql to search the
web database.
For marketing purposes and to understand our customer better, we want to
learn what our customers are searching for on our website.

I have a complex data entry page in which I use the cfwindow tag several times
to produce 3 different modal windows. Cfwindow is being used to provide access
to lookup tables for several different fields in a form (the cfwindow tags,
however, are employed on the page outside the ...

I inherited a CF application that generates a FlashPaper document. The app has
one link that generates the FlashPaper on a remote server, and another link
that generates the exact same report on my local server. The version produced
locally has a smaller font size than the ...

We've started to use some CF ajax features on our public site, like
autosuggest. But in order for this to work I had to create a virtual directory
to the CFIDE path off our public site.  Obivously for security reasons, etc., I
don't want CFIDE to be accessible from here ...

I have kind of an odd question for an SEO familiar person.
Here's what I've done. I have a website setup that has only one physical page,
index.cfm. All the links on that site are set up to be SEO friendly. Something
like: domainname.com/my-coldfusion-question. I have set up a ...

I am trying to duplicate the functionality of Microsoft Merge reports so that
users can create a template which would later display with information
dynamically inserted from a "User" table.
I know (or think) that this should somehow involve the Evaluate function to

how can I use autosuggest without cfinput. I mean just use input box.
I don't want to use cfform . Just want to use fom.
I seen that autosuggest won't work without cfinput. I mean it doesn't work
with input tab.

Has anyone come across this: I have a cfinput type=checkbox bound to a cfgrid
via the grid's bind attribute.  The checkbox is supposed to limit the returned
recordset via it's value (on or off).  Using the ColdFusion AJAX debugger, I
see that the value of the checkbox is being ...

Anyone have a workaround for the CFFile Upload tag to a destination not on the
original server.
My ISP runs our sites on Cold Fusion and we are wanting to create an image
server in house to hold all our web graphics. We want to use cold fusion to

hi.  how do you protect yourself against sql injection when you have
free form text fields, for example if there's box for "User Comments?"
i could black list certain keywords like "select," "drop," "insert
into," etc, etc.  but the list is impossibly long.  so, how do people

I have 3 cfselect boxes bind to a component. 2nd select box is depend on the
1st and 3rd is depend on the 2nd.
Its taking much time to load the select boxes and before loading all the
information user is submitting the page, giving the errors. and not only that