Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / General CF Topics / March 2004

Basically an external websites wants to start pushing their product
information to our site.
Getting the text and field information has been no problem. The
problem is in uploading the photos that come with the product.

I've to use a webservice written in .Net.
This webservice needs to use his own session variable.
When I call this webservice from CF, I've a lot of problems because I can't
have access to this variable.

I've got MX up and running on IIS 5. I can get sites working on the default
website and any virtual directories under that but when I create a new site,
any page I try calling up with a .cfm extension just give me the dreaded
"Page Cannot be Displayed" page.

One of the things I've been asked on the application I'm building is
keep track of failed login attempts, and "lock out" users after three
tries.
I'm not entirely sure where to start with something like that, or if

I'm building a storefront and am wondering how other cf developers
setup their product tables.  I'm trying to build a system that will
allow easy duplication for other future online stores.
It is pretty straight forward when you have a product, for example a

Does anyone know how to get MySQL to work with Blue Dragon server???
Michael Ingrahm

In a W2K, IIS environment, are these products mutually exclusive?

Hi there,
I have a complicated problem I've been trying to solve for a while
now.  I have a site with a few thousand pages, and about 5000 users.
I keep page accesses in a database for 30 days before archiving (there

Hi, I'm trying to send an email out.  The "to" field will contain a
list of email from a query call "mgr_mail" plus 2 more email address.
I have the following code:
<cfquery name="mgr_email" datasource="XXXX">

I'm creating a CFQUERY/CFOUTPUT statement to put the output of my query into CSV
format so the user can download data and easily put into Excel.  Two things...
I have the file named download_csv.cfm, but when the user chooses File > Save As
in either Mozilla or IE, it saves tons ...

I was recently playing around with the cfquery tag and noticed for the first
time that there was a parameter
of html/text type. I looked in the documentation about this but found
nothing. I was real intrigued about this.

Hello NG
I created a CF customtag which comes with a gif-image. We have a lot of CF
servers with different file/folder-structures. Can someone tell me, how I do
have to set the path to the image in this customtag? The image is in the

I feel like there must be something obvious I'm missing but...
I am making a page where users have to log in, then, depending on
their account type, they can do stuff. One of the things one type of
user can do is add other users.

I have a question about using check boxes.
Let's say I have joe, mary, and frank in my users table.
In another table I have a series of questions that require a boolean answer
via a checkbox.

I have recently upgraded to MX. I am having a problem running some insert
and update statements. They all worked fine on previous versions of CF (and
still do) but I am getting a syntax error on MX. I have double checked by
SQL and it all seems fine.