Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / General CF Topics / May 2004

I know how to do this in PHP and ASP, but I also need to do it in
ColdFusion.
In PHP:
<?php

Could some other CF Developer give their technical explanation as to why the
following outputs 15?
<CFOUTPUT>#(True AND 15)#</CFOUTPUT>
I've got my own explanation, but was curious to see what other developer(s)

Hiya,
Looking for a book recommendation for CF. I already know PHP, ASP, JSP, so
not something basic. I was hoping there was an O'Reilly 'Coldfusion in a
Nutshell' but there isn't.

Rather than wallow around trying to make this work, I'm hoping some guru out
there can help.
I'm selecting group information for member clubs that meet on, say, Tuesday.
There are five clubs and two of them have their own website.  I would like

Hi guys. thanks in advance.
I have setup up a dsn with the name "test" with my hosting provider.
I have some cold fusion templates within a folder named diary.
Cold fusion templates = www.mydomain.com.au/diary/

Does anybody out there in the UK need a copy of Ben Forta's "Allaire Spectra
e-Business Contsturction Kit". I have a copy which I no longer need and
would be happy to give it away providing you send me the postage charges -
it is quite weighty !

is there a way to get the datasource name for a database simply from a
file name that may be passed in from a form?
or would it just be easier to have another database that has all that
layed out already?

I am running CF 4.5 on localhost and am not able to retrieve a session
variable in the redirected template. Just before I do <cflocation >
redirection with addtoken=YES, I check the value of the
Session.StaffID variable, and it shows correct value. But after the

Hope someone can help me with this, for context I am setting up a photo
gallery site.
First one, i want to show rows of pics.  Ie, i can get records to go across
a page, or down a page, but how can i get rows and columns.  3 x 3 is the

I know Ive done this before but I can't recall how. I have a field in my
table that contains dates and all I'm trying to do is query between a
range of dates (or after a certain date).
Here's what I've tried:

Hi, all:
I'm using Session variables, and I know that you have to CFLOCK
them even within IsDefined() statements.  So is the following proper? --
<CFLOCK type="Exclusive" Scope="Session" Timeout="10">

I would like to use CF to upload a file to the server.
I use the standalone CF integrated webserver on port 8500.
The following code in file cf_upload.cfm I have created/copied, but it
doesn't work.

I've been using ColdFusion successfully for a couple of months now.
I've built a couple of web queries that my bosses like.
    I'm using ColdFusion to query an Oracle database I have running
of an HP Unix box.

I have an Ip address records  in a column in my database.
I am trying to compare it to another column in another table in the
database.
There is a problem. The format of the ip address in one column have leading

Hello, how can i clear the all the live session and client variables
when a user closes the browser w/o pressing the logout button?