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mulitiple drop down search	31 Jan 2005 23:28 GMT	5
Hi, I need to search my clients based off of a form using one or more drop downs (ie. height, weight, hat size). I thought i would be clever and create a string with my where clause because i don't know if the user will choose one or more drop downs. I end up with a string ...
Fractions in form-decimal in database	31 Jan 2005 22:54 GMT	2
My user wants to be able to add/edit a number for outside diameter, inside diameter, and length of a tube into a form. They want to use English dimensions that looks like, for example, 1 1/4 . Once these 3 variables are submitted in the form, I need to calculate the resulting ...
Best Practice: Report Generation	31 Jan 2005 22:51 GMT	2
I'm pretty new to Dreamweaver and ColdFusion and am trying to offer it as a preferred solution to my clients when possible because it is SOOO easy to develop in their environment. However, I'm running into a problem and am fearing that what I'm finding (or actually NOT finding) ...
creating pdfs from form data	31 Jan 2005 22:16 GMT	5
Hi. Is there a way to create pdfs from form data without downloading anything? I've done a little research and it seems that every solution out there requires you to download activePDF or some other software. Any help is appreciated. thanks!
commas turning into boxes?	31 Jan 2005 22:09 GMT	1
Hey All im having a bit of a wierd problem. I have a description part in my website where users can write a description about themselves. However, if there are any commas when the info gets pulled out of the database (or possible when it goes into the database im not sure) all ...
Windows 2003 IIS6 CF5 combination - need help	31 Jan 2005 21:41 GMT	2
I have tried multiple failed combinations, and need some help. I am trying to load CF5 on a Windows 2003 server using IIS6. (Why are you trying to load CF5 you may ask, I've had too many issues with MX (i.e. CFHTTP, String index out of range: 0, etc.) so I decided to go back to ...
PHP to ColdFusion - Variable Scope?	31 Jan 2005 21:39 GMT	6
Hi all, I'm new to ColdFusion, switching over from PHP. What I'm finding most difficult, is the scope of variable syntax in CFML tags. I've read every document in the KB on the topic, but none truly cover all of the bases. I'm also reading ColdFusion Web Application ...
anger and frustration over stripcr and textareas HELP!	31 Jan 2005 19:58 GMT	3
i have a form that once submitted, needs to be appended to a CSV file in excel, if it finds a CARRIAGE RETURN in a line, the line will not go to a box. for instance, if my form was submitted, and someone typed in "i have submitted this form", it would fill in box 1A in excel. ...
newline	31 Jan 2005 17:52 GMT	2
Hi there, I am trying to put a newline in my string and I read somewhere that chr(13) and chr(10) when used together can do that, but I tried that and it doesn't work this is wut im trying to do <html> <body> <cfset first = 'John'> <cfset last = 'Doe'> <cfset newline = first ...
CFMAIL and Yahoo, anyone....anyone??	31 Jan 2005 17:50 GMT	6
I have been trying for some time to get CFMAIL to send a email to Yahoo and Hotmail. I am using CSS to format the mail. When its sent to any other POP3 account, it looks fine, but Yahoo, Hotmail doesn't. I am willing to send samples of the problem email, and source files to
CFMAIL issues	31 Jan 2005 17:18 GMT	3
I have been having issues lately with sending emails with CFMAIL and having CSS attached. I have tried looking at emails that come into my Yahoo account and duplicate the code behind the messages, and then send it out with my CFMAIL, but it
CFHTTP mangles high ascii?	31 Jan 2005 16:45 GMT	5
I'm running CFHTTP to grab remote text that looks like this: ?vault?. However, when I view CFHTTP.filecontent, it is mangled like this: ???vault?? Any way to easily fix?
Invalid CFML construct found	31 Jan 2005 16:36 GMT	1
I don't understand why this doesn't work, I know it's a little overboard with all the variable's etc.. but it gives me Invalid CFML construct found error. And just says 'questions' which is part of the product_name any ideas? Thanks, Dan
Image Component Tag	31 Jan 2005 16:05 GMT	1
I have a question re: Image Component. Recently I started using the tag to find out that when I read and image and then write it the writen image has a larger file size than the original?? If I tell Image Component to read a file that is say 50kb it write a
Graphing scaleFrom and scaleTo	31 Jan 2005 15:48 GMT	1
I am creating a graph that requires scaleFrom and scaleTo to adjust based on the values in the series. So if my series include a value of 1 and a value of 10, the yaxis will scale from 1-10. I INSTEAD, want my yaxis to scale from a number lower than the lowest number in the ...