Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / General CF Topics / July 2005

As should be done before posting, I have searched the forum for an answer and
did not find one, so am posting my question / situation for pointers. That
said, here
is the scenario.

Hi cfml-cracks :)
For me as a php developper, coldfusion is quite a confusion... I'd like to
display a query-result as a table, it's very easy if you know what kind of
columns you'll want to display, but as I want the users to be able to chose the

Hey all I wondered if you could help me.
My update query doesn't seem to work, I have no idea why I have done this many
times before but sometimes it takes the view from others to find the answers I
guess. I can't find anything wrong with my code.

I have just started working on a new site.
All I have done so far is the simple 'static' html and a few 'includes'. The
thing is, for some strange reason only the header and footer includes appear in
Internet Explorer and nothing else. This means that even some of the static

Hi Guys,  Here is an email I have just send to a client - I think it explains
the problem well. I'm wondering if Macromedia/other developers are aware of
problems similar to the one I came across.  Best Regards, Peter
-------------------------------------------------- Hi Brett,  ...

I would like to find out what the valid characters are in a CFFile upload
filename.  It appears that spaces don't work as I was unable to upload a file
with spaces in it.  Are there any other restrictions, such as length?  I tried
looking in the documentation, but couldn't find ...

Hello all,
    I've got a list box that allows multiple selections but I'm not sure of
the best way to store the data for easy display and modification.    The

We've gotten this error randomly on all 24 of our CF installations.
It's trying to make a socket call to an ODBC Instance to a FoxPro
freetable directoy.
Any ideas as to the root cause?

I am using CFMX 6.1 and have scheduled a task to run daily at a specific time.
This task performs a query and sends the results to me via an e-mail.
The scheduled task does not process at the designated time but does
process (without errors) if I click on the "Run Scheduled ...

On one of my pages, I allow users to upload Word documents and have already
included some Javascript to check the extension of the file on the client-side.
I'm also using the cffile "accept" attribute on the server side to restrict
uploaded files to Word documents only. ...

I have a query that returns one row of data from an Access database. How can I
get that result to output 10 times and not just one? Basically, it's for a
business card template that I want to set 10-up on a page. Is there a sql
function for this? Any other way?

I have a form that is being used to send users product information by
email if they request it.
A 2nd window pops up allowing them to type in their email address, some
comments, etc.

The query sends a list of facilities followed by a number I want the numbers to
be ordered from 1 to what ever the query sent however the query after ordered
comes back facility1 ; facility10 ;  facility11 ; facility12 ;  facility13 ;
facility14 ..... facility 2 ; facility21 ; ...

I want to sort a list of titles, ignoring the ?The ? that precedes some titles.
I am using MS Access and CFMX7.
Here?s the query I use in Access to create a column with ?The ? trimmed from
my titles:

Has anyone had any luck getting the Sun's Java 1.5 to work with their CFMX7
developer's edition?
I am unable to start the CFMX services once I install it and point the CFAdmin
settings to the