Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / General CF Topics / March 2006

When I bring up my cfform, I always have to click in the first entry fieldH to
put the cursor in there. How can I get the cursor to automatically be in there
as soon as the form opens ? and when the form is reset or the back button is
selected ?

Need some help with this: I have a field in my database called productDetails,
when output on the screen it renders as so:
Material: Solid Brass
Finish/Color: Antique Copper

I have some code that uses the word "Session" as a table field name.
That was pretty silly, but it has been working and I didnt think about
it when I wrote it a few years ago.
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I recently installed CFMX and Apache 1.x.   When I try to use the
Administration for CFMX the correct file is loaded into my browser, but it
doesn't display as it should so that I can configure CFMX.  I get plain text
and nothing more.

I've created all the neccessary files in run a verity search on a directory
that contains numerous .pdf files. When I run my search and have it display the
Summary, I'm not all that impressed with what has been chosen as the three most
relevant sentences for each hit. I was ...

I am trying to display data from a database in a TEXTAREA field. I cannot get
it to work. Caption and Credit displays properly because it isn't using
TEXTAREA. Can someone please suggest the proper syntax? Thanks.
<cfquery datasource="#application.ds#" name="qryPhotos">

I'm migrating from windows and msaccess to linux and mysql.  The case
sensitivity of table names and fields is a real problem.
I thought I saw something in one of the books about a setting to help, but now
I don't find it.

I need to display result from a quary in a random order but only one time each.
Here is my structure:
<cfquery name="MyList" datasource="MyDB">
SELECT *

I am attempting to create a custom tag to wrap pages with to create pdfs. Here
is the code for the tag - simple.
<cfswitch expression="#ThisTag.ExecutionMode#">
<cfcase value="start">

Can anyone point me to a good sample application using application.cfc and cflogin?
thanks
NF

I will be receinving a montly flat file from a customer. I want them to put in
a folder on the server, overriding the file that is already there (previous
month). I then will run a cf application to read the file and append it to an
exisiting table. This is done monthly. What I ...

Hi wonder if someone can help
i have a list of old web addresses which i need to piont to new pages, the
address have now ext
ie

I get internal server error when trying to initiate a subscribe transaction to
obtain a meter number from FedEx's system.  Below is the code I am using (the
XML and url have been verified by FedEx technical support as correct), and I am
getting Internal Server Error:

I am looking for a way to resolve a variable within another variable. Here is
an example -
I have a query where I am getting data for a specific field
#q_getFromDatabase.field1# but what if I want to look through field1, field2

I have a file on my website named main.cfm:
/subdir/main.cfm
main.cfm includes displayme.cfm which includes sidebar.cfm.  All these files
are located in /subdir.  I am getting an error in displayme.cfm saying