Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / General CF Topics / April 2007

Hey everyone. i am getting a DB error and I know that my site, without a doubt,
is trying to get hacked. Someone is simply trying to add an entry to my DB. The
problem is, they are using a proxy server to chage their IP address at random,
so I cannot just capture the IP address ...

Hey Guys ...
I read that ColdFusion 8 should be coming out sometime this summer, and I
was curious if anyone had messed with the beta or knew better on when it
would be coming out.  We're currently on CF6.1, and wanting to upgrade I

I have a stored procedure that queries our sql db and returns Employee name,
their Department, and a few other calculations.  I use CFDocument to create a
table and display the results.  Here's the code that does that (see below)  
What I need to do is figure out how to create a ...

i use this code to embed a video file in a cf site:
<embed src="http://mysite.com/pages/vid/#vid_file#" width="408" height="375"
autostart="1" showstatusbar=1></embed>
is there something similar for a powerpoint presentation. pref with ppt

I have an admin page where i do the insert and delete operations for the
pictures of my gallery.
updatin is simple and easy. leave it, point comes at deletion..
i display the user an page of update/delete and image.

I have been trying to use cfencode to encrypt some .cfm templates on a
CrystalTech hosted site.
I have tried many ways to get this to work, but the result is always the same.
The encrypted template does not execute, and displays a page full of, well,

okay, i have one step which is:
having two tables one is questions and other is answers.
both tables are joined by a relationship where questionID exists in answers or
say questionId is the forign Key in Answers. Now i try to add the New row to

Is there any way to get around cfdocument not handling an align=justify when it is wrapped around straight html?  Thanks.

http://www.carolinagreen.net/victus/index.cfm
I'm building a web site for a booking agency (see the link above).  If you
looked at the page, you'll see that I have a couple of shows listed in the
"tour dates" section.  Once all the content is added to this web site, I'm

I need to validate some form elements based upon "begins with" elements, like
<CFIF form.password BEGINS WITH "xxx">
or
<CFIF form.password LIKE %xxx>

I have the following code:
<cfset DateList=dateformat("7/24/2006","mmmm d,yyyy")>
<cfset CurrDate=dateformat(now(),"mmmm d,yyyy")>
<cfloop list="#DateList#" index="cDate" delimiters=",">

Hi
I am a ColdFusion developer who is in the process of finding a hosting company
like hostmysite.com.
I need to make a decision on which database to use either MySQL or SQL Server

I've created a form half way down a webpage, which has a CFINPUT field.
When the page containing the form loads, the CFINPUT field takes the focus and
jumps to the top of my browsers window, meaning I can't read the text above the
form without scrolling back up.

As the title says, what is the best method to store session variables in a
Production environment?
I have been reading the posts on sessions and have been getting different
ideas on where to store session variables, in a db, registery, cookies etc etc

I've been reading http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/7/htmldocs/00001408.htm 
and found this comment:
[Q]Please pay attention to the points under "Minimizing form recompilation".
Form recompilation is a relatively expensive process, so you want to do this