Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / General CF Topics / June 2008

Hello all you wonderful CF people. There is already a topic about this, but
we're still a bit stumped. In most of our testing we are using the development
version of CF8.01 (8,0,1,195765) and the built in web-server on Windows XP. We
have also tried it on a local development ...

We have an application that reads in xml does an xstl transformation on it then
send it to cfdocument to create a pdf.  On certain documents this causes and
internal server 500 error, with this entry appearing in the log:
06/26 09:39:38 Error [jrpp-562] - ERROR encountered ...

Here's my issue. I am pulling up event records from a MySQL Database that have
a range of dates during which that event will last. I want any events that have
a range in which todays date falls between to be displayed, and consequently
any that aren't to be disregarded. When I ...

We've just signed up to Constant Contact's Mailing list services, and not that
they can provide an API to link their services to your own web application.
I'm in the early stages of learning coldfusion, and plan to convert our site
to Coldfusion in the near future.

I like coldfusion studio a lot. it is easy to use. How can i download a free or trial version of it?

After racking my brain for hours trying to figure out why this particular issue
was occuring (only in Internet Explorer), it seems to be cfajaximport thats
causing my problems.
The following page uses the cfajaximport tag to import the cfwindow tag for

I'm probably letting my cf newbie show with this, but I just can't seem to get
my action page to read one of my variables, specifically rentalID.  No matter
what I've done, it says it is undefined.  I seperated the code into the Edit
Page and the Action page.  I'm trying to make ...

back in the day, I understood regex.  i was even fairly good.  you had to be
in perl (and in vi)
but now...now i'm just lost when i look at them.
i have a data item that i need to strip everything in parenthesis out of.  So

Why do so many programmers dislike ColdFusion?  I don't understand.
Thank you.

I'm currently working with a database, in which some primary keys are varchars.
I'm supposed to make an application that creates an "automatic" primary key for
each new register, currently for instance, if the max(pk) is 100, the new one
is 101. My question is, how to handle ...

I'm sure this is a simple thing, but I'm drawing a blank and don't know where
else to turn.
How can I flush a given application variable without actually restarting the
application server?

Error Executing Database Query.
[Macromedia][SequeLink JDBC Driver][ODBC Socket][Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft
Access Driver] Data type mismatch in criteria expression.
The error occurred in Z:\users\ia-fall2007\davon\epmk\inbox.cfm: line 5

Is there a best-practise approach for a global application needing to
let users input their addresses?
Are there any free MySQL DB's that have this info available?
I'm thinking of maybe three ways to go about this and maybe there are

Hello;
I wrote a small app that makes the user log into it to get to features. I
wanted to know how would I go about letting a user that logs into it, know that
other users are logged in at the same time?

I apologize if this has been answered elsewhere, but I tried searching and got
no results.
I'm trying to insert the contents of one form into two tables. After inserting
some fields into one table, I want to grab the key/id from the first table into