Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Getting Started / October 2004

i have been using coldfusion for a while and whenever i use form validation i
generally use CFFORM and CFInput tags and set required=true and message=message
to display in alert.
this works but what i would like to do is instead of an alert window with the

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<cfset department="Sales">
<cfoutput>

When reset happens.. if they are 10/15 HP... ((  hp/maxhp )) i want them to
revive completely to 15/15 sooo i tried doing
<cfquery name="battle" datasource="userlogin">
  SELECT * FROM battle

Hello,  Can any one please guide me? I have a form and action page. I want the
results of the action page to be displayed in a new window and not on the form
window. That is I select the values on the form. I submit the form and want the
results to displayed in the new window. I ...

I'm a noob with CF, but proficient with classic ASP and PHP, so bear with me.
I wanting to set/retrieve a cookie, but to give the user control over whether
to set or clear this cookie:
Username [_______]

I always get a parse (XMLParse()) error when using XML feeds from Yahoo or NOAA
or other such XML / RSS data sources.  I have narrowed down the problem to
three things:
1) The little "-" or "+" signs that are used to open and close the group.

I have a radio button field, form.SlopAnswer,  that dictates which db field
should be incremented by one, but I'm not sure how to update the DB.
The value of the form field is exactly that of the db field, but could be
any one of four different values/db fields.

Does anyone know any prevention for simple denial of service attacks when
running Coldfusion MX 6.1 under Jrun (with the latest upgrades).
I can think of 2 easy to perfom attacks:
1) Block the Server by just reloading the page as fast as you can (e.g.

I have a query that returns one field.  (ID)
For some reason I can not remember how to  find out if a particular number
is in that query.  I have tried this..
<cfloop from="1" to="#ListLen(rsGetSubCat)#" index="index" >

I have a production webserver running Redhat 3ES, Apache 2, and MySQL. I have
installed ColdFusion as the database to web gateway after testing the whole set
up locally on Redhat Fedora 2.
For some reason the navigation pane of the administrator on the production

I attempted to install the trial version of Cold Fusion MX, and the
installation stalled toward the end of the process.  After a long while, I
clicked cancel, and then stood there again for longer than 2 hours waiting for
anything to happen.  At this time, using the Task Manager, ...

If I have an array, and I want to update a table with those values, How do I
keep the sequence in order?  I'm in a loop to create the array, and am trying
to update the table after the array is complete?
<cfscript>

If I need to store a persistant variable across multiple pages why not just
use a cookie?  A cookie could be set in various ways to accomplish this.
I am wondering what the reason or advantages of using session variables are
vs. just using client side cookies for client ...

Hi, beginner here, so bear with me if i sound confused!
I'm trying to store the variables of a form in session variables, and am
having trouble changing the variables.  At the moment, the process is a follows:
1)User Logs in and starts completing form, default session variables ...

I can't get this right, would appreciate help. Thank You.
     <form action="page3.cfm" method="post">
       <input name="hidden#num#" type="hidden" value="#num#">
                        </form>