Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Getting Started / August 2006

learning on how to use a request scope on variables but still confuse on
certain things:
If I'm setting a variable in application.cfm this way: <cfset MyVar_1
="#Now()#">. Then everytime my application is run, MyVar is created and this

I have obtained a UDF script for my site to produce SES urls. I have
implemented said script and called the function on the page. When I visit a
link that has been amended (i.e. I have inserted "/" instead of "?") I receive
an error regarding my cfc page. The error is to do with ...

Please can someone explain why my application is working...
I have a site that has users entering text from many countries so I want the
most fool proof encoding I can get... utf-8 ?
I have read lots of posts in the forum that state the euro symbol ? is not

I am new to cold fusion and I want to have a stand alone cold fusion server
with my  IIS server on a different box.  Is this possible?  I have installed
the product but it looks like it is pointing to the local IIS and I don't seem
to have the option to select the web server ...

how can i
Create Button
That will convert the html page to pdf and save to a folder.
how can i do this?

I have a form that produces a schedule of task for a user based on their start
date.  I want to set a cookie based on the date they select from a pop up
calendar that populates a form field called date1. In the else section where I
set the value to date1, if I do #form.date1# it ...

I am getting the below error
Got the error "Error Diagnostic Information
ODBC Error Code = ()
Unable to instantiate environment for 'ODBC.'

I have something like this :
<cfset VarResult = request.reference.selSearchVar()>
I'm not sure I understand this dot notation in assigning value to a variable called: VarResult, can anyone help?

I want to create a vcalendar export to Outlook and have seen a few examples.  What I don't know is how does this get triggered?

I have coldfusion 5 running an iis 5.0 website.  I would like to move it to a a
new server and keep the old server in place as a precaution.  I would also like
to install coldfusion 7 on the new server.  Is this possible to do and is there
any documentation on how to do it?

Hi, im a complete begginer at CF but im reading the guide and already got the
hang of it a litle. My problem is IE6 wownt open a the file I copied of the
guide and firefox will just show the code
<cfoutput>

Any one know why CF is not returning my identity column? I need the value of
the Identity column to pass through URL and process record updates.
Select * does not return it.
Used #queryName.ColumnList# and it is not showing.

Hello, I just purchased the Macromedia Studio 8 and installed it.  All the
products worked fine except the ColdFusion.  After the installation was
completed it tried to run the ColdFusion Administrator and the following error
appeared:  I have included the error reported in the ...

Hello - My company is considering a Web page as an application launcher.  
Essentially it would be a page that displays images of the program icons, and
when the user clicks an icon, the executable runs (C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Office\Office10\WINWORD.EXE).  Is there any ...

I have a menu where each link looks like this:
<li ><a href="../intranet/index.cfm?id=146">Current Projects</a></span></li>
I want to be able to use the id in the link to identify the title in the
database so i can see the date the linked page was created on. Is there someway