Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Getting Started / November 2006

I'm an absloute cf newbe. I only need a little script which prints out a month
and the day of the month like this format:
[b]&actMonth=12&actDay=3[/b]
It would be great, if anybody can give me this little script. I only need the

Hi, I have a Coldfusion Just in time compilation error.
Invalid parser construct found on line 237 at position 131. ColdFusion was
looking at the following text:006600Invalid expression format.
The usual cause is an error in the expression structure.

I am looking for a good book on fuse box.
Does anyone know what the latest version is and what is good book for beginners?
Thanks

I'm trying to write a CFC to help with validation on some forms....  
How can I use the <cfargument> tag to specify that the "form" scope structure
is required?
(i.e. I want to pass all the form name,value pairs in one arguement)

I've downloaded 7.01 to the server, but when I click on the file (named
coldfusion-70-updater-win.exe), the installer window opens for a split second,
but the installation never begins.  So, I thought I'd try going to 7.02.  I
downloaded 7.02 (named coldfusion-70-updater2-win ...

I recently installed MX7 with no updaters onto a laptop running IIS and WinXP
SP2 and IIS 5.1
I can resolve an .htm and .html file in the root.
When I try to open a .cfm file, I am asked if I want to edit it or save it.

I have a Browser which I call with the window.open function to pop setting
toolbar=no,scrollbars=yes,location=no
What I would want to accomplish which has turned into a difficult task is when
th user closes/exits the pop-up browser, I need to redirect the main browser in

We are a printing company (ink on paper) and have a customer that wants to send
us ColdFusion files to use to produce a printed catalog. We don't have
ColdFusion so I have a few questions.
1. Is a ColdFusion file just an HTML web page that I can open in any Browser

I have tried many times to install coldfusion. I've tried version 6.1 I've
tried version 7. I've tried on Windows XP, I`ve tried on Mac OSX, and every
time the install hangs, or I end up with startup errors. Anyway to make things
short I have given up on trying to install ...

I have no idea what this means.  This app was running just fine.  Then wham.
Here is the error message:
Errors reported by Java compiler: Found 1 semantic error compiling
"D:/CFusionMX/wwwroot/WEB-INF/cfclasses/cfApplication2ecfm855244706.java": 1.

By day I am a Microsoft Windows Application Developer currently using
.Net 2.0.  Mind you, I did say Window Application vs Web Applications.
I run Solaris and OpenBSD at home and know Linux.  I have dabbled in
web programming for personal use over the years.  I have used things

Ok, I was easily able to solve the problem, but logically, I don't understand
and I would appreciate if somebody could quickly explain this to me.
I'm using a a function that determines the size of an image. The size will
determine the size of a pop up window, when the thumbnail ...

I am using the <cfexecute> tag for the first time and I'm having trouble
getting the correct result. I don't get any error message so figuring out what
I'm doing wrong has been more than difficult.
We have a batch file for encrypting an xml file that works fine from the

If I have a sentence with 13 words in it, and I'd like to be able to output
and display only the first 8 words (followed by 3 dots) so that it looks like
this:
Original sentence: "Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and

I am using coldfusion mx and mysql. I would like to have my users after they
login be able to click a link for "Update your Bio" and it takes that logged in
user to a form that allows them to update their personal information thats
already on the mysql table. I wasnt sure if I ...