Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Getting Started / January 2007

I need some advice and information regarding purchasing coldfusion to use for a
small business.  There are different versions of coldfusion around.  Is there
any specific advantage of purchasing version 7? I require it for a simple
e-commerce website. Will versions 4.5 or even ...

How do I create a database? I have microsoft access installed but I read
somewhere that, if possible, it is better to use some other program to build a
database (something about if I use access then it uses my computer as opposed
to my webhosted database).

I'm trying to create an error handling scheme for our website, and I've defined
two custom error types (DN_NOCLIENT and DN_EXPIRED), which I intend to
<cfthrow> when necessary, and handle with <cferror>.  Unfortunately, it seems
that the actual custom error that I throw doesn't ...

I have this component:
<cfcomponent displayname="customer" hint="ColdFusion Component for
Customers" >
<!--- This function retrieves all customers from the database --->

I have some raw data coming from a column in a database that contains the
following data (code):
<table cellspacing="0" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"
bgcolor="white"><tr><td width="30%">&amp;nbsp;</td><td

Hello,
I am having some trouble while using the cfmail tag to generate mail.  99% of
the mail is sent without an issue.  However, some of the mail gets sent to the
/Coldfusion/Mail/Undelvr/ directory.  After looking at the email file, there

to change the font size to 11 is this the page to edit?  if so
which ones do i edit?
tr{
    font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

I have two queries in a CF page.  What I want to do is look at the dataset from
one, and if a given variable has a value in that, use it, otherwise use the
same variable from query two.  And there are around 15 variables.  Is there a
succinct way to do this?

Can anyone point me to any location on the Adobe website that states that they
will support their product, running in the approved OS in virtual machine using
VMWare?  I've been through tech support, customer service, and sales and no-one
can provide this information.  Our CIO ...

Can anyone point me to any location on the Adobe website that states that they
will support their product, running in the approved OS in virtual machine using
VMWare?  I've been through tech support, customer service, and sales and no-one
can provide this information.  Our CIO ...

Ok im having a strange problem. I have a program that has a user login and
password. on the next page I have a invoke that takes the varibles from the
form and puts them in a arguments varible
--------Below is the first page. when you hit submit, it takes the users login

Greetings,
I can't seem to get image maps to ever work in cold fusion files using
dreamweaver. Does this have anything to do with the way cold fusion handles ##?
I tried altering the map names with and without #s but no luck.

do you guys know any help desk application product written in coldfusion
we are thinking of buying or having someone to build for us.
thanks

I have spen hours on this, uninstalling, CF, IIS, and even resotred Windows XP
Pro, and stil I get this, CF MX7 installs, goes to the ...
ColdFusion MX 7
Configuration and Settings Migration Wizard

I've got cf7 developer on my PC but the code will end up on cf6 so I wonder if
someone could confirm/correct my undertsanding please:
1. in cf6, when using cfform, I just have to use a standard "textarea" as
there is no cf tag equivalent.