Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Getting Started / July 2007

I have been trying to download CF8 all morning.  I'm on a Mac and have been
unable to download it using Safari, Camino, Firefox, and IE7 on Windows
(running in Parallels).  When I choose the download button, the page simply
refreshes and nothing else happens.  Anyone else having ...

I need help in writing the correct Switch statement in CFScript.
Is this the right way?
I'm not sure with the Len(DRCode), should I put " " ot just Len(DRCode)
The case is using ""

we have a development and a production environment.
i was told to develop  in the development before it goes to production,  but i
am hesitent to do that first.
i wanted to develop /  change the code from my local then development and then

I'm looking at the server in which the CF website is running off of and I can
get the CF pages to run and the CF to process properly but I cannot get the
graphics or css to display.   I'm wondering if it has to do with the mappings.
The current mapping is:

I have creatred a CFFORM and if I don't enter anything into any field it still
passes me on to the action form.  Have made many forms before and I am driving
myself crazy trying to see the difference why this one is not working.
<CFQUERY NAME="get_states" ...

We just moved servers and from CF5 to MX 6.1 Apparently javascripts were not
accessable from websites. The solutions was to map a virtual directory on each
site to the CFIDE directory. This is something that should be able to be done
from the CF admin mappings area. This doesn't ...

I am supposed to write a website, that its database is  SQL server and about
80,000 - 100,000 records in there.
is it OK to go with cold fusion? OR better to go with .NET for  faster and
more reliable speed?

Do I have to upgrate to 7  first or just go from 6.1 to 8.  When will it be released?
Thanks

I get the following error message when I try to upload images 'Attribute
validation error for tag CFFILE'. Im using ColdFusion on my local machine which
is a ppc mac. My database is MySQL and im building an online shop using a
Dreamweaver plug-in called Cartweaver. I have ...

I am creating a query from large XML files and I want to save the query in
memory so I can query the data many times without running it again.
This is the master query:
<cfquery name="rsQofmyXmlQuery" dbtype="query"

I'm setting up a CF Intranet application and I'd like to authenticate users via
AD without users supplying a username and password again (they?ve already
logged into the domain when they turned on their computers). I?m not running
IIS. Is it possible or will users actually have ...

I'm a nubie to CFM and need to move a web site from one server to a newly built
server.  I have experience in PHP and Perl.  Both boxes have the same OS, MySql
and CFM versions.  I have CFM MX 7 installed on the new box and have copied the
website over.  However, not all of the ...

  I'm trying to create a site that will only display pages if you are logged
in.  I'd followed examples but still having questions.  Can someone point me to
some easy sample code or tutorials?  What's I'm looking for is a session
variable to last 10 mins.  If the users is logged ...

I am trying to use the keyboard shortcuts to allow multiple selections in a
list box.  I haven't been able to find anything that can work. Once I make one
selection and as I move down the list using the up and down keys, my selection
is no more selected.

How come whenever I use "document.domain" in my JavaScript, the alert doesn't
work anymore?
I have the following code below that
function populateMessage() {