Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Getting Started / March 2008

Dear Friend and Support expert:
Here are my information about the system:
1. Coldfusion 8, developer edition.
2. Windows vista basic

I have a column in Oracle which is a Number with precision 10, and scale 4.
Everytime I select anything from there from CF, it is displaying all 4
decimals.
Say the number "1" is in one record, "2.2" is in the second record, "3.0003"

I need to write a function call within <cfscript></cfscript> but not sure with
the syntax. I got error message with the suntax I wrote (see below).
All I need is for the function AddVal () to pass an Array within the existing
loop.

After many installs and uninstalls, I cannot get the Coldfusion 8 Developer
edition to install correctly on my work computer. I've installed this program
on two other computers without a problem.
My setup:

Hi, I am using tow fields of type date and I use them within a form but their
consecutive fields, that means that I have to put them after each other. When I
click on the calendar It shows the second field in the middle of the calendar,
Is there an option so I can put always on ...

I have the string: http://myserver/ap/calendar/events/ref.txt
how do I trim this string and get only the file name which is ref.txt?
thanks

I have CF 7 MX Standard edition installed on my server. Two(2) partioned
drives - C: for Win2003 Srv OS and E: for my web site, etc.
Everything installed without a hitch. When prompted fo the CF web site install
directory I pointed it to my E: where my Inetpub\wwwroot\ and my ...

Replace & ReplaceAll replaces string with other string but I want to only
replace say fifth occurrence of '<a id=Anchor' with '<a style="....."'. First,
second & other occurrences of <a should not be replaced. Any suggestions?
thanks

Hi there, I'm trying to generate sequence of four digit number when looping my
records
I have to come up with number like: 0001, 0002, 0003,
0004,.................,9999.

This seems like it should be pretty straightforward but I'm new to ColdFusion
and cannot get this working at all.
I want to update a column in a database with an incremented variable in a
loop. I want to be able to do this for a date column eventually (increment to

If anybody can help I would very very appreciate this!
The problem is that I?m trying to build a survey! In admin screen there is
choice of questions to create (check box, radio, combo and comments)
Once admin creates questions with particular radio buttons set, then he can

I am having an issue with  using a query inside a component:
I am passing two variables to a component; user name and password, the query  
returns the  username, useraccess and staff id. When I invoke the component I
want to check for a record and allow or deny access acordingly.

Hey Everybody -
Pretty new to these forums and cold fusion in general. I created a number of
forms in cold fusion for a school. They sign up for classes and when they fill
out ALL text fields they successfully submit the form and they see a success

I have just download the installer for Coldfusion 8. I am running a intel.
The install completes and I get a message that reads:
You have successfully completed the first step in installing Adobe Coldfusion 8
Howver, the ColFusion 8 service does not appear to be running, the web

Hey all -
I'm struggling with a CF8 install on CentOS/Apache 2.2.3.  I've been away from
CF for about a year, so I'm a little rusty, but I can't track this down for the
life of me.  Here are the highlights of the install: