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Greetings - I have a CF Form that uploads news articles, at times, I like to paste Youtube Videos with my articles. I noticed that on one server, it works fine, but on a different hosting company, my Youtube videos don't work. After I checked the database, I can see that the youTube code did get uploaded, but the Embed tag turned to InvalidTag...

Hi there, I've been trying to implement a csv file download with the following code: <cfheader name="Content-Disposition" value="attachment;filename=thefile.csv"> <cfcontent type="application/csv" deleteFile="No" file="theFile.csv"> <!--- Data ouput code goes here ---> </cfcontent>

I have a variable that contains results of a query. However, when the results (which calculates the grade average of a student) comes back with decimals, the display in really long like: 86.33333333. If I get a result like the one above, I want the application to trim it down to just 86.33. How can I achieve this? I thought I could use "TRIM"...

Hello people, I've got a little coding puzzle I've been trying to figure out but I'm not quite sure if it's possible and I was wondering if anybody could help me out. Basicly it breaks down like this... I have two domains both pointing to the same website, for our argument "Alpha.com" and "Beta.com". What I'm trying to do is set up an automatic...

Hi all! How can I update only selected records from recordset at once? We have a form page form.cfm and processing page update.cfm. In form page there is a list of rows generated with <cfoutput query>. Each row contain checkbox, textfield1, textfield2. Processing page has a query procedure. I tried cfloop, but always got an error: If checkbox...

Hey Guys, I have just started working on ColdFusion, so I am relatively new to it than most of you may be. I am trying to create 'Sticky Stay-Filled' forms so that when the form is submitted, the details entered on the form show up on the page following the submit. Just FYI, the form is submitted to itself. I have done this in PHP almost a...

I have these values for my cfgridcolumn called 'phrase': href="#Request.self#?fa=#XFA_choices#&phrase="hrefkey="phrase" I can see the value of the phrase cfgridcolumn at the end of the URL but I'd like to be able to add another hrefkey because I want the href to contains the values of (in layman terms): URL + value of phrase cfgridcolum + ...

Do you guys know how I can add "#" (pound sign) authomatically in fornt of a nymber in a string?

Hi all, i am new in here and need some enlightments :p I have new webserver (windows 2003) runs on CF now. Most new pages are cfm files,but some pages that migrated from old server run on asp. So if i turn on the asp.net, will it conflict with CF???

Hi! This might be a very simple query for all those working on Coldfusion but difficult for novice like me. I have to fetch data from the SQL Server database which is on a remote server. Can someone help me with the code that I need to write in the <CFQUERY> tag. I have written the code as: <cfquery name="qry_fetch_user"...

Hi, I have a Database (MSSQL) with some tables having multiple Time columns (which I imported from some Access DB). The DateTime format in the MSSQL is 1899-12-30 02:30:00.0 format. I populate my web forms using these columns (start time etc.) My problem is I cannot seem to add subtract time. I only need time part and I can use TimeFormat()...

Is any ColdFusion script I can put on my webpage that will create a search bar so people can type keywords to match it on the current page in my website? It will be exactly like the finder search bar that comes with your browser window, IE; click edit, then find on this page, which brings up the search box. I know that JavaScript can do this. I...

How to implement Captcha in coldfusion registation page?Plzzzz help

The Problem: Currently working on a way to catalog a large flux of files into a database. The files are for the most part uniform but some of the flags in the database fields vary depending on the content of the form. For example, if the file contains the text "Final Report" I know that this particular file is a summary analysis and is flagged...

<cfinvoke component="Alert" method="send" returnvariable="success"> <cfinvokeargument name="oFusebox" value="#myfusebox#" /> </cfinvoke> The component called Alert works if it's in the same directory as the file that contains the previous code. But the goal is to have that file is in a subdirectory and the file that contains the Alert...

How do i allow users to upload a minimum of 1 and maximum of 10 images? What is the best way to code this solution?

I'm populating some checkboxes from a query result. I'm having a problem retrieving the data to file it to my database. How do I retrieve the checkbox values when the names are variable names? I need to get all of the checkbox values and their on/off value. <ol class="comments"> <cfoutput query="getComments"> <cfif (category...

Not sure how many form submissions that have been lost over the years before I started but the company has a contact form that the required fields when validation fails the error message is going into the URL string on a refresh of the form page. I am very green on CF and CFM files and have this code below; I need to help for the error messages...

Hi, I am running a report using Cold Fusion. This report is generated by cfloop tag. Depends on the record count of a query, the report will list the data retrieved from the database. each row in the report will have a radio button, so there may be lots of radio buttons in this report. These radio buttons are defined in a form tag. User will...

Hi there, I'm replicating the look of an Access form in Coldfusion In Access I can create group headers to sort my data, so all the jobs under a particular site appear under that site name - which appears only once. I'm using a cfloop query to get all my results in CF so my site name is repeated constantly. - like so Site: MYSITE1 Job1

Hello. I am a coldfusion novice with the mammoth task of creating a site that allows users to login. Once logged in they have a profile area with rights to order and edit their details. Login is fine. The site and all content is available for viewing by all (it is just information so these pages do not need authorization.) It is once the...

Hi, I've created a utf8 encoded RSS feed which presents news data drawn from a database. I've set all aspects of my database to utf8 and also saved the text which i have put into the database as utf8 by pasting it into notepad and saving as utf8. So everything should be encoded in utf8 when the RSS feed is presented to the browser, however I am...

ERROR in my Query?! ERROR: Element GESCHLECHT is undefined in FORM. i think everything ok. Maby somebody can help me here Element GESCHLECHT is undefined in FORM. The error occurred in \anmeldung2.cfm: line 404

Hi! I have data returned from a database displayed on a webpage for amending. A date on the form is selected using a pop-up calendar which returns it to Access. When the date is retrieved the dateFormat function is used to display it as dd/mm/yyyy. However, when I run an update query, allowing the user to change any field and refind the...

I am working on a site using coldfusion, javascipt, and SQL Server 2005. I would like one of the fields on a form to autopopulate the user logged into the windows PC that is accessing the site. This is for an intranet based site and all the users should have similar pc's with Windows XP OS. I looked into WMI and think the solution lies in...