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Hey Everyone, Well i don't know if my question should be in javascript/ajax or coldfusion, i figure this is more of a coldfusion question. But if this is in the wrong section let me know an all gladly delete my question an put it in the correct section. Well what i am trying to do is pretty simple. I have a input field and someone starts...

I want to change the language of the word that appears on a cfinput submit control. I can control the word that appears on the control using the 'value' parameter. However, when I try to use an xml text expression to give a value to the 'value' paramater, I get alot of stuff surrounding the word that I do not want. For example: <?xml...

Hey Everyone, Well this is probably a pretty easy question, but for some reason i just can not figure it out. What i am trying to do is redisplay what was entered previously. I have figured everything out except for this drop down box. Right now i am using one cfoutput query to display in the drop down box the values for it that are in...

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>

Hello, I'm doing something wrong here, and it's driving me nuts. A very strange thing is happening with a query that populates an XML export function. 1. I have a query and its XML export routine sitting in a file. That file, in turn, is called by a "New Spry dataset" block in a file that my form points to. 2. When I set up the...

what i have to do is make sure that they only select a certain amount of items i have looked everywhere but it must be a simple thing that i cannot think of please any help would be great!! so i think that all i need to do is track the number that is selected when they click submit but i cannot find the answer please help me. ...

Hi Community, i have a problem. I want to know the original sender, when I forward a message via Outlook. Example: Person A sends a message to person B. Person B forwards the message to person C. Person C gets the message via cfpop and wants to know the original sender (person A). I tried it with queryname.header but I only see person B...

Hi, I'm writing a contacts section for a cms on a website, I've decided to write the section in OO code. So far I have my Contacts object and a page structure I would use for a procedural site. /com/Contacts.cfc <cfcomponent displayname="Contact" output="false" hint="Contact component"> <!--- properties: used for self-documentation...

I am running a website at GoDaddy where I have their least expensive plan that supports Linux/ColdFusion/mySQL. Apparently this plan supports a small number of active database connections (50). I wrote my ColdFusion code in Dreamweaver and just assumed it would take care of issues like this, but I guess it doesn't. If I have a few windows open...

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 created a coldfusion for www.lfcsb.co.uk/Form.cfm using this tutorial http://www.fordwebs.com/cfform.cfm. However, as you will see if you navigate to my page, there are no input boxes. Could someone help me please, Stephen if you need to see some code, for the surname section, this is the code: <tr> <td align="right"><span...

Hi, I'm having trouble fully implementing the edit section of a contact admin system, so far I have written the following: - Bean (Contact.cfc) - Data Access object (ContactDAO.cfc) - Gateway (ContactGateway.cfc) - index.cfm - Deals with the business logic - display/form.cfm - Produces the form for both add and edit behaviour

The delima was I had a list of numbers that I needed to find the maximum value of. Simply doing Max(ListName) did not work because the Max function requires only two parameters. What I ended up doing to get around this was converting my list to an array and doing the ArrayMax function <cfset myList = "1,3,1,2,5,2,2,3,2,3,4"> <cfset maxNum...

Hi, I've been trying to implement a more OOP oriented approach to dealing with user security on one of my websites, and I am trying to validate the user against an array of roles, however I am struggling with a type error: The argument ROLES passed to function setRoles() is not of type array. If the component name is specified as a type...

Hi Guys, I need to make a pin like ADD - 00001 through ADD - 99999. I used the ID colomn in the table to generate this number like below: <cfset #Pin# = #RIGHT('ADD - 0000'& #MyQuery.id#,13)#> Now I have problem replacing the 0000 with numbers without loosing the 5 digit format. for example if the id value is 29 my pin should be ADD -...

I have a query that I was using cfcontent and cfheader to output to an excel file. I think that cfreport can do that but i don't get it. Does it require reports to be created though the Report Builder? Of not, will this work? <cfreport format="Excel" query="Request.qProjects" name="projectResults" filename="ProjectQueryResults"> And if it...

Hi, I created a chart using cfchart and export it to excel. However, the chart exported cannot be displayed. This problem does not happen when i convert it to PDF. Please help.

how can i read excel data and import into sql using cfm??? I have a CFM form for user to import excel file into database and save file in the folder at server location. I would like to read that excel file and import data into sql database each time the user upload the file and create new record. Any idea how to solve this problem, every...

Hello, I've been working on trying to figure out how to script something where if a user enters more then one search term in the same fieldbox, it would query both of them and output it to a cf page. My scripting/issue is very similiar to an early thread by an individual here http://bytes.com/forum/thread655581.html Basically in my...

How can the Application.cfm files within the ColdFusion MX v7 CFIDE folder be recreated without disturbing live sites on the same server? Will CF need to be reinstalled? Is there a repair utility? Are the files unique for each installation? A .vbs file was run on the server which added lines of CF code (intended to protect against SQL injection...

I have some text fields in my database, and I'm displaying them on the screen, but no matter what type of element I nest the output in, the text is being displayed on one huge line. How can I get this to display in an element in a multi-line format??

I recently switched over to a new hosting company and my update query doesn't work. Any ideas on what I can change to make this work? I changed it a ton of times but it would not save the file name from my form into my mysql database. UPDATE tblCust Set item1 = '#cffile.ServerFile#' where tblCust.CustID = #Session.CustId#

I'm using Coldfusion MX7, but I don't see an Oracle datasource in my coldfusion administrator. I've looked around trying to figure out how to get an Oracle datasource loaded so I can query Oracle db's, but can't find any info on how to get this working. Does anyone know how to do this or point me in the right direction??

I'm having an issue with quotes and double quotes on my iif statement. I'm trying to call a javascript function but can't seem to get the syntax correct. I know it's failing because I have this setup: <a href="javascript:alert('hi');">. I don't know how I can setup the quotes in order to get this working properly. It could just be friday, but...

While developing my website I notice that sometimes when there is an error in my database the error page shows my connection string with the username and password for my database. Just wondering what the proper way is to prevent this from happening.