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| Subject | Date Asked | Expert |
| A computer mystery | 1/17/2011 | Donald Hammond |
| Q: Donald Hope you've been doing well. Ever since I've purchased a new wireless Microsoft mouse for ... A: Aloha, The first part is called the "blue screen of death" for obvious reasons. Rebooting is your ... | ||
| pdf file access | 10/20/2010 | Clint Willard |
| Q: How can access pdf files but force the user to make sure he logs in before he can access the file. ... A: The fact you mention "logs in" leads me to believe your site or application is member-based, i.e. ... | ||
| Listing the words from a block of text | 9/17/2010 | Donald Hammond |
| Q: I have to create an application, whereby a user enters a paragraph of text, and what is returned is ... A: Aloha, You have the right idea. Basically for this type of problem you need to think how you would ... | ||
| Cold Fusion Help | 6/22/2010 | Donald Hammond |
| Q: I had a cold fusion web server go down today. The version was 4.1 running on an NT 4 box. It is a ... A: It is very simple actually. Get CF9 up and running, create your database link and DSN, then put the ... | ||
| javascript in coldfusion | 2/24/2010 | Clint Willard |
| Q: Am sirisha rowtula, am a beginner working on cold fusion. How do I open FORM B from FORM A when I ... A: Your question isn't clear. A link is a link, you click a link in form A that opens form B by simply ... | ||
| Database (MS Access) Link to Website | 12/21/2009 | Donald Hammond |
| Q: I am new to creating websites, but how would you link a database to a website? e.g. Login ... A: Aloha, To link into a database first you need a database. I am assuming you are on a shared hosting ... | ||
| password decrypter | 10/24/2009 | Clint Willard |
| Q: do you know where can i find a password decryptor? i have my brothers password encrypted its ... A: Sorry but you have to know the 'key' that was used to encrypt it, otherwise you can't decrypt it, at ... | ||
| Download a pdf file | 8/16/2009 | Clint Willard |
| Q: I am a coldfusion newbie. I have a pdf file that is placed on my page and I need to create a link ... A: Coldfusion has some powerful PDF functions but how one goes about placing a link to a ready-made PDF ... | ||
| Query String Length in CF8 | 6/26/2009 | Clint Willard |
| Q: I was using CF MX and recently my server was migrated to CF8. one of my programs is using form ... A: Having said that the url query string limits are not server related, what I meant to say was that it ... | ||
| Query String Length in CF8 | 6/25/2009 | Clint Willard |
| Q: I was using CF MX and recently my server was migrated to CF8. one of my programs is using form ... A: Query string limits have nothing to do with Coldfusion or any other server for that matter, it's a ... | ||
| Retain form values | 3/9/2009 | Donald Hammond |
| Q: I have a form A that the user fills out. If they submit, it inserts the information into a table. ... A: No. You might be able to do that in Javascript but not in Coldfusion. CF is a SERVER side scripting ... | ||
| Retain form values | 3/9/2009 | Donald Hammond |
| Q: I have a form A that the user fills out. If they submit, it inserts the information into a table. ... A: Aloha, The only way to do this is to store the form data in variables and send it back to form A. ... | ||
| Cold Fusion app locks records; can't edit them from an ACCESS app | 1/29/2009 | Clint Willard |
| Q: A CF application built by someone else points to the same SQL Server db as my ACCESS VBA ... A: If I read right: Accessing the data from the SQL server, CF works and ACCESS doesn't, unless CF is ... | ||
| Help with a Form | 1/24/2009 | Donald Hammond |
| Q: "This is my coding: <cfquery name="Add" datasource="library"> INSERT INTO Authors (AuthLast, ... A: Aloha, You didn't show the form so that is what I recommend. Check the form to make sure Publisher ... | ||
| Assistance with a Form | 1/24/2009 | Clint Willard |
| Q: This is my coding: <cfquery name="Add" datasource="library"> INSERT INTO Authors (AuthLast, ... A: It means that the field 'Publisher' in your form is null or empty. Make sure that form field has a ... | ||
| Using List variables in CFHTTP | 12/8/2008 | Clint Willard |
| Q: I'm trying to pass over a variable containing a list via the url, to use inside a cfheader/cfcontent ... A: Sorry to take long to get back to you, death in family. Here is something that works you can apply ... | ||
| Lists & CFCONTENT | 12/1/2008 | Donald Hammond |
| Q: I'm trying to pass over a variable containing a list via the url, to use inside a cfheader/cfcontent ... A: Aloha, First do a cfdump of your variable to see what it looks like. To pass it via URL it will have ... | ||
| CF Copy Text Field to another Text Field | 11/13/2008 | Donald Hammond |
| Q: I have a large form where I enable the user to submit quite a bit of data. One particular field ... A: You can not do this in ColdFusion because CF is a server side language and so you have to use ... | ||
| transferring data from database | 11/1/2008 | Donald Hammond |
| Q: i want to know how to transfer data from database to the COLDFUSION? i tried to do it several ... A: If that is your output then it means 1 of 2 things. 1 - You are not on a ColdFusion server 2 - Your ... | ||
| Return 1 Record in Query | 10/15/2008 | Donald Hammond |
| Q: I am running a query on a large database. I am wanting the query to return the person's name listed ... A: The DISTINCT clause allows you to remove duplicates from the result set. The DISTINCT clause can ... | ||
| how to submit a coldfusion form using a button and perform some action on the same page | 7/23/2008 | Donald Hammond |
| Q: I have a query and i am really struggling with it. Below are the details " In my cfm page I need to ... A: Aloha, Actually you DO want your action to be SUBMIT. The key is in the form tag you use ... | ||
| Addtion equations inside a loop | 6/23/2008 | Donald Hammond |
| Q: I have a table in my database show below: Name: Cost: Trees 3000 Leaves 12500 Branches ... A: The easiest way is to include the total in your query. SELECT name, cost, sum(cost) as TotalCost ... | ||
| Hyperlink Problem while adding it dynamically | 6/2/2008 | Donald Hammond |
| Q: I am adding hyperlink href dynamically taking it from db. like below: <a ... A: Aloha, First off, your links should NOT have "localhost" in them. That will tell the browser to look ... | ||
| Getting client's computer name | 5/23/2008 | Donald Hammond |
| Q: i know how to get client's ipaddress using: <cfset userip = #cgi.remote_addr#> can i also get ... A: For security purposes the computer must be set up to respond with its name. Most computers have this ... | ||
| Getting client's computer name | 5/19/2008 | Srini |
| Q: i know how to get client's ipaddress using: <cfset userip = #cgi.remote_addr#> can i also get ... A: You can get the following info only SERVER_SOFTWARE - Name and version of the information server ... | ||
| a pair of dynamic cfselect | 4/24/2008 | Srini |
| Q: good day sir, can i ask aI know that cf is a server side programming, but i need a two dynamic ... A: you can't access javascript (client) variable in coldfusion (server). If you want to pass ... | ||
| cfselect problem | 4/18/2008 | Donald Hammond |
| Q: good day sir, can i ask aI know that cf is a server side programming, but i need a two dynamic ... A: You answered the question yourself when you said it is a server side language. Using CF you can not ... | ||
| a pair of dynamic cfselect | 4/18/2008 | Srini |
| Q: good day sir, can i ask aI know that cf is a server side programming, but i need a two dynamic ... A: You can't do the dynamic drop down unless you use sending to server OR using Javascript. If you use ... | ||
| Coldfusion form | 3/31/2008 | Srini |
| Q: I have a form that requires the user to choose between two options, in order to write a new text ... A: You can use FileExists method to findout the whether the file is exists or not if exists append else ... | ||
| Form results in a text file | 3/13/2008 | Donald Hammond |
| Q: I am using the cffile tag to write to a text file. The resulting text file is uploaded by a ... A: Aloha, Yes it is possible. You just have to seperate them out using list commands. Like to get the ... | ||
| Form results in a text file | 3/5/2008 | Donald Hammond |
| Q: Answer Here is the problem it looks like <cfloop from="1" to="#blankLen#" index="x"> <cfset ... A: You have to tell it what form fields you want to work on. So each field has its own set of code. ... | ||
| Form text results | 3/5/2008 | Donald Hammond |
| Q: Subject Form results in a text file QuestionHi, I am using the cffile tag to write to a text ... A: Here is the problem it looks like <cfloop from="1" to="#blankLen#" index="x"> <cfset myString = ... | ||
| Form results in a text file | 3/5/2008 | Donald Hammond |
| Q: I am using the cffile tag to write to a text file. The resulting text file is uploaded by a ... A: <--- Depends on if it starts at 1 or not IF it starts at say position 3 then it would be. So to ... | ||
| Form results in a text file | 3/4/2008 | Donald Hammond |
| Q: I am using the cffile tag to write to a text file. The resulting text file is uploaded by a ... A: This is not easy and probably won't work very well. The only way to do it tho is to create a ... | ||
| session variable expires | 2/19/2008 | Donald Hammond |
| Q: good day, sir donald, i created a page wherein you can see online users, online meaning the users ... A: Unfortunately it takes a lot more work to do it outside of .cfc You need to know when the person ... | ||
| session variable expires | 2/16/2008 | Donald Hammond |
| Q: good day, sir donald, i created a page wherein you can see online users, online meaning the users ... A: Aloha, Use your application.cfc file to do this. onSessionStart will set the counter ... | ||
| detect session variable after a period of time | 2/16/2008 | Srini |
| Q: good day, sir srini, i created a page wherein you can see online users, online meaning the users ... A: Sorry for the late in response, I was so busy at my work... If you goto Administrator module on ... | ||
| cfmail and google | 2/11/2008 | Srini |
| Q: sir, good day, ive been searching on the net in regards to cfmail and using google as my smtp ... A: Further research on CFMail. Possible only thru CFMail coldfusion version 8.0. Gmail requires TLS ... | ||
| CFCHART | 12/12/2007 | Donald Hammond |
| Q: I have a database with three fields: "Teams", "Hours", "Projects" I need a CFCHART to show the ... A: Aloha, That is just a matter of math really. Do some calculations and show the answers in your ... | ||
| updating a remote database | 12/11/2007 | Donald Hammond |
| Q: I read your answer to the previous question and it made me think of my own question. This may be a ... A: No, they don't have to be the same. You would have to be able to import the table tho. The problem ... | ||
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