SOLR config in CF10

2015-03-26 Thread Les Irvin
The Adobe docs say that in order to configure SOLR (as in upping the memory available to it) in CF10 one needs to edit the solr.lax file. Problem is, I don't have a solr.lax file anywhere on the server. Does anyone know the name/location of the actual file to do configurations? Thanks in advance,

Hotfix 16, CF10

2015-03-18 Thread Les Irvin
Just applied hotfix 16 to CF10, now the application service won't start. The event log reveals this info Can't start ColdFusion Application Service. The description for Event ID 259 from source ColdFusion 10 Application Server cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not

CFthread

2015-01-02 Thread Les Irvin
Let's say I declare a series of CFthreads on a single page. These will process serially, not concurrently, right? What if one fails? Do the subsequent threads die with it, or do they continue to process after the failed one craps out? And, is there a way to control/choose either of these

Running Command line stuff...

2015-01-01 Thread Les Irvin
I've searched and found a dozen ways to run a command line application via ColdFusion, none of which seem to work. Can anyone show me the right way? I want to run a program called ffmpeg.exe from the command line. The code I need to execute is something like this: ffmpeg -i input.jpg -vf

Picasa and CF

2014-12-18 Thread Les Irvin
I'm trying to write a CF script to automate the creation of a photo slideshow video in Picasa. I want to programatically take, say, a folder of JPGs, convert them to a slideshow video, and upload the result to YouTube - without any human intervention. Has anyone had any experience with the Picasa

FileExists() stops working

2013-05-17 Thread Les Irvin
Weird. Last night I did the latest hot fix update to Cold Fusion on the server and now all my FileExists() tags are failing. Could be totally unrelated, of course, but does anyone know what file the FileExists() code resides in (I assume somewhere in CFIDE)? Perhaps that particular file got

strange error message

2013-04-22 Thread Les Irvin
Got this error when trying to pull up the CF Administrator. Any ideas what's up? HTTP Error 500.0 - coldfusion.server.SecurityService.removeAuthenticated()V Thanks, Les ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now!

JSON to CF variable?

2013-02-14 Thread Les Irvin
Taking this JSON result from Google: http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=34.172684,-104.604794sensor=false How would I address the formatted_address result as a CF variable? I've gotten this far: cfhttp method=Get url=

debugging output

2013-01-31 Thread Les Irvin
I just recently moved to a dedicated server after years of slumming in a shared environment. Relatively painless so far except for the debugging stuff. I'm used to the Error Executing Database Query.You have an error in your SQL syntax...blah blah type messages coming up on errors, but now all I

Convert JS variable to URL variable for AJAX function

2013-01-08 Thread Les Irvin
I know this isn't technically a CF question (even though I'm using CF), but I need some help putting a JS variable into a URL string to perform an Ajax hit. It will probably take someone smarter than me about 2 minutes to figure out, please contact me off-list if you think you can help. I'll

Converting JS variable to CF variable

2012-12-14 Thread Les Irvin
I don't know diddly squat about javascript. But I want to take a JS variable, such as those addressed in this alert: alert(Your coordinates are + position.coords.latitude + , + position.coords.longitude); and use it as a CF variable elsewhere on the page, like #position.coords.latitude# (of

High school algebra problem

2012-05-14 Thread Les Irvin
Not exactly a CF question per se, sorry... but... I'm trying to write a formula in CF and my algebra skills are rusty. I'm working with a real estate MLS system that divides their online photos, sequentially, into 256 different directories - numbered 1 through 256. When they get up to

Re: High school algebra problem

2012-05-14 Thread Les Irvin
Problem is, I don't have access to the server other than to reference it. They have a server that hosts the photographs, and another server that hosts the html. So I can only reference the photos using a full URL from another server entirely. On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Christopher Watson

Re: High school algebra problem

2012-05-14 Thread Les Irvin
Cool, the MOD thing sounds promising! I'll give it a shot. On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Les Irvin les.cft...@gmail.com wrote: Problem is, I don't have access to the server other than to reference it.  They have a server that hosts the photographs, and another server that hosts the html

Re: High school algebra problem

2012-05-14 Thread Les Irvin
www.trunkful.com On May 14, 2012, at 3:19 PM, Les Irvin wrote: Problem is, I don't have access to the server other than to reference it.  They have a server that hosts the photographs, and another server that hosts the html.  So I can only reference the photos using a full URL from another server

XML and unicode: 0x1a

2012-02-23 Thread Les Irvin
Apparently, after a billion hours of trying to figure out why I couldn't successfully output some xml data, it seems that the unicode: 0x1a character is contained in a text string and making it fail. #xmlformat(thestring)# does not successfully strip it from the string. How can I get rid of

emailing a cfchart?

2012-02-20 Thread Les Irvin
Is it possible to have cfchart code (format=png or jpg) within a cfmail tag and have the graphic actually show up in the email? I can't seem to manage it... Thanks in advance for any help, Les ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion

Replace double quotations

2012-01-02 Thread Les Irvin
I'm trying to use replace() to edit a string with double quotation marks in it. For example, I want to change: this is fubar to this is fubar But I can't seem to figure out how to escape the quotes. Thanks in advance for any help, Les

Re: Event gateway, cfmail?

2011-10-15 Thread Les Irvin
and cfimap tags? These are probably the easier route to a solution that using the event gateway feature. I will assume you are already familiar with cfmail to send mail. -Mike Chabot On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 1:26 AM, Les Irvin les.cft...@gmail.com wrote: I want to be able to receive an email

Event gateway, cfmail?

2011-10-14 Thread Les Irvin
I want to be able to receive an email, immediately do a database hit to retrieve info, then auto-respond to the email (in real time) with some results of the db query. Possible? I know basically nothing about gateways but perhaps therein lies my solution? If anyone could point me in the right

left, right, mid? (no political content)

2011-08-04 Thread Les Irvin
Let's say I have a number of strings as such: xx123_23 xx37465_2345 xx2_12 xx21_4374837438 xx4655_432 all have xx at the beginning and then an underscore somewhere beyond that. With such random and varied lengths, how do I return the following strings: 1) only the digits between the xx and the

replace function

2011-04-08 Thread Les Irvin
How can I convert this string: bob,carol,ted,alice to this: bob,carol,ted,alice my replace() skills are not up to snuff... many thanks, Les ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now!

Removing duplicates from a value list

2011-04-07 Thread Les Irvin
What's the easiest way to remove dupes from a value list? I want to turn, say, this: History,Recreation,History,Music,Architecture,History,Recreation,Music into this: History,Recreation,Music,Architecture Thanks in advance for your help, Les

html to pdf... again.

2011-01-14 Thread Les Irvin
This should be easy. I'm working on a site to allow real estate agents to tweak a brochure on-line, then save it as a PDF. All I want to do is take the resulting page of html, convert it exactly as it looks in the browser to a PDF file (including colors, backgrounds, images, formating, etc.),

Re: html to pdf... again.

2011-01-14 Thread Les Irvin
Are there innumerable options and settings needed within the CFdocument tag, or it just simply wrapping that sucker within the simple tag and going for it? Background colors and css is all preserved? On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Robert Harrison rob...@austin-williams.com wrote: We've done

Gmail/Facebook Style jQuery Chat

2010-06-18 Thread Les Irvin
Does anyone know if there is there any CF-based version of something like this available? http://anantgarg.com/2009/05/13/gmail-facebook-style-jquery-chat/ Thanks, Les ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now!

Convert image to its negative

2010-05-03 Thread Les Irvin
Does anyone know of a CF custom tag that will convert an image to its negative? For example, converting a medical x-ray image to its positive, etc. Thanks in advance for any help, Les ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community

Joni Mitchell and Cold Fusion

2010-04-07 Thread Les Irvin
Help me, I think I'm falling... here's an odd request for a certain individual. Joni's official site is hosted on a GoDaddy server (don't ask) running CF8. They keep shutting it down for overloading the server - asking me to streamline the code to avoid continued violations. I'm sure my code

Ajax, Json, and two clueless programmers

2010-03-28 Thread Les Irvin
I'm doing a project with another guy. He knows ajax and json and is clueless about Cold Fusion. I claim to know CF and probably don't even know what ajax and json stand for. We, needless to say, are having problems communicating. So here's the problem. I hit the database and give him some

listgetat problem...

2010-03-15 Thread Les Irvin
Hi all - I'm trying to (unsuccessfully) import a comma delimited text file (from an MLS service) into a MySQL db and looping over the file using listgetat in this manner: ... '#listgetAt('#index#',4, ',')#', '#listgetAt('#index#',5, ',')#', '#listgetAt('#index#',6, ',')#' ... I'm suspecting

Random question

2010-02-10 Thread Les Irvin
How would I come up with a 4-character random string consisting of any letter or number? 1k3d, e4rf, 69e4, dfje, 3967, etc... Thanks in advance for your help, Les ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they

Parsing a geocode response

2010-01-26 Thread Les Irvin
I'm rather lousy at the whole string parsing thing... how would I separate this example response from the google geocoder api into two values? Problem (for me) is that one cannot count on a set number of digits returned after the decimal. (38.780144, -104.815308) Any help would be greatly

meta tag location

2010-01-06 Thread Les Irvin
I usually put a few meta tags in the application.cfm file, and a few more on the individual pages. Is there any danger to not keeping all the meta tags in one place? A client claims their google ranking has fallen since this has been done. Thanks, Les

Form validation question

2009-10-15 Thread Les Irvin
I'm working on a site where people register and choose their own username. In the registration form I'd like to, onBlur from the username field, immediately check to see if that username is already in use and if so, trigger an alert that returns them to the field. What's the best way to do

CF Adnin question, or The GoDaddy Hosting Blues

2009-10-05 Thread Les Irvin
GoDaddy recently installed CF8 on some of their servers, and a few things have changed. Now, validity checks are not working on cfform tags on their aliased domains. If the URL is http://AliasedDomain.com/PageWithTagOnIt.cfm, all validity checks fail. If the URL (to the identical file) is

Form field auto-fill, auto-eliminate from query

2009-09-07 Thread Les Irvin
Can CF do this? I have a database of, say, 1000 song titles. I want a user to be able to input one of those song titles into a form. A select box with 1000 options is pretty unwieldy. Can CF eliminate irrelevant songs as the user types? For example: User types B, only those titles starting

return current page?

2009-08-09 Thread Les Irvin
What function would I use to call the current page? I want to return index.cfm from an include on the index.cfm page. Thanks, Les ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House

cfinput question

2009-07-01 Thread Les Irvin
I'm using the cfinput type=file tag to upload pdfs to the server. Is there a way in Cold Fusion to, when the file upload / browse dialog comes up, restrict it to only show pdf files? Or is that an operating system / java / something else function? Thanks in advance, Les

Re: cfinput question

2009-07-01 Thread Les Irvin
At the risk of exposing my ignorance, isn't cffile a server-side operation? I'm needing a client side filter, basically. On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 2:27 PM, sam Detweilersdetw...@gmail.com wrote: how about cffile action=upload accept = application/pdf

CFInvoke question

2009-06-28 Thread Les Irvin
The server I'm working on has the 'CreateObject' function disabled. I was told to use cfinvoke instead. What would the following code look like, then, if wrapped in a cfinvoke statement?: cfscript imgObj=CreateObject(component, tmt_img); imgObj.resize(#cffile.serverFile#, #form.id#.jpg, 250);

GoDaddy, Access DBs, and cfinsert/cfupdate

2009-06-26 Thread Les Irvin
I'm porting a website for a client over to GoDaddy from another server. Using cfinsert/cfupdate tags to manipulate Access databases. When trying to insert/edit more than a few sentences of data into a memo field, it causes an error on the GoDaddy server: Error Executing Database Query.

Sorting cfsearch results

2009-02-27 Thread Les Irvin
Is it possible to sort cfsearch results by one of the custom fields specified in the cfindex tag? Or can the results only be ordered by relevancy? How would one go about sort on a custom field? Thanks in advance, Les ~|

Writing xml

2009-01-16 Thread Les Irvin
I'm trying to have CF write a painfully simple xml file, basically just a list of sequentially numbered image tags. I keep getting this error: The markup in the document following the root element must be well-formed. Can anyone help? Thanks, Les cfxml variable=GalDoc ?xml version=1.0 ? cfloop

Passing client file name in a form?

2008-07-31 Thread Les Irvin
Probably something simple I'm overlooking here... but I'm trying to pass the actual client location of a file through a form. For example, the user browses for a photo: cfinput type=file name=g1 input value=submit photo type=submit Then submits the form. The variable #form.g1# ends up being

Passing client file name in a form? one more thing

2008-07-31 Thread Les Irvin
I failed to mention that I do not want to upload the file to the server, but only to grab the location so I can use it as an attachment in a cfmail tag. Probably something simple I'm overlooking here... but I'm trying to pass the actual client location of a file through a

Generating unique random numbers

2008-02-11 Thread Les Irvin
Is there a slick way to do this in CF? Let's say I have a set of records - one field of which is for a unique and random 6 digit number. When adding a new record, what the best way to assign its random number that's not already assigned to another record? Thanks in advance, Les

CFFORM problem

2008-02-10 Thread Les Irvin
Today I moved a site from one CF8 server to another CF8 server. Suddenly, all the cfform validity checks that were working on the previous server now fail on the new server. Is there some setting in Adminstrator that may possibly be making this happen? Anything else that it could be? It's the

Catching referring domain in CF?

2007-10-15 Thread Les Irvin
Is there a way to pass a variable with the domain name only from the referring page to a target page using CF? For example, how can I pass (or extract) just houseoffusion.com to the target page when coming from http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm; Thanks in advance for

OT: weather module

2007-03-12 Thread Les Irvin
I'm looking for a weather module to display on a real estate website. Must be compatible with CF query data such as a zip code. Weather.com's module is not flexible enough. Has any one found any such animal? Thanks in advance, Les

Querying a delimited text field

2007-01-27 Thread Les Irvin
Novice question here. I need to write a query to find a single integer in a field of delimited integers, say 23,25,27,29. How is this done in Cold Fusion? FindOneOf? FindNoCase? Can anyone advise? Thanks in advance for any help, Les

Re: Querying a delimited text field

2007-01-27 Thread Les Irvin
I'm trying to find it using sql within a cfquery tag, that's why I'm stumped. On 1/27/07, Jim Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Les Irvin wrote: Novice question here. I need to write a query to find a single integer in a field of delimited integers, say 23,25,27,29. How is this done

Re: Querying a delimited text field

2007-01-27 Thread Les Irvin
to find it in text? Dave -Original Message- From: Les Irvin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 12:11 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Querying a delimited text field Novice question here. I need to write a query to find a single integer in a field of delimited

Re: Querying a delimited text field

2007-01-27 Thread Les Irvin
#,%' OR photos.theme_id LIKE '#themes.id#,%' OR photos.theme_id LIKE '%,#themes.id#' order by lname /CFQUERY Let me know if it works. Dave -Original Message- From: Les Irvin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 12:26 PM

Re: Querying a delimited text field

2007-01-27 Thread Les Irvin
Yes, Themes.id is actually a variable - a result of an earlier query. On 1/27/07, Dave Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that his 'themes_id' is a coldfusion variable. Les, can you please confirm this or not? It makes a big difference in how things might work. Dave -Original

Re: Querying a delimited text field

2007-01-27 Thread Les Irvin
slow for you. The IN clause would be a bit faster for sure. Dave -Original Message- From: Les Irvin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 1:17 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Querying a delimited text field Yes, Themes.id is actually a variable - a result

Re: Querying a delimited text field

2007-01-27 Thread Les Irvin
Wow guys, thanks for all the help. I've definately got a valuable lesson in both Cold Fusion and DB design today. Many thanks to all! On 1/27/07, Dave Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Les, Without changing your table structure significantly, you will probably have to leave it as is. Jim

Re: cfupdate/cfinsert tags - changed from CF5 to CF7?

2006-11-02 Thread Les Irvin
Not sure I've nailed it down completely, but CF7 is strict on the conventions for naming fields in a db table (at least in an Access db. I know, I know...). The error was coming not from a textarea field as originally thought, but from fields named as what CF7 may interpret as reserved words.

cfupdate/cfinsert tags - changed from CF5 to CF7?

2006-10-31 Thread Les Irvin
I'm porting an application from CF5 to CF7. The exact same code is now throwing syntax errors when trying to pass textarea info from a form to the cfupdate and cfinsert tags. When I remove the field that is passed from a textarea it works fine. Is there some new twist to passing textarea

REReplaceNoCase

2006-10-26 Thread Les Irvin
Dang, I'm confused. Will this function strip all the html code from a document, including that in between the brackets? REReplaceNoCase(context,[^]*,,ALL) It doesn't seem to be working. Or I've screwed up the code. Is there a better way? Thanks in advance, Les

Verity ContextHighlight issue

2006-10-17 Thread Les Irvin
Coming late to the table, but finally upgrading to CF MX7. I like the new features of Verity, especially ContextHighlight, and have a question regarding that. The collection in question indexes a bunch of html pages. In the resulting context summary I'd prefer, of course, that no html code be

Tracking changes to a database

2006-05-25 Thread Les Irvin
What's the preferred concept in tracking database changes? For example, let's say there are 3 fields in a database. A user can go in and edit one, two, three, or none of the fields. How can I track what was changed and what was not? Thanks in advance, Les

Removing access db lock...

2006-05-24 Thread Les Irvin
How can one programmatically remove an Access db lock using CFMX7? CFUSION_DBCONNECTIONS_FLUSH() does not seem to work. Thanks, Les ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:241318 Archives:

Basic Verity question

2006-03-16 Thread Les Irvin
I'm confused about the types of Verity query options: Simple, Explicit, Natural, Internet or Internet_basic. If I want to create an engine that would interpret search criteria such as, say, latest college basketball scores not as a literal phrase but intuitively... What type would I use? Thanks

Basic Verity question

2006-03-15 Thread Les Irvin
I'm confused about the types of Verity query options: Simple, Explicit, Natural, Internet or Internet_basic. If I want to create an engine that would interpret search criteria such as, say, latest college basketball scores not as a literal phrase but intuitively... What type would I use? Thanks

Email into database

2006-02-16 Thread Les Irvin
Can anyone give me an idea how to programmatically insert email into a database using cold fusion? I'd like to take a daily digest post from a mailing list and have it automatically inserted into a database. Possible? Thanks in advance, Les

Email to database

2006-02-16 Thread Les Irvin
Can anyone give me an idea how to programmatically insert email into a database using cold fusion? I'd like to take a daily digest post from a mailing list and have it automatically inserted into a database. Possible? Thanks in advance, Les

RE: Email into database

2006-02-16 Thread Les Irvin
('#FORM.email#') This method has no error checking or email validation but this is the skeleton of what you'll need. !//-- andy matthews web developer ICGLink, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 615.370.1530 x737 --//- -Original Message- From: Les Irvin [mailto

VdkAdminPurge

2006-01-23 Thread Les Irvin
Anyone know what this error means? Error occurred in tag CFINDEX Error # -23 [ffe9] VdkAdminPurge Thanks, Les ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:230264 Archives:

RE: VdkAdminPurge

2006-01-23 Thread Les Irvin
. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 615.370.1530 x737 --//- -Original Message- From: Les Irvin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 3:15 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: VdkAdminPurge Anyone know what this error means? Error occurred in tag CFINDEX Error # -23 [ffe9

Search results help?

2005-11-14 Thread Les Irvin
I have created a search page which may return, for example, 20 records referenced by ID numbers. I'd like the user to be able to browse through the result set one at a time - a page for each record in the set. How do I maintain and reference that set of ID numbers as the user browses across

Gmail highlighting

2005-03-11 Thread Les Irvin
Those with Gmail will notice the interesting turn on/off highlighting feature after doing a text search of the mail. Has anyone come up with an effective way to highlight a search term in a result set using Cold Fusion? ~|

Stopping endlessly looping query on remote server?

2005-02-05 Thread Les Irvin
How does one stop an endlessly looping query on a remote server in MX6.1? I guess the function CFUSION_DBCONNECTIONS_FLUSH is not supported in MX. Ideas? ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time

Cfupdate tag changes in MX?

2005-02-02 Thread Les Irvin
A client just upgraded from CF5 to MX6.1 and now some simple cfupdate tags are failing on their site. Such as: cfupdate DATASOURCE=#DB_Org# tablename=Cust Resulting error message: Syntax error in INSERT INTO statement. VENDORERRORCODE -3502 SQLSTATE 42000 Was there some change in syntax

XML referencing

2005-01-29 Thread Les Irvin
Can someone help an XML novice with a question? I've taken an XML document, parsed it with XMLParse and called it XMLContent. Now I'm trying to output it. Elements output fine as #XMLContent.rss.channel.elementname.xmlText#. No problem there. However, since the records in this document do not

Encrypting URLs

2004-05-21 Thread Les Irvin
What's the best way to encrypt URL variables?For example, I'm passing an ID number but do not want it recognizable in the URL The encrypt function doesn't seem to work as it creates reserved url characters. Thanks in advance for any help, Les [Todays Threads] [This Message]

Cached queries

2004-05-19 Thread Les Irvin
I would like to carry query results across a number of pages as users move through the site without having to perform the query on each page. I understand persistant queries with the cachewithin attribute but that's not possible with this query as it includes an embedded CFQUERYPARAM tag. What's

TranslateRSSItems problem

2004-05-11 Thread Les Irvin
Does anyone have any experience with the TranslateRSSItems UDF? (http://www.cflib.org/udf.cfm?ID=813) It hangs for me as soon as the script function is called.Using CF 5.0. Thanks in advance for the help, Les [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User

Identical query fails on form.text vs form.select

2004-03-23 Thread Les Irvin
My database contains a field ('EmpName') containing records with comma delimited lists such as Bob,Carol,Ted,Alice.My query contains a line to find all records that contain, for example, Ted: SELECT * FROM Emps WHERE ',' + EmpName + ',' LIKE cfqueryparam cfsqltype=CF_SQL_VARCHAR

Add spaces to a text string

2004-03-21 Thread Les Irvin
How can I add a space after every comma in a list? I'd like to change this: Dog,Cat,Horse,Cow to this: Dog, Cat, Horse, Cow Thanks in advance for your help. [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]

Carrying query results across many pages

2004-03-13 Thread Les Irvin
I have built a form that calls a complex query and outputs 10 records at a time, allowing the user to page through them at will. What's the most efficient way to retain that query data across the different pages without having to rerun the query every time a new set of records is asked for?Am I

Passing form variables

2004-03-12 Thread Les Irvin
I have a from that outputs a query that can have 100 or more records.I display them 10 records at a time using next page and previous page links at the bottom.The problem is passing the form variables to subsequent pages after the form has already been submitted. Is it possible to pass from

Ordering a query by a dynamic field

2004-03-05 Thread Les Irvin
Is it possible to order a query by a field produced within that same query? This query fails at the Order by statement: CFQUERY NAME=Result DATASOURCE=foo SELECT City, State, Username, Longitude, (69.1*(longitude - 104.825814) as distance FROM personal ORDER BY distance /cfquery The

CFMail problem

2004-03-01 Thread Les Irvin
http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=11 CFMail is acting up on me.The same exact tag works only sporadically.I know this is a vastly general question, but does anyone have any experience with the idiosyncracies of the CFMail tag?Is there a list of things that could possibly make

Verity hassles

2003-01-05 Thread Les Irvin
Can anyone point me to a comprehensive reference to setting up a Verity search page? I'm trying to index a database memo field so it's searchable by keyword. The entries in this field contain much text with html tags scattered throughout and I want to show summary output on the results page.

Stripping HTML from a string

2002-10-22 Thread Les Irvin
Is there a way to strip all the HTML tags from a string? For example... I want a string such as this: img src=pix/9412a.jpg align=right border=0 alt=Photo by ???But the woman is bstill/b making music of great authority, still writing songs full of ibeguiling/i beauty. To output like this:

sql for creating access memo field?

2002-10-14 Thread Les Irvin
Can anyone tell me the sql for creating a memo field in a table (Access database)? This obviously does not work: CFQUERY NAME=create DATASOURCE=#ds# CREATE TABLE temp (tapeid number PRIMARY KEY, Title char(255), Desc memo) /cfquery Thanks, Les

Variables within variables

2002-03-27 Thread Les Irvin
I am trying to store a variable within a variable. For example, I query a variable out of the database and display it on the page using this tag: cfoutput#ParagraphFormat(Q1.blurb)#/cfoutput The variable is this text string: We have located #Q2.recordcount# songs that may now browse The Q2

Server Beta2 question.

2001-03-21 Thread Les Irvin
I tested the CFServer 5.0 beta on one machine with no problem. I installed it on another machine and now get the message "This copy of Allaire ColdFusion is licensed for use by a single user only" when trying to call pages from another IP address. Is this a configuration error or is the

Two functions with a single onClick?

2001-02-21 Thread Les Irvin
Can more than one javascript function be performed with a single onClick? If so, how would it be written? Thanks, Les ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives:

Two functions with a single onClick?

2001-02-21 Thread Les Irvin
Can more than one javascript function be performed with a single onClick? If so, how would it be written? Thanks, Les ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives:

Multiple submit buttons on a form

2001-02-20 Thread Les Irvin
How would one put multiple submit buttons on a single form, each calling a different page upon submit? Thanks, Les ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives:

Changing form names

2001-02-18 Thread Les Irvin
In my application, users are updating a database via a form. Is it possible to dynamically change a form field name - say from "order1" to "order" - after the form is submitted but before the cfupdate tag is processed? If so, how could it be done? Thanks in advance, Les

Looping over form data?

2001-02-18 Thread Les Irvin
I need to pull a number of records at once from a database, edit them on one page, then send the data back to the database. Looping over the query, I've been able to place the data correctly on the page. However, I'm at a loss as to how to update the edited records back into the database.

Network Scenario

2001-02-04 Thread Les Irvin
I need some advice... I'd like to use Cold Fusion in the following way: - 8 people with laptops networked together. - One laptop acting as the Cold Fusion server. - All 8 people simultaneously querying/updating/editing the database on the server through their browsers. Is it possible? What

Strings without spaces

2001-01-28 Thread Les Irvin
Pardon the entry-level question, but how can I take a string and evaluate whether or not it has a space anywhere in the middle of it? In other words, my only acceptable string would be one "word" - without spaces. Thanks, Les ~~ Structure your

Evaluating height/width of a JPG?

2001-01-20 Thread Les Irvin
Is it possible to dynamically evaluate the width and/or height of a JPG or GIF that a client uploads to a site? I want to take action based upon those parameters of a graphics file. Thanks, Les ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox.

Web servers

2000-09-06 Thread Les Irvin
I've recently upgraded to Windows 2000 and am having a hard time finding a web server to run Cold Fusion. Microsoft's IIS won't install over Win2000. Any suggestions on a web server that will work? Am I destined to configure Apache for the job? Thanks, Les