RE: CSS

2001-04-17 Thread James Maltby
Use something like: input type="text" name="whatever" style="background-color: FF; border: 1 solid FF" Or whatever - the style is the important inline code - or you could css the input tag if you prefer - however "flat" drop down select, radio and check are nearly impossible - you can

RE: HTML editor for idiots? recommendation?

2001-04-18 Thread James Maltby
If you use Dreamweaver you can create template files that allow you to "lock" sections of the page that you don't want the cl-idiot-nt touching. J (alternately suggest re-building the whole site with a remote management system that hold editable content in a huge database and create a js pseudo

RE: moving CF from Windows to HP-UX?

2001-04-18 Thread James Maltby
a KEY point to remember when moving from win to x systems is that linux and unix are case sensitive - so calling an image "image.gif" from you code, while storing it as "Image.gif" on the server - will throw an error - same goes for page links, calls to datasets, etc. The best method is to

RE: Newbie CF architecture question

2001-04-25 Thread James Maltby
COM objects can be called from outside a page. J -Original Message- From: Julie Clegg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 25 April 2001 14:16 To: CF-Talk Subject: Newbie CF architecture question Hello, I have a genreal question concerning how CF embeds other code into its code.

RE: ' in SQL 2000

2001-04-25 Thread James Maltby
Andy's thinking about sex at work again! passiong! J -Original Message- From: Andy Ewings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 25 April 2001 17:31 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: ' in SQL 2000 ok...well it doesn't look like it's due to dynamic field names as the error is occuring in the value

RE: hosting

2001-04-26 Thread James Maltby
In the UK we rent dedicated servers from Londonweb (londonweb.net) - premier hosting partner with Macromaire/Allmedia - they know their stuff (prices range from about £7.5k pa to £10k+ pa depending on size, etc) - we currently have 3 dedicated servers with them, we also have 5 dedicated servers

RE: hosting

2001-04-26 Thread James Maltby
It's very much up to the individual company - how do you want to set the server up? How much space allocation are you going to offer? What kind of support are you going to give? Can you/your server provider offer 99% up time? Do you want to offer mail? If so should you get a dedicated

RE: New CF5 Partner Hosting License

2001-04-27 Thread James Maltby
Well, personally I get a feeling that this is the first nail in the coffin of CF Application Server - see the logic - increase the price to push it up to be in the same league as Broadvision and Vignette - drop spectra as the webtop never worked - over price the back end middle ware and wait and

RE: Large recordset = large whitespace???

2001-04-27 Thread James Maltby
You could also try cfsetting enablecfoutputonly=Yes before your cfcode and cfsetting enablecfoutputonly=no at the end if you are collating or concatenating the results in anyway - or calling a custom tag, etc J -Original Message- From: DeVoil, Nick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

RE: CFEXPRESS

2001-05-01 Thread James Maltby
Next one up is Professional - you have a much wider range of functionality like CFX and custom tag generation, wddx, cfupdate etc. - you can link to a much wider range of odbc data-sources, you get verity search engine and loads of other stuff - the one up from that is Enterprise - which is the

RE: test

2001-05-09 Thread James Maltby
Can see it - J -Original Message- From: Thomas Chiverton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 09 May 2001 15:46 To: CF-Talk Subject: test All my mails to CF Talk are vanishing... test resub... if you see this, reply directly :-) Regards, Thomas Chiverton Intranet Architect and Desktop

RE: best search

2001-05-14 Thread James Maltby
It really depends on how your content is being displayed - if it's flat-file then Verity is OK - if it's a combination of SQL and Verity then pass your query through both database and verity, if it's all sql held then rely on sql/verity collections (faster than plain sql requests), however

RE: CF function to manipulate a date

2001-05-14 Thread James Maltby
Use something like: cfset myMonth = #lsdateformat(myDate, mm)# cfset myYear = #lsdateformat(myDate, )# Then use the two vars myMonth and myYear to compare. I guess James -Original Message- From: Julie Clegg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 14 May 2001 16:54 To: CF-Talk

RE: best search

2001-05-15 Thread James Maltby
engine :) Michael. - Original Message - From: James Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 6:15 PM Subject: RE: best search It really depends on how your content is being displayed - if it's flat-file then Verity is OK - if it's a combination

RE: Restarting CF from Web

2001-05-15 Thread James Maltby
You can set up a batch file stop/start function and call it via telnet - safer than the http version in 4 On NT the code is something like: @echo off echo stopping ColdFusion... net stop Cold Fusion Application Server echo restarting ColdFusion... net start Cold Fusion Application Server

RE: best search

2001-05-15 Thread James Maltby
Sure - for v. big sites I have used AltaVista (www.dfee.gov.uk for example) and this is coolio - if I was to do it again though I would probably use Atomz.com stuff - for various reasons. Rationale for splitting full address into 3 parts: 1) Holding one url field means that you may as well use

Load me up

2001-05-15 Thread James Maltby
Anyone used RadView? What do you think? Else anyone suggest a good CF compatible server load testing app? TIA J The Force is strong in this one... - Darth Vader ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official

RE: CF + Flash

2001-05-17 Thread James Maltby
www.flashcfm.com is an example site, with tutorials on (also built in CF + Flash itself) J -Original Message- From: ibtoad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 17 May 2001 14:27 To: CF-Talk Subject: CF + Flash Does anyone have any working example sites of a Flash website with a CF

RE: Send SMS

2001-05-17 Thread James Maltby
If you want to do it yourself try out someone like http://www.wapmx.com/ where you can subscribe to their online service, or buy the hardware to do it yourself... HTH J -Original Message- From: Rif Kiamil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 17 May 2001 13:14 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Send

RE: Send SMS

2001-05-17 Thread James Maltby
You may also want to try out http://iilcorp.com/web/en/dev/moffy.htm Moffy is a free server side solution to SMS (plus other stuff) J -Original Message- From: Rif Kiamil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 17 May 2001 13:14 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Send SMS Trying 2 find info on this

RE: Mailing s

2001-05-17 Thread James Maltby
Yeah - upgrade to CF Hawaii (5.0) - you can route mail directly - avoiding the spool - or use a dedicated mail tool for the job J -Original Message- From: William J Wheatley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 17 May 2001 17:59 To: CF-Talk Subject: Mailing s We send out tens of

RE: Redirect From Popup

2001-05-22 Thread James Maltby
Actually it may work better like this: popupdate.cfm: cf_update stuff here cfquery - max id collect name=getid then... cfoutput html script language=JavaScript function closeit() { window.opener.location=querylandpagename.cfm?id=#getid.id#; window.close(); } /script /cfoutput body

RE: Redirect From Popup

2001-05-22 Thread James Maltby
You need to add the following code to the bottom of your update page within the pop-up child: html script language=JavaScript function closeit() { window.opener.location=querylandname.cfm?var1=xvar2=y; window.close(); } /script body onload=closeit()/body /html Where var1=x and var2=y

RE: can anyone help?

2001-05-31 Thread James Maltby
Win2k does not really support PWS it is no longer supported on this OS (legacy issues) - you should be using IIS5 (which will be on the CD) if you are using Professional, if you are using ME then use Apache instead. J -Original Message- From: sebastian palmigiani [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Your site's easy to navigate? You Think so?

2001-06-04 Thread James Maltby
You should take a look at bobby and the WAI guide. Bobby is a collaboration project between (amongst others) SUN microsystems and Microsoft (gasp!) (http://www.cast.org/bobby/) - you can either download the java based tool or use the website to check a website you have built for accessibility,

RE: Your site's easy to navigate? You Think so?

2001-06-04 Thread James Maltby
Kola, as I said earlier - the quickest short cut to this is to download Lynx (text only flavour browser) (http://lynx.browser.org/) - as this will act as a text reader (which is how voice browsers work in effect - they usaully read out from top let across the page to top right, then down a line,

RE: certified CF developer

2001-06-07 Thread James Maltby
Take it now and be grand-fathered into CF 5 when the exam comes out - but you will have to be quick as the deadline is something like July 12 J -Original Message- From: Chang Liu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 07 June 2001 17:16 To: CF-Talk Subject: certified CF developer hi

RE: CFSCHEDULE in background

2001-06-11 Thread James Maltby
There is no way really - unless you upgrade to cf hawaii (5-0h) and use cfflush (or unless you use js to open a remote window that calls the cfschedule page in the background (i.e. under the main window) - then use a close window function at the end of the schdule page - while you also use a

RE: Update Error

2000-11-09 Thread James Maltby
Your error is with #valid# - you've got it setting above (as numeric) while below you have it inserting as text '#valid#' = remove the '' marks and it should work. James "You're a big man, but you're out of shape. I do this for a living, so behave"

RE: Send HTML email through CFMAIL

2000-11-09 Thread James Maltby
Write type="HTML" in your cfmail tag - then between the cfmail tags use your usual html formatting. James "You're a big man, but you're out of shape. I do this for a living, so behave" "Get Carter" 1964 -Original Message- From:

Passing variables into variables?

2000-11-10 Thread James Maltby
OK - here's a hum-dinger for you... How can I pass a variable from one page into another so that it alters part of another variable? e.g. Page1.cfm a href="page2.cfm?var_add=1var=cheese"page two is cheese/a a href="page2.cfm?var_add=2var=milk"page two is milk/a Page2.cfm cfset test_#var_add#

RE: NT to Solaris

2000-12-13 Thread James Maltby
Have you got write permissions for the server? You may also need to chmod the file you are writing - attribute chmod=777 - I think...) James "You're a big man, but you're out of shape. With me it's a full time job. Now behave yourself." "Get Carter" 1964

RE: Amazon using CF

2000-12-15 Thread James Maltby
Amazon used to use CF - Allaire was proud to have them as a client about two years ago - since then they are tried asp,cgi and other such nonsense! James "You're a big man, but you're out of shape. With me it's a full time job. Now behave yourself." "Get

RE: Locking session variables in CF 4.0

2000-12-19 Thread James Maltby
Depending on your use of variables within the site - it may cause "hanging" of sessions variables, when people from the same network access the site. For example, when we created a site in eleven different languages (using session variables set via a log-in) people from the same company where

RE: Server at 100% problem

2001-01-03 Thread James Maltby
It would help to know what servers they are, what other software you have running, what web server is behind CF and if there is any load balancing Jim "You're a big man, but you're out of shape. With me it's a full time job. Now behave yourself." "Get

RE: Server at 100% problem

2001-01-03 Thread James Maltby
e received this email in error please notify the system manager. ** -Original Message- From: James Maltby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 03 January 2001 12:34 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Server at 100% problem It w

RE: Server at 100% problem

2001-01-03 Thread James Maltby
Then I can only suggest doing the following checks... Try checking your log files; sometimes log files are corrupted and as such cause the server to hang when trying to read them... and/or Check bandwidth to specific server by installing stats server to see whether this server's IP is being

Excel and CF

2001-01-04 Thread James Maltby
Does anyone have advise of providing excel spreadsheet output/extraction from an Access database? Website will send collected data into access database and then client requires data to be viewable in an excel format... any ideas cfx tags etc? James "You're a big man, but you're out of shape.

RE: Excel and CF

2001-01-04 Thread James Maltby
response about not downloadig the whole access database. Ta James -Original Message- From: James Maltby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 12:09 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Excel and CF Does anyone have advise of providing excel spreadsheet output/extraction from

RE: Excel and CF

2001-01-04 Thread James Maltby
w the data over the web or just in-house? If the latter, you don't need any CFX tags, MS Office lets you do this easily within Excel. -Original Message- From: James Maltby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 12:09 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Excel and CF Does anyone have advi

RE: a cry out for help

2001-01-04 Thread James Maltby
I'll do in 5 for half the price! ;) James -Original Message- From: Michel Vuijlsteke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 04 January 2001 15:55 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: a cry out for help Sounds straightforward. If I had a contract I could do it in 6 hours :) Michel Vuijlsteke Netpoint

RE: (little OT) MS Word 2000 convert to HTML

2001-01-10 Thread James Maltby
We've written a word 2000 buster cftag - which converts files specifically from word - converts lists, paras, most formatting, etc. but is bespoke for job - our job required that the first line of the word document was bold for example. James -Original Message- From: Eric Dawson

RE: (little OT) MS Word 2000 convert to HTML

2001-01-11 Thread James Maltby
How much a gall earns per minute? -Original Message- From: Aidan Whitehall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 January 2001 10:58 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: (little OT) MS Word 2000 convert to HTML What's a "galldern minute"? -- Aidan Whitehall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Netshopper UK Ltd

RE: Netscape 4.04

2001-01-15 Thread James Maltby
It's mainly a Netscape problem - Dreamweaver solves the problem with this script: script language="JavaScript" !-- function MM_reloadPage(init) { //reloads the window if Nav4 resized if (init==true) with (navigator) {if ((appName=="Netscape")(parseInt(appVersion)==4)) {

RE: SQL Manager

2001-01-16 Thread James Maltby
Looks OK - get a seesion.id error on the nav menu and a "OLEDB Error Code = 137 Must declare the variable '@lolimit'." when viewing contents of SPs though. James "You're a big man, but you're out of shape. With me it's a full time job. Now behave yourself."

RE: Macromedia Coldfusion

2001-01-18 Thread James Maltby
What about MacroFusion or ColdMedia? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 18 January 2001 13:33 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Macromedia Coldfusion But you'll have to admit "Macromedia Coldfusion" is sexier than "Macromedia Confusion" ;-) best, paul

Problems with Studio 4.5.2

2001-01-19 Thread James Maltby
Has anyone come across the problem of not being able to access RDS datasources or add new RDS server in 4.5.2 - all we get is a: Error Loading type library/DLL. Although we can still connect to previously created RDS servers (in 4.5.1) with no problems. James

Studio 4.5.2 error...

2001-01-19 Thread James Maltby
Has anyone come across the problem of not being able to access RDS datasources or add new RDS server in 4.5.2 - all we get is a: Error Loading type library/DLL. Although we can still connect to previously created RDS servers (in 4.5.1) with no problems. James

RE: Breadcrumbs exact location in app.

2001-01-22 Thread James Maltby
You could try our cf_breadcrumb custom tag either at http://devex.allaire.com/developer/gallery/info.cfm?ID=05DEE796-C330-11D4-83 E400508B94F85Amethod=Full or we can send you the latest version (with tag definition files and help files for Cf Studio) James -Original Message- From:

RE: Breadcrumbs exact location in app.

2001-01-22 Thread James Maltby
--Original Message- From: Jim McAtee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 22 January 2001 17:02 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Breadcrumbs exact location in app. James, In your implementation, how is the "trail" passed in to a given template? Thanks, Jim - Original Message - From: &

RE: Netscape error whilst IE is fine

2001-01-23 Thread James Maltby
Are you url encoding your parameters? Spaces in url strings are not passed by Netscape - you have to change spaces into "%20" - also, in Netscape the proper url does not display the page properly - as the table in html is malformed. James -Original Message- From:

RE: . in urls

2001-01-25 Thread James Maltby
A simple get around I guess is to replace the 2 "." with something else before passing it... cfset art = replace(art,".","+","ALL") cfoutputa href="http://servername/index.cfm?art=#art#"link text/a/cfoutput Then on landing page: cfset url.art = replace (url.art,"+",".","ALL") cfoutputwhatever

RE: Setting a timeout on a page

2001-01-25 Thread James Maltby
I think you need to use http://normal.url.code.com/searchpage.cfm?RequestTimeout=1000 or whatever in milliseconds. Might be wrong though James "You're a big man, but you're out of shape. With me it's a full time job. Now behave yourself." "Get Carter" 1964

RE: Continuous Clock

2001-01-25 Thread James Maltby
Java is the only way - and even that is rusty at the best of times - the worst I've seen involved http refresh every second James -Original Message- From: Cami Lawson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 25 January 2001 16:50 To: CF-Talk Subject: Continuous Clock I have a display

Reaching Other Worlds...

2001-02-07 Thread James Maltby
HI - here's a thing - how can you create an automated search index that trawls other sites (e.g. asp and cgi template sites) on a regular basis and updates a local search index? e.g. create local verity collection - create schedule that runs a page - write page with cf code that re-indexes the

RE: Domain Move and Data Integrity

2001-02-27 Thread James Maltby
place a http refer on the old site to redirect everyone to the new site and only update the new one! J "You're a big man, but you're out of shape. With me it's a full time job. Now behave yourself." "Get Carter" 1964 -Original Message- From: river

RE: Domain Move and Data Integrity

2001-02-27 Thread James Maltby
What I meant to say is http refer the old site to the new ip address - which should be live before the DNS updates happen. J -Original Message- From: river [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 27 February 2001 15:29 To: CF-Talk Subject: Domain Move and Data Integrity Little bit off topic,

CF 'n' FLASH problem

2001-03-01 Thread James Maltby
OK - here goes - anyone got a solution to this? Am pulling in a dynamic content page to a menu side bar in a flash.swf I can get most of the fancy stuff to work - but I am having two problems: 1) If there is more than 1 output from the CFOUTPUT tag - I get the VARTXT= variable output before

RE: CF 'n' FLASH problem

2001-03-02 Thread James Maltby
can check out some tutorials at http://www.flashcfm.com/tutorials/ as for you questions i'm not sure i understand what you are saying with question 1. can you be a little more specific? for pulling images into flash you need to place these images in a .swf file and then use the LoadMovie command.

ActionScript Variables from CF

2001-03-05 Thread James Maltby
If anyone understands the following please help! Contents of textfile.cfm: cfparam name="text" default="Some text to display" cfparam name="var" default="image" cfoutputtext=#text#var=#var#/cfoutput Contents of textfile.swf:... loadVariablesNum("textfile.cfm",0); if (var == "image") [

RE: Passing URL Values to An Included Page

2001-03-07 Thread James Maltby
Try setting an "archive" id param in default.cfm (or Application.cfm) such as cfparam name="archive_id" default="" then append the archive_id to the end of you link http://www.carigamer.com/default.cfm?page=news/viewarchived.cfmarchive_id=1 234 Then instead of using "id" within viewarchived.cfm

RE: Broken image links

2001-03-07 Thread James Maltby
Usually Netscape fails where IE works when there are spaces in url names (e.g. img src="gifs/path/image name.gif" would work in IE, but not in Netscape - may also be in the html output code - Netscape is far harder on tables for example - or I may be way way way way off! James "You're a big

OT: Looks like CF wins again!

2001-03-08 Thread James Maltby
If your code was a chicken and it tried to cross the road: HTML 3.2 htmlheadtitleChicken about to cross the road/title/head body background="road.jpg" a href="other_side_of_the_road.htm"img src="chicken.gif" width="10" height="20" border="0" alt="chicken about to cross road"/a /body /html DHTML

RE: Looks like CF wins again!

2001-03-08 Thread James Maltby
'k then ;) CF_Chicken type="humour" action="moves to CF-Community" method="kicked across the road" J ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives:

RE: Anyone else?

2001-03-08 Thread James Maltby
We have experienced two instances (three in a way) where templates/files have gone blank: 1) FTP - newbies sometimes upload files and it only sends the wrapper id and not content - fixed by sacking the newbie ;-) 2) Schedule - sometimes CFSchedule F**ks up a bit and when re-writing html files it

OT: JavaScript undo...

2001-03-08 Thread James Maltby
Does anyone know the JavaScript for "undo" either by function or by placing the ASCII for ctrl+Z I've got a basic "html" adder on a cf chat forum we have built that adds b/b, etc around text in a textarea, but I need an "undo" function that removes the last action or input James

RE: CF substring?

2001-03-09 Thread James Maltby
Go for you life Philip! I agree whole heartedly with your approach, I had to ask someone to "leave" when after two weeks of "coding" for us, someone noticed he was simply creating folders within folders and moving files in and out of them... Another thing folks should use is the Ben Forta

RE: Verity and highlighting keywords

2001-03-09 Thread James Maltby
There is a cool way to do this very thing using a custom tag called CF_HIGHLIGHT - you can get it from TAGs at dev.allaire or I can send you a copy James -Original Message- From: Paul Fraser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 09 March 2001 15:11 To: CF-Talk Subject: Verity and

RE: cfencode.exe (CFCrypt utility)

2001-03-09 Thread James Maltby
You need to do the following: have template.cfm in the same folder as cfencode then write: cfencode template.cfm /v "2" With the spaces James (this will overwrite the original file) -Original Message- From: Paul Fraser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 09 March 2001 15:42 To: CF-Talk

RE: CF Studio 4.5.2 Memory Leak?

2001-03-13 Thread James Maltby
My version of CF Studio 4.5.2 is very touchy - I've had to re-install it three times over the past 3 months, sometimes the RDS does not link and fails completely with a "can't find library" file error, other days the code checker falls over completely, refusing to run - (but if I open the

RE: XML

2001-03-14 Thread James Maltby
It is not that hard to learn, you just need to understand what it does - whereas html (and to an extent) cfml is used to display information and format it for the end user, XML is all about describing information. It is a well formed language used to structure and describe data. It's real power

Using javascript to create an Undo - the return

2001-03-14 Thread James Maltby
Hi - posted this recently but still no resolution: Have a cf forum we have written, with javascript "Word" like buttons that output html for b, i and u in the input textarea - would like to include an "undo" function with acts like ctrl+Z from the keyboard - in that it will remove either the

RE: Using javascript to create an Undo - the return

2001-03-14 Thread James Maltby
Try a javascript list. jon - Original Message - From: "James Maltby" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "CF-Talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 8:37 AM Subject: Using javascript to create an Undo - the return Hi - posted this recently but still no resolution:

RE: development for visually impaired?

2001-03-14 Thread James Maltby
You need to follow the WAI w3c org guidelines http://www.w3.org/WAI/ - also use betsie http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/betsie/ and bobby http://www.cast.org/bobby/ to check your code. HTH James -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 14 March 2001

RE: Using javascript to create an Undo -SOLVED!

2001-03-14 Thread James Maltby
I took a man's advice and went on a javascript mail list (a little scary - not like CF mail lists where everyone is fluffy and huggable) - there a very nice man called "voicebox" sorted my little problem out - so, if anyone wants a working "html" adder (may be handy for update sites or remote

RE: Using javascript to create an Undo -SOLVED!

2001-03-14 Thread James Maltby
Message- From: McAtee, Malcolm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 14 March 2001 18:56 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Using javascript to create an Undo -SOLVED! Can you give me info on the javascript list. TIA malcolm -Original Message- From: James Maltby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: CF Books

2001-03-19 Thread James Maltby
Yoshi - WAKE UP - you've obviously fallen asleep on your "repeat sending email button" - unless there is a problem with the mail server :) J -Original Message- From: Yoshi Melrose [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 19 March 2001 16:16 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CF Books Ben Forta's

RE: incrementer

2001-03-20 Thread James Maltby
It would depend on what database you are writing to: for example if access then use autonumber and make the id the primary key - this will increment automatically for you - if using MS Squirrel then when creating the table choose integer as datatype, untick allow nulls and tick identity -

RE: Newbie question

2001-03-21 Thread James Maltby
This means that you are browsing it in your studio and that you have not created a development mapping to the server you are working from. This can be resolved in two ways, depending on whether you are using a full server or a local version with PWS (or whatever). The key to either is that you

RE: To ASP or not to ASP

2001-03-21 Thread James Maltby
The best way to look at it is using the right tool for the job - ASP is your phillips screwdriver - as long as you have a phillips cross head screw it is great - CF is your flat heat screwdriver - it can do phillips cross head screws, with a little more work, but it is flexible enough to open

RE: Previous date

2001-03-21 Thread James Maltby
You need to set up your own function: cfset yesterday = DateAdd('D',-1,Now()) Yesterday was: cfoutput#DateFormat(yesterday, "mm/dd/yy")#/cfoutput Like so James "The Force is strong in this one..." - Darth Vader -Original Message- From: monika kon [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: To ASP or not to ASP

2001-03-22 Thread James Maltby
Andy - if you've nothing to say on the issue then just don't say it! :) J -Original Message- From: Andy Ewings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 22 March 2001 11:55 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: To ASP or not to ASP --

RE: determine if user is active?

2001-03-23 Thread James Maltby
If you mean what I think you mean - you do know you posted to the CF-Talk and not the bank's complaints email? ;) - then you need to use session or client variables (the former is likely to be more relevant) - you can set a local timeout in your Application.cfm with the following code:

RE: Find position in a list

2001-03-23 Thread James Maltby
vious_number#br Current Number: #current_number#br Next Number: #next_number# /cfoutput You will run into problems with the first and last number in the list but this should give you a start and i'm sure you'll be able to find a workaround. Dennis Baldwin -----Original Message- From: James Maltby [

RE: Find position in a list

2001-03-23 Thread James Maltby
. --Dylan -Original Message- From: Duane Boudreau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 6:34 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Find position in a list Use listFind(list [, delimiter]) HTH, Duane -Original Message- From: James Maltby [mailto: Sent: Friday, March 23

RE: CF pages loading only once

2001-03-27 Thread James Maltby
You may be right there Bob - Jay, try placing the body stuff between noframes/noframes and see if that works J -Original Message- From: Bob Silverberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 27 March 2001 19:08 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CF pages loading only once I may be mistaken about

Replacing ALL url vars with ONE

2001-03-28 Thread James Maltby
I seem to remember about 6 months ago someone talking about "hiding" a range of variables by using one variable that linked to a data table holding the others. Something like replacing: template.cfm?id=xinclude=ymenu=zsound=on with template.cfm?var=1234 Where var called a table holding: id,

Import data to ACCESS

2001-03-30 Thread James Maltby
Here's a dudy for y'all - SCENARIO: current client's website - running on NT4, CF 4.01, Access 97 backend - have come back to us with the following request: They have an Orrible 7 database internally from which they want to export tab delimited (or csv) data (deleted, amended and new records)

RE: Displaying yes/no field dynamically in checkboxes?

2001-04-03 Thread James Maltby
You need to add a cfif sub-clause in your code: e.g. input type="checkbox" name="cabinHottub" value="#cabinHottub#" cfif #cabinHottub# eq "x"checked/cfif Where "x" is the value passed from your database. Try that out James Remember amateurs built the ark... Professionals built the Titanic

RE: Import data to ACCESS

2001-04-05 Thread James Maltby
no offense James, if it has to be csv you could have the csv as an ODBC datasource and loop round in CF to do it. -Original Message----- From: James Maltby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 30 March 2001 11:45 To: CF-Talk Subject: Import data to ACCESS Here's a dudy for y'all - SCENARIO: curren

RE: update

2001-04-05 Thread James Maltby
Insert the data then query the data immediately after the insert statement (use a max count on it) then output the primary key number from the second query James -Original Message- From: Jones, Becky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 05 April 2001 15:28 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE:

RE: update

2001-04-05 Thread James Maltby
Sorry if this seems a little too late - but it has taken over an hour from when I wrote it to when it arrived - Sent 16:12 - received 17:18!!! -Original Message- From: James Maltby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 05 April 2001 16:12 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: update Insert the data

RE: Scheduled tasks using CF

2001-04-06 Thread James Maltby
cfscheduler is renown for being unreliable - we've had two examples of scheduled events working fine on a daily basis for over a year or so, then failing completely - either not running at all, or having to be manually triggered in the administrator, or running but outputting 0kb size files.

RE: brain far

2001-09-05 Thread James Maltby
What type of field is Venue_City_ID? J -Original Message- From: Bruce Sorge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 05 September 2001 14:54 To: CF-Talk Subject: brain far Question, I am having a brain fart. I am entering information into a database, and one of the fields takes in a comma

RE: Checking for NULL

2001-09-06 Thread James Maltby
Depends on your database - some will accept: cfif qQuery.field eq and others will accept cfif qQuery.field eq null HTH J -Original Message- From: Thomas Chiverton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 05 September 2001 15:48 To: CF-Talk Subject: Checking for NULL How do I compare a field

RE: Message Board Threads confusion

2001-09-07 Thread James Maltby
Hi - you need to get your head around topics, threads and posts matey Topics are the top level - e.g. ColdFusion. Threads are the conversations - e.g. Writing a message board in ColdFusion Posts are the messages based around the thread - e.g. Message Board Thread confusion If you ID the

RE: problem with images

2001-09-14 Thread James Maltby
Had a similar problem with cfx_graph recently - got round it by using a java ap instead, but did look into the problem - sometimes the server will lock a file/s in a queue - I created a tool that created a new graph based on variables then updated this as and when, but when you went back to

RE: Apache, Coldfusion, PHP

2001-09-20 Thread James Maltby
Yes it is. J -Original Message- From: P Broussard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20 September 2001 16:38 To: CF-Talk Subject: OT: Apache, Coldfusion, PHP Is it possible to run Coldfusion and PHP with Apache at the same time? TIA Phillip

RE: VSS

2001-09-24 Thread James Maltby
I thought you had to create a project then right-click on the project and choose source control, etc still there in 5 J -Original Message- From: Marlon Moyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 24 September 2001 14:01 To: CF-Talk Subject: VSS I can't seem to find the setting in CF 5

RE: Greeting Card Script

2001-10-04 Thread James Maltby
Why not write your own? All you need is the following pages/database: Back-end: 1. Database with - id/email/name/message/senderemail/sendername/pic_id View: 2. View page - which is populated by a cfquery to database Choose/Send: 3. Page 1 - choose image - thumbnails of card/s - when thumbnails

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