Advanced Techniques

Example of cURL in coldfusion
Hello, I was wondering if someone could write a short example of using cURL with Coldfusion? Something like a page grab or a simple log in example. I'm not sure how to even start using these two together. I'm trying to hit a third party company with a request for information that will display for a user w... 19 Apr 2008 07:22

Exporting Data in Excel
Hello, I have un very strange problem. I have created un site with values of products in all European languages. The user can select an language and the system export the result in Excel in the select language. The Data's are saved in a Oracle Database. Until last friday morning, all functions very well. S... 7 Apr 2008 10:56

ARB PHP Sample Code SOAP Exception
thank you so much for this excellent post. problem solved!!! i was wondering where you got the xml stream. i tried writing a few objects or uncommenting some test lines, but is there a way to write the xml object somewhere to see what it is that's malformed? the original error i was receiving on the test code... 6 Apr 2008 20:59

CFDIRECTORY - filtering images
I have a personals web site where the database has a field indicating the gender of a member; 1 for male, 2 for female. How can I get a list of all images using cfdirectory of only the men, or only the women? Thanks! ... 7 Apr 2008 09:52

Multiple CFIF's
Not sure how best to achieve this without adding a further cfquery into the page, which I'd like to avoid doing if possible. I have a standard login page, which sets some session variables. However some pages can also be viewed without logging in. One of these pages has a 'watch list' feature, and I basical... 6 Apr 2008 22:37

Website Statistics in Coldfusion
In the past I have been using sites such as sitemeter.com and other free statistics sites to help me monitor site usage. I am now working on a way to do this all via coldfusion and some code that is processed at the end of each request. My reason for wanting to do this in coldfusion is that I can then track t... 5 Apr 2008 22:12

ImageResize Off by 1px
Just an update. The issue is now included in the Known Issues section of the Release notes for the recent ColdFusion 8 Update 1. 70069 Sometimes the ImageResize function produces an image 1 pixel shorter or narrower than the requested size. The image does resize properly if you specify bicubic, bilinear, ... 5 Apr 2008 10:58

Cfscheduler does not trigger
I have a daily scheduled task to backup up databases to a remote ftp site. The scheduled backup runs once at the scheduled time (after the task is initiated or reinitiated) and then never runs again. The scheduler.log, coldfusion.log and application.log make no mention of even having attempted to run the task o... 21 Apr 2008 01:08

what is the best format for urls when it comes toseo
I do not see any differences for options 2,3,4,5. We have also something like following in same projects and works as expected. www.abc.com/index.cfm/car-parts/fuel-systems/1234 ... 4 Apr 2008 19:41

what is the best format for urls when it comes to seo
Hi guys I?m building a site from the ground up, and today I am looking at the link structure. Which is the best out of these would you say? ? or is there a better option? Option 1: www.abc.com/somepage.cfm?productid=1234 - this is how our urls will look natively, not ideal. Option 2: www.abc.co... 4 Apr 2008 10:07