Questions tagged [coldfusion-8]

For issues relating to using ColdFusion, version 8.

ColdFusion is a server-side rapid application development platform, from Adobe. ColdFusion 8 new features include

  • Built in AJAX for various UI elements. This is based ext-js
  • Exchange support
  • RSS
  • ZIP files
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Am I using J2EE or ColdFusion session variables?

Is there anyway in your code to specify using J2EE session management instead of ColdFusion session management or is it controlled completely through the ColdFusion administrator? Also, what problems might arise if you turn off J2EE session…
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How can I put names into title case in JavaScript?

I've been looking around on how to use JavaScript to set names to proper case, e.g. george mchall would become George McHall. I was able to find a write up on Codeproject on how to do this, as well as a person that intended it to do this: function…
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Error with Decrypt for "Could not perform unpadding: invalid pad byte.."

Using CF8 and MySQL 5.1, I am trying to encrypt() a password upon creation and then decrypt() at login. I can get the decrypt() to work fine on a test page but when I put it in a cfincluded page with cflogin I get the error "An error occurred while…
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ColdFusion debugging problem in Eclipse (Break points not hit)

I am trying to get the debugger (CF extension for Eclipse) working for last few hours. And struck in strange situation. My settings are listed below ColdFusion 8 Eclipse 3.4 I set up the RDS & modified the JVM.config settings and verified the…
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Insert a Coldfusion struct into a database

If I wanted to save a contact form submission to the database, how can I insert the form scope in as the submission? It's been some time since I used Coldfusion. The contact forms vary depending on what part of the site it was submitted from, so it…
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Store uploaded files information into database?

I am using fine uploader drag and drop feature to upload multiple images. So i have requirement to maintain few information regarding uploaded images into database: Create two different size images (thumbs,larger ) and original. - (work well…
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cffeed causing errors

Our web admins applied some hotfixes (don't know which ones) over the weekend and it seems to have killed . The error we get is below. We have the tag inside of a but it still produces the error. Any thoughts on what would…
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Cfhttp result struct behaves as if null in CF8?

I'm trying to do some sanitation on the results of a call to Facebook but Coldfusion is telling me that the variable is null: FILECONTENT null
The error occurred on line 66. Here's the line that causes the error:
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Using cfif in coldfusion

For example, please consider the following code snippet: Scenario 1: The company name I received as a part of SOAP response is as follows: Amazon, Inc Scenario 2: Another company name I received as a part of SOAP response is as…
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correct use of the cflock tag ColdFusion

I know the correct way of using is quite a large topic of conversation on the www for cf developers. As I'm trying to understand it a little bit better, I've got a simple UDF I've created which takes in a session array and I'm wondering…
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Having to use 'this' scope with OnMissingMethod in extended class

I am hoping that someone can explain this behavior, as I find it pretty aggravating. I have a parent class with an OnMissingMethod implementation to provide implicit getters/setters (old CF8 application) if I instantiate the child class as foo and…
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For a ColdFusion cfqueryparam which CFSQLType do you use for TEXT?

So if I have a cfqueryparam, and the datatype in SQL is TEXT, which of the CFSQLTypes do I use? Or do I follow the below link about uniqueidentifiers? Or is it just better to change the datatype to varchar/longvarchar? cfqueryparam documentation…
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Why does Coldfusion evaluate these numbers to not be equal?

Why does coldfusion 8 evaluate 47.0000 * 15.40 eq 723.8 as false? Test is output as false.
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X-XSS-Protection prevention not working

IE is modifying my pages and puts # automatically to the hyperlinks when I redirect a page via JavaScript. Here is the message I am seeing: Internet Explorer has modified this page to help prevent cross-site scripting. Click here for more…
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CFDocument and high ASCII?

I have a little script that creates a PDF using to write a PDF. It looks something like this (minimalized code): When my data includes high ASCII chars like ☐ (☑) I…
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