Monthly Archives: May 2010

CFTextArea richtext editor – Bugs and Fixes

Posted on 05/31/2010 by eSearing

Yesterday I wrote about the cool rich text editor available in CF8 (aka FCKeditor). It was all working swimmingly until this morning. Suddenly the editor would not display on my screen. If I removed the richtext=”yes” I would get the … Continue reading →

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CFTextArea richtext editor

Posted on 05/30/2010 by eSearing

I am toying with a new application that lets folks collaborate on a document online. Kind of like Basecamp’s write board but perhaps not as dynamic. I needed to build a form with a rich text editor to let the … Continue reading →

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Coldfusion Email Application

Posted on 05/28/2010 by eSearing

I created a simple contact form using coldfusion CFORM and CFMAIL tag. The form gathers all the elements needed for the CFMail tag area and once submitted displays either a success or error message. I used Coldfusions built in form … Continue reading →

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CFMail Tracker – Application

Posted on 05/27/2010 by eSearing

Seems like CFMail goes wonky every once in a while and decides not to work. The administrators always blame it on too much mail for the server to handle. So I decided to call them on their “theory” and build … Continue reading →

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CFOUTPUT and Array result sets

Posted on 05/25/2010 by eSearing

Imagine you have a query that returns a few results like Product Categories sold for a given period. You might have a query like: <cfquery name=”myQ” datasource=”myDSN”> select distinct category from sales order by category. </cfquery> Your results might look … Continue reading →

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