Category Archives: Problems & Fixes

CFEmail – Alternatives for the user

Posted on 02/19/2013 by eSearing

For those times when CFMail Just won’t cooperate, rather than throwing only an error message, give your user a chance to send the email from their own mail client on their PC/device. If CFMail fails the user is provided a … Continue reading →

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Coldfusion bug – dialog box redirects on ok

Posted on 01/11/2013 by eSearing

I had an interesting problem to figure out today. On one of my forms I had a Help icon which the user could click and it would display a dialog box with help. Sometimes the box would just close, other … Continue reading →

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Zen Coding – OMG!

Posted on 01/06/2013 by eSearing

We developers are always looking for tools to improve our process or speed up common tasks. I often save bits of code I reuse in Dreamweaver’s snippets. Today I discovered a plugin/extension which allows even more flexibility and it even … Continue reading →

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MSIE 9 bug – enctype multipart/form-data

Posted on 12/13/2012 by eSearing

Fixing Coldfusion error message Invalid content type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded.The files upload action requires forms to use enctype=””multipart/form-data””. It is a bit misleading since we usually list the enctype. However for MSIE 9 Encoding must be there too. <CFForm action=”somepage.cfm” method=”put”, enctype=”multipart/form-data”, … Continue reading →

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Javascript – checkboxes are checked?

Posted on 11/08/2012 by eSearing

How to Evaluate if Check Boxes are checked when submitting a form. Throws an error if none are checked. Continue reading →

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