Category Archives: Coldfusion

Coldfusion CFC error messages

CFC’s are a wonderful thing in the world of Coldfusion Apps. They allow you append/display information without refreshing the page, deliver realtime queries of data, or display messages when users require guidance. They are wonderful until they break. If you … Continue reading

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Coldfusion Query of Queries to Join two datasets

I had an issue where I needed to join data from two different datasets with out having an ODBC connection created by the admin. I ran the two queries in thier respective databases then used query of queries to join … Continue reading

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CFEmail – Fix

If your link to the SMTP server is occasionally interrupted you will notice that CFEmail will no longer function until CF services are restarted. While reviewing an article by Ben Nadel he mentioned using an alternate SMTP Server such as … Continue reading

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CFINVOKE Passing parameters by using attribute format

Found this useful today: You can pass parameters in the cfinvoke tag as tag attribute name-value pairs, as the following example shows. You can also use a relative path to the CFC. <cfinvoke component=”/path/to/authQuery” method=”getAuthSecure” lastName=”#session.username#” pwd=”#url.password#” /> can also … Continue reading

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CFLocation – URL redirection

There are times when it is handy to redirect to another CFM or page based upon search results. The issue I had this week was due to uninformed users not knowing which option to choose. So at the beginning of … Continue reading

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