EasyCFM.COM Tutorials

Inserting data into a database

webmaster@easycfm.com (Pablo Varando) — Thu, 01 Aug 2002 20:47:00 EST

This tutorial will show you how to insert data into a database, then have that information emailed to you and the person submitting the data.

Retrieving Records From a Database

webmaster@easycfm.com (Pablo Varando) — Sat, 03 Aug 2002 21:14:00 EST

This is the basics of ColdFusion. This tutorial will demonstrate how to query a database and then display the records found.

Having Your Database Do The Work not ColdFusion

webmaster@easycfm.com (Pablo Varando) — Thu, 08 Aug 2002 21:18:00 EST

This tutorial will demonstrate how you can use the functions that come built in on your database to do the work, instead of doing the work in your code the hard way!

A Simple Contact Us Page

webmaster@easycfm.com (Pablo Varando) — Tue, 13 Aug 2002 21:21:00 EST

Learn how to create a contact page in ColdFusion.

DSNLess Coldfusion

webmaster@easycfm.com (Pablo Varando) — Fri, 16 Aug 2002 21:23:00 EST

Learn how to create database connection, by skipping the old ODBC connections with ColdFusion.

Creating a Quick and Dirty Hit Counter

mailto:michael@teratech.com (Michael Smith) — Mon, 19 Aug 2002 19:32:48 EST

Learn how to Create a quick and dirty hit counter.

Creating a user athentication Login area

webmaster@easycfm.com (Pablo Varando) — Mon, 19 Aug 2002 20:26:54 EST

This tutorial will demonstrate how you can create a "member's only" area. It will show you how to log them in and how to check that they are logged in.

User Defined Functions

webmaster@easycfm.com (Pablo Varando) — Wed, 21 Aug 2002 15:31:37 EST

Learn how to use User-Defined Functions in ColdFusion 5.0.

Validating Form Input With Regular Expressions

carehart@systemanage.com (Charles Arehart) — Sat, 24 Aug 2002 16:16:00 EST

CF5 has added a trick for form validation based on regular expressions that many have missed. If you've ever wanted to validate form input such as email addresses and phone numbers, but have found the built-in validations of CFFORM to be lacking, here's a solution. And you don't need to be a genius with Regular Expressions to start using it.

Multiple dynamic dropdown selection boxes

mcorbridge@smoothlink.com (Mike Corbridge) — Sun, 25 Aug 2002 14:11:43 EST

This code allows the user to dynamically populate the contents of a select box based on a selection from a previous select box.

Count Active Users On Your Site

webmaster@easycfm.com (Pablo Varando) — Sun, 25 Aug 2002 14:38:38 EST

Have you ever wanted to display a count of how many people are on your web site at any given moment? This tutorial will demonstrate to you how to achieve just that. It will count your web site's active sessions and allow you to display them to your visitors.

Create a WORD Document with ColdFusion

dainanderson@nc.rr.com (Dain Anderson) — Sun, 25 Aug 2002 14:52:26 EST

This tutorial will demonstrate how you can use ColdFusion and COM Objects to create a Word Document.

Creating a Newsletter System

webmaster@easycfm.com (Pablo Varando) — Fri, 06 Sep 2002 18:22:11 EST

This tutorial will show you how to create a fully automated system to allow visitors to subscribe and unsubscribe to your newsletter, and for administrators to send out a newsletter to all the registered users.

A brief demonstration of Fusebox 20

webmaster@easycfm.com (Pablo Varando) — Fri, 06 Sep 2002 21:54:36 EST

This is a brief demonstration on how to use Fusebox 2.0 Methodology.

A quick intro into the world of Custom Tags

webmaster@easycfm.com (Pablo Varando) — Fri, 06 Sep 2002 23:44:58 EST

The following tutorial will briefly touch over Custom Tags and show you what they are, how you use them, and how they benfit you by using them.

Using Query String Values

webmaster@easycfm.com (Pablo Varando) — Sun, 15 Sep 2002 04:09:00 EST

This tutorial will demonstrate how to use query string values instead of form values.

Previous Next n Records

webmaster@easycfm.com (Pablo Varando) — Tue, 17 Sep 2002 09:21:02 EST

This tutorial demonstrate how to implement "Previous" & "Next" into your existing results page.

The CFAPPLICATION tag and Session variables

jbartlett@strangejourney.net (John Bartlett) — Tue, 17 Sep 2002 09:31:13 EST

In order to use session variables, first you have to instruct the Cold Fusion server that you wish to use them. Here's a tutorial on how to do just that!

Alternating Row Colors

webmaster@easycfm.com (Pablo Varando) — Tue, 17 Sep 2002 21:55:14 EST

This tutorial will demonstrate how to alternate row colors when outputing your data.

Using PayPals IPN with ColdFusion

webmaster@easycfm.com (Pablo Varando) — Wed, 25 Sep 2002 23:02:05 EST

This tutorial will demonstrate how to implement the PayPal IPN (Instant Payment Notification) into your e-commerce applications to accept credit cards in real time!

Clearing your session variables

webmaster@easycfm.com (Pablo Varando) — Fri, 04 Oct 2002 01:10:24 EST

This tutorial will demonstrate how to clear your applications sessions variables with just three lines of code!

ColdFusion and INI Files

webmaster@easycfm.com (Pablo Varando) — Fri, 04 Oct 2002 06:21:20 EST

This tutorial will demonstrate how to use .INI files with ColdFusion. Perfect for users wishing to create administration areas for existing software titles that are INI file driven (i.e. FTP Servers).

Getting Data Into Flash With ColdFusion

dennis@flashcfm.com (Dennis Baldwin) — Wed, 09 Oct 2002 11:08:20 EST

More and more developers are becoming aware of creating dynamic applications with Flash and Cold Fusion. Now the question is, "How do I get external data into my Flash movie and what are my options?". There is not one simple answer to this question since there are a few ways to accomplish this.

Sending multiple attachments with CFMAIL

webmaster@easycfm.com (Pablo Varando) — Fri, 11 Oct 2002 15:49:31 EST

This tutorial will demonstrate how to send out multiple attachments with .

Creating Altering and Deleting database tables with ColdFusion

webmaster@easycfm.com (Pablo Varando) — Mon, 14 Oct 2002 08:24:14 EST

This tutorial will show you how to create, modify and delete database tables easily with ColdFusion.

Inserting FORM data into multiple database tables

webmaster@easycfm.com (Pablo Varando) — Tue, 15 Oct 2002 08:45:28 EST

This tutorial will demonstrate how you can use one form a user fills out to insert into multiple database tables.

Implementing FORM Error Checking On Your Pages

webmaster@easycfm.com (Pablo Varando) — Wed, 16 Oct 2002 10:22:25 EST

This tutorial will show you two two ways you can implement error checking, to ensure that your users are actually entering the required fields on your forms!

Automatically adding CF comments in blank document

emyers@capital.edu (Eric G. Myers) — Wed, 16 Oct 2002 13:31:22 EST

All the books on CF tell you to comment your code. And yet, when you create a new CF file in Dreamweaver MX, you have to add the standard comments manually every time. Not anymore!

Using Arrays in ColdFusion To Properly Display Data

webmaster@easycfm.com (Pablo Varando) — Mon, 28 Oct 2002 15:32:04 EST

This tutorial will show you how to use arrays to display data properly in ColdFusion.

Automatically Adding Smiles To Your Messages

webmaster@easycfm.com (Pablo Varando) — Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:28:18 EST

This tutorial will show you how you can add smiles to your messages on the fly!

Reading your IIS Log Files with ColdFusion

webmaster@easycfm.com (Pablo Varando) — Mon, 04 Nov 2002 15:50:43 EST

This tutorial will show you how you can parse through your IIS (web server) log files and insert the values into a database, therefore allowin you to display real-time stats to your visitors (i.e hits this week, etc..)

Using CFRegistry to Add Your IP To CF Debug IP List

webmaster@easycfm.com (Pablo Varando) — Wed, 06 Nov 2002 21:52:17 EST

This tutorial is intended to show you how to use the ColdFusion tag . This tutorial will show you how to add your current IP to the IP Debug List in the ColdFusion Administrator.

Using ltCFPOP and creating an email client for POP3 Email Reading

webmaster@easycfm.com (Pablo Varando) — Thu, 07 Nov 2002 21:45:44 EST

This tutorial will show you how to create a mail system for your site. It will allow you to get your email from a POP3 server, view your inbox, then view the message (with attachments), reply and delete that message as well.

Send Page Url to A Friend

rez_productions@ideaz.ca (Redmanz) — Sat, 23 Nov 2002 07:58:33 EST

A simple script where a user can click a link that will take the current templates url and pass it to a email form which they can than fill in with their friends emails addresses to send their friends your site address.

Advanced Form Checking

redmanz55@hotmail.com (Redmanz) — Tue, 26 Nov 2002 16:50:47 EST

This tutorial places the submitted form values into a session, than error checks them. If there is an error it will show the form again with the previous values the user entered pre-entered in the form. It will also tell the user which form fields had errors in them.

Advance uses of CFMAIL and CFMAILPARAM

mail@thebluefrogcompany.net (Andy Jarrett) — Tue, 26 Nov 2002 19:43:32 EST

Make your email messages stick out in the users inbox with barely any effort

Changing site color scheme

apletfx@saber.net (Mark Aplet) — Fri, 29 Nov 2002 16:53:28 EST

Add some personalization to your pages by letting the user pick their own color scheme. It's really quite simple and the benifits are awsome. This tutorial shows you how to set up your pages to use a dynamicly included scheme. It will also show you how to create all the pages neccessary to administer the color schemes.

Dynamic Sorting

rez_productions@ideaz.ca (Redmanz) — Thu, 05 Dec 2002 23:10:18 EST

This tutorial shows the basics of allowing your end-users to dynamically sort the order in which they view your records. You can have as many sort orders as you have fields viewed!

Dynamic Image Gallery

nyghtfal@hotmail.com (D Evans) — Sun, 08 Dec 2002 13:56:15 EST

You will be shown how to display the images in the desired number of columns and desired number of records per page with minimal coding. When the thumbnail image is clicked on it will open another window with the large image and image description under it.

Duplicate Data Checking

rez_productions@ideaz.ca (Redmanz) — Mon, 09 Dec 2002 09:57:58 EST

This tutorial uses a opt-in mailing list as an example. After the end-user enters their information the information goes to an action page which checks to see if the users email address already exists in the database. If it exists it lets them know and will not enter the duplicate data, if it does not exist it enters them into the mailing list.

Trouble Shooting Cookies that work for you One Possibility

nyghtfal@hotmail.com (Deborah Evans) — Mon, 09 Dec 2002 12:02:34 EST

I had had created a login that used cookies to give access to an area of the web site. The owner of the web site could not login to the area using Windows NT, but upon testing I could always login with my windows 98 system. I could not figure out why the NT system would not login, but I could. It seemed to be a coding error by the site owner, since other sites could be logged in to. Some time later I stumbled upon the answer.

Recordset Paging in Cold Fusion

jimsummer@tentonweb.com (Jim Summer) — Mon, 09 Dec 2002 13:30:51 EST

This will pull a predefined number of records from a database, allow the user to change the number of records to be shown, and write the "NEXT" or "BACK" (or both) buttons at the bottom of the page. Thus allowing the user to "surf" through the database. See it in action at http://freecfm.com/t/tentonhead/ and click on the "CTCS" link when you get there. The HTML for this page has changed a little since I first did this (so it validates as XHTML1.1) but the CFML remains as it is in this snippet.

Database Dates between ranges

jimsummer@tentonweb.com (Jim Summer) — Mon, 09 Dec 2002 14:31:04 EST

This deals with database dates: (1)inserting a properly formatted date into the database, and then (2)pulling a query from the database between a date range defined by 2 text boxes.

Aliasing Your SQL Statements

jimsummer@tentonweb.com (Jim Summer) — Tue, 10 Dec 2002 23:20:18 EST

Many developers I have talked to are not aware of the ability to create an "alias" in an SQL statement, concatenate, and even add strings into your SQL statements. A little work up front in the SQL can cut out a lot of tedious coding in the tag.

Frameless Frames in CF

nyghtfal@clearshot.net (D Evans) — Wed, 11 Dec 2002 09:19:40 EST

The appeal of frames and the continued use is -- to leave one constant item on a part of the page. However clever, they are a pain to code, setting targets and defining the columns and then there that scroll bar thing. Here is an easy way to create the illusion of frames on your page.

Navigation as an include file

jimsummer@tentonweb.com (Jim Summer) — Thu, 12 Dec 2002 10:00:51 EST

Create an include file (custom tag) for your navigation to help make maintenance easier! This include file lights up the button depending on where the user is at in your website, and is XHTML 1.1 validated! If you need to edit your navigation, just do it in 1 place, the include file! Javascript included :)

Creating Relationships with ColdFusion

dearohdear@hotmail.com (Alex Allen-Turl) — Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:13:02 EST

This tutorial shows how you create Relationships between tables to speed up queries and decrease the overall size of the database

Replacing enter key with ltbr tag

jimsummer@tentonweb.com (Jim Summer) — Fri, 13 Dec 2002 13:08:41 EST

This little piece of code will transform those pesky "enter" keys in a textarea into "
" tags so your users input is printed out properly in your html page.

Guest Book Part 1 2

rez_productions@ideaz.ca (Redmanz) — Fri, 13 Dec 2002 17:07:53 EST

This Guestbook is part one of a two part tutorial. This part deals with the guest book itself the second part will build a administration area for this guestbook. The guest book submits to two tables in a mySql database the first table being for the actual guest book display template and the second table to be used for an opt-in mailing list.

Checking for submitted form fields

nyghtfal@hotmail.com (D Evans) — Fri, 13 Dec 2002 19:15:36 EST

This sets all of the submitted form fields and values into a list then loops through the list of fields and values.

Make a generic email form processor

nyghtfal@hotmail.com (D Evans) — Fri, 13 Dec 2002 19:21:25 EST

This code will process any form submitted and email the submitted form fields excluding the submit, the redirect, the hidden, and the required fields; to the designated recipient.

Count Down

TheAmazingRhino@hotmail.com (Rhino) — Fri, 13 Dec 2002 22:46:18 EST

Easy CFM file that counts down from a distant date to the present. Can show how many days, months, or years.

IP checker

TheAmazingRhino@hotmail.com (Rhino) — Fri, 13 Dec 2002 22:56:03 EST

Checks to see where the user came from and then decides where to send them.

Auto Event Emailer

TheAmazingRhino@hotmail.com (Rhino) — Fri, 13 Dec 2002 23:12:25 EST

Queries the database everyday and sends an email automatically when certain events happen.

Creating Databases in MS SQL2000

dearohdear@hotmail.com (Alex Allen-Turl) — Sun, 15 Dec 2002 13:22:18 EST

How to get your Data into MS SQL2000 and interface with Coldfusion in 34 Easy Steps!

Print your web pages on the fly

webmaster@easycfm.com (Pablo Varando) — Sun, 15 Dec 2002 15:06:21 EST

This tutorial will demonstrate how use ColdFusion, Javascript and Style sheets to create the perfect Printing Machine! ;)

Securing Your Dynamic Applications With CFLOGIN

KBridges@collectamerica.com (Kevin Bridges) — Tue, 17 Dec 2002 15:58:48 EST

MX based view of secuirty ... contains components and infrastructure to support/manage users from both admin and user perspectives as well as an in-depth look at securing your apps at the application level, page level, and data level.

Simple dynamic calendar

dave@siles.com (David Siles) — Tue, 17 Dec 2002 17:11:25 EST

Simple and effective code to output an endlessly dynamic calendar using just basic ColdFusion functions

Creating a Link Management System

dearohdear@hotmail.com (Alex Allen-Turl) — Tue, 17 Dec 2002 18:04:09 EST

This quick tutorial, shows you how to creat a Link system, that will count the amount of hits that your links create.

Creating a Voting System

dearohdear@hotmail.com (Alex Allen-Turl) — Sat, 21 Dec 2002 10:08:46 EST

This is a very quick tutorial on how to create a voting system for page relavances and other such things from a scale of 1 to 5!

Easy automatic debugging

nathan@nmconsulting.us (Nathan Miller) — Sat, 21 Dec 2002 11:48:18 EST

Extend the use of the new tag in CF5 to display any and all ColdFusion and CGI variables.

Guest Book Part 2 2

rez_productions@ideaz.ca (Redmanz) — Sat, 21 Dec 2002 19:21:16 EST

This is part two of my guestbook tutorial, in part one we created the actual guestbook. In this part we will now look at creating an administration area for our guestbook. In this admin area we will be able to edit and delete guestbook entries as well as add or delete administrators.

Creating Dynamic Image Galleries

dearohdear@hotmail.com (Alex Allen-Turl) — Tue, 24 Dec 2002 15:17:22 EST

A tutorial showing you how you can upload one Full sized picture, and have a thumbnail automatically created for you, along with descriptions of the image!

Creating Dynamic Bar Charts

dearohdear@hotmail.com (Alex Allen-Turl) — Tue, 24 Dec 2002 15:18:49 EST

A tutorial showing you how you can create a dynamic bar chart!

The Easiest Way to make a form

dearohdear@hotmail.com (Alex Allen-Turl) — Tue, 24 Dec 2002 18:16:07 EST

This is by far the most easiest and simplest way to make a form and update it to the database, very low maintenance and very very quick!!

Creating an ODBC Connection within ColdFusion MX Server

webmaster@easycfm.com (Pablo Varando) — Mon, 06 Jan 2003 04:18:21 EST

This tutorial will show you how to create an ODBC (Database) connection from within your ColdFusion MX Administration Area.

Writing your first custom tag

RJBailey@Tampabay.rr.com (Robert Bailey) — Mon, 06 Jan 2003 13:24:58 EST

A step by step guide on writing your first custom tag

Changing the Developer Edition IP Address

ian@defusionx.com (Ian Winter) — Wed, 08 Jan 2003 04:10:34 EST

This article gives background and instructions on how to change the IP used in the Developer Edition of both CF5 & MX. You can link through to my site at www.defusionx.com

Writing CFCs and Web Services

RJBailey@Tampabay.rr.com (Robert Bailey) — Wed, 15 Jan 2003 15:58:40 EST

This will help you understand what a CFC and a web service is, and get you started on writing your own

Introduction to Stored Procedures

RJBailey@Tampabay.rr.com (Robert Bailey) — Fri, 17 Jan 2003 19:13:05 EST

This will help you get started on writing stored procedures. A good place to start and understand how they are written.

CFSCRIPT Intro

charlie@griefer.com (Charlie Griefer (CJ)) — Sat, 18 Jan 2003 17:59:09 EST

An introductory look at CFSCRIPT. Rules, some basic syntax, and a couple of examples of loops and conditional processing.

Adding an indexed Search to your site Part 1

apletfx@saber.net (Mark Aplet) — Sat, 01 Feb 2003 05:00:00 EST

It is very easy to set up and create a professional search function much like a real search engine. Use Verity Collections and the tag to create fast search forms for your web sites.

Interacting Flash with Cold Fusion Insert Data

i_netmaster@hotmail.com (Marcos Placon�) — Mon, 03 Feb 2003 18:07:24 EST

This tutorial will allow you to interact Cold Fusion with Flash, by using a simple language into flash. Creating an insertion data form.

CaSe SensitiVe password logins

webmaster@easycfm.com (Pablo Varando) — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 17:52:11 EST

This tutorial will demonstrate how to verify users passwords to be CaSe SensiTive so add another layer of security to your applications!

SE Friendly URLs

phil@webmasteredge.com (Phil Williams) — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 14:01:37 EST

Get the search engines to really dig deep into your site by replacing the ? and & in your dynamic URL's with /. Tricks the SE bot into thinking it's a regular folder and eats up your content!

Flash Remoting in 10 minutes

marcus@diariesofwar.com (Marcus J. Dickinson) — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 14:20:11 EST

A quick look at how fast and easy Flash Remoting is to use.

Show Source to Friends

rez_productions@ideaz.ca (Redmanz) — Tue, 18 Feb 2003 10:27:55 EST

Not really a tutorial but some code to help you solve programming problems by showing your code online to your friends or associates.

Shout Box LIVE

admin@xp-resources.com (Drew Tempelmeyer) — Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:18:01 EST

Ever want a place where people can chat or post their opinions? Ever heard of a shout box? This tutorial will give you an easy example of having a shout box on your site.

In Search of Dynamic Dependent Lists

megan@aracnet.com (Megan Garrison) — Mon, 24 Feb 2003 14:31:55 EST

Example of how to dynamically populate a drop-down list from database tables based on a selection in another drop-down list.

Automatically Determine URL and File Path of Application

peter@digital-crew.com (Peter Coppinger) — Thu, 06 Mar 2003 06:15:48 EST

A handy timesaver - Automatically determine the URL and file path to the root of any application, this allows you to easily transfer sites from development to production servers without having to modify settings.

Easy XML creation in 2 minutes

i_netmaster@hotmail.com (Marcos Placon�) — Thu, 06 Mar 2003 20:41:40 EST

This tutorial describes the easy application of the tag CFXML to creates XML documents. It helps a lot to integrate XML to your sites

Combining two queries into one

webmaster@easycfm.com (Pablo Varando) — Mon, 10 Mar 2003 23:54:56 EST

This tutorial will demonstrate how to create a query from two different queries based from two separate datasources. This is the easiest way to combine your data.

Preventing People From Leeching Your Images

webmaster@easycfm.com (Pablo Varando) — Fri, 14 Mar 2003 07:19:15 EST

This tutorial will show you how to load your images from an actual .cfm page. Therefore, allowing you to prevent people from using your content on their web sites.

Customer Complaint System

chris.mcintosh@haysrpc.com (chris mcintosh) — Sun, 23 Mar 2003 11:59:28 EST

this is just a customer complaint tracking system i put together with coldfusion. i got alot of help from easycfm.com so i figured i would get back with an app. its using an access database to store usernames and passwords. did all of the login authentication code myself because my damn server behaviors were not taking. copy the dbase somewhere and use the HCCTS datasource name enjoy

Calculating imag size

webmaster@cfdeveloper.co.uk (Russ Michaels) — Mon, 31 Mar 2003 10:11:50 EST

Ever wanetd to know the size of an uploaded image so that you can store in the database, or check if it falls into allowed sizes etc.

Have web site errors emailed to you

jason@rockenbach.net (Jason Rockenbach) — Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:12:11 EST

This tutorial will allow you to enable sitewide error handling with CFERROR. Look like a real professional and display your own custom error page when an error has occurred, instead of the default Cold Fusion page. Not only that, once the error page has been displayed, the details of the error will be automatically emailed to you.

Dynamic Template Delivery DTD in FB3 Fusebox 3 and as a CFC

rbayly@baylyconsulting.com (Ray Bayly) — Thu, 03 Apr 2003 12:01:06 EST

This tutorial will demonstrate how to speed up development and simply your life by using template delivery in FuseBox and CFC's.

Get A Folder Size Using ColdFusion and FSO

webmaster@easycfm.com (Pablo Varando) — Tue, 08 Apr 2003 17:40:47 EST

This tutorial will demonstrate how you can get the size of a folder (and sub folders) using ColdFusion and Windows File System Object (FSO).

Password encryption for increased security using keys

peter@coldgen.com (Peter Tilbrook) — Mon, 14 Apr 2003 02:22:19 EST

You might have already noticed that even database servers like Microsoft's SQL Server 2000 have no method of hiding even password fields from prying eyes. Instead passwords are stored as plain text. Not good. Even Microsoft Access provides a way to mask fileds you would prefer not to be easily read. Not so SQL Server - and probably quite a few other database servers suffer the same issue. This is easily rectified however using two handy functions built-in to ColdFusion, from at at least version 5.0 and above (I think they were in 4.x also). I've developed the following code using CFMX updated 3.

Display random images each time a page loads or is refreshed

rbemiller@pushcode.com (Ryan BeMiller) — Tue, 22 Apr 2003 12:53:53 EST

This tutorial will show you how easy it is to display an unlimited number of images randomly on your pages. Each time a page is loaded or refreshed a random image will load.

WHOIS Search

admin@xp-resources.com (Drew Tempelmeyer) — Sun, 27 Apr 2003 20:19:01 EST

This will show you how to make a simple WHOIS search that can be easily added to any site.

Getting Live HalfLife Stats From ColdFusion

webmaster@intrafoundation.com (Lewis Sellers) — Wed, 30 Apr 2003 05:27:39 EST

Tutorial that goes into more depth than you really want to know about using ColdFusion to get live game stats from any Half-Life/Counter-Strike game server for your website.

RMA on RIA

grover.fields@revorg.net (Grover Fields) — Wed, 30 Apr 2003 21:33:23 EST

This tutorial shows you how to serve banner ads directly into Rich Internet Applications. With the evolution of Macromedia Central, now is the time for companies to receive Return on Investment on Rich Internet Applications

File Upload Size Checker

info@neofactor.com (David McIntosh) — Mon, 05 May 2003 16:39:44 EST

When you allow file uploading... Set a File Max Size and reject the file if it is too large. Others will check it after it is uploaded.. then deletes it if too large.. but not this... it won't let them even upload a single bit... if it is too large!

Adding an indexed Search to your site Part 2

apletfx@saber.net (Mark Aplet) — Mon, 05 May 2003 22:08:14 EST

The long overdue part two of adding a verity search function. This part demonstrates how to index the information in your database so that it becomes usefull too.

What version of CFMX is my host running

peter@coldgen.com (Peter Tilbrook) — Wed, 07 May 2003 21:42:32 EST

As of writing this there are four flavours of CFMX, for Windows at least, floating about. You may know what version YOU are running but what about your hosting provider? Run the code below to find out.

Creating a Chat System in ColdFusion without using a database

chrisatt_@hotmail.com (Chris A.) — Sat, 10 May 2003 17:27:05 EST

Have you ever wanted to have your own chat room? This tutorial will help you have one, but the best thing about this tutorial is that you will not need to use any type of database!

Do you want to remember your members

webmaster@easycfm.com (Pablo Varando) — Tue, 13 May 2003 07:08:21 EST

This tutorial will show you how to you can provide your members with the ability to save their username and password into memory, so they dont have to type it in everytime the want to log in to your web site.

Flash Remoting in over Ten Minutes

marcus@diariesofwar.com (Marcus J. Dickinson) — Wed, 14 May 2003 10:49:27 EST

Well, we have covered the basics. Let's continue the series and explore many of the options available to us in SQL. Then, in future tutorials, we can cover error handling and more advanced functionality.

SlideShow Revisited

marcus@diariesofwar.com (Marcus J. Dickinson) — Wed, 14 May 2003 16:32:24 EST

Going back to the beginning. Our first tutorial "Flash Remoting in under Ten Minutes" isn't as efficient as it could be. This time round, we cut out 60% of the code, including the database!!!

Using an image as a Data Pipe Example creates editable data grid

aadams@cfxchange.com (Abram Adams) — Thu, 15 May 2003 14:21:31 EST

Have you ever wanted to accomplish server side tasks without ever leaving the current page? I'm not talking hidden frames, I'm talking about using JavaScript to process cfm templates without ever leaving the page!

Simple Regular Expressions

paul@pjnetsolutions.com (Paul Johnston) — Fri, 16 May 2003 11:10:23 EST

It's a first in a three part tutorial on Regular Expressions, what they are, simple uses for them and also a test at the end. It goes through simple matching, start and end of strings, grouping and the | (OR) operator.

9 Day Weather Forecast

admin@xp-resources.com (Drew Tempelmeyer) — Fri, 16 May 2003 23:19:27 EST

This will retrieve the 9 day weather forecast for the specified ZIP code.

Automatically build a FORM using SQL Server system tables

nathan@nmconsulting.us (Nathan Miller) — Mon, 19 May 2003 14:46:12 EST

Use SQL server's system tables to automatically create a form to insert data into your database.

The better way to handle session variables

nathan@nmconsulting.us (Nathan Miller) — Mon, 19 May 2003 16:42:51 EST

You can use these simple loops in place of many lines of code to clear out or delete session variables

Scope your variables

nathan@nmconsulting.us (Nathan Miller) — Mon, 19 May 2003 17:28:13 EST

Increase performace and readability by always scoping your variables

Create dynamic PDFs on the fly and email them too

info@pushcode.com (Ryan BeMiller) — Sun, 25 May 2003 12:06:50 EST

Create dynamic PDF?s on the fly and automatically send them as attachments. There are a bunch of people out there that claim to have this elusive process figured out, or to have a wonder-tag that does it all for you. Well, I tried a lot of them, and the results were always less than desirable, if you want to call them results. However, through this trial and error, I was able to take the good points of some of these failed attempts, and piece them together into a working solution. Right off the bat, this is a solution for those of you who have the ability to install software on your own hosting server or, those of you who can convince your web host to install a little harmless application for you. First, you'll need to download and install HTMLDOC (that ?harmless? application I just mentioned) at: http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/ There is a free version that should work fine for your needs, it works for mine. This program works in conjunction with the next thing you'll need to download and install... the custom tag, which you can get from the Macromedia developer's exchange...just search for CF_HTML2PDF3. This is a free download. Next you'll want to create the file that makes the pdf...in this case I called it pdfDoc.cfm It's basically all of the normal html formatting, wrapped in the custom tag. That's your PDF, now what you do with it is up to you. In the case of this tutorial, we?re dealing with emailing it as an attachment to users who ask for an online Quote or Receipt. This is accomplished with a file called send_pdf.cfm The code for both is included in the zip file with this tutorial. As is this document. Enjoy! Look for more interesting ideas at pushcode.com

ColdFusion Mad Libs Part I

charlie@griefer.com (Charlie Griefer (CJ)) — Thu, 29 May 2003 04:35:36 EST

A silly but fun time-waster that you can easily include on your Web site. You might be surprised at how addicting it can become :)

ColdFusion Mad Libs Part II

charlie@griefer.com (Charlie Griefer (CJ)) — Thu, 29 May 2003 04:37:13 EST

You've finished the first Mad Libs tutorial, but you feel like there's something missing. Of course there is! You want to be able to save the final output to a database to let your visitors browse through other user's stories. Includes a bad-words filter for the more conservative among us :)

to cfqueryparam or not to cfqueryparam

charlie@griefer.com (Charlie Griefer (CJ)) — Thu, 29 May 2003 04:45:50 EST

It's been out there since ColdFusion 4.5...most of us have heard of it...few of us use it. Here are some compelling reasons why you should get into the habit of using the tag.

Dynamic Column Output Part One

charlie@griefer.com (Charlie Griefer (CJ)) — Thu, 29 May 2003 20:26:25 EST

Have you ever wanted to display your content in rows of 3 columns? If you ever wanted to specify the number of columns per row within your content, here's the tutorial for you.

Dynamic Column Output Part Two

charlie@griefer.com (Charlie Griefer (CJ)) — Sat, 31 May 2003 17:35:51 EST

This tutorial picks up where the Dynamic Columns tutorial left off, showing you how to not only output your data in a specified number of columns, but how to do it while still publishing well formed HTML.

Remote File Management

charlie@griefer.com (Charlie Griefer (CJ)) — Tue, 03 Jun 2003 15:24:39 EST

Manage text-based files on your server from any Web browser. Create a new file, edit a file, or delete a file. Can be a life saver if you're on the road, and find an error in some of your code that needs a quick fix.

Small difference that can cause big troubles

florian.carstens1@gmx.de (Florian Carstens) — Wed, 11 Jun 2003 13:12:58 EST

Trying to restrict certain pages of a CF MX Site via server behaviours isn't every time an easy task!

Memory allocation error

amoore@glasgow-ky.com (Anthony Moore) — Fri, 13 Jun 2003 17:12:22 EST

How to restart the ColdFusion service automatically when certain errors occur.

Secured Login with Flash Remoting

marcus@diariesofwar.com (Marcus J. Dickinson) — Mon, 16 Jun 2003 14:14:00 EST

A small tutorial on how to send data securely from Flash to verify a user login using Remoting.

Save your visitors clickstreams

charlie@griefer.com (Charlie Griefer (CJ)) — Mon, 16 Jun 2003 18:58:47 EST

A nifty little custom tag that will allow you to save a visitor's clickstream through your site, as well as display it back to them (with links). Did I really just say 'nifty'?

Grouping Output in CF

charlie@griefer.com (Charlie Griefer (CJ)) — Tue, 17 Jun 2003 20:17:41 EST

How to group cfquery output in order to effectively display relational database data. Includes an overview of how to output nested groups as well.

User Friendly Webmail Client

help@themefund.org (Robert Jones) — Thu, 19 Jun 2003 18:20:23 EST

This is an expansion of Pablo Varando's Email client, I heard a few folks say that they had problems viewing the attachments in the way that Pablo's tutorial outlined it, so I came up with a new way.

Nested Custom Tags

claudio.dias@embraer.com.br (Claudio Dias) — Mon, 23 Jun 2003 06:18:24 EST

This tutorial explains how to use nested custom tags in ColdFusion. It also presents one 'basic quiz' in CF MX where nested custom tags show an interesting behavior

Zip Code Radius

kaigler@cfmsource.com (kaigler) — Sun, 29 Jun 2003 19:05:44 EST

Ever wondered how sites are able to return stores that are within a certain radius of your own zip code?

Insert data with Flash Remoting and Cold Fusion MX RIA

i_netmaster@hotmail.com (Marcos Placon�) — Tue, 01 Jul 2003 22:37:13 EST

This tutorial has the purpose to teach people how to develop a simple way to insert data into a database using Flash Remote and Rich internet Application concepts. Helping developers to be at the most top of the new technology.

Adding form results to a file not database

admin@sikweb.com (Mike Bamberger) — Thu, 03 Jul 2003 13:31:33 EST

A very simple tutorial that explains how to add information submitted from a form into a logging file. Very simple, yet lots of possibilities. Important for the beginning CFM programmer

Delete Records From Your Database With ColdFusion

webmaster@easycfm.com (Pablo Varando) — Fri, 04 Jul 2003 17:49:25 EST

This tutorial will demonstrate how to delete records from a database via your website using ColdFusion.

Why have my CFFORMs suddenly broken using CFFORM in a hosted environment

peter@coldgen.com (Peter Tilbrook) — Tue, 08 Jul 2003 01:24:15 EST

If you are using the CFFORM tag in a shared hosting environment, and why wouldn't you as CF form elements can be very useful, you may now be receiving obscure JavaScript errors when your form loads. Never fear, the solution is a simple fix to an annoying problem

Color Picker

apletfx@saber.net (Mark Aplet) — Sat, 12 Jul 2003 12:22:05 EST

Sometimes, you want to be able to change the color of something on your page. Be it one item, or every item on the page. Using this simple color picker, you can create admin areas that can allow you or your visitors to pick their own colors and the value is automatically inserted into a text field.

Creating a file content crawler with ColdFusion

webmaster@easycfm.com (Pablo Varando) — Sat, 19 Jul 2003 14:40:07 EST

This tutorial will show you how to make a file content crawler with ColdFusion to find specified documents in a folder and its children folders. (Similar to find files or folder in Windows(c) Operating Systems 'find' feature).

Boolean Saves Time and Space

david.patricola@mindspring.com (David Patricola) — Thu, 24 Jul 2003 17:06:47 EST

Boolean values are excellent ways to save on precious coding time when you are using a boatload of IF statements in an application. Having only 2 possible states allows you to kind of cheat on creating your IF statements and minimize redundancy.

Random Image

sparty2809@yahoo.com (Chris) — Fri, 25 Jul 2003 20:21:41 EST

Here is a random image display. You can even upload it to the server. Uses a database.

Add a newsfeed to your site

nathan@nmconsulting.us (Nathan Miller) — Sat, 26 Jul 2003 22:46:35 EST

Use the Moreover news service to add a news feed to your site using cfhttp and wddx in 5 minutes!

The easiest method for multiple dynamic and dependant drop down lists period

rbemiller@pushcode.com (Ryan M. BeMiller) — Sun, 27 Jul 2003 02:25:18 EST

The first EASY method for creating multiple, dependant, database driven drop down select boxes... Honestly!

Dynamic Sorting with CFSWITCH

apletfx@saber.net (Mark Aplet) — Sun, 03 Aug 2003 04:31:12 EST

Quickly and easily sort and order records in your database using a cfswitch in your query. Great technique for admin areas of your site, or just allowing visitors to sort the fields they want.

arrays and structures part 1

charlie@griefer.com (Charlie Griefer (CJ)) — Mon, 11 Aug 2003 00:48:40 EST

part one of a three-part tutorial designed to gently introduce you to the world of complex variables.

arrays and structures part 2

charlie@griefer.com (Charlie Griefer (CJ)) — Mon, 11 Aug 2003 00:49:28 EST

part two of a three-part tutorial designed to gently introduce you to the world of complex variables.

arrays and structures part 3

charlie@griefer.com (Charlie Griefer (CJ)) — Mon, 11 Aug 2003 00:50:25 EST

part three of a three-part tutorial designed to gently introduce you to the world of complex variables.

What is the ID for the record I just inserted

webmaster@easycfm.com (Pablo Varando) — Mon, 11 Aug 2003 08:50:49 EST

This tutorial will demonstrate how you can get the ID of the record you have just inserted without having to connect to the database again!

Another Random Image Selector

bhartsfield@clickculture.com (Bobby Hartsfield) — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 15:36:06 EST

I have seen a couple random image scripts here and there. Most require you to have a list of the images stored in a database somewhere or actually a switch statement with all the images listed there... This code will read a directory, pull all jpg's and choose a random one everytime to be displayed. Alot of my clients have wanted random images. THis is the easiest way I came up with to do it. This way when they want another image in the rotation... all you have to do is upload it to the image directory and its ready to go.

Random StringPassword Generation

bhartsfield@clickculture.com (Bobby Hartsfield) — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 15:50:42 EST

This is a custom tag I wrote that generates a random string at the set number of characters using the characters you decide on Alpha AlphaNumeric or Numeric Uppercase, lowercase, mixed case... It will create a variable that you name as you wish and call however you'd like. It is a small example of how to create a custom tag and will hopefully send someone in the right direction. It is also fully functional and has come in handy quite a few times. Enjoy and as always.. Have Fun!

JavaScript Form Validation

charlie@griefer.com (Charlie Griefer (CJ)) — Thu, 14 Aug 2003 23:56:59 EST

Yes, I know we're a ColdFusion site...but ColdFusion does not live in a vacuum. We have to know SQL, HTML, CSS...and sometimes...JavaScript! This tutorial focuses on using JavaScript (in lieu of cfform) to create client side form validation (and explains why writing your own is better than using ).

CF Best Practices

charlie@griefer.com (Charlie Griefer (CJ)) — Fri, 15 Aug 2003 01:55:51 EST

Some tips and techniques that I've picked up over the years. I don't maintain that these are 'official' or 'absolute'...they are simply my preference and things that have worked for me. I would like to share them here, and leave you to make the decision as to whether or not they fit in your 'code arsenal' :)

A Basic Calendar Application to Build on

bhartsfield@clickculture.com (Bobby Hartsfield) — Fri, 15 Aug 2003 11:08:34 EST

I have seen quite a few people looking for prebuilt calendar apps but the people I wrote this for are the people who wanted a headstart in building their OWN custom calendar app. It is very basic and does nothing more than display the currently selected month/year's calendar and give links to the PREVIOUS the NEXT month's calendars by using The DateAdd() function. Basically the backbone of any calendar app. Enjoy. and as Always.. HAVE FUN!

Random Images In a Few lines of code

schafer@inland.net (DesertTRD) — Fri, 15 Aug 2003 14:49:10 EST

Ever wanted to run random images on your site, but didnt want tons of code? Here you go, every time the user refreshes the image is changed.

Helping users obtain their passwords

charlie@griefer.com (Charlie Griefer (CJ)) — Thu, 28 Aug 2003 12:31:59 EST

Your site requires your visitors to log in. of course, some of your visitors are going to forget their passwords (ok, most will forget their passwords). You don't want them to have to send you an e-mail, and then wait for a response. They need immediate access.

This tutorial shows two methods by which you can accomodate them.

DSNless Connection to Access Uploading documents

sam@steve-moore.com (Steve Moore) — Mon, 15 Sep 2003 14:54:01 EST

Describes a solution to a connection problem from CF to MS Access.

Basic Calculator

ANANGPHATAK@YAHOO.COM (Anang A. Phatak) — Tue, 14 Oct 2003 17:41:54 EST

This is a tutorial to build a simple calculator for your web pages. You should get it pretty easily as you browse through the code.

Form Validation and Flow One Technique

steve@shift4.com (Steve Sommers) — Mon, 03 Nov 2003 15:30:29 EST

A technique for displaying, validating and processing forms.

An E Rolodex System

anangphatak@yahoo.com (ANANG PHATAK) — Fri, 07 Nov 2003 14:38:05 EST

Quick and easy way to sort and list your contacts by last names, in two really really simple steps. Almost everybody who uses a data-driven website has a database containing some information about the users. I had a database table called "contact" in which user's first name, last name, address, zip, email, phone, fax.... everything was listed. If you do have something like that and wish to draw and group your contacts by say last names, maybe you will find this tutorial useful.

Parsing XML With ColdFusion MX

drew@drewtemp.com (Drew Tempelmeyer) — Sun, 09 Nov 2003 21:17:46 EST

Want to know how to parse XML with ColdFusion with ease and very basic concepts? Then this is the tutorial for you.

Multiple related select boxes through ColdFusion and JavaScript

sdurette@prodigy.net (Steven Durette) — Fri, 28 Nov 2003 21:03:58 EST

Many tutorials give information on relating select boxes, but this one actual gives information on not only relating multiple selects, but also how to duplicate those related selects multiple times in the same form.

Using ColdFusion for things other than serving web pages

sdurette@prodigy.net (Steven Durette) — Fri, 28 Nov 2003 21:07:23 EST

Sometimes, ColdFusion can be used to do tasks that you wouldn't have normally thought of. This tutorial examines one such incident and the ColdFusion solution.

Using ColdFusion Functions to clean up code

sdurette@prodigy.net (Steven Durette) — Fri, 28 Nov 2003 21:10:24 EST

In another tutorial inspired by a co-worker, I look at the ability to clean up code using CF Functions in CF5 and CFMX.

Changing the form submission page on the fly

webmaster@easycfm.com (Pablo Varando) — Mon, 01 Dec 2003 17:15:38 EST

This tutorial is not ColdFusion oriented, but covers a great trick to allow you to submit a single form to a variety of different pages on the fly.

Slighty better search

apletfx@saber.net (Mark Aplet) — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 16:04:58 EST

Someone on the forum posed a question a short while ago asking how to create a more advanced search function using a + symbol as a separator. So I created this advanced search function. This search function is just slightly better than a normal search as it adds the ability to separate two keywords with a + symbol. Lets start with the search form.

Advanced ServerSide FORM Validation

nathan@nmconsulting.us (Nathan Miller) — Mon, 15 Dec 2003 01:09:57 EST

An advanced set of customizable tags for validating FORM values on the Server-side using User-Defined Functions

integrate UPS tools with coldfusion

chhchung@hotmail.com (chhchung) — Wed, 17 Dec 2003 22:53:27 EST

This tutorial teach you how to integrate ups tools into your site. The code allows user to enter the destination's zipcode and get the shipping rate instantly.

Every Week has a Wednesday

sdurette@prodigy.net (Steven Durette) — Wed, 24 Dec 2003 22:47:23 EST

This tutorial serves two purposes. First it demonstrates how to create a function that is usable in CF5, CFMX and CFMX6.1. It also demonstrates a math and logical way to determine the number of weeks in a month without looping.

Processing XMLRSS feeds with ColdFusion MX

webmaster@easycfm.com (Pablo Varando) — Sat, 27 Dec 2003 20:21:41 EST

This tutorial will show you how to parse XML files (RSS Feeds) with ColdFusion MX and it uses an EasyCFM.COM Feed for example [Feed: 5 Most Viewed Tutorials]. It shows you how to call it via CFHTTP all the way to parse and display your records!

Dynamically add and remove a please wait message to your complex pages

nathan@nmconsulting.us (Nathan Miller) — Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:09:09 EST

You can use a combination of and javascript to show a message on the screen while processing a large data set (or any other long-running task), and then remove the message when the task is complete.

Improving Application Performance Part 2

apletfx@saber.net (Mark Aplet) — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 13:41:57 EST

Not all queries can be saved as an application variable. For Queries that do not meet the checkpoints in my previous tutorial there is another way to improve performance. Query Caching is another way to save data and eliminate unnecessary queries. This is for queries that are more dynamic in nature.

Improving Application Performance

apletfx@saber.net (Mark Aplet) — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 13:02:20 EST

One thing I am always trying to do is speed up my applications. As my site grows in size and complexity I find that I spend a fair amount of time re-coding pages because of a new technique I just learned. I wish I had learned about these techniques long before, and thereby allowing me to create more effective code. In this tutorial I'll try to explain some problem areas that I have identified, and some of the things you can do to improve performance.

Databaseless hit counter with visitor information

webmaster@eddiegsportsbar.com (Jeff Sheppard) — Thu, 15 Jan 2004 14:28:05 EST

DSNless hit counter/visitor logger with images as the numbers

Creating your very own RSS XML Feeds with ColdFusion MX

webmaster@easycfm.com (Pablo Varando) — Thu, 15 Jan 2004 23:22:53 EST

Have you ever wanted to create your very own RSS XML News Feeds? This tutorial will show you how to create an RSS feed that will allow you to syndicate your web site and allow the world to easily use your data!

Add OneToMany ParentChild Data From a Single Form

theKing@mysecretbase.com (Matt Robertson) — Sun, 18 Jan 2004 13:27:31 EST

Set up a single form to add multiple records to parent/child database tables. This example uses a parent table for a home, with child records for each resident.

Format your date in spanish

dbl1984@optonline.net (Diego Benitez) — Thu, 29 Jan 2004 01:04:53 EST

This is a custom tag to translate the regular english output of a date into spanish like (20 de Enero de 2004) and as you want it to be.

Delete Multiple Database Records Using A Checkbox

mjmurphy@soswebdesign.com (Marlene Murphy) — Tue, 10 Feb 2004 14:11:39 EST

Select multiple records for deletion just by checking a box next to the record listing.

Correct Content document serving

webmaster@easycfm.com (Pablo Varando) — Tue, 10 Feb 2004 15:21:57 EST

This tutorial will demonstrate how to correctly serve documents via ColdFusion and allow you to correctly name the download as you see fit!

Custom Tag for Multiple Related Text Boxes

s.gulati@itcatch.com (Saurabh Gulati) — Wed, 11 Feb 2004 07:29:42 EST

hi, I saw some tutorials on may sites which show how to develop related select boxes using cold fusion and javascript. Many of them were titles "Multiple Select Boxes" which was a bit un-appropriate as they did not really show how many levels of heirarchy they would cover. So, I finally decided to develop a custom tag that would help developers to simply implement a "n" level of select boxes using hierarchial data. thanks, Saurabh

Column View Output

theamazingrhino@hotmail.com (Rhino) — Wed, 25 Feb 2004 06:48:23 EST

Ever wanted your data to be output in a column view such as mailing labels are? Use this code and change only a few lines and your data will be output in a table with 3 columns and as many rows as you have data. A great alternative to the standard row based view. Very easy to modify.

SELECT AND DELETE MULTIPLE RECORDS WITH A CHECKBOX

mjmurphy@soswebdesign.com (Marlene Murphy) — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 15:14:20 EST

This tutorial is already posted but needed some additional comments/corrections added. I didn't see anyway to upload the changed tutorial.

Multiple Reports with One SQL Statement

jenniferd@red-man.com (Jennifer Davis) — Thu, 18 Mar 2004 10:43:32 EST

Your boss wants multiple reports from your database and he wanted them 5 mintues ago. This is a quick way to write one SQL statement but be able to query your database multiple times while specifying what values you want it to return.

Website Monitor

theamazingrhino@hotmail.com (Rhino) — Wed, 24 Mar 2004 08:20:53 EST

Do you have a website that you'd like to monitor but would rather not pay outrageous fees to some company? This simple script will monitor uptime for you website. It is the barebones version and can be easily modified into something highly useful.

Background Color Changer

bgrant@csba.org (Bryce) — Thu, 25 Mar 2004 16:21:42 EST

Simple list of links to: 1. Change the background color of current page. 2. Demonstrate CFParam and URLEncodedFormat (both of them can be life savers!) 3. Provide hours of fun for the easily amused (I'm guilty as charged).

User Authenication ADMIN area

theamazingrhino@hotmail.com (Rhino) — Mon, 29 Mar 2004 11:43:59 EST

This script provides a simple admin area for the login script written by Pablon on this site. You can list, add, change pass, and delete users.

Keep your CFML in a database then CFMAIL it

derrick@northstarusa.net (Derrick Anderson) — Tue, 30 Mar 2004 23:49:25 EST

I came up with this solution after building an email marketing application with content management built in. I found that if I had CF code in my html pieces that were stored in the database, it would not get processed by the server after the contents of the field holding the HTML and CF were used as the body of an email.

Form processor with individual link email

theamazingrhino@hotmail.com (Rhino) — Wed, 31 Mar 2004 03:09:57 EST

This tutorial shows how to process a form and generate a random string that is put on the end of a link. When the user clicks the link it goes to their personal page.

Use checkboxes on update pages

theamazingrhino@hotmail.com (Rhino) — Wed, 31 Mar 2004 03:23:40 EST

Do you have an update page and want to use checkboxes on the page? This tutorial will go over the two steps needed.

MutliWord search for best result

email@ayhanyildiz.com (Ayhan Yildiz) — Mon, 05 Apr 2004 21:16:43 EST

We think that we have the right search function! But we don't have. Lets see I what I am trying to say. For example: You are trying to find a tutorial about javascript validation. when you search "javascript validation" results comes "0". But they have tutorial about validation and they stored it as "JavaScript Form Validation". If you want to see it at search result page you must write in order as it is in database or indexes.. let's see how we can get correct search results.

EnterUpdate same form

theamazingrhino@hotmail.com (Rhino) — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 07:31:45 EST

I hate creating duplicate forms where one is for entry and an identical one is for udpating. This code lets you use one form for both purposes.

Dynamic Last Date Modified

webmaster@easycfm.com (Pablo Varando) — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 23:16:18 EST

This tutorial will demonstrate how to display the date a web page was last modified to your visitors dynamically.

Search Engine Bot Notifier

jim_easycfm@tentonweb.com (Jim Summer) — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 11:57:24 EST

This code detects the most common user agents (web browsers) and notifies you via email if it is not a recognized user agent as defined in the code. Usually this will be a bot of some sort. Extrememly useful for tracking how often Google, Yahoo, etc visits your site. It will email you the bot and a reverse IP lookup url with the IP appended so you can verify if it is a "good bot" or a "bad (spam) bot" (then you can block that IP or stop processing of the page). Use this in your home page or as an include file throughout your site. Nothing fancy it should work on MX also although I have not tested it there.

Currency Conversion using Web Services

Wed, 21 Apr 2004 16:54:21 EST

A very simple currency convertor that uses the latest exchange rates through the available Web Service

Database Order Inquiry

eric@webalterations.com (Eric Giblock) — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 22:59:00 EST

A quick one page file to do a simple database query to check the status of a databased order. Includes javascript form validation.

A plot to plot a line

anangphatak@yahoo.com (Anang A Phatak) — Thu, 06 May 2004 11:17:40 EST

I had no work one day due to a worm attack on our servers, thus a plot to plot a line on a graph was hatched in my empty mind. These files show you, how to plot a line using no database, no java, no long wait times for aplet loading, just 3 tools, Loop, table and text.

Querying a Query

jenniferd@red-man.com (Jennifer Davis) — Thu, 06 May 2004 16:29:08 EST

This will show you how to query a query. It also demonstrates how to use the datediff function and how to find an average.

Reset a Lost Administrator Password

ian@flatpackedworld.co.uk (Ian Winter) — Mon, 10 May 2004 15:57:26 EST

If you've lost the ColdFusion MX Administrator password all is not lost. It can be reset it by altering a variable in one of the system files and restarting the ColdFusion process.

CFHitcounter

mattpbourke@icqmail.com (Matthew Bourke) — Sun, 16 May 2004 08:51:53 EST

This is a custom tag example that will show you how to create a ColdFusion Counter!

Automatic Form Generator

aphatak@myway.com (Anang A Phatak) — Thu, 20 May 2004 16:58:06 EST

This is not a tutorial as such, more like an application that you can put in a directory. It could boring if you use the CF editor, to pick ?cfform? fill its attributes, then pick ?cfinputs? one by one, fill out those attributes?.one by one, then change tabs and pick the ?submit? button ?so on and so forth. Even if you code in a note pad, it might get lengthy to code individual element. Wouldn?t it be nicer to code all these elements at once, then just copy the code and paste it in your editor ?

A random password generator

aphatak@myway.com (Anang A Phatak) — Mon, 24 May 2004 14:16:25 EST

RANDOM PASSWORD GENERATOR SCRIPT ! I know there is a random password tutorial here already. This is just another way to do the same. I think this is a little easier to understand. Refresh it to generate a new password string everytime !

Feeding a Query

claudio-alexandre@uol.com.br (Claudio Dias) — Tue, 25 May 2004 09:06:46 EST

A simple approach on how to create a query object from RDF/RSS feed. Further, when news are in HTML format, how to get them using Regular Expressions.

Getting Coldfusion Server Metrics

peter@coldgen.com (Peter Tilbrook) — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 02:45:45 EST

The often forgotten function GetMetricData() function returns the same info as the cfstat utility.

Getting the TimeZone name

peter@coldgen.com (Peter Tilbrook) — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 02:52:37 EST

CFML's function GetTimeZoneInfo will give you timezone offsets, and day light savings time information, but if you want the name of the timezone your ColdFusion server is in you can use java's TimeZone class.

How can I enable Unicodeaware storage and display in ColdFusion MX

matt@mysecretbase.com (Matt Robertson) — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 02:57:59 EST

I have yet to see a truly complete tutorial on this subject, although Armin Danesh's 3-part Unicode article on CommunityMX comes pretty close. He covers stuff I don't here (like mySQL data connections), and you'll find it worth spending US$6 to buy his articles; especially since he takes the time to explain things, and this is only a quick list of do's and don'ts.

How Can I Throttle Down CFMAILs Speed and why the hell would you want to do this

matt@mysecretbase.com (Matt Robertson) — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 03:00:44 EST

Its strange to discuss a procedure that makes a ColdFusion function less efficient. Especially in light of how well the ColdFusion MX 6.1 CFMAIL tag works (up to 1,000,000 messages per hour). Nonetheless, some realities in this world are inescapable, and doing this will fix one of them.

How Can I Safely Upload Files

matt@mysecretbase.com (Matt Robertson) — Thu, 17 Jun 2004 17:47:25 EST

Use CFFILE to allow file uploads that are restricted in size and by MIME type, with friendly error messages.

Advanced Calculator

aphatak@myway.com (Anang A Phatak) — Fri, 18 Jun 2004 12:08:19 EST

I have posted a "Basic Calculator" tutorial here. That was more like a representation of how you would calculate with a paper and a pencil. You provide INPUT A then a MATHEMATICAL OPERATION like a "+" or a "-" and then an INPUT B. This is more a represntation of how you would use a regular hand-held calculator complete with buttons for NUMBERS, OPERATIONS and CLEAR TEXT.

Lightning Fast Forms and Form Handlers

t_harrington@yahoo.com (Terrance Harrington ) — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 15:59:07 EST

How to build dynamic forms and form handlers from the database tables that access and interact with them. Can be used with any Cold Fusion datasource. Uses good examples of a dozen or more Cold Fusion functions.

Remote Reboots with ColdFusion MX

Sun, 18 Jul 2004 11:15:17 EST

This tutorial will tell you how to reboot your server without even logging in.

ColdFusion Shopping Cart

techblonde@mail.com (Pamela Gonzalez) — Tue, 20 Jul 2004 00:12:07 EST

Learn how to create a ColdFusion Shopping cart.

Creat a ColdFusion collection with the cfcollection tag

info@newdimensiondesign.com (Morgan Todd) — Sun, 22 Aug 2004 17:34:22 EST

Creat a ColdFusion collection with the cfcollection tag

Populating A Year Select List

rmorse@zablo.com (RMorse) — Tue, 24 Aug 2004 16:31:09 EST

I was recently creating a registration form that asked users for there year of birth. Instead of creating a select list with over 100 options I wrote this to save time.

processing page please wait made easy

override11@gmail.com (Justice) — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:39:54 EST

This bit of code will allow you to output a percentage readout to your users very easily using javascript. Works great in IE or Mozilla, and once you know how to use this, you can do a TON of other things interactivly!

List Driven Dynamic Fields

jerry_m_barnes@hotmail.com (Jerry Barnes) — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 09:41:04 EST

This article demonstrates how to create dynamic HTML controls such as checkboxes, select boxes, and radio groups without a database.

Displaying an advertisement before your front page loads using 1 file enhanced parameters easy short steps Live Example Inside

z3r0eff3ct@aol.com (Matt Wegrzyn) — Sun, 29 Aug 2004 18:04:50 EST

In this tutorial we will learn on how to display an advertisement before the page loads using 1 file. This will explain on how to simple set the cookie and the other parameter that is needed. All using 1 file and just a few lines of code!

Shopping Cart with Arrays StructuresECommerce Part 1

mike@sikweb.com (Michael Bamberger) — Tue, 31 Aug 2004 22:28:51 EST

Teaches how to build a full shopping cart system utilizing arrays and structures - the most used method. Also includes important and useful e-commerce scripting and information.

Shopping Cart with Arrays StructuresECommerce Part 2

mike@sikweb.com (Michael Bamberger) — Tue, 31 Aug 2004 22:30:37 EST

Teaches how to build a full shopping cart system utilizing arrays and structures - the most used method. Also includes important and useful e-commerce scripting and information.

Shopping Cart with Arrays StructuresECommerce Part 3

mike@sikweb.com (Michael Bamberger) — Tue, 31 Aug 2004 22:31:39 EST

Teaches how to build a full shopping cart system utilizing arrays and structures - the most used method. Also includes important and useful e-commerce scripting and information.

Custom Tag Card Expiration Date

sparty2809@yahoo.com (sparty2809) — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 09:10:20 EST

This tutorial lets you save time when you need dates for credit card processing.

Easy URL Management

jerry_m_barnes@hotmail.com (Jerry Barnes) — Thu, 09 Sep 2004 11:00:25 EST

This article presents the method that I use to manage URL parameters.

Using WDDX part 1

nnielsen@cfgod.com (Nate Nielsen) — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 15:50:20 EST

WDDX is one of the neatest features natively available in ColdFusion, but tends to get overlooked. Learn how to harness this awesome tool.

Getting the identity value of a record inserted

nnielsen@cfgod.com (Nate Nielsen) — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:26:07 EST

This tutorial will help beginners find the identity field value of a record they have just inserted, without using a separate query!

Rename uploaded file

maleasycfm@brisbane.id.au (Malessa) — Sat, 11 Sep 2004 10:32:46 EST

I use this code snippet to upload files from a web form and rename any that have spaces in their file name to use underscores instead.

Undefined variables

Newton@covennex.com (Newton) — Sat, 11 Sep 2004 13:17:08 EST

This tutorial will help solve the most common undefined variable issues. It is written for the beginner coder in terms that make scopes easily understandable by anyone.

Color Scheming with Ease

wt@wtomlinson.com (Will Tomlinson) — Sat, 11 Sep 2004 22:27:06 EST

This tutorial will show you how to easily change your color scheme with just one click.

Part 1 Understanding and Using CFCs with OOP and database interaction

nnielsen@cfgod.com (Nate Nielsen) — Mon, 13 Sep 2004 16:41:25 EST

In this multipart series of tutorials we will go over the usage of CFCs. We will go over the basics and how to apply OOP techniques to CFCs for maximum code re-usability. We also go over using our CFCs for interaction with the database.

Part 2 Understanding and Using CFCs with OOP and database interaction

nnielsen@cfgod.com (Nate Nielsen) — Mon, 13 Sep 2004 16:56:26 EST

Part 3 Understanding and Using CFCs with OOP and database interaction

nnielsen@cfgod.com (Nate Nielsen) — Mon, 13 Sep 2004 16:57:42 EST

Part 4 Understanding and Using CFCs with OOP and database interaction

nnielsen@cfgod.com (Nate Nielsen) — Mon, 13 Sep 2004 16:58:26 EST

Part 5 Understanding and Using CFCs with OOP and database interaction

nnielsen@cfgod.com (Nate Nielsen) — Mon, 13 Sep 2004 16:59:03 EST

The Easiest Method for Previous Next Recordset Navigation aka Recordset Paging

Wed, 15 Sep 2004 10:09:28 EST

This tutorial provides a simple and quick way for CFers to add Recordset Navigation to their websites. This is the easiest way I could come up with to accomplish the "Previous Page | Next Page" kind of navigation that is needed by so many, yet understood by so few.

CFMX and SQL Server Data Transformation Services Part one

tedd@tedd.us (Tedd Van Diest) — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 21:44:33 EST

How to use coldFusion in conjunction with SQL Server Data Transformation Services

Cashing in on Amazon with ColdFusion and Web Services

robby@ohsogooey.com (Robby Lansaw) — Thu, 16 Sep 2004 21:13:32 EST

A swift introduction to Web Services. Followed by some Amazon magic. A little Britney Spears. Ending with some detailed examples and tips on how to get information from Amazon!

get fedex rates from your server

email@ayhanyildiz.com (Ayhan) — Sat, 18 Sep 2004 14:14:52 EST

If have online store or you are planning to have one; then you must give estimate or real number of shipping charge(I am only talking about FedEx). There are few ways to do this. Like using FedEx ship API writing some script(or using XML injection ) to request rates from FedEx servers. But there is big handicap; FedEx shipAPI is slowing down your application and sometimes their servers are down. Which all doesnt sound good for e-commerce business. This little code is calculating 100% accurately all kind of FedEx services. and there is no handicap because it is running from your server. The only thing you need to is you should call fedex and ask for zone list for your zip code. I have attached database file which is for my location.

Using arrays to make a timetable for classes

coldfusion@daydreaminc.com (Growly Bear) — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 18:44:42 EST

By using an array you can create a timetable that lists your classes by the hour for a day. By adding a database you can make the timetable dynamic.

CFMX and SQL Server Data Transformation Services Part two

tedd@tedd.us (Tedd Van Diest) — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 21:44:33 EST

How to use coldFusion in conjunction with SQL Server Data Transformation Services

Collecting Handwritten Signatures with Coldfusion

jerry_m_barnes@hotmail.com (Jerry Barnes) — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 10:04:10 EST

This article explains how a ColdFusion programmer can collect written signatures via a web page and then convert the signature to jpg format for display.

Dynamic SQL Search

justin@rtpdesigns.com (Justin Gothier) — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 01:29:48 EST

This tutorial will teah you how to make a search page and a results pages by searching on multiple fields. The SQL will be built dynamically so only fields that have data entered in them will be processed. I am also going to add a cool method of grouping matching records using SQL.

Export table to CSV file

eiron@creativemedium.ca (Eiron Roffey) — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 19:09:09 EST

This tutorial will explain how to export a data table to a csv file. Excellent if you want to export a mailing list from your web site to an e-mail software of some sort.

Part 6 Understanding and Using CFCs with OOP and database interaction

nnielsen@cfgod.com (Nate Nielsen) — Mon, 27 Sep 2004 21:23:18 EST

Part 7 Understanding and Using CFCs with OOP and database interaction

nnielsen@cfgod.com (Nate Nielsen) — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 09:22:16 EST

Running commands on an AS400 with ColdFusion

override11@gmail.com (Justice) — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 10:34:38 EST

Shows you how to easily send commands to an iSeries AS400 from ColdFusion! Post any questions and I will get back with you asap. :)

Simplified Application Deployment

jerry_m_barnes@hotmail.com (Jerry Barnes) — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 11:27:32 EST

This article describes how I use a cfswitch statement to make deployment fast, customizable, and easy.

Ordering a 2 dimensional array

nebu24@yahoo.com (Nebu kadnezar) — Fri, 22 Oct 2004 09:59:55 EST

This tutorial will explain how to order a 2 dimensional array and delete duplicate values.

Create and email ZIP files on the fly

Thu, 28 Oct 2004 17:32:42 EST

This tutorial will allow you to zip up a file or files on your server and email them to you. The whole tutorial runs to less than 20 lines of code!

Automatically Query To CFM

anangphatak@yahoo.com (Anang A Phatak) — Fri, 29 Oct 2004 10:26:01 EST

This is a custom tag application. The cf_QueryRender custom tag takes your query arguments and gives you a final page table and all...

A Mp3 Streaming Server

anangphatak@yahoo.com (Anang A Phatak) — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 15:37:09 EST

This is a small application that shows you how to create an MP3 streaming server.

Build a List Get a Tree

cadias@gmail.com (Claudio Dias) — Tue, 09 Nov 2004 11:19:20 EST

How to create an outlined tree from

tags, CSS and JavaScript

A DataSet just like VBNet

anangphatak@yahoo.com (Anang A Phatak) — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:05:45 EST

This tutorial shows you how to create a "dataset" just like the one in VB.Net In VB.Net you would create a dataset with "edit" button in an extra column. Once you click "edit", you get an option to "update", "delete" or "cancel edit mode" This is just like a cfgrid tag. Although a cfgrid tag lets you bulk insert, bulk update or bulk delete, the dataset object does it one by one. But cfgrid is slower, and may give users Java errors, depending on their browser settings.