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Common Coldfusion Error Messages
Being the sloppy coder that I am, I often get to see the myriad of Coldfusion Error messages to indicate what I did wrong. Below is a partial list. Truncated Data – If you get truncation errors it generally means … Continue reading
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CFTextarea maxlength validation onblur
Here is a nifty little trick. If you have a cftextarea and you want to let users know when they have exceeded the length allowed in the database you can use the maxlength plus validation attributes. You can use validateat … Continue reading
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CFTry and CFCatch to test database connection
Every once in a while our database server will be down, but the website server is fine. However, without a database, our application is not very useful. So I use this little snippet to output a custom message. I use … Continue reading
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Twelve Things I like about Coldfusion
1) CFIF/CFELSEIF/CFELSE logic – Being able to control actions/output based on variables or values. 2) CFEmail – I know it is a pain sometimes but dynamically outputting a message when an event occurs is a bonus. 3) Bind – Binding … Continue reading
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CFSelect Multiple and ListQualify
If you need a multiple selection list and need to display its values dynamically from a query you can do this in one line of code within your form. <cfquery name=”getstatus” datasource=”myDSN”> select All as status from orderstable UNION ALL … Continue reading
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