Author Archives: eSearing

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Webdeveloper, Photographer, political junkie.

Coldfusion and Pausing Javascript

Posted on 07/18/2010 by eSearing

I had an interesting problem this week. I had a page with a CFQuery, a CFLoop to output the query, and a javascript function. The problem was that the javascript function was occurring before the loop would draw the output. … Continue reading →

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looping over Arrays

Posted on 07/14/2010 by eSearing

Yippee we can now easily loop over arrays in CF8. <cfloop array=”arrayname” index=”i”> <cfoutput>#i#</cfoutput> </cfloop> #i# will show us the values in the array. You can ofcourse apply logic to the output so that dates an numbers are formatted.

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CFMail Adding multiple attachments with CFMAILPARAM

Posted on 07/14/2010 by eSearing

In building a project for work I needed to add potentially multiple attachments to an email. Fortunately, CFMail has a way to add header and additional information. <cfmail to=”somebody@domain.com” from = “yourstruly@domain.com” subject=”something” server=”yourmailserver”> <p>Here are your attachments.</p> <cfmailparam file=”c://yourpath/filename.ext”> … Continue reading →

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looping over column names

Posted on 07/07/2010 by eSearing

Occasionally I just need a dump of results from a query columns and values. I have two methods for this. The SQL (cfquery name=”myquery”) Select TOP 1 * from contacts   The simple method allows me to output the column … Continue reading →

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cfselect and bind

Posted on 07/06/2010 by eSearing

I got to use more binding this week. Oh what a joy. Just don’t have any errors in your SQL, your CFC, or your cfselect formpage.cfm cfselect name=”partnum” bind=”cfc:part_functions.getPartnum()” value=”partnum” bindonload=”yes” part_functions.cfc – Note brackets removed due to coding issues. … Continue reading →

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