Upgrade CF 6.1 -> CF 8
Hello All, We are about to take the plunge and upgrade our servers from CF 6 ent to 8 ent. I have been reading about various things to watch out for during the upgrade, but I was hoping that if anyone had any first hand gotchas they would like to share that would be great! We are running 32 bit Win2k3; iis 6; SQL Server db's; no verity. Would anyone recommend uninstalling 6 before going to 8? Thanks! -Kevin ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:307701 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Trying this again w/o the suject hijack (determinig if the refresh button has been clicked)
Hi! One other option could be to use cookies. When the user first comes to a page you would detect for the cookie and set it if it is not already set. If you want to keep a counter, just get the value and reset it in the cookie (client side js would be best for that). The negative would be the potential for javascript and/or cookies being disabled by the user. -Kevin On 12/21/05, Dan G. Switzer, II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bobby, > > >Wouldn't the flaw be that the refresh would generate a new UID... > > No. Because the UIDs would be in the links, so that would stay the same > between refreshes. > > -Dan > > > > ~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:227499 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
UTF-8 CFFile Support in CF5
Hi All,
I've been working on a CF5 machine (can't upgrade for a few months
unfortunately) trying to upload a UTF-8 encoded xml file to the server. When
I upload it I use cffile to save it to the server. Unfortunately when it
saves, the unicode characters seem to become corrupted (or the server tried
to convert it to non unicode). For example a right curly word quote (') now
shows up as: (â). My goal is to upload the xml file, parse it and then
import it into a db, but as long as the characters are getting replaced like
this, it becomes unusable. I know the support for UTF-8 characters is much
better in 6 & 7, but there is very little information on UTF-8 in cf5.
In the top of my upload page I put the following meta tag:
I even attempted to put: CHARSET="UTF-8" in my CFFile.
Any suggestions?
-Kevin
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Re: JRUN 4 vs Bundled JRUN in CFMX 6.1
Thanks for the info everyone! -Kevin On Apr 7, 2005 12:26 PM, Calvin Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Doh! Need more caffeine... > > -Original Message- > From: Adrocknaphobia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 12:07 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: JRUN 4 vs Bundled JRUN in CFMX 6.1 > > Standalone vs j2EE. J2EE install of course installs JRun seperately > with the JMC. I think they are referring to the standalone install > with CFMX standard. > > -Adam > > On Apr 7, 2005 11:43 AM, Calvin Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Um, why can't you? I'm only looking at 7 right now, but I could have > sworn > > that 6 installed the JMC too? > > > > - Calvin > > > > -Original Message- > > From: John Beynon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 11:04 AM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: Re: JRUN 4 vs Bundled JRUN in CFMX 6.1 > > > > it's crippled in that you can't access it via the JMC to make more > instances > > > > etc, hence the reason for CF Enterprise and multi instance installation > on > > the same server. > > > > john. > > > > On Apr 7, 2005 3:49 PM, Kevin Pechin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Hi All, > > > > > > Is there any difference between the standalone JRUN 4 and the JRUN > that > > > gets > > > bundled with CFMX (Enterprise)? Is it cripped in any way? We are > trying > to > > > determine if we still need to maintain JRUN while we have CFMX 6. Any > > > thoughts? Will there be any performance benefits from running CFMX on > JRUN > > > > > 4 > > > instead of the built in JRUN? (BTW we are migrating from CF 5 to MX, > but > > > we > > > use JRUN standalone for a few servlets) > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > -Kevin > > > > > > > > > > > > ~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:201967 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
JRUN 4 vs Bundled JRUN in CFMX 6.1
Hi All, Is there any difference between the standalone JRUN 4 and the JRUN that gets bundled with CFMX (Enterprise)? Is it cripped in any way? We are trying to determine if we still need to maintain JRUN while we have CFMX 6. Any thoughts? Will there be any performance benefits from running CFMX on JRUN 4 instead of the built in JRUN? (BTW we are migrating from CF 5 to MX, but we use JRUN standalone for a few servlets) Thanks! -Kevin ~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:201870 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: OT: DFS alternative?
Hi, A great program I've used is PeerSync. It is made by http://www.peersoftware.com/index.asp Very reasonable pricing too and really good tech support. I had used it to sync files from one host to 2 recipients real time via a share, but this can also be done via ftp as well. The longest it took to copy a file was a couple seconds max. Good Luck! -Kevin On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 14:29:54 -0500, Emmet McGovern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone know of an alternate way to sync files real time across servers? I > currently use DFS and I'm not too hip on setting up another AD pdc/bdc for a > production server. > > Emmet > > ~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Silver Sponsor - New Atlanta http://www.newatlanta.com Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:186606 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: image resizing
Hi, We've used CFX_ImageInfo which you can find: http://www.intrafoundation.com/cfx_imageinfo.asp and for mx at: http://www.intrafoundation.com/CFX_ImageInfoMX.asp It is a very simple tag that just returns the image information. -Kevin On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 10:04:03 -0800, Jordan Michaels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Lawrence, > > I believe that tthere's a custom tag on the Macromedia Exchange that > will do this for you. The tag was free when I downloaded it a while back. > > HTH, > Jordan > > > > Lawrence Ng wrote: > > >hello, > > > >I plan to build an app that would allow users to upload images to the > >server for review. Here are the routines I want to try and implement > > > >1. check's the image dimension before its updated (either by cffile or > >ftp) > > > >2. Once it's uploaded, I want to resize it smaller for faster download > >and user clicks to see the "actual size" that was submitted originally > >in step 1. > > > >I know how to check for file types & sizes but its the dimension that I > >want to check as well. > > > >What is the best approach? > > > >Thanks a 10^6 > > > > > > > -- > Warm regards, > Jordan Michaels > Vivio Technologies > http://www.viviotech.net/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:184424 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: DTS Package From Cold Fusion
Great find Ricky! Now I have one last question. I created my DTS package via enterprise manager and saved it as a "Meta Data Service Package." Now I go into the design view of the package, and the source location of the mdb file is still my local hard drive. When I try to change it to a folder I know exists on the server (and no my machine), it doesn't allow it. When I call the DTS package via CF, how will the DTS know to look for the access file on the web server's drive vs my desktop? Do I have to have enterprise manager loaded on my web server and create the package from there in order for this to work? I know this is a little more off topic than CF, but your help is much appreciated. Thanks! -Kevin On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 11:46:34 -0600, Ricky Fritzsching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kevin: > > Try this link: > > http://www.pengoworks.com/index.cfm?action=articles:spExecuteDTS > > Ricky > > > > -Original Message- > From: Kevin Pechin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 11:32 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: DTS Package From Cold Fusion > > Hello, > > I have an access db that I want to import into SQL Server 2000. > Normally I would just use enterprise manager to truncate the table and then > import the new database, but I would like to create an application to make > the end users self sufficient and allow them to upload an mdb file to the > web server which would then run a DTS package on a seperate database server. > > Can this be done, and if so does anyone have sample code? > > Thanks! > > -Kevin > > > ~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:184419 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
DTS Package From Cold Fusion
Hello, I have an access db that I want to import into SQL Server 2000. Normally I would just use enterprise manager to truncate the table and then import the new database, but I would like to create an application to make the end users self sufficient and allow them to upload an mdb file to the web server which would then run a DTS package on a seperate database server. Can this be done, and if so does anyone have sample code? Thanks! -Kevin ~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:184410 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: CFX Single Thread question
Hello Billy, We are currently using CFX_http as well as CFX_PCRegex on our load balanced servers. I was thinking that if you renamed cfx_http as cfx_http1 2 3.. you could then randomly call them from a template. When you register them in the cfadmin you would just give them different names as you physically named them on your server. If I know that I'm only going to have three instances, I could use an if statement to call the proper one depending on the random number generated (i.e. 1-5). cfadmin - physicalname cfx_http - cfx_http cfx_http1 - cfx_http1 .. cfx_http5 - cfx_http5 Then in your templates you would just randomly call each one. I realize that the potential for hitting the same one exists in a random situation, but at least it has the possibility of hitting a non used one at the time and therefore no need to wait for the other tag to release the lock, which brings me back to the original question about processes... -Kevin Pechin Hofstra University Web Development >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/07/01 12:04PM >>> How will you manage calling these tags? This could only be most effective if you evenly distribute calls across your "cluster", but there's no way in CF to do that (no way to do that ) --- Billy Cravens ----- Original Message - From: "Kevin Pechin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 9:47 AM Subject: CFX Single Thread question > Hello All, > > I have two cfx questions. If you have two single threaded cfx tags registered and running on the server (both exclusively locked) is it possible that both can execute at the same time as different processes, or do they both fall under the cfserver process and therefor only one executes at a time? > > And for the second question (which kinda depends on the answer to the first one), if you have a single threaded cfx tag and then copy the tag physically on the server (i.e. cfx_tag1.dll, cfx_tag1_2.dll, cfx_tag1_3.dll .) and register each instance in the cfadmin, is each one a separate single threaded operation which can be locked and randomly called? If so this could be a potential boost in performance since we can launch multiple processes (of course if you add too many it will eat memory). > > Food for thought! > > -Kevin Pechin > Hofstra University > Web Development > > ~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
CFX Single Thread question
Hello All, I have two cfx questions. If you have two single threaded cfx tags registered and running on the server (both exclusively locked) is it possible that both can execute at the same time as different processes, or do they both fall under the cfserver process and therefor only one executes at a time? And for the second question (which kinda depends on the answer to the first one), if you have a single threaded cfx tag and then copy the tag physically on the server (i.e. cfx_tag1.dll, cfx_tag1_2.dll, cfx_tag1_3.dll ...) and register each instance in the cfadmin, is each one a separate single threaded operation which can be locked and randomly called? If so this could be a potential boost in performance since we can launch multiple processes (of course if you add too many it will eat memory). Food for thought! -Kevin Pechin Hofstra University Web Development ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
Stored Procedure Dynamic Column names
Hello all, I'm attempting to create a stored procedure in sql server 7. It would check if the page already exists within a table and if so increment the proper column (pages would have a column for each month of the year) else it would do an insert statement. My problem is that It won't allow for dynamic column names within the set statement assignments (possibly a syntax error). The error I receive is: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Syntax error converting the nvarchar value 'August' to a column of data type int. The variable @CurrentMonth returns the name of the month which is also the column name (January, March, July etc) in the table and @thePage is the name of the page. Each column is a data type of integer. CREATE PROCEDURE spCounter ( @thePage NVARCHAR(100), @CurrentMonth NVARCHAR(100) ) AS if NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM Counter WHERE Page = @thePage) begin INSERT INTO Counter (Page) VALUES (@thePage); UPDATE Counter SET @CurrentMonth = @CurrentMonth+1 WHERE Page = @thePage; end else UPDATE Counter SET @CurrentMonth = @CurrentMonth+1 WHERE Page = @thePage Does anyone have a more efficient way of doing this or understand what's going wrong in that code. Thanks in advance for your help, -Kevin ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
Lost Permissions on IIS
Hi everyone, I have a weird problem with cold fusion pages. I'm running win2k with IIS 5 and cold fusion server 4.5.1. As of yesterday everything was perfectly fine. I'm not sure what happened but the server had a complete freeze and I had to reboot. There are no errors in any of the logs. After that I was not able to see any of my webpages (HTML OR CFM). Then I reinstalled IIS and cf server and now only HTML pages show up. When I access any page a username/password box is prompted. No passwords work on it, admin, user, cf nothing. I checked all the permissions, and everything is set exactly as the html pages are. I even set all accounts to have read, write, execute on all files. Now here is where it gets weird. If i access the pages locally with internet explorer, some pages (even though they all have the same rights) prompt for a different type of username/pass prompt which when i enter the admin name/pass it actually works on cf pages. But even if i try to view that page with netscape on the server it still prompts for the password. I don't want to resort to reinstalling win2k but if i have to i will. Does anyone have any possible suggestion as to why this is happening??? Thank you in advance for any help anyone can provide. -Kevin Pechin -- Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
RE: Array/List Initialization
Great Thanks that worked... I just had to change the list syntax a bit to be It didn't work the other way. Thanks for your help! >>> Andy Ewings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/02/00 11:16AM >>> Why don't you create a list using and then use the ListToArray function -Original Message- From: Kevin Pechin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 02 August 2000 15:58 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Array/List Initialization Actually what i was referring to was something along the lines of This way i won't have to do listname[1] = "a" listname[2] = "b" ... It will be a single dimension array. >>> Andy Ewings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/02/00 10:31AM >>> to initialise a list and to initialise an array. If you want to hard code an element of an array just use for the first dimension of the first element for example. -Original Message- From: Kevin Pechin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 02 August 2000 15:16 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Array/List Initialization Hi Everyone, This is going to sound like a really basic question, but i have not been able to find an answer on any of the archives. How do you initialize an array or a list. For example i have twenty items and i want to hard code them into an array (rather then use ArrayAppend on each). How would i do this via a cfset? I know this should be something really simple, but I just can't figure it out. -Kevin -- Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body. -- Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body. -- Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body. -- Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body. -- Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
RE: Array/List Initialization
Actually what i was referring to was something along the lines of This way i won't have to do listname[1] = "a" listname[2] = "b" ... It will be a single dimension array. >>> Andy Ewings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/02/00 10:31AM >>> to initialise a list and to initialise an array. If you want to hard code an element of an array just use for the first dimension of the first element for example. -Original Message- From: Kevin Pechin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 02 August 2000 15:16 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Array/List Initialization Hi Everyone, This is going to sound like a really basic question, but i have not been able to find an answer on any of the archives. How do you initialize an array or a list. For example i have twenty items and i want to hard code them into an array (rather then use ArrayAppend on each). How would i do this via a cfset? I know this should be something really simple, but I just can't figure it out. -Kevin -- Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body. -- Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body. -- Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
Array/List Initialization
Hi Everyone, This is going to sound like a really basic question, but i have not been able to find an answer on any of the archives. How do you initialize an array or a list. For example i have twenty items and i want to hard code them into an array (rather then use ArrayAppend on each). How would i do this via a cfset? I know this should be something really simple, but I just can't figure it out. -Kevin -- Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
CFEXECUTE stopped working
Hi everyone, Two days ago something weird happened. CFEXECUTE just stopped working. I have several .bat files that I call from cfexecute tags that worked just fine (and still work if run manually from the command prompt). I'm running win2k, iis5 and cf 4.5.1. I have tried restarting the server but it didn't help. Has anyone encountered this? No errors are reported and if I use the OUTPUTFILE, it only shows the commands in the .bat file. I checked the log files and nothing is in there pertaining to cfexecute. Any suggestions? -Kevin -- Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
RE: How to escape a "-" in a form post
It worked perfectly. Thank you so much Frédéric >>> Frédéric LeMieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/21/00 07:55AM >>> Well, since a FORM is essentially a struct, you can access you variable by referencing it this way : #FORM["E-Mail"]# I tested it with CFServer 4.5.1 on Solaris, but since this kind of reference can be made also on 4.0, it should work. -Original Message- From: Kevin Pechin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 6:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to escape a "-" in a form post Hi, I have to make a general form that takes a user defined form element such as a text field and put it into an email. I have everything working except if a user creates a form with an input field named with a dash (-) cold fusion treats it as a subtraction and returns an error when i try to access the variable. I need to be able to reference the variable on the following page. For example i would normally reference a form variable such as a text box with the name "address" as #form.address# but if the user makes the name of the field "E-Mail" you would think that you would be able to reference it with #form.E-Mail# but cold fusion responds with the error: Invalid parser construct found on line 14 at position 17. ColdFusion was looking at the following text: - Invalid expression format. The usual cause is an error in the expression structure. I have tried escaping it with a "\" and even using the same character twice "--" but nothing works. Could anyone please tell me how to escape a dash from a form element. Thanks! Kevin -- Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body. -- Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body. -- Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebarRsts&bodyRsts/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
How to escape a "-" in a form post
Hi, I have to make a general form that takes a user defined form element such as a text field and put it into an email. I have everything working except if a user creates a form with an input field named with a dash (-) cold fusion treats it as a subtraction and returns an error when i try to access the variable. I need to be able to reference the variable on the following page. For example i would normally reference a form variable such as a text box with the name "address" as #form.address# but if the user makes the name of the field "E-Mail" you would think that you would be able to reference it with #form.E-Mail# but cold fusion responds with the error: Invalid parser construct found on line 14 at position 17. ColdFusion was looking at the following text: - Invalid expression format. The usual cause is an error in the expression structure. I have tried escaping it with a "\" and even using the same character twice "--" but nothing works. Could anyone please tell me how to escape a dash from a form element. Thanks! Kevin -- Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
