exposes the power of the Verity search engine to your ColdFusion applications. One incredibly powerful (and seemingly infrequently used) feature is the ability to search for a word and any of its synonyms, thus allowing you to search for content by meaning. To use this feature use the THESAURUS...
does not delete entries from a verity collection. Rather, it flags them for deletion (preventing them from showing up in subsequent searches). To physically remove deleted entries from a collection you must purge those flagged entries with . (Applies to: ColdFusion All)
Verity searches (performed using ) return standard ColdFusion queries containing the search results. As such, to display the number of matches, you could simply refer to query.RecordCount (as you'd do with any query). But what if you wanted to also display the number of records searched (to be able...
Have a Verity collection created outside of ColdFusion? You can still access it within your CF code. To do so all you need to do is define an alias for that collection within the ColdFusion Administrator. Specify the alias (the name to be used within ColdFusion), enter the full path to the...
To search for database rows (or files) that contain two or more words by relative proximity, use a Verity collection, and search for data using the NEAR and NEAR/n operators. NEAR ensures that the words are no more than 1000 words from each other, NEAR/n lets you specify the maximum distance....
To search for database rows (or files) that contain two or more words in the same sentence (although not necessarily as a sequential string) use a Verity collection, and search for data using the SENTENCE operator. To search for words in the same paragraph use the PARAGRAPH operator. (Applies to:...
CGI variables are special read-only variables made available by ColdFusion. CGI variables include server and browser variables, as well as ColdFusion environmental information. As CGI variable existence is so dependant on external factors (meaning that you'd always have to test for existence before...
(and related and tags) are used to execute stored procedures in ColdFusion (typically when the stored procedures are more complex than can be handled by ). passes parameters in and out of stored procedures. When retrieving variables from a stored procedure the value will be a simple variable unless...
Need a link to allow a user to download an executable file (a Windows EXE file, for example)? Be careful not to place that file in a directory that executes CFM pages or that file could get executed on the server instead of downloaded. Executable files to be downloaded should be placed in their own...
Like many scopes in ColdFusion, COOKIE is a structure. This means that you can use all the Struct functions to access COOKIE variables, and can over COOKIE to iterate through all available cookies. (Applies to: ColdFusion 4 (or later))