Need help with CFML function syntax? ColdFusion Studio 4 introduced a new feature called "function insight". To use this feature simple type the name of a function followed by the first ( and then wait a second - ColdFusion Studio will pop up an inline tip with the exact syntax and options for that...
Example applications and documentation do not belong on production sites (which is why they are an install option). As a rule, the less you have running on a server the less vulnerable it is. If you do need the CFDOCS directory installed for some reason, secure it (at the OS or Web server). The...
is used for file system management, as well as for processing uploaded files. File paths may be relative for some operations, but not for specifying the destination path when ACTION="UPLOAD". So how can you use relative paths? Simple pass the relative path to the ExpandPath() function and...
Need to authenticate users (forcing them to login and validating their password)? If you are using NT (or Win2K) and IIS, and your users have network accounts, then here's a really easy (and safe) way to perform authentication. Simply prevent anonymous access to the files or directory structure to...
ColdFusion 4.5 introduced a new Administrator option (on the Logging page) called "Log Slow Pages". This option lets you specify the expected request processing time for your site and any requests that take longer than this will be written to a log file. By default this option is not enabled, but...
ColdFusion provides special functions for creating dynamic variables (where the variable name is created dynamically). As of ColdFusion 4 it is possible to create dynamic variables using a simple by specifying a string (within quotes) as the variable name. For example, to create a variable in the...
ColdFusion Administrator should always be password protected. But what if you forget the password? There is no way to read the existing password, but if you has administrative access to the computer than you can turn off the password required flag (which will let you in to the Administrator without...
ColdFusion Studio (and HomeSite) supports all sorts of keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl-B=Bold, Ctrl-G=Go to line, F2=Show tag tip, and many more). ColdFusion Studio comes with dozens of keyboard shortcuts defined, but it also lets you change and define your on. Want Ctrl-Q to insert a ? You can do that....
HTTP error 404 is the dreaded "file not found" error, usually caused by users mistyping URL's or by broken links. ColdFusion displays it's own 404 error if a CFM files does not exist, and it is not a pretty error page at all. ColdFusion 4.5 allows you to provide your own system-wide CFM 404 handler...
The ColdFusion Rand() and RandRange() functions are used to return random numbers, but the numbers generated are not truly random (no computer generated random numbers are). Random numbers are actually calculated and sequenced starting from an initial value (called a seed value), and if the same...