Paul Alkema

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• Searching Directories And File Content Using ColdFusion

  Posted on Nov 2, 2010 at 9:05 AM

  Great code example! Thanks for this. I think this works if you only want to search one directory but doesn't work if your looking for a recursive file search. How would you go about creating a search that works similar but recursive? A file index? Thanks, Paul... read more »

• Cleaning High Ascii Values For Web Safeness In ColdFusion

  Posted on Jun 17, 2010 at 9:13 AM

  @Dan, You say that your using utf-8 and unicode in your database. Are your database columns nvarchar instead of varchar? Check your meta tags, make sure your charset=utf-8.... read more »

• Cleaning High Ascii Values For Web Safeness In ColdFusion

  Posted on Jun 17, 2010 at 9:07 AM

  @Ben, Your solution worked great for me. Thanks! Paul... read more »

• Using CAPTCHA In ColdFusion 8

  Posted on Apr 23, 2010 at 4:33 PM

  One of the biggest issues I think with this method is that even though this will stop most bots from randomly selecting your site, it doesn't stop people from writing manual automated scripts. http://paulalkema.com/post.cfm/one-of-the-worst-security-holes-in-captcha-s-and-how-you-can-fix-it I th... read more »

• Performing Disaster Recovery After A ColdFusion Page Timeout Exception

  Posted on Apr 23, 2009 at 11:58 AM

  Great post! You may want to wrap cfoutput tags around your final output on line 112 though or it won't output. :)... read more »