Randy L. Smith

Recent Blog Comments By Randy L. Smith

• Making Sure Your ColdFusion Applications Are Uniquely Named

  Posted on Nov 17, 2011 at 3:57 PM

  I've run into a different issue with this Application stuff, and I don't think the hash is going to fix it. I generate an application name using some uniqueness a little above the hash example above: <CFOUTPUT> <CFSET TempName=LEFT(REREPLACE(CGI.SERVER_NAME,"[^[:alnum:]]","... read more »

• Using CAPTCHA In ColdFusion 8

  Posted on Aug 25, 2011 at 5:53 PM

  Diana, Are you using checkboxes? It looks to me like you used a check box, got a fail, backed up (or came back around to run the same program) and the variables didn't clear out so now you have two values for one variable and that's why you have a "1,1" instead of just a "1". ... read more »

• Using CAPTCHA In ColdFusion 8

  Posted on Feb 3, 2011 at 12:55 PM

  Ben, you wrote: "By default, ColdFusion 8 writes the CAPTCHA image to a randomly named image in the image servlet and then writes that image to the browser (recommended IMO). However, if you provide a destination (an absolute or relative path) file, ColdFusion 8 will write the CAPTCHA image to ... read more »

• Making SOAP Web Service Requests With ColdFusion And CFHTTP

  Posted on Jul 23, 2010 at 9:36 PM

  Ben, I can't thank you enough for saving my bacon tonight! Client posted a number of ways to access their web services (SOAP, C#, VB.NET, Java, and .... csv?) and I am not versed in any of those (csv would have been okay, but they force a download to a spreadsheet instead of giving me the values t... read more »