If you're creating dynamic pages from a database, you've probably heard the buzz about SEO friendly URLs. There's a little more work involved than simply…
ColdFusion Facebook – unsupported post request
I've you've searched other posts, they've not doubt recommended that you URL Encode your parameters, put the access token in a <cfhttpparam>, specify a content…
ColdFusion dates within common time periods
I've had to do this so many times over the years, for all sorts of different time frames, so I decided to build, document and…
ColdFusion Session Locking – Keep it quick!
Lately I've been noticing, while examining chunks of ColdFusion code out there, that many folks don't give much thought to what goes on inside their…
HTTP Post doesn’t work – OAuth 2.0 – Google – ColdFusion
I spent many wasted hours this morning debugging a Google OAuth 2.0 response error, and felt foolish when I discovered what I was missing –…
ColdFusion SQL Bulk Insert based on structure keys
I realize this particular requirement might be rare, but it comes in handy when you have an XREF (cross-reference) table which ties two tables together.…
ColdFusion function / CFC – dynamic arguments
Passing a dynamic number of arguments to a ColdFusion function is possible, but the method isn't obvious. ColdFusion provides the argumentCollection attribute, which assists the…
Summarizing large amounts of text
There are a few tricks that can be used to summarize a body of text into a paragraph. One of the simplest methods is to…
ColdFusion dynamic sitemap
I searched the web this morning in hopes that someone has already written a recursive sitemap generator in ColdFusion. It may be out there, but…
cfimage resizing issues
If you are using the ColdFusion image resize tag to size down images, you may occasionally run into an error during resizing. Although your web…