ColdFusion Tutorial Categories
-
Dynamic textbox and progress bar for your pages
The principle of this tutorial is similar to "Dynamic time and date for your pages" tutorial. Except that this one generates messages, and that one updated time. Read on, you will get the hang of it....
Difficulty: Beginner | Author: Anang A Phatak | Views: 24,911 | Posted Date: Thursday, May 19, 2005 -
Background Color Changer
Simple list of links to: 1. Change the background color of current page. 2. Demonstrate CFParam and URLEncodedFormat (both of them can be life savers!) 3. Provide hours of fun for the easily amused (I'm guilty as charged).
Difficulty: Beginner | Author: Bryce | Views: 13,861 | Posted Date: Thursday, March 25, 2004 -
JavaScript Form Validation
Yes, I know we're a ColdFusion site...but ColdFusion does not live in a vacuum. We have to know SQL, HTML, CSS...and sometimes...JavaScript! This tutorial focuses on using JavaScript (in lieu of cfform) to create client side form validation (and explains why writing your own is better than using).
Difficulty: Intermediate | Author: Charlie Griefer (CJ) | Views: 58,460 | Posted Date: Thursday, August 14, 2003 -
QueryStringSet
Replaces or Adds a variable with its value on a cgi.Query_String alike. It supports multiple values at the same time separated by commas
Difficulty: Intermediate | Author: Diego Benitez | Views: 11,932 | Posted Date: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 -
E-mail Scramble
This simple CFC scrambles your e-mail into ASCII-equivalent characters, reducing the chance of your e-mail being phished by bots and spiders significantly.
Difficulty: Intermediate | Author: David Patricola | Views: 10,981 | Posted Date: Sunday, July 9, 2006 -
Generate a unique number from current date and time
This is a function that generates a 14-digits unique number from the current date and time. You can use this number as a unique ID for your database records.
Difficulty: Intermediate | Author: Ikramy Ghidan | Views: 14,447 | Posted Date: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 -
Displaying Tag Restrictions on ColdFusion Server
This Tutorial will show you how to display tag restricitons with Sandbox Security enabled.
Difficulty: Beginner | Author: James Harvey | Views: 13,353 | Posted Date: Thursday, August 27, 2009 -
SEO URLS via ColdFusion
In this tutorial, I'm showing you a working method for URL Rewriting using ColdFusion, and a ColdFusion CFC.
You'll be able to have your old urls like: http://yoursite.com/index.cfm?var1=1&var2=2
to be viewed and displayed as: http://yoursite.com/index.cfm/var1/1/var2/2/
Difficulty: Beginner | Author: James Harvey | Views: 3,280 | Posted Date: Thursday, September 24, 2009 -
Collecting User Statistics with JavaScript, and ColdFusion
This tutorial shows you how to gather and store user statistics, including Browser, Browser Version, Screen Width, Color Depth, Screen Height, Bit Rate and User Environment. Includes Browser Detection for IPhone, Blackberry, and Android-based mobile devices...
Difficulty: Beginner | Author: James Harvey | Views: 12,648 | Posted Date: Thursday, September 24, 2009 -
Optimizing a MySQL Database in Coldfusion
In this tutorial I'll show you how to optimze your database tables in MySQL (The script is very similiar for SQL Server) by using CFQUERY in a coldfusion page.
Difficulty: Beginner | Author: James Harvey | Views: 4,149 | Posted Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 -
Detecting Mobile Browsers
It's becoming more and more common that Users are accessing your website from a mobile web browser (like that from an IPhone, Blackberry, Android or other mobile device). It's also becoming more prevelant that you need to start supporting and developing for the mobile platforms. But how would you begin?
This tutorial will help you out.
Difficulty: Beginner | Author: James Harvey | Views: 4,879 | Posted Date: Tuesday, December 1, 2009 -
Replacing "enter" key with "<br>" tag
This little piece of code will transform those pesky "enter" keys in a textarea into "
" tags so your users input is printed out properly in your html page.
Difficulty: Beginner | Author: Jim Summer | Views: 28,961 | Posted Date: Friday, December 13, 2002 -
Zip Code Radius
Ever wondered how sites are able to return stores that are within a certain radius of your own zip code?
Difficulty: Intermediate | Author: kaigler | Views: 34,003 | Posted Date: Sunday, June 29, 2003 -
Reading JPEG Exif data with ColdFusion and Java
How to read EXIF and IPTC data from a JPEG image.
Difficulty: Advanced | Author: Martin Thorpe | Views: 19,012 | Posted Date: Friday, September 16, 2005 -
How Can I Safely Upload Files?
Use CFFILE to allow file uploads that are restricted in size and by MIME type, with friendly error messages.
Difficulty: Beginner | Author: Matt Robertson | Views: 21,542 | Posted Date: Thursday, June 17, 2004 -
Creating an OO Data Factory!
This tutorial will show you how to create an OO Data Factory that will allow you to easily extend your applications to multiple database servers.
Difficulty: Intermediate | Author: M. Couvion | Views: 18,891 | Posted Date: Friday, August 25, 2006 -
Dynamically add and remove a 'please wait' message to your complex pages
You can use a combination ofand javascript to show a message on the screen while processing a large data set (or any other long-running task), and then remove the message when the task is complete.
Difficulty: Beginner | Author: Nathan Miller | Views: 45,443 | Posted Date: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 -
ColdFusion Content Injection
Inject customized content into predefined messages by adding specially formatted placeholders in the message.
Difficulty: Intermediate | Author: Nathan Miller | Views: 19,368 | Posted Date: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 -
Highlight
This cfscript highlights a substring in a string.
Difficulty: Intermediate | Author: Nebu Kadnezar | Views: 9,894 | Posted Date: Monday, May 1, 2006 -
Podcast Using Coldfusion and XML
A Complete Way how we can add a fetch a Podcast and display on the website. Very easy with just Simple XML Tags. the Tutorial has been Influenced by various Peoples works and Finally i came Up with this. Check and You will have the Podcast view for your own website.
Difficulty: Beginner | Author: Gurpreet Singh Randhawa | Views: 2,805 | Posted Date: Thursday, October 22, 2009 -
Dynamic Template Delivery (DTD) in FB3 (Fusebox 3) and as a CFC...
This tutorial will demonstrate how to speed up development and simply your life by using template delivery in FuseBox and CFC's.
Difficulty: Advanced | Author: Ray Bayly | Views: 28,090 | Posted Date: Thursday, April 3, 2003 -
Using ColdFusion Functions to clean up code
In another tutorial inspired by a co-worker, I look at the ability to clean up code using CF Functions in CF5 and CFMX.
Difficulty: Beginner | Author: Steven Durette | Views: 20,056 | Posted Date: Friday, November 28, 2003 -
Every Week has a Wednesday
This tutorial serves two purposes. First it demonstrates how to create a function that is usable in CF5, CFMX and CFMX6.1. It also demonstrates a math and logical way to determine the number of weeks in a month without looping.
Difficulty: Beginner | Author: Steven Durette | Views: 16,656 | Posted Date: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 -
Your first CFC !!!!
A simple and detailed of your first CFC. Great documentation of each step taken. A must for newbies!!!
Difficulty: Beginner | Author: Michael "Newkirk" MacDonald | Views: 20,026 | Posted Date: Sunday, January 23, 2005 -
Column View Output
Ever wanted your data to be output in a column view such as mailing labels are? Use this code and change only a few lines and your data will be output in a table with 3 columns and as many rows as you have data. A great alternative to the standard row based view. Very easy to modify.
Difficulty: Intermediate | Author: Rhino | Views: 15,974 | Posted Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 -
Website Monitor
Do you have a website that you'd like to monitor but would rather not pay outrageous fees to some company? This simple script will monitor uptime for you website. It is the barebones version and can be easily modified into something highly useful.
Difficulty: Intermediate | Author: Rhino | Views: 22,882 | Posted Date: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 -
Enter-Update same form
I hate creating duplicate forms where one is for entry and an identical one is for udpating. This code lets you use one form for both purposes.
Difficulty: Beginner | Author: Rhino | Views: 18,766 | Posted Date: Wednesday, April 7, 2004 -
Count Active Users On Your Site.
Have you ever wanted to display a count of how many people are on your web site at any given moment? This tutorial will demonstrate to you how to achieve just that. It will count your web site's active sessions and allow you to display them to your visitors.
Difficulty: Advanced | Author: Pablo Varando | Views: 48,494 | Posted Date: Sunday, August 25, 2002 -
Clearing your session variables!
This tutorial will demonstrate how to clear your applications sessions variables with just three lines of code!
Difficulty: Intermediate | Author: Pablo Varando | Views: 51,657 | Posted Date: Friday, October 4, 2002 -
ColdFusion and .INI Files!
This tutorial will demonstrate how to use .INI files with ColdFusion. Perfect for users wishing to create administration areas for existing software titles that are INI file driven (i.e. FTP Servers).
Difficulty: Intermediate | Author: Pablo Varando | Views: 38,758 | Posted Date: Friday, October 4, 2002 -
Using Arrays in ColdFusion To Properly Display Data....
This tutorial will show you how to use arrays to display data properly in ColdFusion.
Difficulty: Intermediate | Author: Pablo Varando | Views: 43,215 | Posted Date: Monday, October 28, 2002 -
Using CFRegistry to Add Your IP To CF Debug IP List!
This tutorial is intended to show you how to use the ColdFusion tag <CFRegistry>. This tutorial will show you how to add your current IP to the IP Debug List in the ColdFusion Administrator.
Difficulty: Advanced | Author: Pablo Varando | Views: 49,619 | Posted Date: Wednesday, November 6, 2002 -
CaSe SensitiVe password logins!
This tutorial will demonstrate how to verify users passwords to be CaSe SensiTive so add another layer of security to your applications!
Difficulty: Beginner | Author: Pablo Varando | Views: 75,210 | Posted Date: Wednesday, February 5, 2003 -
Correct Content (document) serving!
This tutorial will demonstrate how to correctly serve documents via ColdFusion and allow you to correctly name the download as you see fit!
Difficulty: Beginner | Author: Pablo Varando | Views: 28,320 | Posted Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 -
Generating random colors on your ColdFusion Charts using a User Defined Field (UDF)....
This tutorial will show you how to efficiently re-use code and in addition how to create a random list of colors that you can use with cfchart colorlist.
Difficulty: Beginner | Author: Pablo Varando | Views: 3,986 | Posted Date: Friday, June 5, 2009 -
Replacing Ugly Text With Nice Text Graphics
This tutorial will show you how to replace a text string with letter graphics. This is very nice and includes a zip file with all source ready to run. This also includes an active interactive example right here on the tutorial.
Difficulty: Intermediate | Author: Wesley Geddes | Views: 23,682 | Posted Date: Friday, July 15, 2005 -
URL Encryption/Decryption
About the tutorial:
This is a simple encryption/decryption example.
In this example will encrypt a URL which used in different email campaign , the purpose to use an encrypted URL as we all know is a security issue.
I Will go over the code step by step.
Difficulty: Beginner | Author: | Views: 1,151 | Posted Date: Saturday, October 17, 2009
ADVERTISEMENT
