Your customer says, "I want my site search to include all of my regular site
pages and my data-based items as well. When my customer clicks on the link, I
want it to show the correct page. Oh, and I want all occurrences of the
searched phrase to be highlighted in yellow."
Back at your desk, you follow the book and plug in the parameters for each
page. The databased entries are a little more difficult, but you figure it
out and run the program to populate the Verity search engine.
The items in the static pages are found okay, but none of the data-based
content appears correctly - although sometimes you see your ColdFusion code
show up in the results page (Oy!). You mess around a little more and get the
data-based items into Verity, but clicking on the link keeps taking you... (more)
First, a confession: I'm a Microsoft SQL Server plebe. Oh, sure, I've written
plenty of SQL commands for Access, Foxpro and even an occasional Oracle
database, but the needs of more than one client called out for me to tackle
SQL Server.
Have you traveled down this road yet? Maybe you've tried to set up an OLEDB
connection only to be stymied by the terminology, or perhaps connection
fai... (more)
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service had lived with their ColdFusion-based,
accomplishment-reporting Web site for about a year. The application allowed
employees to report field accomplishments to area managers who then edited
and released the reports for internal-only or public review on their Web
site, or via e-mail or fax to the media or Congress.
I had used a fairly standard frame layout ... (more)
Some of us have trouble just trying to get CFFILE to upload an image
correctly and put it in its proper place, without having a Macintosh user
report that it doesn't work for him or her. Diligently searching the
Macromedia ColdFusion forums provided the base solutions for me, and I
packaged those fixes with my own touches to create a custom file upload tag
for you.
I realize that there ... (more)
Randy L. Smith is president/CEO of Midwest Computer Programming and Internet (www.mcpi.com), an Internet/intranet database solution provider based in Hudson, Wisconsin. He has been developing large-scale, Web-based applications for businesses and nonprofits of all sizes, as well as state and federal entities, since 1993. Randy has been working in the computer industry since 1978, and with ColdFusion since 1996.
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