This is a brilliantly simple solution I have seen somewhere on the web sometimes back and I needed it yesterday, but my rather fussy brain forgot where it was. And web is too big and the page was too small, Google could not find it. Gladly I remember bit of it, so I recreated it.HTMLEditFormat()  can covert special characters and symbols such as & or © in to html special character codes like & or ©. (more..)

cfsearch is one of the most helpful and powerful ColdFusion function that most of developers seems to continues to ignore. Here is a very basic step by step explanation how to use cfcollection, cfindex and cfsearch to create a powerful search function for our websites. Why cfsearch? Why not SQL search?Basic SQL searches are fine for search with a specific keyword, employer name or a phone number. (more..)

 USPS tracking API is extremely simple. All you need is API login from USPS and cfhttp tag to get it to work… well almost. Here I put together a custom tag to track USPS shipping details. (more..)

ColdFusion image text writing functions are relatively simple. It can write text on an image quite fast with some styles, but it’s not capable of go to the next line or handle text styled with multiple fonts. There is lot more space left for draw text function to be improved. Last week I had to convert html formatted string of text to an image and ColdFusion native image functions could not do that. (more..)

DateAdd() function is fine, it add number of days or hours or any other time unit to an given date. But today I had to add couple of working days, not just days, to the ‘order date’ of an item and display the ‘shipping date’ of it. DateAdd() function have little direct help in that since it calculate through weekends and Labor Day and all other days that we all don’t like to wake up early. (more..)

I was listening to Ray Charles and coding on my blog application, trying to improve it a bit with beautifully developed tinyMCE Editor and realize I need a simple image manager to go with it. There is ColdFusion File Manager, a wonderful application with lot of functions, but I wanted something simpler, just images, if possible with thumbnails. I wrote simple bit of coding, with help of JQuery and here it is. (more..)

I use JQuery on everything, on my coffee, on my bread and even to fix IE. I was posting FCBKcomplete ColdFusion wrapper few hours ago and I notice my code coloring box acting really wired inside IE. FireFox fine. Chrome is beautiful. I use max-height:500px; overflow:auto; white-space:nowrap; and all I wanted was, if my code box contents height is more than 500px, then display the scroll bar, if not, just dont do anything to my height. But it is absolutely too much for IE. (more..)

FCBKcomplete is a JQuery based facebook-like AJAX capable auto complete input filed and it’s beautiful. Click here for the demo page. Click here to download. Emposha, the brilliant dude behind this neat piece of coding releases regular updates. So make sure to download the latest version. (more..)

There are about 25,900 TextArea Maximum Length functions out there, Google said. I searched for a simple function that work on typing (Key Press) and on Copy and Paste, and able to use across the site without calling from each textarea. After few minutes of Googaling, I did not find any that fit my requirements, so here I put together a simple function You need JQuery to run this. (Download Here). (more..)

I was trying to upload large file, around 200 MB from my form to the server, and I received the error 500ROOT CAUSE: coldfusion.filter.RequestThrottleFilter$PostSizeLimitExceededException: Post Size exceeds the maximum limit.Not really nice of ColdFusion I thought, I wanted to upload large files. In ColdFusion “Maximum size of post data” set to 100 MB, which was large enough before HD video and all other use of large files comes to play. (more..)