The following is a list of tips & tricks that I've learned and decided to share with others to help them in any projects they may be working on. Feel free to use them as you deem fitting and if you have any tips or tricks that you wish to share, please email them to me and I will include them with full credit to you.

-John Bartlett

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Allowing commas in a numeric CFINPUT text field  
Automatic FTP Utility  
Automatically purging old generated files  
Blocking site rippers  
CFMX Performance Logging  
Changing form fields in a different frame  
Changing the action field of a form tag  
Cold Fusion ate my webserver!  
Creating a logfile of a programs execution  
Creating arrays of more than three dimensions  
Database issue with URL ID fields - possible for web users to KILL your database tables  
Debugging your program with the Remote Development Server (RDS)  
Decoding form fields  
Display the Browser Print function  
Dumping a Javascript array  
Duplicating the Session scope  
Dynamically creating a Microsoft Rich Text Document  
Ending a session when the user closes their browser  
Fetching the contents of generated field names  
File time stamp changes with Daylight Savings on NT machines  
Forcing a user to relog after x number of minutes  
Forcing the browser not to cache a document  
Grabbing informaion from another website  
IE: Changing the contents of your website on the fly with <DIV>  
Inserting a LONG field into Oracle  
Issues with comma separated documents and Excel  
Javascript: Checking for illegal characters  
Javascript: Checking if required fields have data  
Javascript: Checking to see if dropdown selection boxes have a selection  
Javascript: Checking to see if multi-dropdown selection boxes have a selection  
Javascript: Moving items from one multi-select box to another  
Javascript: Smart Select Lists  
Javascript: Trimming form fields  
Javascript: Validating Integer and Float fields  
Locking down the URL  
Managing Application and Session variables  
Monitoring a webserver  
Multiple dynamic drop-down selection boxes  
Next n Records  
OnRequestEnd.cfm template  
Passing information from a child window to the parent window  
Passing variables between clustered servers  
Populating Text fields based off a drop-down selection box  
Preventing a user from Reloading a page and causing duplicate updates  
Query Caching  
Reading a text file, one line at a time  
Reading BINARY files in MX  
Reprocessing bounced emails  
Restricting the amount of data a user can enter in a textarea form field  
Scheduling a program to execute only on certain days  
Select All/Deselect All button  
Sorting an Array by the 2nd demension  
Speeding up a query  
The CFAPPLICATION tag and Session variables  
Using the Javascript "onChange" function in a CFSELECT field  
Using User ID's and Passwords  
Web based CFStat tool  
Why won't Cold Fusion send my Email???  
Y2K issue with DateAdd in CF 4.1 and CF 4.5  


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