From our current poll on your opinion about Flash Remoting with CFForm, it is clear that most of our readers are excited about it. There are others, however, that either find it too complex or do not know what Remoting is.
I will try to help both groups by explaining what Remoting is and how it can be used.
read more Category: CFForm | ColdFusion | Flash Remoting |Built-in validation in cfform is great, but sometimes, it is a little inflexible. What happens if we want to require a State field only if the Country field is US? There is no "built-in" way to specify such a thing. But there is a simple technique we can use. As always, use these tips only if you know what you are doing ;), as they may have side effects.
read more Category: CFForm | ColdFusion |This is an old example that we made for a presentation that we gave to the Michigan user group. It shows how to check and uncheck checkBoxes in a cfgrid. Once you have a least one item checked, you can remove it from the grid. A confirmation pops up before the action gets executed just in case. Then you need to submit the form to see the results.
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Now that we are using some features of the flash player 8 such as file upload, we need detect whether the user has it installed in his/her computer. Macromedia has recently published an article on DevNet that explains how to implement a detection script and new feature called "Flash Player Express Install", which greatly simplifies the flash install. To be honest, I didn't read the article, but instead, I made a small script that checks for the flash 8 inside the cfform.
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In many cases, we upload images, so I want to show how to display the uploaded image right there in the flash form. Right now, we can only load jpgs.
In the simplest case, the file name of the picture will be the same when it gets uploaded. So in order to show it, when only need the original file name.
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