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Creating Better Search Functionality & Indexed Collections with ColdFusion MX 7

Document indexing and searching has always been one of the hidden gems in ColdFusion. Since the early days of ColdFusion, the Verity search technology has been an integral part of creating dynamic, high-function web applications. With the release of ColdFusion MX 7, the ColdFusion development team completely rearchitected this feature from the ground up, using the latest Verity K2 Enterprise release. With this upgrade, ColdFusion MX 7 takes advantage of the latest document filters, features, and capabilities of the best-of-breed Verity technology.

CF - Experimenting With Flash Form Styles

The look of Flash Forms can be controlled using styles. To help fine tune style selections, [I] threw this quick and dirty form together. It allows you to set eight style settings, the results of which are immediately reflected in a sample button control. Note that [I] am using the setStyle() method to set styles programmatically at runtime, but styles are typically defined in the style attribute.

Brainstorming with Nimer: ColdFusion Gateways

What are these things and what can I do with them - including SMS phone applications, IM bots, and Oracle triggers.

With the announcement of ColdFusion MX 7 in February, [we] introduced event gateways that turn the ColdFusion web application server into a bona fide Internet application server. The gateways are a great new feature for developers. You can now build applications for a variety of protocols and devices, not just HTTP. Because it's ColdFusion, we made it easy to develop and deploy outside the browser, and you can let your imagination run wild.

CFMX 7: Upgrade Best Practices

How many of you have been scouring Macromedia ColdFusion Support trying to find information on steps for upgrading to CFMX 7. While [I] haven't seen anything official, here's [my best practice steps for upgrading. Understand that CFMX 7 is designed to install side-by-side with your CFMX 6.x (or any previous CF version) and it defaults to C:\CFusionMX7 or /opt/CFusionMX7. With that in mind, here's what [I] would do for upgrades...

phpSec's PHP Security Guide

phpSec.org has published a guide for security measures in PHP.

Covers basic steps, register globals, data filtering, naming conventions, error reporting, form processing, spoofed form submissions, spoofed HTTP requests, SQL injections, sessions, shared hosts, and much more!