News by Evagoras Charalambous

A ColdFusion weather custom tag

15 Sep 15:00
This custom tag will allow you to easily add a weather control to your website. Using the XML data feeds from weather.com we can produce owesome looking weather controls, both for current conditions and for forecasts. This control has a multitude of attributes, is fully customizable, easy to use, comes with example templates, and full source code provided.

A Coldfusion color picker custom tag

27 Jun 15:00
We'll learn how to create and use a Coldfusion custom tag, that will add a color picker field to a form and make it easy to select a web safe color. No popups were harmed during the making of this article!

Firefox download counter in Coldfusion

21 Jun 15:00
We'll see how to create and use a Coldfusion custom tag that will make it easy for us to display the Firefox download counter.

Working with cfpop email headers

31 Mar 15:00
Using the cfpop tag to retrieve emails returns the headers as one long text string, which makes it difficult to get specific values. In this article we'll see first how to get the headers, and then how to work with them to get the name-value pair we want.