Hello,     I wanted to stop by and thank you and some of the other readers/developers out there that were willing to assist me on this.  Since I was new at the time (and still pretty new to the cold fusion programming side) my head was kind of spinning with all of the stuff that was being thrown at me at once.  I think I have a pretty good grip on what CF is about, what is can do, what we can do with it and start contributing back to the group, I have my own domain now where I am sharing some of the material I have learned and some of the things I am working on.  I'm not sure if this is the place to post but it's not hurting anything if I do.  I didn't do the conversion thing during last semester because some of the concepts were new to me and I couldn't quite get the output that I wanted so I borrowed just one (in the public domain) and used it for that project.  I still gave the author credit, because that's how I roll.  Do unto others, as I was taught growing up.  I'm still going to figure that out.  My restriction was that I learn ow to do it in Cold Fusion.  I see why people were saying it wasn't necessary and that it could be done in  a number of other ways.  That is true.  My Professor wanted to see me handle the form, the variables, the action page and the output and display it on a web page and I didn't have the chops to do it.  I have gotten much better and can do other things, but still having trouble finding the best way to do that and displaying the correct output or not more than one.  I will figure it out though.  I'm very close, especially with everyone's help.  It kind of doesn't make sense because I can do work like this: Pro2  This is  site I wrote almost, entirely in Cold Fusion using database-drive material.  It's not complete and has some typos, but as you can see, it works.  Beats me, why I can do the most impossible types of things, but put some legos in front of me and I probably couldn't stack 3 of them without the thing tipping over. ... View more

I am still around.  I appreciate the help.  As I stated earlier, I am new to CF and was seeking help to round out a project.  Some of this we simply hadn't covered.  I ended up doing a different project but still incorporated a few of the ideas posted into it, but I did go outside to another source because all I needed were weight conversions.  I simply could not justify or handle doing a project on solely on conversions when I didn't know how to complete the process at the time.  So I created something different that was better received for my skill level.  I just signed up for shared hosting and will be posting some of my work soon. Took some time off to get away for a while and also deal with medical shtuff as I will be in July.  But, hopefully I'll get some time to sit down and get into writing some new material and posting up some of what I already did.  It's not Einsteinian by any stretch but I think I have some good ideas and wish to share with folks as well.  You will see that I am more the artist than the programmer, but I have been working to change that.  Next semester is going to be a doozie: Javacript, Advanced Web Development, PHP, and more Graphic Design stuff.  I was also able to fit in an accelerated Introduction to Java course during the spring so I have needed the time to decompress.  Now, I'm starting to get that itch again. ... View more

Thank you, thank you, thank you. This is very helpful.  I wanted to do a whole conversion thing but my time is growing short so I am going try to use this as part of the bigger picture.  I just don't have the chops yet to do it all.  I scoured for weeks to find a solution that didn't involve a ton of work.  You have that.  It isn't a difficult task.  It takes logic and the time to sit down, think it through, plan it and just do it.  I think I may have been complicating it somewhat.  However, like I said I am new to CF and how to do things with it.  You are 100% correct.  This is easily done in HTML.  No need to bring the big guns in unless you are in a CF class and they want to see you do something next level up and that's what I was trying to do.  Back in the day (way back) in the days of Dinosaurs and BASIC, implement variables and arrays and looping and doing calculations was easy for me.  The concepts are basically the same but the terminology, syntax, order and process is different.  I did really well with some part of the course and not so well with the math part-- not because it is difficult, but they spend so little time on it.  It seems to me that the emphasis is on moving things around and drawing on the power of the omniscient, ever-present database.  Thanks so much for your help and I will see if I can do something with what you have provided.  Perhaps some day I will be able to help you out with something.  It most probably won't be programming-related, but maybe something else.  You never know.  But, I do know that things happen for a reason and we may cross paths again one day.  I sincerely appreciate your help. Claude ... View more

Thank you.  Still reading and learning, but haven't figured out how to change a result I get on the action page to a variable and process it further.  I think I may have to use a database. ... View more

Where is the pdf document? All I am getting is a 404 error and something asking me to join dropbox. ... View more

None of your links are working properly. ... View more