Include CF code in coldfusion generated template
I'm using cfsavecontent to create a bunch of .cfm files. I need to include a few lines of coldfusion code but I cannot figure out how to include them into my templates without coldfusion executing them rather than including them in the template in raw text format? Any ideas? Thanks, Wayne ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:352901 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Include CF code in coldfusion generated template
you will need to NOT use cfsavecontent in that case. Just put the content into a variable and use CFFILE to save it. On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 10:58 PM, wayne Gregori w...@sfnet.com wrote: I'm using cfsavecontent to create a bunch of .cfm files. I need to include a few lines of coldfusion code but I cannot figure out how to include them into my templates without coldfusion executing them rather than including them in the template in raw text format? Any ideas? Thanks, Wayne ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:352902 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Spam:****, Re: Include CF code in coldfusion generated template
Russ, here's what I'm doing now... can you suggest the easiest way to save this content to a variable? !--- save to html file and write to disc --- cfsavecontent variable=htmlDoc cfinclude template=includes/master_plugin_realestate.cfm /cfsavecontent cffile action=write file=/home/www/www.gregorigroup.com/htdocs/market_data/#trim(findregions.command_prefix)#_#dateformat(now(),'mm-dd-yy')#.cfm output='#htmlDoc#' mode=777 Thanks On Sun, 2012-10-14 at 23:45 +0100, Russ Michaels wrote: you will need to NOT use cfsavecontent in that case. Just put the content into a variable and use CFFILE to save it. On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 10:58 PM, wayne Gregori w...@sfnet.com wrote: I'm using cfsavecontent to create a bunch of .cfm files. I need to include a few lines of coldfusion code but I cannot figure out how to include them into my templates without coldfusion executing them rather than including them in the template in raw text format? Any ideas? Thanks, Wayne ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:352903 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Best practice question for Application.cfc
If it is only applicationname that you need to be unique, then you could just use a hash of template path as app name, or some variation of the below: this.name = hash(getCurrenttTmplatePath()); Azadi On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 10:47 PM, Nick Gleason n.glea...@citysoft.com wrote: Hi Folks, We're moving from application.cfm to application.cfc and I had a question regarding best practices. We re-use our base code and in the past, we have used a settings page that is external from the base code and unique per client to set the applicationname variable (and other variables). This is called at the beginning of application.cfm and provides cfapplication with the unique application name. That same structure seems to work with application.cfc but requires calling a file at the top of application.cfc, above setting the application variables in application.cfc, to provide the applicationname. Is that approach (calling a file at the top of application.cfc to provide a unique client setting) considered a best practice for this kind of thing. Or, is there a more appropriate way? The only other thing I could think of would be to hard code the unique client applicationname in Application.cfc, but that would then require that Application.cfc be a unique file per client and thus not part of our core base code in the sense that we wouldn't include it in upgrades (so that it wouldn't over-write a unique client file with default values). Any thoughts on that? Let me know if I'm not being clear. Thank you in advance! Nick ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:352904 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Best practice question for Application.cfc
Many thanks Mike and Dave. Sounds like we're in the ball park. If anyone else has different ways of doing it, let me know. Best, Nick Return-Path: listmas...@houseoffusion.com Received: from mail.houseoffusion.com [64.118.74.225] by mail67.safesecureweb.com with SMTP; Sat, 13 Oct 2012 14:12:49 -0400 To: cf-talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Message-ID: CAOnEp2f+=czlr6qqqsjymn6lvnqy0srlow5ts+ks8nv5+a6...@mail.gmail.com Subject: Re: Best practice question for Application.cfc References: CACi=xszchjy1aa1pzuhnjw5qktbat800vd+sasfjpmvugv9...@mail.gmail.com Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 05:12:19 +1100 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: cf-talk@houseoffusion.com From: Mike Kear afpwebwo...@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rcpt-To: n.glea...@citysoft.com X-SmarterMail-Spam: SpamAssassin 0.6 [raw: 0.6], SPF_None, DK_None X-SmarterMail-TotalSpamWeight: 0 Which ever way you do it, somewhere or other you have to have a file that's unique to this site, or have a settings record in a database or some such. Does it REALLY make much difference if it's a site-specific Application.cfc or a site-specific Settings.xml file or a site-specific Settings table in a database? The way I do it is to have a config folder in the core code, which is where I put the site-specific things that are called by the generic core code. There's usually a config.xml with site name, application name, passwords to things. Then when I create a new site, I copy all the core code over, then go into the config folder and modify all the values in the config.xml.The config.xml file is called into a config.cfc that sets up all the application and other critical variables for the site at application start. But I dont think you necessarily need to do it the way I do.I would suggest though, that you keep all the site-specific variables in one place (in my case a config folder) so it's quick and easy to set up a new site. And also when you modify your code, you know that you can safely copy all your modified files into your other similar sites without breaking all the site-specific settings. This is not related to whether or not you use Application.cfm or Application.cfc. The same principles apply however you set up your code. But since you are changing your architecture, it's a good time to examine whether you have opportunities to make your code better organised. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion 9 Enterprise, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 1:46 AM, Dave Watts wrote: We're moving from application.cfm to application.cfc and I had a question regarding best practices. We re-use our base code and in the past, we have used a settings page that is external from the base code and unique per client to set the applicationname variable (and other variables). This is called at the beginning of application.cfm and provides with the unique application name. That same structure seems to work with application.cfc but requires calling a file at the top of application.cfc, above setting the application variables in application.cfc, to provide the applicationname. Is that approach (calling a file at the top of application.cfc to provide a unique client setting) considered a best practice for this kind of thing. Or, is there a more appropriate way? The only other thing I could think of would be to hard code the unique client applicationname in Application.cfc, but that would then require that Application.cfc be a unique file per client and thus not part of our core base code in the sense that we wouldn't include it in upgrades (so that it wouldn't over-write a unique client file with default values). I think the most common approach for this sort of thing with Application.cfc is to use inheritance. You can have a base Application.cfc, then use the EXTENDS attribute to create a new Application.cfc with customized settings, overridden event handlers, etc. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ http://training.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers, online, or onsite. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:352905 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Spam:****, Re: Include CF code in coldfusion generated template
cfsavecontent is actually a plain cfml custom tag, so you could just take a copy of it and put inside your site and modify it not the render the content. On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 11:52 PM, wayne Gregori w...@sfnet.com wrote: Russ, here's what I'm doing now... can you suggest the easiest way to save this content to a variable? !--- save to html file and write to disc --- cfsavecontent variable=htmlDoc cfinclude template=includes/master_plugin_realestate.cfm /cfsavecontent cffile action=write file=/home/www/ www.gregorigroup.com/htdocs/market_data/#trim(findregions.command_prefix)#_#dateformat(now(),'mm-dd-yy')#.cfm output='#htmlDoc#' mode=777 Thanks On Sun, 2012-10-14 at 23:45 +0100, Russ Michaels wrote: you will need to NOT use cfsavecontent in that case. Just put the content into a variable and use CFFILE to save it. On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 10:58 PM, wayne Gregori w...@sfnet.com wrote: I'm using cfsavecontent to create a bunch of .cfm files. I need to include a few lines of coldfusion code but I cannot figure out how to include them into my templates without coldfusion executing them rather than including them in the template in raw text format? Any ideas? Thanks, Wayne ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:352906 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Spam:****, Re: Include CF code in coldfusion generated template
This is what I do when writing code generators. I create templates and escape them so they do not execute like so cfsavecontent variable=bla ^cfoutput ^input type=hidden name=#MyPK# value=##url.#MyPK### ^cfif action eq edit_#query_name# ^input type=hidden name=event value=#query_name#_edited.##Section##.##nav## ^cfelse ^input type=hidden name=event value=#query_name#_added.##Section##.##nav## ^/cfif ^/cfoutput /cfsavecontent And then strip out the carets like so cffunction name=CleanCode displayname=CleanCode access=public hint=I Clean the Code before writing it to disk output=false returntype=string cfargument name=MyCodeString displayname=My Code String hint=The Code to be cleaned type=string required=true / cfreturnvar replace(arguments.MyCodeString,^,,all) /cffunction If you want to learn more about code generation check out the code generator apps on RiaForge http://www.riaforge.org/index.cfm?event=page.search#generator I learned a lot from Brian Rinaldi's Illudium PU-36 Code Generator http://cfcgenerator.riaforge.org/ Look at the CFML templates that he uses if you are not familiar with XSL. HTH G! On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 9:31 PM, Russ Michaels r...@michaels.me.uk wrote: cfsavecontent is actually a plain cfml custom tag, so you could just take a copy of it and put inside your site and modify it not the render the content. On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 11:52 PM, wayne Gregori w...@sfnet.com wrote: Russ, here's what I'm doing now... can you suggest the easiest way to save this content to a variable? !--- save to html file and write to disc --- cfsavecontent variable=htmlDoc cfinclude template=includes/master_plugin_realestate.cfm /cfsavecontent cffile action=write file=/home/www/ www.gregorigroup.com/htdocs/market_data/#trim(findregions.command_prefix)#_#dateformat(now(),'mm-dd-yy')#.cfm output='#htmlDoc#' mode=777 Thanks On Sun, 2012-10-14 at 23:45 +0100, Russ Michaels wrote: you will need to NOT use cfsavecontent in that case. Just put the content into a variable and use CFFILE to save it. On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 10:58 PM, wayne Gregori w...@sfnet.com wrote: I'm using cfsavecontent to create a bunch of .cfm files. I need to include a few lines of coldfusion code but I cannot figure out how to include them into my templates without coldfusion executing them rather than including them in the template in raw text format? Any ideas? Thanks, Wayne ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:352907 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
