Cold Fusion vs. Ihtml

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_009A_01C09271.C598D060 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I work in a shop that uses Ihtml. People there swear that CF is = inferior to Ihtml. IS that any data

Re: User history..where are users coming from?

Yep, cgi.http_referer (a classical mis-spelling) is what you're looking for. CFIF NOT FINDNOCASE("http://www.YourDomainHere.com",CGI.HTTP_REFERER) CFLOCATION to where you want them to start /CFIF best, paul At 05:06 PM 2/8/01 -0800, you wrote: I have been searching past posts and our

Re: dupes

It's a temporary problem, soon to be fixed. I get them too. Tom At 07:55 PM 2/8/01, you wrote: Why does this list constantly have duplicates posted to its members? Any thoughts? Regards, Stephen ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox.

Re: CF Query Column Order - Random?

Let me expand on Michael's mention of WDDX. (Thanks, Michael, for pointing me in this direction.) The WDDX packet contains a "recordset" tag which has a "fieldNames" attribute. The value of this "fieldNames" attribute is a list of the fields in the same order as they appear in the SELECT

RE: Bizarre disappearing page - help!!!

Time Out Maybe -Original Message- From: David Cummins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 9:43 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Bizarre disappearing page - help!!! Hi everybody! I've got this page which works until you have more than 1300ish records, and then the page

RE: Problem with Insert Using Select

You answered your own question in your last paragraph - you _can_ put constants and expressions in your select statement. Try something like this: INSERT into tbl (MyUUID, name, VersionID) SELECT '#CreateUUID()#', name, VersionID + 1 FROM tbl WHERE MYUUID = '#form.MyUUID#' Bob -Original

thumbnails

I've tried using CFX_GIFGD and CFX_IMAGE, but neither one allows you to set the quality (compression ratio) for JPG files. I'm trying to make low quality (fast loading) thumbnails auomatically. The thumbnails I make with ACDSee are about an eighth the size. Any suggestions?

RE: CFHTTP Link Checker?

You could use CFHTTP to do a GET on the URL. If it fails then it's not valid.. (I'd keep a running log of the number of times, then you can say after 4 times in a week, then the link must be down.) Darryl Lyons -Original Message- From: John B Venable Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

RE: W2K vs. NT

Dave, -- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] If you're only using SP5 (as opposed to SP6) for your web server, then you might be using the various FuseBox URL faking techniques. Those don't work on NT4 SP6 or Win2k. That's not an issue

Re: Refresh issue with shopping cart

Couldn't you add the items to the cart in one template and then do a cflocation to another? Then, if the user does a reload, they're simply refreshing the page that you did the relocate to instead of the one that did the cart update? Regards, Howie Hamlin - inFusion Project Manager On-Line

Re: OT: hardware

APC MasterSwitch... works like a charm. TCP socket, Telnet, or Web (HTTP) control interface! At 08:08 AM 2/8/01 -0700, Nick Call wrote: O.T. warning. I am trying to find a remote power cycling switch that is IP based, not telephony based. Anyone have experience or a good source for these?

harpoon

thanks for sending the beta location... it looks fantastic! does anyone have any urls of where i can actually see some of the apps in action? thanks chad ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at

RE: User history..where are users coming from?

a... methinks thou art great, all who have helped me with this ponderous dilemma. T -Original Message- From: Howie Hamlin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 9:04 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: User history..where are users coming from? If your site is

RE: Installing Advanced Security on NT4

Yes you can. When I re-installed a previous employer's server, I was able to add advanced security easily on a subsequent install of CF Enterprise. K - thanks -- Aidan Whitehall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Netshopper UK Ltd Advanced Web Solutions Services http://www.netshopperuk.com/

RE: Removing the documentation and sample applications

WRT security, does anyone know off the top of their head what files need deleting (and any other changes that might need making) in order to remove the sample applications and documentation if they were selected when installing ColdFusion on a server? I think they're all in the

RE: Session timeout question

that's not exactly true. if you define the timeouts of session variables in an application.cfm file, they can timeout at different times. if you set one to timeout in 15 minutes and another at 30 minutes, then idled for 20 minutes, the first would timeout, the second would not. How would

RE: Displaying the IP of a server

What variable holds the IP address of a server? CGI.REMOTE_ADDR Umm.. that's looks like my IP. Not the IP of the server. -- Aidan Whitehall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Netshopper UK Ltd Advanced Web Solutions Services http://www.netshopperuk.com/ Telephone +44 (01744) 648650 Fax +44 (01744)

RE: W2K vs. NT

At 2/8/2001 09:25 PM -0500, you wrote: If you're only using SP5 (as opposed to SP6) for your web server, then you might be using the various FuseBox URL faking techniques. Those don't work on NT4 SP6 or Win2k. That's not an issue if this is just a SQL box, but do keep that fact in

COM problem

Hello all. I received a com object from securepay.com to connect to their real time processing via https. I've installed it and rebooted and removed, rebooted then reinstalled and rebooted twice. When I try and run a test against it I get: Error - 10060 The current connection has timeout I

RE: SQL syntax for contol characters

How about square brackets? Nick -Original Message- From: Richard Kern [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 12:29 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: SQL syntax for contol characters A question for you. I have inherited an access db upsized to SQL7 that has some nasty

Re: SQL 2000

The coolest 2K extra is direct XML support. You can perform a http: query directly to the db and have XML returned or transformed XML via XSL into ... HTML or whatever. http://yourdomain/SQLRoot?sql=SELECT+*+FROM+products+FOR+XML+AUTOroot=root Also, I really like the upgrade to query

RE: Combinations

If your're doing it in Cf then sounds like you need to do it in the database. Something like this depending what you're using. 1 Build first query for add direct links and add to a temp table. 2 Then get a query with just the departure and not destination. 3Add these to temp table or query and

RE: HTML/OS - WRRONG

We exclusively run Netscape Servers here. Never had a problem. Mary ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives:

Books on CF,

Does anyone know of what up coming books are being published on CF besides the one that WROX is publishing? TIA Michael B ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm

CFMAIL on NT

Hi all Could we have a quick show of hands for something: We're using CF 4.5 (SP2) on NT 4 SP6 - trying to send mails using CFMAIL. When the CF server sends to a Linux-based SMTP server, between the 2 (NT/Linux), it's stripping CR's from the mail, leaving bare LF's (i.e. each line should end

RE: Wanted: Sr. Developer

Does that mean we need another list for TALKing about JOBS? I don't suppose so, but jobs shouldn't be posted here... Philip Arnold Director Certified ColdFusion Developer ASP Multimedia Limited T: +44 (0)20 8680 1133 "Websites for the real world"

RE: Can I display an image from a database?

Is there a way you can display an image from a database in ColdFusion? (no need to start with the reasons not to have images in a database, I am way past that issue, it really is fine to have them in the database in this particular application). I want to be able to have IMG tags in my HTML

RE: Stop Query From Caching

I have a page that calculates the shipping method after a person updates their cart. It looks in their shopping cart database table for the ship method, recalculates then redirects to the cart page. The problem is that sometimes the database gets changed, but the query runs off of "old"

RE: SQL syntax for contol characters

I have inherited an access db upsized to SQL7 that has some nasty column names, obviously won't ouput in CF without an alias. However is formating the SQL statement using a single quote returns the literal string within the quote and using a backtick to set it off generates an error in CF.

Re: Stop Query From Caching

Don't use the chachedwithin attribute in cfquery - Original Message - From: "Josh R" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "CF-Talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 10:57 PM Subject: Stop Query From Caching I have a page that calculates the shipping method after a person updates

RE: Bizarre disappearing page - help!!!

possibly odbc timeout rather than cf timeout... -Original Message- From: Joshua Tipton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 09 February 2001 05:53 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Bizarre disappearing page - help!!! Time Out Maybe -Original Message- From: David Cummins [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Problem with Insert Using Select

that wont work - db would look for a field with the generated UUID as a name... you need to have a subselect: INSERT into tbl (MyUUID, name, VersionID) SELECT (select '#CreateUUID()#') as MyUUID, name, VersionID + 1 FROM tbl WHERE MYUUID = '#form.MyUUID#' that should work... HTH Dan

RE: harpoon

There are example applications included with the Beta. If you are not already on the beta, send a request to [EMAIL PROTECTED], asking to participate. They will give you a login, which you can then use to download the Beta, including the samples. Benjamin S. Rogers Web Developer, c4.net Voice:

Re: Date Validation

oh, i dont want to change the date format, i want to validate against the "mm/dd/" format. "Sicular, Alexander" wrote: that doesn't do much for you because you are checking date against itself in a different format. this will check to make sure that the data passed is a valid date.

CFCOOKIE 101 - Need help

Hi all, Despite having used CF for 2 years, only know am I venturing into using CFCOOKIE. I have a couple of questions: - How can I make sure the browser has cookies enabled? - How much can I store in them? - Presumably I can encrypt / decrypt the contents? - Any pitfalls I should look out for

RE: User history..where are users coming from?

Tony wrote: I want to be able to ensure that visitors to certain parts of our site are actually arriving there by browsing our site. We have outside vendors linking to product manuals and downloading them from their site. When this happens I would like to bounce them to our home page and deter

Issues with CFX_IMAP4

Has anybody out there had any problems using the custom tag CFX_IMAP4? Steve ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives:

OT: Thoughs on Macromedia Takeover of Allaire

I've been thinking to day of the different possible scenario's we could face as CF developers. One of them struck me as quite amusing. Since MM are very much into integrating with Microsoft products does this mean we are going to start seeing "Wizards" in Access which generate CF code along

Re: [separate box for CF]

is your current setup slow? do you think you'll be getting more traffic or more CF intensive code executing? "Adrian Cesana" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im getting ready to upgrade our servers and am wondering if I should be running CF on a dedicated box, whats a good way to gauge this?

RE: User history..where are users coming from?

Tony wrote: I want to be able to ensure that visitors to certain parts of our site are actually arriving there by browsing our site. We have outside vendors linking to product manuals and downloading them from their site. When this happens I would like to bounce them to our home page and deter

Re: weather feeds

Thanks. There are several custom weather tags at Allaire. But the Weather Channel has copy and paste code that's free and brain dead easy. I'll stick with that unless the client wants a more nuetral look. DJ "C. Hatton Humphrey" wrote: If memory serves proppery, wx.com (which is CF based)

Re: Mailing List Server Explosion?

IF you guys read the admin e-mail, you would have already know this and why it happened. --=@ greg @=-- - Original Message - From: "Jason Larson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "CF-Talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 5:14 PM Subject: RE: Mailing List Server Explosion?

RE: Displaying the IP of a server

There's a custom tag in the gallery called cfx_nslookup that will allow you to get this. It can do a forward or reverse lookup. -Original Message- From: Aidan Whitehall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 3:28 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Displaying the IP of

Bind complete managment system

I was thinking of coding a complete management system for Bind 8, would there be anyone interested in me making something like this? Robert Everland III Web Developer Dixon Ticonderoga ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get

OT: Installing an ActiveX control in Netscape

I have an ActiveX control that I need to be cross-browser. I have a plug-in for Netscape that will allow the control to be run, but unfortunately it will not install the control first... the only way I can currently do it is to force the user to view the page first in IE and then the control

RE: PDF Detection

I'm there, thanks for the referral. -Original Message- From: Stephen M Aylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 11:29 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: PDF Detection Good question for www.planetpdf.com Steve - Original Message - From: "Paul Sizemore" [EMAIL

RE: Cold Fusion vs. Ihtml

Can you get the people who swear that CF is inferior to tell you what is bad about CF and what is good about ihtml? Kind of a Pros and Cons then we can tell you what is accurate and what is not accurate. -Original Message- From: Jaye Morris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday,

RE: Cold Fusion vs. Ihtml

I work in a shop that uses Ihtml. People there swear that CF is = inferior to Ihtml. IS that any data that shows how CF out performs Ihtml or = expresses the advantages of CF over Ihtml? I would very much appreciate the assistance. There is only one definite advantage that iHTML has

Re: Cold Fusion vs. Ihtml

Just a few that I'm aware of (I'm not all that familiar with iHTML): iHTML runs in the address space of the web server (not as a separate service). So, iHTML would be more prone to taking down a web server than CF. iHTML does not support COM (not sure if it supports CORBA but I doubt it).

Fw: Re: CF Query Column Order - Random?

After a night's sleep, I see that it may be simpler to outut the data directly from the WDDX packet. So instead of throwing the WDDX packet away, you'd throw away your original query, and parse the packet. This would avoid the use of Evaluate(). -David - Forwarded Message - From:

RE: (Admin) Fixed

The list is important and all, but I don't think it's right you need to find another job just because the mail gets clogged up every so often, are there any close CFers here you could maybe give admin access to the server or anything so that you could alleviate this problem. Or maybe give out the

RE: Session timeout question

i don't think that's strictly correct. you can't "define the timeouts" of session variables, you define them of the entire session. chris olive, cio cresco technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crescotech.com -Original Message- From: Dylan Bromby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

RE: Refresh issue with shopping cart

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi James, You can do this: In the form action page that takes the addition of shopping cart items, update their cart and then do a cflocation to a page that shows the items in their cart. Refreshing *that* page won't do anything but get them the

Re: SQL 2000

I hate trying to read M$'s licenses. Which paragraph is this in? best, paul At 11:05 PM 2/8/01 -0500, you wrote: Don't forget the fact that MS seems to have the option of pulling the plug on SQL 7 licensing at their whim. Then you'll have to purchase the upgrade to 2000 and surely end up

SQLServer - mySQL

Are there any conversion utilities for SQLServer to mySQL and what are the interface tools like for Win2k? One of my clients signed up for a hosting package on Solaris box. I specifically stated that SQLServer was required. The tech support and sales group told them the could just "upload

RE: DB construction...

Pick Database design for mere Mortals... -- Clint Tredway www.factorxsoftware.com -- ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives:

RE: Books on CF,

There are lots of books in the works ... * My two CF books (published by Que) are being revised for CF5. * The Mastering book (Sybex) is being revised for CF5 too. * My "Certified ColdFusion Developer Study Guide" ships in a few weeks. * McGraw Hill is also working on a title. * The O'Reilly

Syntax error in INSERT INTO statement

Hello, This gets me all the time. I created a simple survey form; checked and double-checked all fields and I still get a "Syntax error in INSERT INTO statement” error. All the fields correspond in the form CF page, and Access table. Is there some kind of bug or trick I’m missing here? Any help

RE: Displaying the IP of a server

You could try to ping cgi.server_name. I think there is a tag by Lewis Sellers at www.intrafoundation.com that does this. ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives:

Native Oracle Driver

Good morning list, does anyone know of a problem with the native oracle drivers in CF4.5.1 Enterprise? If the native driver is used and dates are selected, only the day and month are passed to CF. If ODBC is used, everything works correctly. The system runs CF Enterprise 4.5.1 (no SP) on

RE: Displaying the IP of a server

What variable holds the IP address of a server? CGI.REMOTE_ADDR Umm.. that's looks like my IP. Not the IP of the server. That's correct. There's no CGI variable which exposes any meaningful information about the IP address or DNS entry for a server. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software

CF and VSS

ColdFusion Developer Web Server WWWRoot Check out the files to a working directory Test and Check back in Is there a way to make VSS when you check it in copy it to wwwroot from the working directory? ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with

RE: CFHTTP Link Checker?

You could pull all http, mailto, ftp links that are submitted, submit them to a table then run a scheduled task to 1. (4.X) use cfx_http to get the response header that is returned. 2. (4.5) use cfhttp to "get" the "CFHTTP.StatusCode" Beware- both techniques have returned errors on certain

RE: User history..where are users coming from?

For your purposes this is probably fine, but readers should realize this is not guaranteed effective; the browser can send whatever it wants as the referer, and I think there are some "privacy-oriented" and other customized browsers that don't send anything at all. -Original Message-

RE: W2K vs. NT

You have to read the posting carefully. The problem is with IIS. best, paul At 10:34 PM 2/8/01 -0800, you wrote: Dave, I don't know what all this talk is about fusebox style urls (index.cfm/foo/bar/var/new/x.htm) not working on a Win2k box. We recently were forced (hardware failure) to

Dynamic Image Resizing

Is there a way to dynamically resize an image other than custom CF tags? I have a site that builds a dynamic web page for each member. Image URLs are stored in the database and are called to the page. Some of the stored images are larger that I would like and I trying to get any image over 400

Stop query caching UPDATE

PLEASE READ CAREFULLY (Technical info - Using CF 4.5.2 to query MS Access 97 SR2 database for a text field and date field for unknown number of recordnumbers) OK. I have flushed the query by making a dynamically changing query name (I.E. cfquery name="shipments#uniquefield#") and made the

Multiple conditions in a single CFIF statement.

So far I've only used single CFIF statements - hence don't know syntax for multiple conditions and haven't been able to find an example in the books I have. Can someone give me a hint or example of the CF syntax to do state the following condition: CFIF mTEST1 EQ "ABC" AND mTEST2 EQ "DEF"