Hello all,
Im a bit rusty with regular expressions and I know this is an easy one so im
kicking myself for not having it that much more.
Im simply trying to ensure that a given string has between 6 and 12 characters
and contains at least 1 numeric character.
Any help would be
Hello all,
Im having some trouble finding some concrete info on exactly what is needed to
get the SMS Event Gateway working.
From what I can gather I can go about it 1 of 2 way.
Either obtain SMPP accounts with all of the wireless providers, OR work with a
Connection Aggregator (3rd
Hello all,
Couldnt really think of a better place to ask this question.
I have a friend who is a designer but is interested in beginning to learn CF.
He is pretty quick at picking up new concepts etc and of course I can help him
quite a bit.
However, it has been so long since I
Can anyone point me to where I can get the CFMX 6.1 server install?
We have 6.0 on CD and I know we can install the updates for 6.1 but we have
had problems with that before thus id rather just download the 6.1 package.
Thanks!
-chris.alvarado
[ application developer ]
4 Guys
Im getting an error that says
Context validation error for tag cffunction.
The start tag must have a matching end tag. An explicit end tag can be provided
by adding /cffunction. If the body of the tag is empty you can use the
shortcut cffunction .../.
I have a CFC and within that CFC I make
Anyone on this list?
I havent seen any messages in a few days and cant seem to get to the listserv
site, anyone know whats going on?
Sorry for the way off topic post, but I figured someone on this list may also
be on that list and have some information about what is going on.
I use
Check out HYPERLINK http://www.interfax.net/http://www.interfax.net/
They do a really good job with email to fax. . . you can send the fax content in the
body of the email or as attachments. Works with a wide variety of document types as
well and is relatively inexpensive.
Hello all,
I have an app that calls pages dynamically via switching statements and
url variables similar to early fusebox applications.
Something like:
http://www.mysite.com/index.cfm?page=productSummarycatID=12
however, most search engines will only index the index.cfm page sine the
remainder
Hello all,
Getting deeper into my remoting project here and a little stumped with
some component issues.
Anyone here at least fairly familiar with Flash Remoting that wouldn't
mind answering some questions off list?
Thanks for any and all help,
-chris.alvarado
[ application developer ]
4
Hello all,
I've been doing CF development for quite some time and as such im fairly
set on the way I do things. However I just had a debate with another
developer regarding which scope was proper for setting application wide
variable (such as DSN names, file paths etc) in regards to locking /
Can you please describe a race condition to me?
I know what it means conceptually, basically when you have one thing
that needs to happen before another an not simultaneously, but I cant
really think of an instance where this would be the case.
Thanks again,
-chris.alvarado
[ application
Hello all,
I am having a serious problem with my CFCs in our server environment and
was wondering if anyone can shed some light on this for me.
Our server environment is set up to be a shared hosting environment for
quite a few clients per server.
The servers have essentially 2 partitions. The
Hello all,
I am starting a new project that will require some fairly heavy Flash /
CF integration including but not limited to: visual display of data
stored in a database, insertion of data into a database supplied in
Flash forms, a complete security model that requires not only
authentication
ing you've learned with CF still applies -- Flash can
improve the UI, and the UE (User Experience)--
but, better to be a little skeptical
HTH
Dick
On Apr 13, 2004, at 12:06 PM, Chris Alvarado wrote:)
Hello all,
I am starting a new project that will require some fairly heavy Flash
/
CF integrat
Sorry for the crosspost all . . .
---
I need some book recommendations for flash remoting. I have a large
project I am starting that is done in flash that needs to have
integrated security (as in different roles can see different things),
and do some pretty heavy DB
Sorry for the Crosspost
Hello all,
I'm starting a project that will require some pretty heavy DB interation
from Flash as well as some of the more advanced stuff in FlashMX
(remoting, pushing content etc). I need books that assume you know
little to no Flash.
Hello all,
I just wanted to get some suggestions on nice forum packages built in
CF. I know about Fusetalk but I am needing a forum system for a personal
site and I'm just not wanting to shell out $300 for forums. I love the
features in fusetalk but i just cant justify the cost. Ive looked at
http://www.bosrup.com/web/overlib/
this guy did some really slick stuff with JS / DHTML.
it's basically a library of tools for displaying highly customizable
'tooltips'.
you can change all of the colors, borders, fonts, as well as include
images etc since the attribute that passes in the
I normally use verisign as a payment gateway, but we have a new client
with a NON-US merchant account (swedish actually) and need to find a
reliable CF-Friendly overseas gateway.
can anyone recommend one, and a website with info if possible?
Thanks all,
-chris.alvarado
[ application
I have built this CFC to invoke the Verisign Payflow Pro tag and I am
getting a strange error.
Error Occurred While Processing Request
For input string:
The error occurred in
E:\Data\Published\wwwroot\developmentmx\verisignCFC\processPayment.cfc:
line 31
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From: Chris Alvarado [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 11:09 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: CFC Problem
I have built this CFC to invoke the Verisign
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-Original Message-
From: Chris Alvarado [mailto:[EMAIL
: Chris Alvarado [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 1:54 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: CFC Problem
Did that, everything is coming through as expected.
Is there a limit to the number of arguments you can have for
a given method?
Maybe the exceptions
Hello all,
I have a project that requires the conversion of HTML files to PDF. I
see a couple on the Dev Exchange, but it is not clear if these can take
an actual file on the server and convert to a PDF file stored on the
server. I see a few that say they convert any dynamic page into PDF, but
Hello all,
having some problems with the CFCExplorer in a shared hosting
environment.
the root mapping for the development site on our server is something
like http://developmentmx.domain.com/somedirectory
the url to the administrator on the box is mapped to
Hello all,
Sorry if anyone gets this twice. I didnt see it come accross the list so
i am resending it.
having some problems with the CFCExplorer in a shared hosting
environment.
the root mapping for the development site on our server is something
like
Hello all,
I am looking for a UDF that will parse the domain name (and hostname)
from a URL string.
I found the GetHostFromURL() function on CFLib. The function seems to
work pretty well, it even strips port numbers etc. The problem with that
function is that it will strip anything before the
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Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 9:43 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: UDF to Parse URL
Why not just use
CGI.SERVER_NAME ?
HTH
-Original Message-
From: Chris Alvarado [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 2, 2003 15:37
To: CF-Talk
Subject: UDF to Parse URL
Well,
we have built a new primary production box. I want to get all of the
DSNs from the old one to the new one but without having to create them
all manually. I thought there was some way to import registry keys or
maybe even a utility to do this.
Can anyone suggest anything?
Thanks all,
I am submitting an HTTP Get command to grab some XML data.
the following data is returned (very simple).
?xml version=1.0 encoding=iso-8859-1 ?
!DOCTYPE hgi (View Source for full doctype...)
- http://www.homemadegourmet.com:81/ca/diststat.xml?DIST=1002#
hgi
-
Can anyone recommend a utility (preferably free) that one can use to
load test a web server?
Basically simulate http requests?
I remember one a long time ago developed by SGI I think called WebStone.
also anything that helps test performance of CF on one server versus
another would be nice.
Sorry for the off topic post all.
Any recommendations for XML News services for news? Preferabley ones
that will allow the specification of the types of news.
Thanks all,
-chris.alvarado
[ application developer ]
4 Guys Interactive, Inc.
http://www.4guys.com http://www.4guys.com/
Hello all,
quick question,
has anyone had any issues with CFMX + Windows Server 2003?
We are about to upgrade and Id like to get some feedback.
Stability? Performance?
Thanks all,
-chris.alvarado
[ application developer ]
4 Guys Interactive, Inc.
http://www.4guys.com
==
If you are not satisfied with my service, my job isn't done!
- Original Message -
From: Chris Alvarado [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 11:10 AM
Subject: CFMX + Windows Server 2003
| Hello all,
|
| quick
Hello all,
Hoping to get some opinions etc here.
I am trying to rationalize to the powers that be that some form of Use
Case Scenarios would greatly improves quality of work. Does anyone out
there have any good examples / definitions of solid testing plans / use
case scenarios? I realize that
I agree with Mr Watts here completely.
-
The people that are being /SO/ very critical, I have a few questions for
you.
1) Are you willing to claim that your applications are 100% without
errors?
2) Are you willing to STOP using software that contains errors? (better
say no, or might want to
Hello all,
I'm sure some of you have experienced something similar to this.
We have sites that we build and host. With Google, the more sites that
link to you, and the stronger the rating those sites have, the higher
rating you will have. I need a way to dynamically include a link to our
site in
In MS SQL server there is a system table called sysobjects for each
database. This contains an entry for each table in that database.
To get a list of all the user tables (the tables you built) you would
use a query like this.
SELECT *
FROM sysobjects
WHERE xtype = 'u'
Once you have a list of
No but you can do this,
cfset qName = thisQuery
cfquery name=#qName# datasource=someDSN
SELECT *
FROM someTable
WHERE ID = someID
/cfquery
cfset thisRecordCount = evaluate(toString(qName .recordCount))
Make sense?
-chris.alvarado
[ application developer ]
4 Guys
Hello all,
Sort of an off-topic post I guess, so sorry for that.
However this is the most responsive / helpful list I'm on so here it
goes.
I have a domain name for myself that my company hosts the DNS for. I am
looking for a dynamic DNS solution that will allow me to actually host
the site on
Well,
I have a Verity issue. I am trying to remove a file from a verity
collection and when I try this I get the following error, and due to the
complete lack of documentation on CF + Varity I am stumped.
Anyone want to take a stab?
Error # -33 [ffdf] VdkCollectionSubmit
Thanks all,
Hello all,
I know ASP is a bit off topic on this list but I figured I would ask
since many people here are also familiar with ASP.
A client of ours is looking for a forum solution built in ASP. I am
looking for some recommendations ranging from the most simpler / free to
the most complex feature
If it is just a structure with 1 'iteration'
You can treat the keys like a list.
cfloop list=#structKeyList(structure)# index=x
#x# (would be the keyName)
#evaluate(x)# would be the value of the key
/cfloop
-chris.alvarado
[ application developer ]
4 Guys Interactive, Inc.
http://www.4guys.com
Just surround your variable with #'s
subject=this is the subject : #variable#
Being that the subject attribute is part if a CF tag the variable will
be evaluated by CF (assuming the variable exists of course).
-chris.alvarado
[ application developer ]
4 Guys Interactive, Inc.
Hello all,
Wanted to pick your brains on some DB related stuff.
Currently working on an E-Commerce site and deal with product variations
(size / color - which relates to price) and was curious to know if
anyone has any suggestions on table structure to best handle this, or
know of any good sites
Hello all,
I am currently involved in a website redesign / dev and the site
currently uses Linkpoint to do the CC processing. Does anyone out there
have any experience with this software?
Good? Bad?
I'm trying to figure out if I need to recommend some new CC processing
package (such as
H here is a post I took from the bugtraq group on Google about
Linkpoint.
NOTE: I AM NOT THE ONE THAT DID THIS INVESTIGATION. I just find it
interesting.
== Some Background ==
LinkPoint is the name of the API that Card Service International
(one of the biggest online merchant
Hello all,
Currently working on a cold fusion component to work with the FedEX API
for one or our clients and I was curious to know if anyone knows of any
good sites that focus on working with COM using CF?
I am aware of cfcomet, im just looking for general dos / donts and tips,
for stuff as
Message-
From: Chris Alvarado [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 10:29 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: CF + COM
Hello all,
Currently working on a cold fusion component to work with the FedEX API
for one or our clients and I was curious to know if anyone knows of any
good
Just append the requesttimeout variable to the end of whatever URL you
are calling, it wont necessarily apply to any specific include etc, it
will just apply to the entire block of code being called, thus the
entire page will be given more time to load.
-chris.alvarado
[ application developer ]
4
Actually that sounds somewhat feasible, however I thought the XML API
was geared specifically towards tracking shipments not scheduling and
pricing them?
If it can do it all like the ShipAPI, then I think the XML API is the
way to go.
Anyone know?
-chris.alvarado
[ application developer ]
4
Unless i am missing something here,
Contribute is meant to work along the lines of FrontPage correct?
A user edits a page is some kind of WYSIWYG editor and then is able to
publish the page to the server. Thus, this really is really meant for
sites where content is static?
In which case is
, October 23, 2002, 9:39:52 AM, Chris Alvarado wrote:
CA Does anyone have any good book reccomendations to get me started
CA down that path? I have some basic OOP experience, but none with
CA Java, so any help would be awesome.
Are you talking about just starting out with Java? If so, I recently
Hello all,
A bit unfamiliar with anything somewhat tricky using regular
expressions. So any help with this would be very much appreciated.
I have a set of text that I would like to replace with another set.
I have a string of text example:
---Test---
Abc 123 Easy
---Test---
I need to not
Using ActivSpell for a site I built a while back.
Client complained that they would run spell check on word with
capitalized value in it and that the value that the incorrect word was
replaced with no longer had that letter as uppercase.
Unless I am missing some attribute for the tag, is there
ahhh,
new (no) IMPROVED (YES!)
I am not saying that CF is not a phenomenal application, I have seen it come
a LONG way (Ive been working with CF since v. 1.5)
However, the need for more enterprise level (what does that even mean
anymore) solutions, demands more reliability and speed.
The
Yes as a matter of fact,
look up the cfexecute tag.
-chris.alvarado
[application developer]
4|Guys Interactive, Inc
From: Bill Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Stopping/Starting/Restarting services.
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001
cfprocresult has a maxrows attribute
cfprocresult name=smellyCheese maxrows=20
hope this helps,
-chris.alvarado
[application developer - 4 Guys Interactive]
From: Troy Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Oracle Stored Procedure and
http://www.php.net
is the best place to start
At 11:21 AM 7/13/2001 -0700, you wrote:
Anyone have a good place to go to get information on learning php?
THanks
~~
Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at
I am trying to get CF to use the Sybase native drivers and whenever CF
tries to verify the connection to the Sybase server it fails.
here is what i have in the CF administrator in case maybe im overlooking
something or im doing something wrong.
Data Source Name: abc123
Description:
I have an application that needs to generate Word Documents and basically
open them on the fly. Currently I am using CFCONTENT to do this, however I
have run into a small problem. I need to be able to use a defined Word
TEMPLATE. The template contains a footer and whatnot that needs to be
I have an application that uses standard security through session variables
etc.
If a user navigates to a portion of the application where a document is
attached (word, excel, etc) and they have the correct permissions then they
will see a link that will allow them to view the file.
this is
so,
i have this application that is built partly in Cold Fusion and partly in
ASP. Since there is session based security it is necessary to create a
session on both the ASP side and the Cold Fusion side.
Has anyone found a good way of sharing data back and forth between Cold
Fusion sessions
a while back someone posted a link to a site where you can go to bid on
public contracts for development etc.
Happen to remember the URL?
thanks,
-chris.alvarado
[developer] - VerticalNet
This message is intended
Ive had problems like this when using RDS to develop remotely. Supposedly
shile saving files through RDS CFStudio has been known to write an empty
buffer and thus and empty template. I had heard that this was fixed in
Studio 4.5.1 tho, so That may not be your problem.
-chris.alvarado
[developer]
Is there a way to recieve a list of table in a specified Database?
know I rememeber reading something about this a while back but cannot
recall.
Thanks,
-chris.alvarado
[developer] - VerticalNet
This message is
you could use the RandRange function which will return a random integer
between 2 specified integers
example:
cfset RandomPass = RandRange("1","99,999,999") - NOTE: number must me less
than 100,000,000
-chris.alvarado
[developer] - VerticalNet
-Original Message-
From: Andrew@home
use the Evaluate() function, that should return the VALUES.
also there is an easier way to get all of the form fields passed tha the
method you are using.
Form.Fieldnames will retun all of the form field names passed as a list.
Then loop that list and evaluate the names.
-chris.alvarado
on line 98 you need to specify the Variable you are using the comparisn
operator on.
in other words
this is wrong:
cfif variable1 LTE 1 AND GTE 3
this is correct
cfif variable1 LTE 1 AND variable1 GTE 3
-chris.alvarado
[developer] - VerticalNet
-Original Message-
From: Jay Patton
Any recommendations on tags for viewing th CF Logs?
I downloaded Ben Forta's CFX tag but it seems that the latest version was
only meant for version 3 of CF...=P
I like the way this tag works though, returns results as query results thus
I can manipulate them myself.
Can anyone recommend
haha'at minimum and adequate computer user'.
I have been doing development for 4 years (which may pale in comparison to
some, but in that time I have seen a lot).
A lot of the developers I have worked with in the past could barely install
software on their machin without messing something
Does anyone have a good javascript that will allow you to type ina startDate
and endDate and it will calculate the number of days inbetween and populate
a 3rd form field on the fly?
any help would be appreciated.
-chris.alvarado
[developer] - VerticalNet
the reason I wanted it to be Java Script is so that I might then populate a
3rd form field on the fly with the difference.
-chris
-Original Message-
From: Saidi; Marwan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 2:04 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: JavaScript?
Does it
Doing some research on Clustering within a Cold Fusion environment and I
came accross the ClusterCATS product. I have read about it before and it
seems that it would suit our needs well. The only thing I cannot seem to
find is, WHERE CAN I GET IT?
Anyone help me out here?
Thanks,
Documentation on the CD.
-chris
-Original Message-
From: Steve Drucker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 9:15 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: ClusterCATS
It's bundled as a component of CF Enterprise.
-S
-Original Message-
From: Chris Alvarado [mailto:[EMAIL
One thing to remember. When creating an ODBC connection to an Access DB
through the CF Administrator, UNcheck the 'Maintain Database Connections'
checkbox (you may have to click the 'CF Settings' button to expand the
page). I have had problems with this locking the connection to the DB in the
as far as the server side goes here is what I do.
!--- param the variable Error ---
cfparam name="Error" default=""
!--- check to see if the First Name is blank ---
cfif Trim(FirstName) Is ""
cfset FNameNullError = "Please enter a First Name"
cfset Error = "True"
/cfif
cfif
any major problems with Harpoon beta?
Also I remember seeing a breif explanation as to what it is but can anyone
direct me to some more detailed info on it? Specifically what is it? What
can it do? etc
-chris.alvarado
[developer] - VerticalNet
-Original Message-
From: Steve Drucker
I needs some reccomendatins on software for testing Cold Fusion enabled
sites. The company that makes WinRunner develops products that seem like
they might work. I am just curious to know if anyone has any good
recomendations. The mor automated the software, the better.
Thanks,
-chris.alvarado
you could use CFEXECUTE to execute a server-side executable.
-chris.alvarado
[developer] - VerticalNet
-Original Message-
From: Paul Begovich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 2:35 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Is there a way to run a server side executable through
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