RE: String manipulation

2000-12-13 Thread Chasmo
Martin wrote: ...so when in the loop how do I parse the current line.. eg..check the current line for certain characters, and if it passes the check I copy the string to a new entry in an array. Try this within the loop Steve suggested: cfif Find(idx, "some string") neq 0 cfset

Server problem

2000-12-13 Thread ramesh d
Hi I created one file which generates 200 Purchase orders and sends to database. these purchase orders actually Xml Packets(after parsing only we r sending data to db) So when i execute related to this file i am getting below errors. Any body ware abot TID s or Window NT 232 errors. Is there

RE: Webmonkey Cart - anyone modified it?

2000-12-13 Thread Nick Betts
I have modified the cart. My main modification was to allow for different sizes. This mainly involved changing the structKey in addItem.cfm. I too may have to calculate shipping based on weight so would be eager to hear if anyone has done this with the webmonkey code. Nick. -Original

RE: Webmonkey Cart - anyone modified it?

2000-12-13 Thread Chasmo
I've seen custom tags that will do ship/weight calculations for FedEx, though you probably have to either maintain a DB with current rates or use some "get" process to fetch the current rate. There may be something available for UPS too. Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have modified the cart.

Coldfusion - 3-tier Web Application ? Possible?

2000-12-13 Thread Roger Lim
Hi, I realised that ColdFusion is allowed to make use of CFOBJECT to call EJB (Enterprise JavaBean) methods and also it's able to use XML via WDDX. I was just wondering, is it possible that we use ColdFusion to create a 3-tier Web Application whereby we have EJB to take care of the business

CFfile read

2000-12-13 Thread han
hi.. i'm trying to use CFFile READ to get a list of info.. and then insert them into database. anyone try it b4? i tried doing it but hav error... coz when i append list to array.. it cant recognise a new line... so.. it append the last field of line 1 with 1st field of line 2 as one... eg

RE: Webmonkey Cart - anyone modified it?

2000-12-13 Thread Tristram Charnley
I've modified this code quite extensively adding to the structures for sizes, options, colour etc, and replacing some of the cfinserts with cfqueries. You could check out Ben Forta's CF_UPSPrice tag which would be easy to integrate. Tristram Charnley _ e-mail:

RE: Server problem

2000-12-13 Thread Percy E Perez
Ramesh, I lookup these error messages with net helpmsg 232 and 1450 and these what I get: H:\net helpmsg 232 The pipe is being closed. H:\net helpmsg 1450 Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested service. Unfortunately I am not familiar with TIDs. I hope this helps,

RE: CGI.HTTP variables.....

2000-12-13 Thread Michael Thomas
Thats exactly what I wuz looking for. Thanx. From: "Bernd VanSkiver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: CGI.HTTP variables. Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 23:12:46 -0600 cfloop collection="#cgi#" item="i" cfoutputcgi.#i# has value of :

CFAS Scheduler CFINCLUDE

2000-12-13 Thread paul smith
Good (?) Post-Election Morning! Can the CF template executed by the CFAS Scheduler have CFINCLUDEs in it that will work? Or does the CF template executed by the CFAS Scheduler have to all all CF tags directly in it? The latter seems to be the case here (to be confirmed later today when the

Unlimited Line Item Subform functionality in a FORM

2000-12-13 Thread Bob Silverberg
Hi all, Here's the scenario: A user is entering an order, the order will have some info associated with it, and then the order can have multiple line items added to it. Each line item will have a number of attributes (like product, quantity, etc.). In a program like Access, you can create a

Re: CFAS Scheduler CFINCLUDE

2000-12-13 Thread Cami Lawson
I have an item that is schedule to run through CFAS and it has 3 includes that work just fine. - Original Message - From: "paul smith" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "CF-Talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 8:03 AM Subject: CFAS Scheduler CFINCLUDE Good (?) Post-Election

RE: Unlimited Line Item Subform functionality in a FORM

2000-12-13 Thread Rick Lamb
Bob, Sounds to me like your talking about an everyday shopping cart. I would use a associative array (structure) to store all the items names and values for each item and then append each of these structures to an array. At the end of the order, just loop through the array and output the

FWD: Re: CFAS Scheduler CFINCLUDE

2000-12-13 Thread Michael Brzezicki
I believe this email is for you. Although I have no Idea how I got since my email address is nowhere within the email. Mike Brzezicki Although since this is about CF. Do you know how I can create a dynamic query that displays data depending on the options selected from two combo boxes which

Re: Unlimited Line Item Subform functionality in a FORM

2000-12-13 Thread stas
Rick, I think he is looking for an interface widget. - Original Message - From: "Rick Lamb" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bob, Sounds to me like your talking about an everyday shopping cart. I would use a associative array (structure) to store all the items names and values for each item and

RE: Unlimited Line Item Subform functionality in a FORM

2000-12-13 Thread Michael Brzezicki
Hi, I'm sorry but I received your email accidently. Although I myself am I CF Developer and also doing something similiar to what your doing. I have to convert an MS Acccess 97 application to the web using CF. I am having a huge problem doing this though because for some reason CF will not

RE: Unlimited Line Item Subform functionality in a FORM

2000-12-13 Thread JustinMacCarthy
Here is a very quick DHTML example I just knocked up for u. (ie4 + ) Needs to be changed slightly to be DOM compliant You need to loop over the 'Form' collection on the "action" page to add each field (lineitem1,lineitem2 lineitem3 etc) Justin MacCarthy html head script !--// currentItem

email crossing

2000-12-13 Thread Michael Brzezicki
Hi, I'm not sure why but I'm getting email this is being sent to you. I'm not sure if our email address got crossed in your DB or what happened. If I get anymore emails I will forward them over to you. Mike Brzezicki ~~ Structure

Re: FWD: Re: CFAS Scheduler CFINCLUDE

2000-12-13 Thread paul smith
I don't know, but I've seen discussion on cf-talk about tags in Allaire's Developer Gallery that link 2 and possibly 3 drop-downs. best, paul At 09:57 AM 12/13/00 -0500, you wrote: Although since this is about CF. Do you know how I can create a dynamic query that displays data depending on

RE: Unlimited Line Item Subform functionality in a FORM

2000-12-13 Thread paul smith
Post some details to CF-talk. best, paul At 10:02 AM 12/13/00 -0500, you wrote: Hi, I'm sorry but I received your email accidently. Although I myself am I CF Developer and also doing something similiar to what your doing. I have to convert an MS Acccess 97 application to the web using

RE: radio buttons and passing variable question

2000-12-13 Thread Cornillon, Matthieu
a side question, can anyone tell me what #form.variable name# is supposed to do?...i mean what does the # sign signify and what does "form" tell the computer? The # signs tell the CF server to interpret what's inside them as a variable name or function, and not just as a text

RE: ColdFusion vs. ASP.NET

2000-12-13 Thread Peter Theobald
Just a comment: Personally, I wouldn't spend any of my professional time learning C#. I predict it will be just a few short years before Microsoft once again orphans it's own product and throws away C# for some other buzzword that has strategic and marketing value at the time. At 04:45 PM

RE: Coldfusion - 3-tier Web Application ? Possible?

2000-12-13 Thread Dave Watts
I realised that ColdFusion is allowed to make use of CFOBJECT to call EJB (Enterprise JavaBean) methods and also it's able to use XML via WDDX. I was just wondering, is it possible that we use ColdFusion to create a 3-tier Web Application whereby we have EJB to take care of the

CFreport and crystal reports

2000-12-13 Thread Katie Bessiere
has anyone had any luck using CFREPORT with crystal reports 8? i've tried the workaround that Allaire recommends and I still can't get the tag to work. It's very frustrating.. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.. katie Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/

RE: CFreport and crystal reports

2000-12-13 Thread Hales, John M
I could never get it to work. We just use CF to pass the parameters to Crystal, and the CR Web Server to display the reports. That works well for us. HTH Mike Hales -Original Message- From: Katie Bessiere [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 11:08 AM To: CF-Talk

CF Chat Room Facility Codes

2000-12-13 Thread AustralianAccommodation.com Pty. Ltd.
I am currently using a chat room hosting service for my chat room on my cf site Wondering if anyone knows of a cf based chat room type facility I can implement into the site as an alternative to the chat room hosting service I am currently using the cf hosting service offered by digi chat

Just a stray thought

2000-12-13 Thread Gregory Harris
Ok, this is meant as no shameless plug but I read on their website: UPS expects to receive 5 million tracking requests on their website per day especially on their peak days (it reads something like that) Your mission: build a Cold Fusion application for UPS that could handle such a beating,

cftry cfcatch/cfcatch/cftry

2000-12-13 Thread Neil H.
I just found, disappointingly enough that you can't have a cftry at the top of a document via a CFinclude and the rest in another include at the bottom? Is there a work around. I don't want to use a handler, and I want the same error checking code on every page. Please advise or throw ideas

RE: CFreport and crystal reports

2000-12-13 Thread Nardi, Gaston
hi i've been using CFX_PRINTREPORT (find it at Allaire's Tags Gallery). Works great for me, so may it help you. Cheers, Gaston. -Mensaje original- De: Hales, John M [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Enviado el: MiƩrcoles 13 de Diciembre de 2000 13:18 Para: CF-Talk Asunto: RE:

RE: Just a stray thought

2000-12-13 Thread Cameron Childress
Hmm.. I wonder if anyone from UPS is on this list... I know that they use CF in Atlanta on a limited basis for some internal stuff... -Cameron Cameron Childress ElliptIQ Inc. p.770.460.7277.232 f.770.460.0963 -Original Message- From: Gregory Harris

Inserting line breaks

2000-12-13 Thread Greg Wolfinger
Hey guys: I have a form that sends an e-mail to someone and then displays the information that was sent. However, the message body just displays itself on one line. I was wondering if I could go through the string and after a certain number of characters I would insert a line break. Greg

RE: Just a stray thought

2000-12-13 Thread Greg Creedon
I bet the guy who worked on toysrus and who was at the ny cf users group last night would have some ideas on this! btw, a round of applause and thanks to the Dinowitz family and Greg Nahrain and others who put on the meeting last night under difficult circumstances (tight space!). And I'm not

Re: Just a stray thought

2000-12-13 Thread Greg Wolfinger
Ill do it. I wont write drastically efficient code, but if money is no objectbut more servers!!! - Original Message - From: "Gregory Harris" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "CF-Talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 11:36 AM Subject: Just a stray thought Ok, this is

RE: Just a stray thought

2000-12-13 Thread Andres
Can you send the URL where you read this?? -Original Message- From: Gregory Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 11:36 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Just a stray thought Ok, this is meant as no shameless plug but I read on their website: UPS expects to

RE: CFreport and crystal reports

2000-12-13 Thread Daye, Marianne
Try taking a look at recrystallize.com. It's just a wizard that generate the html files to run the crystal report; you can probably fined your answers in those files. There's a beta version you can try for free. It uses a dll (u2fpdf.dll) which comes with the download. I haven't actually

RE: cftry cfcatch/cfcatch/cftry

2000-12-13 Thread Simon Horwith
structured exception handling should be kept as close to the questionable code as possible. One of it's error types is "missinginclude", which should also help to illustrate the logical error in placing opening and closing error handling tags in seperate files to be included. What you can do,

Re: cftry cfcatch/cfcatch/cftry

2000-12-13 Thread Jamie Keane
Alternately, you could have a main page that has a cftry/cfcatch block, and include the meat of the page within (a la Fusebox). Worth a shot, neh? -- Jamie Keane Programmer SolutionMasters, Inc. 9111 Monroe Rd., Suite 100 Charlotte, NC 28270 www.solutionmasters.com 704.563.5559 x 228 Voice

RE: cftry cfcatch/cfcatch/cftry

2000-12-13 Thread Jeff Sarsoun
Haven't tried it but theoretically you might be able to: application.cfm would contain: cf_error_check onrequestend.cfm would contain: /cf_error_check error_check.cfm would contain: !--pseudo code-- if executionmode eq start cftry cfcatch else /cfcatch/cftry onrequestend.cfm

RE: Inserting line breaks

2000-12-13 Thread Simon Horwith
You could try appending #chr(10)##chr(13)# at the end of each string line inside your CFMAIL tags. ~Simon Simon Horwith Certified ColdFusion Developer Fig Leaf Software 1400 16th St NW, # 220 Washington DC 20036 202.797.6570 (direct line) www.figleaf.com -Original Message-

Re: Just a stray thought

2000-12-13 Thread Gregory Harris
Oh, and I forgot: Remember most of this is at peak time (who cares where their package is at 3am, except for UPS themselves?), I figure, 300 people hitting at any given instant is to be expected. CFLOCK can't handle that many alone. Also the database could be larger (if you could track from

RE: Just a stray thought

2000-12-13 Thread Matt Rodosky
1. Cluster 6-10 application servers running cf enterprise (on nt, # depends on expected users/transactions) 2. Use load balancing sw (cisco) 3. 2 Database servers (assume sql server)in an nt/sql cluster 4. App is pretty simple, take a tracking #, find it in the database, pull out the information.

Re: Just a stray thought

2000-12-13 Thread Neil H.
First thought, don't use CF :) Neil - Original Message - From: "Greg Creedon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "CF-Talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 11:46 AM Subject: RE: Just a stray thought I bet the guy who worked on toysrus and who was at the ny cf users group last

Re: Just a stray thought

2000-12-13 Thread Jennifer
At 08:36 AM 12/13/00 -0800, you wrote: Ok, this is meant as no shameless plug but I read on their website: UPS expects to receive 5 million tracking requests on their website per day especially on their peak days (it reads something like that) Your mission: build a Cold Fusion application for

Another debate

2000-12-13 Thread Kelly Shepard
The new boss has arrived in my department and of course he wants everyone to switch from the awesome and all mighty cold fusion to PHP. We do need some other strengths in our department for those clients who don't want us to host their application or don't have cf on their server, but, he

RE: Inserting line breaks

2000-12-13 Thread Cornillon, Matthieu
Hi. I don't know exactly how this works, but I had a similar need yesterday. I set up the e-mail in the CFM file with breaks where I wanted them. It seems to me that the text between the CFMAIL tags is treated almost as if it is a separate text file, and the format is preserved. If anyone has

RE: Just a stray thought

2000-12-13 Thread Aaron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg, As you've seen there @ stirlingbridge, you can have a properly indexed and tuned database perform lookups rather quickly on tables of any size, 2 million to 245 million. I think the issue is not CF or any application server platform but one

Re: cftry cfcatch/cfcatch/cftry

2000-12-13 Thread Bud
On 12/13/00, Neil H. penned: I just found, disappointingly enough that you can't have a cftry at the top of a document via a CFinclude and the rest in another include at the bottom? Is there a work around. I don't want to use a handler, and I want the same error checking code on every page.

RE: Complex expressions w/ cfswitch

2000-12-13 Thread Bud
On 12/8/00, Hal Helms penned: No, you can't do that. Complex expressions aren't allowed in cfcase. You'd have to create a series of if/then statements. Thanks Hal. I didn't think so as I pulled my hair our trying it. LOL -- Bud Schneehagen - Tropical Web Creations

Slightly OT....Javascript question

2000-12-13 Thread Andy Ewings
OK guys and girls...slightly ot question but it's bugging me! In part of a Javasript function I am trying to loop through a collection of controls and adding their value to a list which is then the value of a text box. Here is the code: var i = 1; while(i = document.skills.slidercount.value)

RE: Inserting line breaks

2000-12-13 Thread Dylan Bromby
If you're using a form to input the text that gets emailed, try using TEXTAREA with WRAP="VIRTUAL" -Original Message- From: Greg Wolfinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 8:47 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Inserting line breaks Hey guys: I have a form that

RE: Another debate

2000-12-13 Thread John Stanley
The need to deliberate the issue further is a mute (---should be moot) point. I don't really have any suggestions other than it sounds like he might have dealt with PHP before, and therefore is prejudiced against CF. You and I know that it is plenty secure. Plenty of corporations are serving

Re: Another debate

2000-12-13 Thread Greg Wolfinger
I think the security probelsm lie more in Microsoft's IIS and the NT OS than the CF Server. Allaire always sends out alerts about security updates even if they are not for CF Servers, but something that relates to CF. PHP is a neat language, however it still isn't developed enough and also the

division

2000-12-13 Thread Rick Lamb
This was suppose to be easy... I'm trying to divide a recordcount by 100 and then round up. Currently my recordcount is 162 and i'm using the ceiling function to round up but it keeps giving me 1. I've tried using number format and decimal format with no luck. Any suggestions? Code below: cfset

Re: Another debate

2000-12-13 Thread Stephen M Aylor
Dimple his Chad Demand a hand count Steve Thanks in advance for any input. ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives:

RE: Another debate

2000-12-13 Thread Braver, Ben:
cf_grin Well, for one thing, your boss needs to brush up on his English, and learn the difference between "mute" and "moot" /cf_grin -Original Message- From: Kelly Shepard [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 9:14 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Another debate

RE: Another debate

2000-12-13 Thread Gavin Myers
wow, glad i don't have to deal with e-mails like that i think a better question would be, even if cf was shown to be more scalable, manageable, faster, better for the [insert new fandangled acronym here] business. Would he take consideration to it? Since he did say further discussion of this

query between 2 database types

2000-12-13 Thread Eli Shechter
Hi I recently started using a program that runs off a oracle database, and my website runs off SQL server 7.0 how can I run a query so that within one query I can pull data from both databases? Thank You Eli Shechter ~~ Structure your

RE: Unlimited Line Item Subform functionality in a FORM

2000-12-13 Thread Bob Silverberg
Thanks Justin - that looks like just what I was looking for. Now I've got to see if I can make it work with a complex form. Bob -Original Message- From: JustinMacCarthy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: December 13, 2000 10:06 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Unlimited Line Item Subform

RE: Another debate

2000-12-13 Thread Dave Watts
The new boss has arrived in my department and of course he wants everyone to switch from the awesome and all mighty cold fusion to PHP. We do need some other strengths in our department for those clients who don't want us to host their application or don't have cf on their server,

Re: Just a stray thought

2000-12-13 Thread Peter Theobald
Toys R Us preloaded all of their data into RAM in a huge Application structure. They had a server farm of 100 servers for normal load and 400 servers for holiday load. 300 people at one instant out of RAM is easy. At 09:12 AM 12/13/00 -0800, Gregory Harris wrote: Oh, and I forgot: Remember

Re: cflock vs. cftransaction

2000-12-13 Thread Greg Wolfinger
cftransaction is supposed to wrap a group of querries that form a process. Such as if someone was purchasing a product and three querries are used, one to check the user/update user information, pull information from a shopping cart, and submit the purchase data. you would lock each one of

Re: Another debate

2000-12-13 Thread Peter Theobald
In the corporate IT department, PHP is usually less of an option than CF. Also if a "corporate IT department" can't afford CFServer, then they have other problems, like how to run a web site on used Commodore-64s. "The need to deliberate the issue further is a mute point." I'd be careful about

Re: Another debate

2000-12-13 Thread Kevin Schmidt
Tell your boss to go out to the garage and use the head puller to pull his head out of his ass. CF is far above PHP in my mind and why would you want to tell all of your developers hey forget what you know and learn this new technology. I could understand if you were all COBOL programmers and

ODBC Error 37000

2000-12-13 Thread Al Musella, DPM
I have been getting this error message a lot lately.. I have no idea where the problem is. When it happens, I have been rebooting the cold fusion server and sql 7 server. Then it works for a while and then stops. ODBC Error Code = 37000 (Syntax error or access violation) [Microsoft][ODBC

RE: Another debate

2000-12-13 Thread Cameron Childress
Sound like your "new boss" hasn't ever used CF, or bothered to even research the validity of his claims. PHP is a good addition to your skillset, but throwing out all the CF experience and knowledge in your department and forcing everyone to start at square one with learning PHP is not a smart

RE: Another debate

2000-12-13 Thread Milks, Jim
In my opinion, he heard that the other CTOs on the Golf Course said CF was "junior" and, heaven forbid, costs money! This is a common problem. Don't resist. You're skill set will be greatly improved, and he will be accountable for the longer development times and issues with a great, but not yet

RE: Another debate

2000-12-13 Thread Sean Daniels
The need to deliberate the issue further is a mute point." Ouch. Does he/she mean "moot" point perhaps? I feel for you. - Sean Sean Daniels Manager, Engineering Marketplace Technologies (t) 207.439.6030 (c) 207.332.6340

RE: NT to Solaris

2000-12-13 Thread James Maltby
Have you got write permissions for the server? You may also need to chmod the file you are writing - attribute chmod=777 - I think...) James "You're a big man, but you're out of shape. With me it's a full time job. Now behave yourself." "Get Carter" 1964

RE: Another debate PHP v CF

2000-12-13 Thread Steve Pierce
Kelly, your boss wrote: switch from ... cold fusion to PHP. The need to deliberate the issue further is a mute point. Forget it, your boss said he doesn't want to debate it, he wants to switch from CF to PHP. Just switch. Look at all the new training classes you will get to attend

RE: NT to Solaris

2000-12-13 Thread Aaron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeff, It sounds like you are moving a file from one server to another using CFFILE? Does the server (ie the Solaris box running CF) have CF running under an account that has permissions to access the other server? Aaron Johnson, MCSE, MCP+I

RE: Allaire ColdFusion Sample Script DoS Vulnerability

2000-12-13 Thread Aaron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Notice the workaround... "You should remove the CFDOCS directory. In a typical installation, that directory resides at: {webroot}/CFDOCS/" Anyone that has the sample scripts on their production CF box should be flogged anyway This isn't a

Re: Another debate

2000-12-13 Thread Jamie Keane
Well, the two are really different critters. It could be said that PHP is more secure since it is open source, therefore flaws can, in theory, be discovered (and hopefully patched) quicker. As for other discussion along the lines of "CF is a better platform because it's easier to write in", it

RE: cflock vs. cftransaction

2000-12-13 Thread Cameron Childress
True, transactions are not supported in MySQL. A CFLOCK would not create a database transaction, and would not provide some of the benefits of transactions such as rollback, but in this case it would have a similar effect of making sure that no-one else was generating a new ID at the same time.

RE: division

2000-12-13 Thread Allan Pichler
You're using the wrong division symbol! / returns a regular division \ returns the integer result of a regular division, that means ... no decimals! Allan Pichler Machine Dreams Inc. -Original Message- From: Rick Lamb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 9:02

Re: Just a stray thought

2000-12-13 Thread Jamie Keane
Yes, I'm interested too. Send it on up! -- Jamie Keane Programmer SolutionMasters, Inc. 9111 Monroe Rd., Suite 100 Charlotte, NC 28270 www.solutionmasters.com 704.563.5559 x 228 Voice 704.849.9291 Fax -Original Message- From: Andres [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED]

LDAP constraints

2000-12-13 Thread Jason Egan
I'm using LDAP for a login process. like a query where I can restrict with a where clause, I would like to do the same thing with LDAP. so that only one record is returned where the un and pw match exactly. I've tried using the filter attribute, but I either get one or the other, or both.

RE: Allaire ColdFusion Sample Script DoS Vulnerability

2000-12-13 Thread Dave Watts
Subject: Allaire ColdFusion Sample Script DoS Vulnerability This is kind of silly. It's a sample script exploit. You should never install sample scripts onto any production server. Period. If you do, bad things can happen to you. In fact, by default, I think that CF doesn't even install sample

Re: Another debate

2000-12-13 Thread Joe Sheble aka Wizaerd
I'm currently going through the same thing, except my new IT director's pushing for ASP and Java... ick... If he'd suggest PHP, I'd be all for it since I know PHP intimately, (and personally prefer it over CF, but that's strictly my opinion) - Original Message - From: "Michael Dinowitz"

RE: Another debate

2000-12-13 Thread ron
The new boss has arrived in my department and of course he wants everyone to switch from the awesome and all mighty cold fusion to PHP. We do need some other strengths in our department for those clients who don't want us to host their application or don't have cf on their server, but,

RE: Allaire ColdFusion Sample Script DoS Vulnerability

2000-12-13 Thread Lord, Heath
Ancient History. Remove Docs and Sample Apps. If I remember correctly, this was corrected with the release of 4.0.1 Heath -Original Message- From: Robert Everland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 12:51 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Allaire ColdFusion Sample Script

RE: Another debate - absolute rubbish.

2000-12-13 Thread JustinMacCarthy
Most "security issue" in ColdFusion are problems with IIS not ColdFusion or problems in standard security. There have been a couple of exceptions (the Expression Evaluator and samples mostly), but most are not the fault of CF. If he is comparing PHP on Unix to CF on NT, it's not really a fair

Re: division

2000-12-13 Thread Tom Espen Pedersen
Try using cfset temp = decimalFormat(getdealers.recordcount/100) Sincirely Tom Espen Pedersen developer www.pixelduck.com - Original Message - From: "Rick Lamb" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "CF-Talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 6:02 PM Subject: division This was

Re: Another debate

2000-12-13 Thread Peter Theobald
One big difference: in PHP you will have to write database-vendor specific code. The code to use Sybase is different than SQLServer is different than Oracle, etc. If portability is important, then that will be a problem. At 12:29 PM 12/13/00 -0500, Michael Dinowitz wrote: As long as you write

Re: query between 2 database types

2000-12-13 Thread Greg Wolfinger
Eli: I know that Novell puts out a product that lets you connect sql server, oracle, access, db2, etc... all together and use them as a virtual single database. I believe its called SQL Everywhere (but I'm really not sure). Greg - Original Message - From: "Eli Shechter" [EMAIL

HELP: List questions...

2000-12-13 Thread Gary McNeel, Jr.
I am working with ascii delimited data, trying to read them into a SQL Server table through a web browser interface. After it is all working I want to convert it to a scheduled event. The ascii is currently delimited by the pipe (|) with no enclosing quotes on the fields. CRLF defines the start

Re: Slightly OT....Javascript question

2000-12-13 Thread Jay Brushett
Use the eval function. eval("document.Slider" + i + ".GetValue()"); Roughly. Jay At 05:48 PM 12/13/2000 +, you wrote: OK guys and girls...slightly ot question but it's bugging me! In part of a Javasript function I am trying to loop through a collection of controls and adding their value

RE: query between 2 database types

2000-12-13 Thread Allan Pichler
To the best of my knowledge, you can't ! I believe that feature will be available in CF 5, but you would stil need to run 2 queries. The new feature in CF 5 allows you to run queries on existing recordsets! As you probably know you can only specify one DATASOURCE pr. query, so accessing 2 from

RE: Cookie timeouts

2000-12-13 Thread Lord, Heath
To quote the cookie definition, Expires = Optional. Schedules the expiration of a cookie variable. Can be specified as a date (as in 10/09/99), number of DAYS (as in 10, 100), now, or Never. Using NOW deletes the cookie. ie, store the date time in a cookie, compare it and time it out based on

Translating some ASP to CF

2000-12-13 Thread Todd Ashworth
I have this VB code chunk that creates 2 instances of a COM object, the purpose of which is to encode a .wav file into a .asf file. Does anyone know how to translate this into ColdFusion? I've been messing with it on and off for 2 months, but I haven't gotten it to work yet. 'Create multiple

RE: Allaire ColdFusion Sample Script DoS Vulnerability

2000-12-13 Thread Jeff Sarsoun
This exploit should not effect most sites, considering sample code should not be installed on a production server in the first place. This goes back to other exploits that exist due to sample code that was installed by Allaire in previous versions. Jeff Sarsoun -Original Message- From:

DOS vulnerability in ColdFusion servers

2000-12-13 Thread Alex Aguilar
The solution {remove CFDOCS directory} presented for this "vulnerability" is something I'd heard was an advisable thing to do for production servers in the past. So many of you may already know this but I thought it would be a good thing to post. I thought it might also be a good opportunity to

RE: Another debate

2000-12-13 Thread Allan Pichler
Your new boss obviously doesn't worry about development time since he chooses PHP over CF, and the points about security issues is FR out. Obviously your new boss need some professional (mental) help! Allan Pichler Machine Dreams Inc. -Original Message- From: Kelly Shepard

RE: Preventing zero-length file uploads to CFFILE

2000-12-13 Thread Phoeun Pha
i may be wrong, but any file with 0KB prolly doesn't exist! -Original Message- From: Milks, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 12:33 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Preventing zero-length file uploads to CFFILE Hi all, I stumbled on an odd situatiuon, but need

OT: Internet/Intranet applications based of CF

2000-12-13 Thread Allan Pichler
Does anyone know of any companies that specializes in selling out-of-a-box applications based on CF. My interest is based on the fact the my company have developed a Intranet In-A-Box solution for small/midsize companies to do project/client/contact/time management, that i'm trying to "get rid

RE: cflock vs. cftransaction

2000-12-13 Thread Christopher Olive, CIO
no, CFLOCK is only for restricting access to a server side variable. DBs don't benefit from this. chris olive, cio cresco technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crescotech.com -Original Message- From: Bud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 12:41 PM To:

Re: cftry cfcatch/cfcatch/cftry

2000-12-13 Thread Neil H.
This doesn't work. You can't have a page the contains just cftry included with other stuff below it. You would expect to since cfinclude just moves the contents into the main page. I want to use a standard code set for error handling. Also I don't want to rely on fusebox techniques since I

RE: Preventing zero-length file uploads to CFFILE

2000-12-13 Thread Bernd VanSkiver
Sounds like a bug in cold fusion to me. I don't know of any ways to verify file size before uploading. If anyone else does, I would like to know. Bernd VanSkiver [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #: 916324 -Original Message- From: Milks, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December

Re: [query between 2 database types]

2000-12-13 Thread Alex
not sure if you can. but you can query one DB then populate the results in a temp table in the other DB "Eli Shechter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I recently started using a program that runs off a oracle database, and my website runs off SQL server 7.0 how can I run a query so that within one

RE: division

2000-12-13 Thread Dylan Bromby
CFSET varname = #Round(getdealers.recordcount/100)# or CFSET varname = #Round(Evaluate(getdealers.recordcount/100))# should work fine. -Original Message- From: Rick Lamb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 9:02 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: division This was

RE: Another debate

2000-12-13 Thread Phoeun Pha
who cares, just ask for a raise, 4 Christmas bonuses, and free parking - All for learning PHP. It's not your company anyways, it's your [insert ignorant here] boss's -Original Message- From: Kevin Schmidt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 1:48 PM

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