RE: CF Status in UK

2001-03-26 Thread Ben Lowndes
at www.houseoffusion.com where this post should really of gone.. Ben -- Ben Lowndes, CF Contractor http://www.lowndes.net/ ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail

RE: Can CF work with a FileMakerPro database?

2001-03-12 Thread Ben Lowndes
I tried (admitteldy, not very hard!) querying a filemaker Db with CF over ODBC a while ago. It was so slow, I decided to stick to what I knew instead! Ben. -- Ben Lowndes, CF Contractor http://www.lowndes.net/ Currently available for new contracts. -Original Message- From: Rick

RE: To ADDTOKEN or not

2001-02-22 Thread Ben Lowndes
of sprinkling my code with cflocks everywhere I copy Session.URLtoken into REQUEST.URLtoken in Application.cfm, so only requiring one lock per page. HTH. -- Ben Lowndes, CF Contractor http://www.lowndes.net/ Currently available for new contracts. -Original Message- From: Nick Texidor

RE: Ben Forta's (?) article on using # signs...

2001-02-22 Thread Ben Lowndes
m/articles/index.cfm?ArticleID=26 -- Ben Lowndes, CF Contractor, London, UK http://www.lowndes.net/ Currently available for new contracts. ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm

RE: FREE CF hosting, besides CFM-Resources

2001-02-18 Thread Ben Lowndes
Subject: FREE CF hosting, besides CFM-Resources Anyone know of the other firm, or site, Thanks in advance Have a look at http://www.cfdeveloper.co.uk -- Ben Lowndes, CF Contractor, London UK. http://cf.lowndes.net/ben/ Currently available for new contracts

RE: LOCKING revisited...

2000-12-20 Thread Ben Lowndes
CF handles complex variables by reference, but simple variables by value... So if you want to move a structure out of the application scope you need to use the duplicate() function and not a direct reference. e.g. CFSET Application.TestStruct = "tructNew()" CFSET REQUEST.TestStruct =

RE: LOCKING revisited...

2000-12-20 Thread Ben Lowndes
Is the duplicate() function supported in 4.01? -- er... unfortunatly not. StructCopy() will be sufficent so long as your not trying to copy a nested structure. Duplicate() is an undocumented feature only present in CF4.5 upwards. Ben. ~~

RE: Stored Data

2000-11-14 Thread Ben Lowndes
Digital Outlook do an excellent CFX_PGP tag so you can encypt the details before inserting into the DB: https://www.digitaloutlook.com/solutionsstore.cfm Ben -Original Message- From: Carignan, Michael (NE) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 14 November 2000 13:13 To: CF-Talk

CF4.51 SP1 ??

2000-09-13 Thread Ben Lowndes
Hi, I noticed on the allaire site that CF4.51 has been released, is this recent? Has anyone experienced any problems with it? What improvements does it bring - I couldn't find the release notes for it anywhere... Also, I asked this question yesterday and didn't get much of a response so I'm

RE: CF 4.5.1 Service Pack 1 Available

2000-09-13 Thread Ben Lowndes
Yes, I couldn't find the releasenotes anywhere... Anyway I've installed it on a test server and I've put the releasenotes in a directory for other to see at: http://dev.bta.com/ben/releasenotes-sp1.htm Ben. -Original Message- From: Rich Wild [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 13

CFHTTP, CFWDDX, cflock'ing it - cfcatch'in and cftry'ing.

2000-09-12 Thread Ben Lowndes
Hi, First of all I'm using CF4.51 Pro. I'm using CFHTTP to hit a page that produces WDDX, then trying to deserialise the wddx. I'm aware that there were many problems with CFHTTP in CF4.01 but don't know what it's like now, but under my own basic testing I've experienced repeated fails So,

RE: fusebox stats

2000-09-08 Thread Ben Lowndes
I'd take it a step further and say it isn't efficent to a DB insert for every page hit. It would be better to load the fuseaction, CFID, CFToken whatever else you want into an application scoped structure. Then on a daily basis insert this structure into a DB and empty it.. Infact, I believe

hot fix broke my site!

2000-08-04 Thread Ben Lowndes
Hi I've applied the MS Patch to the +.htr problem, but it's broen my site! I'm geting the following error: ODBC Error Code = 28000 (Invalid authorization specification) [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Login failed for user 'NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON'. Even though I'm sure

CF triggering method in remote DCOM

2000-07-10 Thread Ben Lowndes @ CW
Hi. I'm trying to trigger a method in a remote DCOM object over my network. has anyone done this from a CF script? ie from CF, send the DCOM object a command to print a message on the target systems screen, for example? Thnaks, Ben

RE: When should I use CFLOCK?

2000-07-10 Thread Ben Lowndes @ CW
Ok, what if you are using application variables as a part of the IF statement and session in the IF? e.g: CFIF Application.Foo CFSET Session.bar = 1 /CFIF Is it ok to nest different types of Locks (session and application). And what if Application.foo was actually session.foo? Would I

RE: How hard is it to set up a SQL7 data exchange?

2000-07-07 Thread Ben Lowndes @ CW
What you are talking about is Replication. A search of the SQL books online for the keyword replication should give you plenty to read up on. Ben -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Kear Sent: 07 July 2000 07:42 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: How do I read a list of employee IDs returned from a form,with checkboxes??

2000-07-05 Thread Ben Lowndes @ CW
Ok, I think you are asking a bit much as you haven't posted any code to indicate what you are trying yourself, but I'll give you a helping hand as I'm sure I did the same when I started coding! !---First do a query to get all the employees names and ID's--- CFQUERY DATASOURCE="MyDSN"

RE: CF XML ?

2000-06-28 Thread Ben Lowndes @ CW
I am symathetic to your situation, there isn't much good info out there on producing or parsing XML with CF, I'm trying to find time to put something together myself at the moment. Firstly, WDDX. WDDX is an XML format that Allaire are pushing. It's good as it allows the transferance of complex

RE: CFML in a Object Orientated Style

2000-06-27 Thread Ben Lowndes @ CW
You are probably talking about cfobbjects: http://www.cfobjects.com Also worth looking at is Fusebox: http://www.fusebox.org Ben -Original Message- From: Rif Kiamil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 27 June 2000 09:07 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: CFML in a Object Orientated Style

Number calculations.

2000-06-06 Thread Ben Lowndes
Hi, as this list is so quiet (or broken?) I thought I'd post this question. I'm taking an integer value from a database. I need to be able to seperate out the tens and units into a new variable, the thousands and hundreds and thousands into another and the rest into another. eg: DbValue =

limit on number of structures in session scope.

2000-05-23 Thread Ben Lowndes
Hello, I'm working on an online store and have been learning about structures. I've managed to cut in half the number of queries I'm doing per page by loading all of the category titles in to a structure and then making the structure an application variable. I'm thinking about doing the same

CFLOCK Confusing Appication, client, session usage.

2000-05-22 Thread Ben Lowndes
Hi, I'd like some help clearing up a few issues surrounding the confusing nature of CFLOCK. Do I have to make all references to Session variables such as session.id within a CFLOCK? Does this include references made using them as form and URL variables (is this different depending upon wether

Re: Session vars available from a different session?

2000-05-22 Thread Ben Lowndes
Original Message - From: "Dave Watts" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just remember to lock all accesses to memory variables with CFLOCK. I asked a similar kind of question earlier, but didn't get much of answer. Are you saying I should lock all Session and Application variables? Are the rest of my

Re: Reformatting number

2000-05-19 Thread Ben Lowndes
When I do : #NumberFormat(MyVar)# It gives an error that myVar is not a number but I selected it from an int id feild. Is there any way of testing for the format of a variable? Thanks Ben - Original Message - From: "Stephen Moretti" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: How not to be seen ...

2000-05-18 Thread Ben Lowndes
Put it in a regular HTML comment e.g: CFOUTPUT !-- #MyVar# -- /CFOUPUT Ben. - Original Message - From: "Todd Ashworth" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 2:07 PM Subject: How not to be seen ... Is there a way to cfoutput a variable, but not have it

testing for a cookie

2000-05-15 Thread Ben Lowndes
Hello, I'd like to be able to test for the existence of a cookie so that I can use CFLOCATION if the cookie is set. The problem is the code cfif IsDefined(Cookie.CartID) is throwing up an error The code I'd like to use is something like: code here that writes a cookie . CFIF

Re: RE:(OT) ASP equivelant of CFHTTP ( per php)..

2000-05-10 Thread Ben Lowndes
component like AspHTTP. You can find a listing of the others in http://www.aspin.com . Leong -Original Message- From: Ben Lowndes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 1:31 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: ASP equivelant of CFHTTP ( per php).. Hi I was hoping you

Re: SQL insert question

2000-05-09 Thread Ben Lowndes
You might be better just doing one insert at a time and enclosing the query in a cfloop looping over the variables... Just an idea Ben. - Original Message - From: "Spencer Saunders" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "cftalk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 12:37 PM Subject: SQL

ASP equivelant of CFHTTP ( per php)..

2000-05-09 Thread Ben Lowndes
Hi I was hoping you knowledgable people would be able to tell me what various other scripting languages equivelants are to CFHTTP. I'm writting up a specification for an XML feed and want to make it as easy as possible for other developers to get the XML So if anyone can tell me the

JAVA GIAXT setup with CF for XML

2000-05-08 Thread Ben Lowndes
Hi, I'm tackling XML and want to get started experimenting with GIAXT (http://www2.granularity.net/xml/ColdFusion/GIAXT/) which I'm sure many of you are familiar with, but I'm having trouble setting it up. I've downloaded and installed JRE 1.2 and all the other things it needs. I'm in CF Admin

cf_dhtml

2000-04-28 Thread Ben Lowndes
Hi! does anyone have Ben Fortas CF_DHTML working anywhere I can see? I've haven't been able to get it working and am finding it very frustating I've tried putting the JS file in a CF mapped directory and at the servers root and using the below code, but with no luck. CF_DHTMLMenu

Newsgoup mirror.

2000-04-14 Thread Ben Lowndes
Hello, can anyone tell me the address for the news server that mirrors this group? Thanks Ben -- Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk To Unsubscribe visit

CF and COM example

2000-04-13 Thread Ben Lowndes
Hi, I'm interested in using CF with COM. I've got advanced CF application development by ben forta which has an interesting chapter. I've tried following his examples, unfortunatly the COM object he uses as an example is no longer availible and it's not on the accompanying CD.. So I'm a bit

sending and waiting for a file - COM object poss?

2000-04-11 Thread Ben Lowndes
Hi, I'm looking for a bit of advice here. I need to send a file across a that contains the contents of a CF query network and then wait for a return file and present the contents of this file to the users browser. No problem with writing the file, simply use CFFILE. The thing is how can I get

querying date in a date-time field.

2000-03-30 Thread Ben Lowndes
Hi! I've posted this question a couple of times in one form or another, so I'd really appreciate an answer this time. I've got a date time field in A SQL DB and it contains both date and times. I'd like to search it purely by the date value, irrelevent of time. e.g: SELECT * FROM myTable WHERE