It does. ======================================================================== === Raymond Camden, ColdFusion Jedi Master for Mindseye, Inc (www.mindseye.com) Member of Team Macromedia (http://www.macromedia.com/go/teammacromedia)
Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blog : www.camdenfamily.com/morpheus/blog Yahoo IM : morpheus "My ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is." - Yoda > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Doom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 4:54 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Coldfusion is King > > > Does anyone know offhand if BlueDragon supports cfwddx? > > > -- Ben Doom > Programmer & General Lackey > Moonbow Software, Inc > > : -----Original Message----- > : From: Haggerty, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > : Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 4:49 PM > : To: CF-Community > : Subject: Coldfusion is King > : > : > : Alright, I am letting off a little steam here. It has been a long > : week, and > : Friday is still hours away. > : > : Coldfusion is king among dynamic Web technologies. Period. It is > : easy to use > : and does not require you to build an API every time you want to do > : something. I have known this for a long time, but sometimes > I am forced to > : prove this fact via a practical demonstration (in much the > same way as a > : gibbering idiot sometimes proves he cannot pound railroad > spikes into > : concrete walls with his own forehead). > : > : I have a project where we need a low-cost data feed technology to > : distribute > : to regional offices. What will happen is the contents of a > : database will be > : thrown into a WDDX packet, which will be downloaded via a Web > : server to the > : central office. The data can be anything, but the transport > : protocol must be > : http. And the technology must already be installed or else freely > : available, > : meaning we can will use PHP, Perl or ASP. > : > : So I get to learn how to automatically post variables to a Web > : server in PHP > : and return the content. > : > : To do the following in CF: > : > : <cfset login = structNew()> > : <cfset login.name = "someuser"> > : <cfset login.pass = "somepass"> > : <cfset login.call = "somecall"> > : <cfwddx input="#login#" output="WXDDlogin" action="CFML2WDDX"> > : <cfhttp url="http://www.somewhere.org/wddx_output.cfm"; method="POST" > : resolveurl="true" throwonerror="no"> > : <cfhttpparam name="login" value="#WXDDlogin#" type="FORMFIELD"> > : </cfhttp> > : <cfwddx input="#cfhttp.fileContent#" output="data" > action="WDDX2CFML"> > : > : ...is insanely difficult to do in PHP. > : > : First off, their file system functions are restricted to > local operations, > : meaning you have to connect to their server via a socket > connection. Once > : that connection is open, you have to write the F***ING > headers yourself to > : GET and POST data, which is not easy considering you have > to write one for > : each and every piece of data you wish to post. The resulting > : content is not > : a WDDX packet, it is a raw HTTP packet which you then get to > : strip via regex > : functions. Then, if you are lucky and everything worked the > way it was > : supposed to, you have a WDDX packet you can deserialize and start > : using. If > : you are unlucky and something goes wrong, poor you because the debug > : information is sparse at best. > : > : Now, this would not be such a big deal were it not for the > nearly complete > : lack of information on how to do this. In the time it has taken > : me to figure > : out the steps in the code I could have rewritten the Bible. > I have endured > : millions of pop-up ads going through 'tutorial' sites for > info on how to > : make this work. I have posted dozens of questions to PHP lists > : and for each > : one received at least 10 responses from people who either didn't > : understand > : the question or think asking 'Why would you want to do that?' is > : an answer. > : > : I could go on, but the problem is now solved and the data > client is now in > : place. At least I won't have to learn how to do this again. I > : built out all > : the functions into a class library, and now have the equivalent > : of CFHTTP in > : PHP to use on further development. > : > : It only took me about a week to complete a simple task that would > : have taken > : 15 minutes to set up in CF. > : > : Praise the king. > : > : M > : > : > : > : > : > : > : > : > : > : > : > : > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
