I haven't tried WDDX yet myself, but... according to the site, yes. http://www.newatlanta.com/products/bluedragon/product_info/cfml_tag_supp ort.cfm
~bgl --> -----Original Message----- --> From: Ben Doom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 5:54 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 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
