Translation Strategies
I've got a mid-sized site a client needs to have translated into a few languages. They do not want to use a web service (like google) for this. They would like to have more control over the output. The content is partially in html on the pages, and partially in the database as well (a little e-commerce in addition to the standard aboutus/corp info) Images contain text to but this is another issue. So I started down the path of creating separate views for each language each in their own language folder. Then I set a session var of the currently selected language and put that right in the include statement for my view. Works great for the html/image stuff. What I am trying to figure out is the best way to handle the DB driven stuff. Just create new tables or fields that contain the translated text? Another strategy that I thought about was to store translations in the application scope. Create a common function that would take a string of text and a language identifier. If it found a mapping in the app scope for that string and the language requested it would return the translated text and write it to a log to notify a translator (person) that something needed to be added to the map. If not it would simply return the string untranslated. Benefits of this approach would be that one single view could service any number of languages, and it would work with the stuff coming from the DB as well. The downside to this approach might be efficiency (how much data can you really store effectively in the app scope?) Any other ideas or feedback out there? ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:327655 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
CFHTTP post modifying strings on form post? CF vs PHP
I have a CF page with this: cfhttp method=POST url=http://test.local/test.php; cfhttpparam type=formField name=msg value=I \ am /cfhttp cfoutput#cfhttp.filecontent#/cfoutput And a PHP receiving page: you said: ?php echo $_POST['msg']; ? The output of the CFML page is: you said: I \\ am So, who is responsible for the extra backslash in the output? Is it cfhttp or is it php, and why? Other characters like quotes and such are also being escaped. Note that if you post to a CFML page then there isnt any extra backslash in the output. ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:323643 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: CFHTTP post modifying strings on form post? CF vs PHP
The wireshark dump confirmed that it WAS NOT cfhttp doing this, but rather a feature of php called magic quotes More info posted here: http://help.imified.com/faqs/building-imified-bots/backslashses-are-inserted-before-certain-characters-when-my-bot-replies I have a CF page with this: cfhttp method=POST url=http://test.local/test.php; cfhttpparam type=formField name=msg value=I \ am /cfhttp cfoutput#cfhttp.filecontent#/cfoutput And a PHP receiving page: you said: ?php echo $_POST['msg']; ? The output of the CFML page is: you said: I \\ am So, who is responsible for the extra backslash in the output? Is it cfhttp or is it php, and why? Other characters like quotes and such are also being escaped. Note that if you post to a CFML page then there isnt any extra backslash in the output. ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:323647 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
compatible providers?
Has anyone out there actually used the SMS gateway in CF? If so, which provider did you use? I hear talk about compatible providers but have never actually know someone who had a provider that integrated well with CF. We ended up writing our own wrapper for our providers API. But a nice slick direct integration would be nice. Anyone out there using anyone in particular? ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:309260 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Extract text from webpage content using cfhttp
I need to index web page contents for doing verity (or similar) searching. I'd like to insert just the text that a web page returns and not any of the other stuff (like html, JS, CSS, images, etc) I noticed that cfhttp.filecontent returns the entire contents of the page, anyone have a good way to get at just the text? Also, I am storing the results in a mysql database and was anticipating using the text data type, I assume that is the best way to go? ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:308820 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Extract text from webpage content using cfhttp
Thanks for the tip I will have a look at doing this using some regex. I did find this excellent sud tutorial on extracting text for indexing from html. I really wish there was something equivalent in a nice cfc, because there is ton here that I really never considered. http://nadeausoftware.com/articles/2008/04/php_tip_how_extract_keywords_web_page ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:308823 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: Extract text from webpage content using cfhttp
I'm not so set on extracting specific elements from a page, more about indexing all the actual text on a page to index and show our users pages like their search term. Search engines do this extraction and analysis on web pages. ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:308824 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Facebook apps wont run on CF8
Hi all, been banging my head against the wall getting a simple hello world app running on CF8. Apparently there is some issues with the form field validator in CF8? At any rate more details are here: http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=2205007948topic=9278post=69186#post69186 Looks like it is bombing on like 137 of FieldValidator.java with some sort of a null pointer exception. Has anyone come up with a work around for this issue? With the recent surge in facebook apps it would be nice to be able to hold up CF and show people how simple facebook development in CF can be, so far it has been anything but... At any rate it does seem as though this is a new problem introduced in CF8 because the app runs fine when hosted from CF7. Any ideas? ~| ColdFusion 8 - Build next generation apps today, with easy PDF and Ajax features - download now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:289050 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Server side form validation amp; CF8
Looks to me like the problem is that it is trying to validate the element that you deleted when you inserted the new item with _CFFIX appended. cf8 must be doing form validation by looping over the fieldnames instead of the form structure itself, and when you delete elements from the structure, the whole null pointer exception occurs Now, if that indeed is the problem... how to fix it? -Anthony ~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:289056 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: Server side form validation amp; CF8
I tried changing form.fieldnames and replacing the old fieldnames with the new ones on the whim that maybe it was looping over that list for validation, but that did not do anything. It is referencing that element of the form some other way. Is anyone aware of how to just disable form validation in cf8? Is that even possible? ~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:289057 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: database table watcher gateway and task queue
Seems like this would work, I must say I've seen uglier hacks in my day... Any other ideas out there? FYI I am running mySQL 5. Thanks for the tips! ~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:288055 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
database table watcher gateway and task queue
CF ships with the directory watcher gateway which is pretty cool. Saves from having to set those scheduled tasks for every 5 min watching for changes in a directory. I have had need lately to do that same thing on a DB table. A sort of queue system where I will write records to a DB table, then CF can work on those items deleting them as they are complete. Of course I could schedule a task to check the DB table periodically. But I am wondering if you know of or had any experience with some sort of a table watcher event gateway. Is there a better way to do what I want to implement a queue of tasks? The example case would be someone sending via my API a large list of notifications to be send (each requiring a subsequent http call). Rather than making the user wait for each call to me made, he simply hands off the list to my queue and then gets a response that we are working on the list. Thanks Guys. _ Gear up for Halo® 3 with free downloads and an exclusive offer. Its our way of saying thanks for using Windows Live. http://gethalo3gear.com?ocid=SeptemberWLHalo3_WLHMTxt_2 ~| Get involved in the latest ColdFusion discussions, product development sharing, and articles on the Adobe Labs wiki. http://labs/adobe.com/wiki/index.php/ColdFusion_8 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:288036 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: database table watcher gateway and task queue
Something like a trigger would be perfect. But the thing is I need to do some stuff that is not DB related (like send a message, etc). Can the trigger call a cfc or do an http call to some cfm? Can a stored proc call that? I've usually had my cfm calling stored procs not vice versa. Interesting thought. How about a database trigger which calls a stored procedure to do that processing? ~| ColdFusion 8 - Build next generation apps today, with easy PDF and Ajax features - download now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:288045 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
