OT: Affiliate Programs

2005-07-29 Thread Will Tomlinson
My Volleyball client has a friend that wants to be an affiliate and signup in her affiliate program, so I built one in a night (gotta luv CF!). I have no problems with BUILDING it, my problem is I dunno exactly *WHAT* it should do. As it stands now, I set them up in my db, give them an AffID, g

Re: Variable scope

2005-07-29 Thread Matt Robertson
I would use a cookie, personally. But only because I would want to remember the visitor's response across sessions. Session vars should be just fine in terms of reliability, although you need to remember and use proper locking techniques, especially in CF5. A minor issue (maybe) is that session

Variable scope

2005-07-29 Thread Ken
Hi. I am working on CF 5.0 (Enterprise Ed). My site has a Flash based header, and the same header is also available as Non-Flash (jpg file). I want the visitors to choose Flash/Non-Flash site. My idea is to set a variable if they click Non-flash, and check if the variable exists for that session, a

Re: cfmail optional attributes

2005-07-29 Thread Stan Winchester
I just created the test shown below on our development server and here is what I found if the attribute server is specified in cfmail, but is empty: On BlueDragon 6.2 the mail went to the undeliverable directory On CFMX 6.1 & CF5 the following error was thrown: "The value of the attribute SERVE

RE: Active Directory

2005-07-29 Thread Brian Polackoff
Lee, Having recently have done quite a bit of work with AD and CFMX 6.1 try using the code below: username="#Full dn of user who can query Active Directory" (CN=First Name,OU=OU_Name,DC=XXX,DC=YYY) password="#Users_Password#" > Brian Polackoff -

Active Directory

2005-07-29 Thread Lee
I'm playing around trying to get anything out of active directory. The code as follows. #Getstudents.cn# Returns this. An error has occured while trying to execute query :[LDAP: error code 1 - : LdapErr: DSID-0C090627, comment: In order to perform this operation a successful bind

BlogCFC/Galleon updated

2005-07-29 Thread Raymond Camden
BlogCFC has been updated. 2 important bug fixes are in it - plus support for pinging Technorati (thanks to Steven Erat). Galleon has been updated. The only change here is a new subscription model. It allows you to subscribe now to a thread, forum, or conference. Any suggestions, problems, etc, fe

Re: cfmail optional attributes

2005-07-29 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
> What is the best way to handle optional attributes for the > cfmail tag? I > have noticed you cannot specify the attribute and then > leave it blank, > because the email will be sent to the undeliverable > directory. I've never had this experience with the server attribute... what version of CF

RE: XML format for menus

2005-07-29 Thread Merrill, Jason
Another advantage to XML is it can be shared between different applications. For example, if you wanted to build the same thing in Flash, the same file could be used to describe the menu system. Jason Merrill | E-Learning Solutions | icfconsulting.com >>-Original Message-

cfmail optional attributes

2005-07-29 Thread Stan Winchester
What is the best way to handle optional attributes for the cfmail tag? I have noticed you cannot specify the attribute and then leave it blank, because the email will be sent to the undeliverable directory. Here is how we are thinking about doing it: Dear #FirstName#, Blah blah blah...

Re: XML format for menus

2005-07-29 Thread Barney Boisvert
With CF. Each permissions attribute gets converted into a series of isUserAuthorized (an internal function) calls to see if that element is allowed for the user. If so, something gets rendered. In other words, where we're using permissions, we're not using XSL, but rather just CF's XML processin

RE: XML format for menus

2005-07-29 Thread Andy
Where / how do you limit/control what menu items get displayed? Andy -Original Message- From: Barney Boisvert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 2:13 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: XML format for menus We don't do permission-based stuff with XSLT. Depending on your perm

RE: regex

2005-07-29 Thread Russ Michaels
Problem with that approach Is that each WHOIS output is different for each TLD, and there are multiple dates on the page, and the expiry date or whatever I want to extract will be in a different format. I gave Spikes code a try for the HELL of it and strangely that did parse all the chr(10) chars,

Re: XML format for menus

2005-07-29 Thread Barney Boisvert
We don't do permission-based stuff with XSLT. Depending on your permission list (namely whether any permission names are substrings of other permission names), you could potentially use the 'contains' XPath function to only select nodes which match a permission list (computed by CF and passed in).

RE: XML format for menus

2005-07-29 Thread Andy
I was hoping this would work! Can I use it to create a menu for a specific user based on Permissions? Do you have an example of the XSLT file showing how I could do this? Andy -Original Message- From: Barney Boisvert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 1:54 PM To: CF-

Re: XML format for menus

2005-07-29 Thread Barney Boisvert
Another advantage is XSLT transformations. That was the primary reason we did it. Simple to have have a single XML doc that describes your menu, and then run it through an XSLT stylesheet to generate the same menu with various look and feels. It's also potentially easier to deal with, because an

Re: regex

2005-07-29 Thread Caroline Wise
Russ, If I understand correctly, this might be of help: #Mid(teststring,REFind(regex,teststring,start),11)# The regular expression is based on that you have a dd-mmm- pattern. Then you loop over your file content until it runs out of "hits". Best of luck, Caroline Wise On 7/29/

RE: RegEx question: Multiple replaces in one statement

2005-07-29 Thread Ian Skinner
Replace just does a straight string literal matching, REReplace dose regex, which requires a little more processing to go with the increased power of matching patterns not just string literals.. -- Ian Skinner Web Programmer BloodSource www.BloodSource.org Sacramento, CA "C code.

RE: RegEx question: Multiple replaces in one statement

2005-07-29 Thread B G
Thanks! I actually did have the one line with REReplace but a well hidden syntax error got me to separate the two. For my own education, what is REReplace doing that Replace is not which adds the overhead? >From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: cf-talk@houseoffusion.com >To: CF-Talk >Subject:

RE: XML format for menus

2005-07-29 Thread Andy
Thanks Barney. Charlie, I am doing it because I can easily create and maintain the menus using an XML Editor such as xmlSpy and load at the beginning of a session based off of language preferences. Andy -Original Message- From: Charlie Griefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, Jul

RE: regex

2005-07-29 Thread Russ Michaels
I did try something along those lines originally, but CF doesn't seem to be able to pickup the chr(10) or chr(13) Russ -Original Message- From: Spike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 July 2005 18:03 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: regex You don't need to use a regex to get that

Re: regex

2005-07-29 Thread Claude Schneegans
>>it doesn't write the REGEX for you Such a tag is still to be invented ;-) However, the main idea in CF_REExtract is that most of the time it is MUCH easier to describe in a REGEX what's before and what's after the string you want to extract, than to describe the string itself. Sometimes, you

RE: [CF-Dev] regex

2005-07-29 Thread Russ Michaels
Well as all WHOIS output is different for every domain, I of course do not have that string, thus why I need to extract it from the WHOIS output as I stated. Russ -Original Message- From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 July 2005 18:15 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: [

Re: XML format for menus

2005-07-29 Thread Charlie Griefer
curious...what's the advantage of using XML versus just storing an an array of structs? On 7/29/05, Barney Boisvert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've used this format with great success: > > > > User List > > > > Add User > User List > >

Re: XML format for menus

2005-07-29 Thread Barney Boisvert
I've used this format with great success: User List Add User User List cheers, barneyb On 7/29/05, Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have an XML format that they would share? I want to c

XML format for menus

2005-07-29 Thread Andy
Does anyone have an XML format that they would share? I want to convert my "hard-coded" system and an easily maintainable XML file seems like a good approach. Andy ~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion H

RE: [CF-Dev] regex

2005-07-29 Thread Jim Davis
> -Original Message- > From: Russ Michaels [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 11:51 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: FW: [CF-Dev] regex > > As I suck at REGEX, I'll put this out to those of you that don't :-) > > Rich ? > > I need to extract data from WHOIS output. > > E

Re: regex

2005-07-29 Thread Spike
You don't need to use a regex to get that info out of the whois output. #expiryDate# Spike On 7/29/05, Russ Michaels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > While that tag looks very handy, it doesn't write the REGEX for you, you > still have to supply the REGEX to the tag for it to find th

RE: regex

2005-07-29 Thread Russ Michaels
While that tag looks very handy, it doesn't write the REGEX for you, you still have to supply the REGEX to the tag for it to find the text your looking for. Russ -Original Message- From: Claude Schneegans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 July 2005 17:22 To: CF-Talk Subject

Re: Invoking process on file upload

2005-07-29 Thread Nathan Strutz
There are, of course, other ways to do it, generally involving programming in Java or .NET, then to notify CF, you'd have to hit your site via http. I've done it in c# using System.IO.FileSystemWatcher. I could send it to you, if you like, it's a little GUI tool i made just to sample the techn

Re: FW: [CF-Dev] regex

2005-07-29 Thread Claude Schneegans
>>I need to extract data from WHOIS output. Have a look a CF_REExtract: http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/REextract/testREextract.cfm?p=hf It has especially developed for this king of job. -- ___ REUSE CODE! Use custom tags; See http://www.contentb

RE: RegEx question: Multiple replaces in one statement

2005-07-29 Thread Dave.Phillips
Here's how I would do it: You're still calling replace twice, but it's only one line of code. And Barney's right...don't use REReplace if you don't need it, it's extra overhead. Dave ---Original Message- From: Barney Boisvert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 12:05 PM

CFFILE and Virus Scanning

2005-07-29 Thread Brian Klaas
What solutions have people put in place for performing anti-virus scans on CFFILE-based uploads? There's a relatively old (CF 4.5) CFX tag on the exchange, and there's also PrismAV for ColdFusion ( http://www.coolfusion.com/products/prismav/prismavforcoldfusion.cfm ). Has anyone had experience wit

Re: RegEx question: Multiple replaces in one statement

2005-07-29 Thread Barney Boisvert
Nope, but you don't REreplace at all, a simple replace will do the trick just as well, and with less overhead. You could even use replaceList, but I'd not recommend that, as it has some weird quirks. cheers, barneyb On 7/29/05, B G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to replace two diffe

Re: need help with a coldfusion install problem

2005-07-29 Thread Anthony Prato
Cool, thanks Dave. You are correct, there are reasons to remove SYSTEM. (I was only changing permissions on the dev server so far) >From what I've researched since my last post it seams that removing SYSTEM is good because the SYSTEM account has the same internal id on every installation which make

Re: SOT: Full-Text Index

2005-07-29 Thread Deanna Schneider
You can use conText in oracle 8i. That'll give you fuzzy matches and stemming and such. You basically set up an index on the column (columns) you want to search and then you use the Contains keyword. On 7/29/05, Matt Osbun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's trolling as in "Fishing", rather than

FW: [CF-Dev] regex

2005-07-29 Thread Russ Michaels
As I suck at REGEX, I'll put this out to those of you that don't :-) Rich ? I need to extract data from WHOIS output. Example, I need to extract things like the renewal date (only the date portion). Renewal Date: 02-May-2006 Russ ~

RegEx question: Multiple replaces in one statement

2005-07-29 Thread B G
Is it possible to replace two different items in a string? I have a table holding brand names. All ~ should be ® AND all ^ should be TM. Currently I am doing the following: Is it possible to do this in one REReplace statement? Thanks.

RE: need help with a coldfusion install problem

2005-07-29 Thread Dave Watts
> well i think they definitely need a technote. I found a bunch > of threads with the same problem but no solution. I finally found > one talking about permissions. It turns out that for whatever > reason the sys admins removed the permissions for the SYSTEM > account, which coldfusion is run a

SOT: Full-Text Index

2005-07-29 Thread Matt Osbun
That's trolling as in "Fishing", rather than "Being nasty just to get a rise out of people" ;) I have a need to create some sort of keyword-searchable index for a CF application, so that the user can enter a person's first and last name into a form and search on it. I'm not particular as to what

RE: Executing CF function from databased content?

2005-07-29 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
Well, yeah - it would certainly help but it would no doubt involve some kind of interim parsing before CF put the page together as a whole.. -Original Message- From: S. Isaac Dealey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 July 2005 16:06 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Executing CF function from da

RE: Executing CF function from databased content?

2005-07-29 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
Not without "help" anyway. > Yeah, AFAIK, there is no way to get CF to parse CF code > when it comes out of the DB. > -Original Message- > From: S. Isaac Dealey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 29 July 2005 16:01 > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Executing CF function from databased content?

RE: Executing CF function from databased content?

2005-07-29 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
Yeah, AFAIK, there is no way to get CF to parse CF code when it comes out of the DB. -Original Message- From: S. Isaac Dealey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 July 2005 16:01 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Executing CF function from databased content? Yeah, that sounds kinda dangerous to m

RE: Executing CF function from databased content?

2005-07-29 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
Yeah, that sounds kinda dangerous to me too... and I've never heard of it working that way before The alternative I neglected to mention before is to write a custom tag or function which actually writes the content to a file and then includes the file... Of course, you still have to be careful wi

Re: Verity

2005-07-29 Thread Dave Carabetta
On 7/29/05, Chris Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyone know of any good tutorials/information out there on > > implementing Verity with MX ? Assuming someone knows absolutely > > nothing about Verity... > > Any reason the supplied LiveDocs don't help? Macromedia went through great efforts

error creating verity collection

2005-07-29 Thread Seamus Campbell
Hi I get this error creating a verity collection in MX7 with hot fix 3 & windows XP An error occurred while creating the collection: com.verity.api.administration.ConfigurationException: Failed to retrieve style path. (-6044) Has anyone had this before or know what to do about it? Ta Sea

Re: need help with a coldfusion install problem

2005-07-29 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
> well i think they definitely need a technote. I found a > bunch of threads with the same problem but no solution. > I finally found one talking about permissions. It turns > out that for whatever reason the sys admins removed the > permissions for the SYSTEM account, which coldfusion is > run as

Re: Query Problem - Brain Cloud

2005-07-29 Thread Chris Terrebonne
This looks like a good use of a Tally table. A "Tally" table is a table that contains just an ID field with records from 1 to 10,000 (you can use any upper bound you need). You can then join this table to generate queries based on ranges. To test, I created the following table: ID int arrival

RE: need help with a coldfusion install problem

2005-07-29 Thread Russ Michaels
Have you verified whether the administrator and files do actually exist. Presuming your using IIS, theere will be a CFIDE virtual directory in the default web site. Satachi Internet Development Web Development and Consulting Russ Michaels [EMAIL PROTECTED]Satachi The Lodge

Re: Verity

2005-07-29 Thread Chris Peters
Ben Forta's CFWACK is a great resource for beginners of Verity. He has a whole chapter or two dedicated to the subject. - Chris Peters > Anyone know of any good tutorials/information out there on > implementing Verity with MX ? Assuming someone knows absolutely > nothing about Verity... > >

Re: Verity

2005-07-29 Thread Raymond Camden
You can download my presentation from CFUNITED. It is mainly for what is _new_ in Verity, not the 101 of Verity, but you may still find it useful: http://ray.camdenfamily.com/index.cfm/2005/7/1/CFUNITED05-Presentations On 7/28/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone know of any

RE: Executing CF function from databased content?

2005-07-29 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
This works? I must say I haven't tried it...wouldnt it pose a security risk? I mean it would allow any Joe Sixpack who can update content to add CF tags to a DB which will then be parsed and executed? Is this an MX only oddity? -Original Message- From: Dave Phipps [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Executing CF function from databased content?

2005-07-29 Thread Dave Phipps
I have tried this in the past and I managed to get the following to work: In your db content you can place #LSDateFormat(Now(),"dd/mm/yy)# This will output the date when you output the result of your cfquery. Not sure if this will work for a UDF though? The key was placing around the variable.

Re: Create SWF from CF

2005-07-29 Thread Dan O'Keefe
Neat tool, too bad it cannot be purchased anymore. That was a year and a half ago and looks like Jzox has not created any new tools. Dan On 7/27/05, James Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eg: > > http://www.jzox.com/products.jsp > > ~

RE: Executing CF function from databased content?

2005-07-29 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
Not sure what you mean - do you mean get CF to parse data which is stored in a DB column as if it were inline to the page? I am not sure if this is possible? -Original Message- From: Pete Ruckelshaus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 July 2005 03:51 To: CF-Talk Subject: Executing CF f

RE: Cfcontent Excel Problems

2005-07-29 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
How are you creating the Excel sheet? -Original Message- From: CHANCE, JENNIFER M. (JSC-BJ) (BAS) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 July 2005 16:27 To: CF-Talk Subject: Cfcontent Excel Problems Hi there... I have created a dynamic excel page in coldfusion. Everything is great except

[Reply To] Re: make delay after cfmail to delete attachments?

2005-07-29 Thread Seamus Campbell
Beautiful - thanks Seamus You wrote Yes, turn off the mail spool with spoolenable="false" so that the >message is sent before the template continues. > >On 7/29/05, Seamus Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Is there any elegant way to delay the delete? > >~

Re: make delay after cfmail to delete attachments?

2005-07-29 Thread James Holmes
Yes, turn off the mail spool with spoolenable="false" so that the message is sent before the template continues. On 7/29/05, Seamus Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any elegant way to delay the delete? ~| Logware (

make delay after cfmail to delete attachments?

2005-07-29 Thread Seamus Campbell
Hi I am using cfmail to send an email with an attachment. The attachment is in a temp directory and I want to delete the attachment after the email has been delivered. At the moment I just do the cfmail stuff then the delete - but it appears that the delete gets done before the attachment is