RE: CF Status in UK

the CF-Community list or CF-Jobs lists 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.fusio

RE: Can CF work with a FileMakerPro database?

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- >

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

d find: http://www.defusion.com/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 h

RE: To ADDTOKEN or not

e to be locked as readonly. Instead 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. > -Orig

RE: FREE CF hosting, besides CFM-Resources

> 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 n

RE: LOCKING revisited...

> 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: LOCKING revisited...

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. Ben. > -Original Message- > From: Evan Lavidor [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Stored Data

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 > Sub

RE: CF 4.5.1 Service Pack 1 Available

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 Septembe

CF4.51 SP1 ??

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 try

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

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

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 so

hot fix broke my site!

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 the

Number calculations.

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 = 286453

limit on number of structures in session scope.

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 thi

Re: Session vars available from a different session?

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 m

CFLOCK Confusing & Appication, client, session usage.

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 th

Re: Reformatting number

ecommend a good resource for learning about regular expressions? Thanks again Ben - Original Message ----- From: "Ben Lowndes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 19, 2000 1:02 PM Subject: Re: Reformatting number > When I do : #NumberFormat

Re: Reformatting number

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

Reformatting number

hi, I've got a number in the form of 16,511.00 I'd like to convert it to just 16511 As SQL doesn't seem to like it in the first format, even though I'm getting the number from SQL in that format. Thanks ben. -- Archives

Re: How not to be seen ...

Put it in a regular HTML comment e.g: 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 a variable, but not have it display on the web > page .. to on

testing for a cookie

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 is throwing up an error The code I'd like to use is something like: code here that writes a cookie . Your order is being added to you

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

have to use a third > party 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 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 equivela

Re: SQL insert question

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 i

JAVA & GIAXT setup with CF for XML

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

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. http://www.microso

Newsgoup mirror.

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 http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&

CF and COM example

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?

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 it

Determining Efficency.

Hi, I'm trying to make some of my scripts as efficent as possible. The script contains quite a few conditions and nests down to about 4 levels in most places. I've tried swapping if-else statements for nested sitch-case. Then repeatedly running the same query a number of times. Watching the Exec

Most efficeint validation

Hello, I've just been trying to figure out the most efficent way to check for a passed (form or url) variables pesence and value. The code I've been using is: Request_time is not defined Request_time is defined But is this the best way, it must be a common problem. I also thought about using

querying date in a date-time field.

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

is column in query or wddx.

Hi, I'm experimenting with WDDX and am trying to parse a wddx packet to display as HTML. The problem is I am dynamically generating the WDDX packet and am never sure what coulmns it contains. so, after deserialing back to CFML e.g: Is there anyway to "probe" the query to see if a column exists?