oi Critz,
I think the only ones that can be closed without a prompt are the ones
that
are spawned by JS.
EC
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From: Critz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 2:00 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: OT: Closing a window from JS without prompt?
cfoutput the variable to the screen... make certain that it's defined
and
how you want it... The cfmail subject line should accept vars with no
problem.
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From: Robert Orlini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 1:55 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE:
This is pretty odd. I noticed that strings of certain characters just won't
warp in IE5.
"! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !" <-- Put this in a
fixed width table. It won't wrap when it's supposed t
Nevermind, that was prety dumb. I'm just looking for an efficient way
to do
this without changing filenames and links. I'm not lazy, just don't
have a
budget alloted for it.
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From: Carlisle, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 21
I have a client web site that is all static HTML documents. The client has
decided that they want some web application functionality within the site.
It's not enough to dig the site up by the roots and start changing .html to
cfm . In fact, it's a bit of code not unlike the "Good Morning / Good
Many thanks for the help, everyone :)
EC
-Original Message-
From: Gyrus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 4:51 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: MS Word Funky Quotes
> Seems like after I copy and paste content form MS Word, there's
always
time
> spent turnin
Chris,
http://www.cflib.org/udf.cfm?ID=339
http://www.cflib.org/udf.cfm?ID=340
Written by yours truly. ;)
EC
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From: Critz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 12:34 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: RGB / HEX color
oi chris.alvarado!!
i'm
Sorry, I should have clarified moreso.
A lot of the time, I don't have control over the content entry. I get
content from a database and have to maintain the look of the output...
e.g
the blocky characters that an MS Word quote causes in a web browser.
Can
ColdFusion catch these non-standard c
Seems like after I copy and paste content form MS Word, there's always time
spent turning the MS Word single and double quotes into real ones (that
don't produce garbage on the screen. Is there some kind of RegEx I can use
to find and replace such content in a CF Script. Can CF know what an MS
W
We're trying to steamline how people request the same information used
accross multiple allications. Let's say I have a news database that's used
in 20 different web applications (JSP, PHP, ColdFusion, whatever). I was
thinking of using XML to provide a Launchpad to easily get the same data
(lik
> How hard is it to get CF working with MySQL?
http://www.mysql.com/products/myodbc/index.html
I've used this into the past to make mySQL into an ODBC source. From that
point, CF can use it.
> Is it possible to convert a MySQL database to MS Access?
Would you want to convert so you can easil
I run a wrapper script that uses CDONTS to send mail. Occasionally I'll get
an error like this. It's very vague and doesn't give me much to go on. It
looks like CDONTS is throwing an exception.
Error Diagnostic Information
unknown exception condition
unknown error while executing a tag.
Da
ge-
> From: Sean McCarthy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 11:55 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: OT DHTML Menu - Memory Leaks
>
>
> I like this one:
> http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/hvmenu/index.htm
>
> free too
>
> -O
I'm looking for a low cost DHTML Cascading menu solution. I'm replacing one
that leaks memory severely.
I've considered the following...
http://milonic.co.uk/menu
After a bit of testing, I'm finding that this one has a smaller memory leak
in IE. I'm happy with this DHTML menu system (it's ver
I'm working with a content management system that makes an HTML file from
multiple files.
header.html + content.html + footer.html = productionPage.html
The file is built and deployed. Problem is that everytime something is
changed in header.html or footer.html, every page on the site needs to
You can put the .doc & .xls files in a folder that's not accessable
from the
web.
Then use a ColdFusion template using to display the file.
Since
the file is displayed as a ColdFusion template, it will catch any CF
security you're running on it.
Hope this helps :)
EC
-Origina
I have to agree with this one.
If a user tries to uncheck a checkbox or radio item that's not
"uncheckable", they're going to get frustrated (Quoth the user "this
flippin' site is broken!!"). Why elude to giving a choice when there
is
none to make? Instead of using form elements, can you simp
You can use CFQUERY's BLOCKFACTOR attribute to control how many records
are
pulled from the database at one. (instead of taking them out one at a
time).
If we're talking thousands of records, braeking it in several pages
would be
my suggestion (next page, previous page).
-Original Messag
impressive...
most impressive...
-Original Message-
From: Douglas L. Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 5:09 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: System beep
See below, if you do not need the stopsound, just take the function
out.
** code to preview **
(you could include the template that outputs to end users - just
modify it to also handle FORM variables whenapplicable).
** code to insert record to database
That's gratitude for ya. :/
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From: Deanna Schneider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 4:03 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: OnRequestEnd.cfm not running
Oops. My bad. But, while we're pointint out mistakes, Ben, has anyone
mentioned your incorrect
> Twenty grand is very little money for a CMS.
I agree. 20K is pretty modest when you compare it packages like Interwoven
Teamsite. :)
I'm curious if anyone has tried out MM SiteSpring.
EC
__
Get Your Own Dedicated Wi
How it looks is less an issue to me. If the functionality is there,
that's my #1 priority. They can add the candy later.
I visited the devex and IMHO its a great 1st step. I'd always
thought Macromedia's site to have awkward functionality when compared
to
Allaire.com. They'
}
.noshow {visibility: visible}
This will be visible on the screen, but not on a
printout.
This will be visible on the printout, but not on
the
screen.
-Original Message-
From: Carlisle, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, January 14
event, call an event handler and use it to set the
to invisible, and from within that event handler call the print() meth
od
of the document object.
but if i were to hit [CTRL]+P that would negate that whole thing.
"Carlisle, Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 01/14/2002 11:43:05
I'm working with a web site that doesn't print well. This happens because:
1) The top navigational bar (runs horizontal - all graphical) is too wide to
fit on a 8.5 inch wide paper.
2) The left navigation steals prime real estate away from the display area.
I've been charged with the task of ma
All good experiences here as well.
EC
-Original Message-
From: Tracy Bost [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 9:00 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Interacting with Telnet Sessions
Have used the TCPClient for numerous things including smtp,vpn, &
remote
con
Out of curiosity, can you get the same effect by password protecting
the
Access database?
If so, is it advisable to password protect the database or the ODBC
connection?
BTW, I realize that access passwords are pretty sketchy in terms of
security.
Happy Holidays!
EC
-Origin
I might be on the wrong scent here, but can you create new CGI variables by
configuring your web server software?
EC
-Original Message-
From: Mak Wing Lok [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 3:24 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: recompile mod_coldfusion.c
hi,
d
DSNless queries are supported in CF5.
Here's a good starting point...
http://www.cfm-resources.com/tutorials.cfm?Include=dsnless.txt
EC
-Original Message-
From: Dan Phillips [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 4:16 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: XLS as a
, 2001 1:07 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: QUASI OT: Opening Office Documents in a spawned browser.
Try it like this
OR
HTH
-Original Message-
From: Carlisle, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 1:00 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: QUASI OT: Opening Office Document
This is an intranet page, so IE5.5 is the controlled environment.
I'm opening an office document in a spawned window ().
The spawned window pops up, but I'm still prompted with an Open/Save dialog.
Anyway I can just have it open without the prompt. I think this happens
when you open it in the sa
If they subscribe to this list, they should probably get booted.
Of course, other people can just take it from web archives of CF-TALK
(without subscribing to the list).
:P~
EC
-Original Message-
From: Will Swain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001
http://www.cfdev.com has a java based parser.
http://www.siteobjects.com has a custom tag that works with MSXML.
I've heard good things about both. I've worked with the latter and have had
great success.
You can probably find more at Allaire DevEx.
EC
-Original Message-
From: Jill Ro
Here's the one for ccokies...
http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq/#answer103
EC
-Original Message-
From: Justin Hansen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 10:55 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: JS/Cookie Tester
Hello gang,
A client site is having sess
ListSort()
EC
-Original Message-
From: Darren Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 8:46 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Sorting a string alphabetically.
Hello All,
Just looking for a function to take a string of comma delimited words and
sort them in alp
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
Try PSCP - an encrypted file transfer program.
I've used it on NT & Unix. Works great.
EC
-Original Message-
From: BILLY CRAVENS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 3:02 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re:
EC
-Original Message-
From: Dave Hannum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 12:43 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: A little RegEx help . . .
I need to look and see if the second character of a three character string
is a "0" (zero). How would I do that?
do somethin
If P-mail were as popular as Outlook, it would be targetted and exploited.
You don't hear about Pegasus Mail viruses because it doesn't have the
userbase that Outlook does.
-Original Message-
From: Zac Belado [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 10:48 AM
To: C
2001 9:12 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Text Compression Utility?
Sorry about the last post, I really didn't answer your question - not
enough coffee yet. I just want the page to load faster. The user isn't
downloading the file. I'm dumping it to screen.
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pkzip? :)
EC
-Original Message-
From: Mark Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 8:53 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Text Compression Utility?
The goal is to compress the file as much as possible but still keep the
formatting, etc.
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Is there a function in JSP with similar functionality to CFHTTP?
Thanks :)
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This seems to be a recurring bottleneck in CF performance. I'm wondering
any Macromedia peeps on the horn have anything to say regarding this? Will
Neo provide a faster, stronger spooler?
EC
-Original Message-
From: tom muck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 04
I did some "lower impact" load testing with CDONTS. It didn't seem to have
a problem at all. I was sending 1000 letter bursts and it didn't overcome
the processor or leak memory. I was using cfloop around a CDONTS custom
tag.
-Original Message-
From: list peters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE
I've heard that CFLOCK should be used for tags dealing with internet
protocols (CFHTTP, CFFTP).
I have a custom tag using CDONTS. Should I use CFLOCK for the block of code
that uses CDONTS?
Thanks :)
EC
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Get the mailserver that powers this li
I started using CDONTS to conflict the "fixed this version, broken this
version" legacy of CFMail. CFMail caused our servers to crash and mail data
to be lost.
So far, CDONTS working out very well. If you're not having big issues with
cfmail, perhaps you should stick with it. I do like the fun
Dunno about the server software.
FYI, there are a couple of good CF WAP articles linked from Forta.com
http://www.forta.com/cf/resources/
-Original Message-
From: ehoma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 2:15 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: WAP and CFM
Do I need a
Dude, where's my car?
-Original Message-
From: Adkins, Randy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 2:01 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: ArraySort rarararar!!
Dude, the 3rd parameter is not required :-)
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From: Mookie Bear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT
I was wondering if the performance increase in CF5 helped to close the
performance gap between CFML tags and CFSCRIPT.
Any thoughts?
Eric Carlisle
Web Site Developer
Progress Energy IT Systems Delivery
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone: (919) 546-4739
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The benchmarks I've seen favor PHP, then ASP, CF, then JSP.
I'm curious to know if there are new comparitive benchmarks for CF5. From
what I hear, there's a dramatic performance increase in CF5.
Performance is very important, but try to not let that be the only concern.
There are many good reaso
http://www.houseoffusion.com
Check under . Great comparison.
EC
-Original Message-
From: Steven Dworman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 9:47 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: asp vs. cf
My boss just asked me for a list of pros and cons. I want to show him tha
Does Oracle's ODBC driver support the cfquery timeout attribute? The
Microsoft ODBC for Oracle doesn't seem to...
Thanks :)
EC
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Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more
resources for the community. ht
You just missed the mother of all threads regarding this. Might want to
check a cf-talk archive for last week. There was a lot of good input
regarding this.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 12:43 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subje
ursday, November 29, 2001 8:43 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: REPOST - cfquery timeout attribute
Whenever I have an Oracle listner problem, try/catch always catches it. Are
you sure it was a listner crash?
Dave
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From: "Carlisle, Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g
CFTRY/CFCATCH around your queries and do a little custom error handling.
It goes a LONG way!
Dave
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From: "Carlisle, Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 8:04 AM
Subject: REPOST - cfquery
We had an Oracle listener hang. This caused big problems in
ColdFusion. The "timeout" attribute just didn't seem to work. I posted
this here before and it was suggested that the timeout clock doesn't start
until the SQL is sent. Since the listener was hung, I'm not sure how far CF
went
I imagine you could use cfhttp to call a php page and use the
cfhttp.filecontent variable to paste it into your content. You'll take a
bit of a performance hit in doing that. There's no way you can do what you
want just with ColdFusion?
EC
-Original Message-
From: Tyler Silcox
Also check for the 0 byte files in /cfusion/mail/spool/
Probably not the case, but if so, delete all 0 byte files and restart CF
services.
EC
-Original Message-
From: Howie Hamlin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 4:15 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: CFM
>From the CFML documentation on the cfquery "timeout" attribute:
This attribute is not supported by most ODBC drivers. TIMEOUT is supported
by the SQL Server 6.x or above driver. The minimum and maximum allowable
values vary, depending on the driver.
Is there an account of what ODBC drivers supp
The only reference to that error I found was here.
http://www.allaire.com/Handlers/index.cfm?ID=1659&Method=Full
-Original Message-
From: Don Vawter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 10:04 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Windows NT error #1450 occurred.
Windows NT er
Kudos!
This thread is most interesting. :) Just what I needed to wake up and get
the mind churning.
There's only one piece of advice I can offer that hasn't been said
already. Beware employers who are reluctant to spend money to produce
professional Web sites. I've created too many bub
If you're clicking on this link from outlook, it probably breaks the link in
half... copy and paste the entire link into a web browser instead of
clicking from the e-mail client.
Just a guess :/
EC
-Original Message-
From: Will Swain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tue
Here's Macromedia's scoop on Neo.
http://www.macromedia.com/software/coldfusion/resources/neo/
EC
-Original Message-
From: John McCosker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 10:35 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Is CF 5 ready for production?
>Macromedia's l
> My understanding from our CFUG meeting last week is that there will be no
> service packs for CF 5. However, hotfixes will be released as necessary.
Can't a service pack be viewed as a consolidated package of hotfixes?
Sounds like buying eggs one by one IMHO.
I agree.
I always prefer a fresh install over an upgrade.
For something as major as installing a new application server package, I'd
rebuild. :/
-Original Message-
From: Neil Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 8:52 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Is CF 5 re
I got a travel bag...
But it was that "Allaire" brand. ;)
EC
-Original Message-
From: Angel Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 7:28 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: WH
And I wouldn't mind getting a Leatherman :)
-Gel
-Original Mess
???
EC
-Original Message-
From: William J Wheatley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 10:51 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: AUTO TABLE WIDTH
:) not enough coffee
A will now SHOW on the browser screen until it reaches the
Because it has to read through the whol
I don't think you can do that.
Perhaps you can make a self extracting zip that extracts to a certain
directory.
:/
EC
-Original Message-
From: Brockman, Chuck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 9:50 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Force Download Directory
e inside a cftry that is not
doing what you expect?
Perhaps it's just doing something odd rather than throwing an error.
Craig.
-Original Message-
From: Carlisle, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 19 November 2001 16:53
To: CF-Talk
Subject: CFCatch
Are there errors that cfca
12:00 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: CFCatch
Not that I know of, do you have a piece of code inside a cftry that is not
doing what you expect?
Perhaps it's just doing something odd rather than throwing an error.
Craig.
-Original Message-----
From: Carlisle, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Se
Are there errors that cfcatch won't catch an error when the type is set to
"any"? Are there known execptions that slip through the cracks?
I know it's a general question, but I'm not sure how else to say it.
Thanks :-)
EC
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Get
Is anyone familiar with using 's timeout attribute with Oracle 8?
Is it supported with that driver (NT Server for the webserver)? If so, are
there known minimum and maximum timeout values that the driver will support?
Thanks :)
~~
Get the
> I haven't done this, but would look at the CDO interface if I wanted to do
> this. Search MSDN for "CDO". There's a good Wrox book on using ADSI and
CDO
> from ASP, named "ADSI CDO ASP" (appropriately enough!)
also check out http://ww.cdolive.com
Lots on info on CDO
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That is a client side animal. ColdFusion dosn't do client side operations.
Use JavaScript.
window.open('index.html');
EC
-Original Message-
From: Boardwine, David L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 10:34 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Using CFLOCATION and
I'd like to know this as well. I've tried a few approaches using CFContent,
but always had to write the file to the disk.
EC
-Original Message-
From: Franke, Ir. G.J. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 10:53 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: binary stream (image
you have "Suppress whitespace by default" checked in the CF admin? If so
then you'll always end up with a leading space as it would appear to
compress runs of zero (yes, zero) or more whitespace characters to a space.
Had me pulling my hair out for a while once.
Steve
-Original
No, no application.cfm in use. Good idea, though. :)
I'll try to mess around with it today and ask again if I'm certain I
couldn't get it to work otherwise (saves time all around). Just wondered if
that was a problem that sounded familiar.
Thanks :)
EC
-Original Me
t: Re: %$#@^&%$& CFSETTING
No, just remove the carriage return after cfsetting.
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From: "Carlisle, Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 3:50 PM
Subject: %$#@^&%$& C
I'm using a CF script to talk to a Flash SWF. The flash movie needs an
output like a query string
?var1=abc&var2=123&var3=def
The very first in this script is...
to supress any whitespace that is problematic in Flash.
The problem is that the first carraige return after causes a
space to be
I've considered doing that (with SQL Server).
Before you beign, I've been told over and over again is that it's a bad
practice to store images in databases. Instead, have a column that points
to the path of the file.
In you do that, you'll have to cffile (write) the data the pull from the
data
Sorry, didn't mean to start a 2nd thread when the first one was active. I
didn't notice that there were responses to the initial thread till now. :/
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