COM is NOT being abandoned by MS. Dave and Steve failed to back that
statement up in the last thread.
Sorry I couldn't respond within your timeframe, but: (Watch for the wrap)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/techinfo/articles/upgrade/entupgrade.asp
Straight from the horse's mouth:
.NET
Shot in the dark, because one of the columns you've put in really might not
exist, but try getting rid of createodbcdate and use the to_date() function
in Oracle, as it is very particular about date formatting.
For example, instead of:
AND (STSERVICE.DATE_BEGIN BETWEEN
Changed the code to and added a name one of the form fields but a
javascript
syntx error is occuring? what could cause this in the code below??
SCRIPT LANGUAGE=JavaScript
!-- Begin
function checkFields() {
missinginfo = ;
if (document.form.dltitle.value == ) {
missinginfo += \n - Title of
I need to give a little talk in a few days concerning web services with
ColdFusion, pre-MX (4.5, 5). I was wondering if any of you out there can
share what you did in terms of both publishing and/or consuming web services
via ColdFusion.
I work for a very data-oriented company, and we are
Folks - we released an updater for CFMX last night. You can find it
here:
http://dynamic.macromedia.com/bin/MM/software/trial/hwswrec.jsp?product=
cfmx_updater
There is a large list of fixes contained with the updater. You can find
that here:
Only patch there is out right now is the Apache hot fix for 2.0.39 -- CFMX
SP1 should see the daylight within the next two weeks or very end of
September.
While not disputing your information, where did you get that info from? By
several accounts (including MM employees), a service pack wasn't
I set a variable in a template that I am calling via cfmodule, but I
am unsure of the scope that the variable should be. I set it as an
attribute,variable, caller, and it still errors out.
Hmmm...Well, a cfmodule call is the same thing as calling a custom tag, so
any variables you set in that
I have a page where I want to conditionally include specific code blocks
which exist in other pages.
What is more efficient, CFMODULE or CFINCLUDE?
One thing that wasn't mentioned in some of the other replies I saw to this
thread was that CFMODULE and cfinclude are actually slightly different
I am having some trouble with some of my javascript
Well my code works within
script/script tages
But when I put them in Cfscript/cfscript tags it doesn't here is the
code:
A couple functions I use throughouit my app::
cfscript
alert(Invalid SSN);
In Oracle, the order with which you
reference tables and make comparisons in the WHERE clause has
a significant impact on performance.
I had heard that Oracle reads WHERE clauses from the bottom up and that
clauses that exclude the most records should go last. But when I asked
about this
You might look at http://www.cfxoncrcybercash.com/ we've used the
tag on Solaris (the tag works on NT and Linux too).
I haven't tried it on CFMX yet.
i could barely navigate their site, plus it looks like it's been
abandoned. if you do try it on CFMX i'd love to hear if it works,
but for
Hi
Has anybody used or had any experience in working with the hiermenus script
from
http://www.webreference.com/dhtml/hiermenus/
If so as anybosy had any major problems (with positioning etc) with it
while implementing the script into their websites?
I would be interested to hear if anybody
When did it start and is it still happening?
Michael,
I have to admit that this happens to me quite often, and has been going on
for at least couple of months (I honestly cannot say give you an exact date
though). I don't receive 4 of the same per say, but I do receive duplicates
(2) quite
Thanks, but it looks like the code is using CFHTTP to run the pages..
i was looking to run some command line code using a *.bat file or some.
something like
cfexecute name=C:\Compile\*.bat
outputFile = F:\Temp\output.txt
/cfexecute
Save this code to a .bat file (or whatever)...
setlocal
Does anyone know of a good way to flush the vars stored in the application
scope? I tried setting the applicationtimeout to CreateTimeSpan(0,0,0,0)
and
that didn't do anything. I'm not sure how cfflush works but I think that
has to
do with headers and not with ColdFusion cacheing. Anyway, if
Hello. Internet Explorer, when certain settings are set and a user enters
a
username and password in a form, asks the user:
Do you want windows to remember this password, so that you don't have to
type it again the next time you visit this page?
I know how to disable this on my own computer.
While I haven't had this problem myself (I soon will), I have heard this
CF vs. AOL tid bit.
An AOL users IP address may (and do) change during a session, when it does,
CF thinks they are a new user and the user is no longer associated with
their session. The only way around this is to add
Are there any reliable alternatives for using CFHTTP on Unix (in my case,
Solaris, but migrating to Linux in the near future)? I need to pass large
WDDX packets to a Python server extensively, and CFHTTP is just not an
adequate, scalable solution. Time is also a big factor, so rolling my own
CF5 allows for ?RequestTimeout=X to be tacked on to any URL to override
the
CFADMIN timeout. Does anyone know if there is any way to do this in CFMX?
It
seems to ignore this param as far as I can tell.
I want 99.999% of my templates to have a timeout as a protection, but be
able to
run some
I'm exploring the possibility of being able to figure out the e-mail address
of a user visiting our site based on a weekly mailing we send out. In this
e-mail, there is a link to the latest stories, etc., and we'd like to know
who is accessing the stories from the e-mail.
The problem is that
Each email that you send out goes to a person in a DB, right? So each
person has an ID, right? So if you put a link of
http://www.site.com/index.cfm?userid=2577 then the index.cfm can take the
userid and translate it into the person, right? Is that what you want?
Well, yes and no. I see what
I was wondering if I could get some help with some server-side numeric
validation I'm doing. I've read Michael's RegEx tutorial at housoffusion.com
but can't seem to get my tests working.
I was trying to build RegEx's base on the following rules:
1. All numeric, whole numbers
2. All numeric,
oi CF-Talk,!!
ok don't flog me.. but since most app variables are locked and
set to a
request scope..is there any loss of performance or is just
putting all
app scoped variables as request scoped variables in the
application.cfm
acceptable...?
The performance
Hi all,
I have been away from the CF world for about a year and a half, but have a
project which is bringing me back into full CF mode and I have to recommend
an IDE.
I have a question about what is going on with IDEs. I know that after
Macromedia took over Allaire that there were something like
I know CF MX has only been out for a little over a month, but I was
wondering if there was any timeline for a service pack release? The reason I
ask is that we're interested in upgrading to MX, but my boss would rather
wait for a service pack to fix the first round of bugs.
The question's
I would recommend lowercasing CF tags. This will make it consistent
with
XHTML.
For more information, look here http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#diffs
I also (personally) think that all lowercase words are easier to read
than words in all uppercase.
While I agree that all lower case words
Dave,
There is no schedule for a service pack and indeed none has even been
announced. That is not to say there won't ever be one, if one is needed
one will be created, but nothing at this time. You should go ahead with
the upgrade, especially as CF5 and CFMX can coexist so you can test side
by
Which leads me to ask, when will the MX study guides be out???
Well, I can't answer that question specifically, but I would reply by saying
Why wait? Dig into MX on your own and start playing around. I've found the
docs sent with MX (not the language reference, but developing application,
Have you read any of the study guides Dave? As a beginner I found it so
much
easier to read than the bigger and more thorough books, but I did play
about
with all the things I read too.
Yep. I read the 4.5 study guide, but I was in the certification beta program
and got certified back before
Can you give some example code? I just want to make sure I understand you
completely.
It's not a very hard concept. I create a file called constants.cfm, put it
in the same directory as my Application.cfm file, and then cfinclude it in
the Application.cfm file, so that it is included on every
First you have to put it into an application variable, so code similar
to
this goes into the Application.cfm :
cflock
cfif isDefined(Application.dsn)
cfset application.dsn = mydatasource
/cfif
/cflock
Now you have to lock all your query statements every time you
Then the question becomes, why even bother scoping the dsName to
application. Why not just set variables.dsName in application.cfm?
That's exactly what I do. I have a constants file that I include in my
Application.cfm file and then just reference them. The overhead of creating
them on each
It is a documented best practice, and many will attest to the
experience.
If you copy the variable to the local scope (as you suggest) you do not
have to lock the local variable. However, why are you storing the
variable
in the application scope if you are going to copy it into the
My understanding of your words was that storing the datasource in an
application variable is good because you can copy it into the local scope
and avoid locking. That is a resolution of the problem, but does not
address the issue of using an application variable to store the
datasource.
Is it me or are they really hosing things up? Couldn't subscribe
to their mailing list last friday, cfmx errors all over the place.
Couldn't get to their site over the weekend.. and now this morning I'm
seeing random problems between not being able to get to the main site to
not being able to
Is there a limit (practical or real) that one should consider when creating
a Verity collection using the CF built-in engine?
I remember a discussion along these lines awhile back, but it appears that
the archives only go back a few weeks.
On CF 5, for Pro it's 125,000 and for Enterprise
Sorry for the OT, but I don't feel like subscribing to yet another mailing
list (cf-community) just to ask this question and read any potential
responses.
Has anybody else noticed that in the course of about a month, MM's stock has
plummeted 50%? I, for one, don't give a rat's ass about the
WeirdI thought they were on the NYSE but I cannot find them
there.
NASDAQ. Symbol is MACR.
Dave.
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The CF-Partners or CF-Stock lists are probably the better place to post
this as the people who are interested in this aspect of MM will be there.
I'd suggest the CF-Partners as CF-Stock has been basically dead for the
last year.
Michael,
As the admin of this list, I will respectfully follow
If I have a virtual mapping created via CF admin, will that same mapping
work, regardless of whether I use it over a SSL connection or a regular HTTP
connection? If not, is there a way to make it work?
I'm having this problem right now where the regular connection works, and
mapping using
Oh AOL, so popular. My problems with AOL related to their dynamic proxy
system, if this is still the same what happens is that the user IP Address
changes several times during a single-user-browser session hope that makes
sense. So if any part of your application uses large amounts of client
Help!
I posted this earlier with a different subject, and got no responses
(well one, but he hadn't used the programs in question)
I am looking for *anyone* who has installed CFMX Linux Trial and has run
any of the example programs that use database... The PointBase database
in
Thanks. Yes, I'm stopping the CF Server before editing the cf.registry file
(not a stupid question, more like a gotcha!).
I stop the CF Server, delete the existing client vars in CDATA and CGLOBAL,
close all browser windows (to force a new CFID CFTOKEN to be issued),
edit the cf.registry
Development purposes only according to the documentations.
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Joshua Miller wrote:
Is anyone out there running CFMX Standalone on a production server under
heavy load? How does it compare to running with IIS? Is it a viable
alternative to the endless patches from MS or
Arrays are passed by value, like simple variables are. Queries and
structures are passed by reference, in which case you're correct about that
pointer thing.
Just to clarify that statement, does this mean that I do not need to use the
Duplicate() function around an array, but I do need to use
I know that, within a custom tag, I can set/update a variables on the
calling page using the caller scope. However, is there a way to do the
opposite? On the calling page, I'd like to reach in to the custom tag and
pull out a variable that gets set.
The reason why I'd like to do it this was
No, to the best of my knowledge, the internal local scope of the custom tag
isn't exposed to the calling page - after all, that would defeat the
purpose
of having a separate local scope, and anyway, the custom tag has finished
executing (and its local scope no longer exists) by the time that you
Hi folks,
after all I managed to get it workeing with your help by renaming my
application.cfm to Application.cfm. So i finally 'got up my A' :)
But now there's another strange problem. I have installed the Verity
Locales to implement a full-text-search-interface for *.html and *.pdf
We're not a hosting house, and from my perspective, free beats cheap.
The
thing is, WebSite doesn't really offer any features that IIS doesn't,
and I
don't think it's any better than IIS, really. IIS has to be set up
correctly, but that's pretty trivial to do. In that sense, I'm a
We don't have a SQL server yet. The speed of the archives comes from (or
will) a really funky caching system where each thread (with all messages)
will be cached until a new message is added to the thread. The indexing
will be done on a message basis rather than a thread one. This will allow
We're not a hosting house, and from my perspective, free beats cheap.
The
thing is, WebSite doesn't really offer any features that IIS doesn't,
and I
don't think it's any better than IIS, really. IIS has to be set up
correctly, but that's pretty trivial to do. In that sense, I'm a
I have a set of mirrored servers that are running off 1 SQL_server.
I have to recode the apps that use session variables because
a user could jump to a different server during a session. Is
there a simple way to fix this? Can 2 different servers be aware
of the same session? Can I store the
My original code removed all irrelevant values from the Form structure.
But I thought it's probably not worth it, as long as you have numeric
ID's in the DB, and none of the irrelevant form fields are NAME'd with
numbers that could accidentally correspond to DB ID's...
Actually, thinking about
Over the past few months, there have been several posts (including a bunch
from myself) concerning issues with CFHTTP. I was wondering if some of you
who have worked extensively with CFHTTP can shed some light on the current
issues/problems/limitations with CFHTTP.
Essentially, I have been
But not in Professional?
Not in Professional. Go here for all the info you need to compare editions
(watch for wrapping). It answers all your questions:
http://www.macromedia.com/software/coldfusion/whitepapers/pdf/ColdFusionMXFe
atureGrid_03.pdf
Regards,
Dave.
Terrible. Also I can't find how to split the pane and how to change or
make
a keyboard shortcut to uppercase selected text!
Not there as part of the base product either. You may want to check out the
Extensions available, as I remember there were a few posts saying that
people have already
Hello group -
hopefully this isn't to novice of a question - but I have been at this for
a while and can't get the logic or the
syntax right.
I have 2 tables ( in access) - I go through 3 pages of queries narrowing
make, model and year and end up with 1
variable - #BoltPattern# - it is just
Vernon/Christine or somebody at MM,
You had posted a few weeks back that MM decided to release a tag updater for
CF Studio 5 containing all the MX VTMs and help files. Has this been
released yet (can't find it on the MM site)? If not, when do you suppose it
will be released?
Thanks,
Dave.
oi do you say this because you've tried it?!! It's necessary to ask these
questions since they won't let us see it!!
I had it when I was in the Kojak beta program and was able to download
Homesite+ separately. I can tell you that there is virtually no difference
between CF Studio and
try putting the menu in a layer with a greater z-index than the rest of
the
page. That should solve it.
My understanding is that this won't do anything. It has something to do with
form elements having an infinite z-index. Has this changed with the latest
browsers (NS6)?
Regards,
Dave.
Is it possible to open an XLS file with the standalone Excel program, rather
than the embedded Excel when using IE? If that is not completely clear, this
is the scenario:
Currently, when an XLS file is viewed, IE spawns an Excel instance within
the browser (if not technically correct, I think
You're right, Oracle reads from the bottom up. It's good practice to place
your most limiting conditions at the end of the where clause, and work your
way up from there.
Um, not exactly. I remember reading in the 8i docs and then just confirmed
with our Oracle DBA that the 8i and higher
cf_dump has to get no 1.=P
Well, CFDUMP is a native tag in MX (and CF 5), so it's not really
necessary to list it in an MX book as a custom tag.
Regards,
Dave.
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Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support
EQ is for numerical comparisons only
IS is what you must use for text comparisons
I'm not sure where your source for that tidbit is, but that's not true at
all. They do the same thing. As an example:
cfset variables.text = cat
cfif variables.text EQ cat
it's cat
cfelse
it's dog
/cfif
Phew... Parsing XML in Java is a gigantic pain in the ass.
I'd say it's about an order of magnitude easier manipulating XML in CF vs.
Java.
Funny you say that now. Just wait till the release of MX with its native XML
parsing abilities. Talk about easy!!
Regards,
Dave.
My company is evaluating a few different PDF generators, and I have two
quick questions regards ActivePDF, specifically pertaining to ColdFusion:
1. Are graphics (i.e., bar charts, line charts, etc.) available natively in
the API?
2. If not, how do you use graphics with the product?
Thanks,
Are you looking for a native graph generator, or the ability to pull in
pre-existing graphics? It doesn't create graphs, but if you're using
the web grabber add-on, you can pull in graphics that already exist
(there's some other means, but I've only used the HTML to PDF
interface). Of course,
If I have a 270 MB log file, can I use CF to split it up into say ten 27 MB
files or some such thing? Or maybe into like 100,000 lines per file or
some
such thing.
I'm currently finding it impossible to view the contents of this file due
to
the size. Purchased a file splitting utility, but
How can I programmatically change a stylesheet class via JavaScript? I'd
like to change the background of a text box from white to red if some form
validation fails. I've seen it done before, but haven't been able to track
down the code to do it.
Thanks,
Dave.
Is your form validation done in CF or JS?
-Craig
Actually, both...But I'm looking to change the style when I do the JS
validation up front. The CF validation is really just my fall-back should
the user have JS disabled or something.
Thanks,
Dave.
uhh why smile any bozo can make VTMs :)
They're still getting rid of it lol boo hiss
much better! :) i had vtms almost done doing them as i use the commands
taking awhile but i havent been doing it full on
we can allj ust band together code up our own editor and put MM out of the
Editor
I was just curious for those of you who are using CF MX now... What kind
of difference in speed are you seeing???
That's not a question you're going to get a valid answer to until MX goes
gold and the final code is made available. Performance tuning is an on-going
process at MM right now.
can two different application given the same name of CF when i declare the
application using CF_application?
will this caused any problem??
While not understanding exactly what you're trying to accomplish by doing
that, the quick answer is yes, you can have to cfapplications with the same
Anyone know of a list or anything about dreamweaver preview? I need to
ask
some questions about setting somethings...
For one, there's the preview release forums on the Macromedia web site
(http://webforums.macromedia.com/preview_dreamweaver_mx/). Also, it was
announced on this list just
Can anyone recommend a good replacement for CFMAIL, should able to handle
bulk emails (~20k/day) reliably.
Should not cost more than US$ 100.
I'm aware of activmail and iMS.
Anyone using anything else and happy with the peformance?
Search the archives. There was a thread just last week
Dave Carabetta wrote:
I am trying to generate a PDF on the fly, and the data that I get back
from
the PDF server is being truncated if I try and output its contents via
cfhttp.filecontent. When I output the stream to the browser, I get all
the
proper beginnings of the PDF file
It's been awhile since I've used it, but I thought folks were using CFHTTP
to pull down web sites, including graphics files?
Well yes and no. Yes, in the sense that people are pulling down web sites.
But, if I'm interpreting pulling down correctly, all you're effectively
doing is resolving the
I loathe Solaris and anybody associated with its creation
and distribution. I'm not suprised that they're hard to
come by. I'm trying so hard to convince my bosses to at
least move over to Linux.
Out of curiosity, what do you dislike about Solaris that you like better in
Linux?
To be
But, again, and to answer your question, I just find that
the ability to accomplish administrative tasks in Linux
environment is much easier than a Solaris environment, and
thus allows me to focus on more critical aspects on
my job (i.e., architecting apps and coding).
It sounds like
I am trying to generate a PDF on the fly, and the data that I get back from
the PDF server is being truncated if I try and output its contents via
cfhttp.filecontent. When I output the stream to the browser, I get all the
proper beginnings of the PDF file, but it gets cut off early on in the
I saw Ben Forta last night at the new MX product slideshow. He said we
don't
have to CFLOCK our Application, Session or Client vars any more in CFMX.
w00t! w00t!
Though that might make a few of ya happy
I don't think that's entirely true. To clarify, I think he meant (based on
what he
OK, so I've posted this question 4 times in the beta forums and *still* have
yet to get any sort of response, so I figured I'd ask here since this list
is apparently what MM is reading.
Will there be a tag updater for CF Studio 5 (or 4.5 for that matter)
containing all of the MX tags like
Hey all,
I want to use application variables for a site, but one question comes to
mind.
I have all my app variables set in one template. Upon configuring the
template, I hit that template to set all variables (makes sense).
Now, while my application is in use, I check (in Application.cfm)
First off, I'd like to thank the good people at Mozilla for distributing yet
another fu#$ing browser to test my apps with.
Second, in doing so, has anybody else noticed that form button names do not
get passed in the form scope using the RC1 browser? In Nutscrape 4.x, 6.x,
Opera 5.x, 6.x, and
At first it took me a while to get my mind around the MX naming, but
finally it made sense to me.
With numbering, while you may have different products made around the same
time and optimized to work together, it can be challenging to remember that
DW 4, FL 5, CF 5, FH 10 and Dir 8.5 all came
Hello,
I am trying to convince my boss it's time to upgrade our servers. We are
an ASP and we provide and host many applications for county governments and
school districts in our area. We are currently running 2 SPARC IIi 450s
with 512 megs of ram. We are running Solaris 8 on those
I am on the verge of finishing an application and I am starting to do some
performance testing. One requirement sent to me by the executives is that
the app must be able to support 250 simultaneous users at a time.
My question is, what exactly constitutes 250 simultaneous users? Is that
Does anybody here know where I can subscribe to the CFDJ online. I tried
this link:
http://www.sys-con.com/coldfusion/subscribe/SubscribeForm.cfm
but it's giving me a 404 error. Anybody know where I can subscribe?
Thanks.
To be perfectly honest with you, I think that their site is one of the
If the CF templates are compiled into classes, could you then run them
on any ol' servlet web server? Would that violate the license
agreement?
No. Assuming I'm understanding your questions, your asking that if, once the
CF templates are compiled, you can remove the CF templates and just run
OK, I'm stumped. I know this post may be a bit long, but if you have good
experience with CFLOCATION, *please* help me out here. I'm going crazy!
I've been using forms that submit to themselves for a long time now. Nothing
tricky: form submits to itself, detect the name of the submit button, run
My question is: Why is the custom tag executing? Shouldn't the page stop
processing after the cflocation call? If I put a CFABORT directly after
the
CFLOCATION call *within* the CFIF block, the custom tag still executes.
However, if I place the CFABORT above the custom tag call, but
what you are describing is not possible (as far as I know). I know it may
*seem* like that's what's happening, but something else is going on
here...
See, I'm saying the same thing to myself too, but this code is so
black-and-white (seemingly), that there's nothing that stands out. Here is
Nothing else is processed after a cflocation or cfcontent tag. In
this case of cflocation uses cfheader instead and you won't have a
problem.
Matt,
Not sure what that second sentence means exactly. My understanding of how
CFLOCATION works is exactly what you wrote in the first sentence,
You can use the cfheader tag to do a server-side redirect just like
cflocation does only better. Better in the fact that is doesn't screw
up cookies and there should be no strange cfabort like symptoms.
Is this all that is needed (in place of the CFLOCATION call) to properly
perform the
Dave,
There are two books coming out on Fusebox that should help to alleviate
the lack of available information on exactly what Fusebox is. John
Quarto and I wrote one called Discovering Fusebox 3 and Jeff
Peters/Nat Papovich wrote one for New Riders. That will help people who
want to find
On the topic of CLOB's. How do you insert it when using cfqueryparam?
I've had no trouble using the following with Oracle:
cfqueryparam value=#variable_name# cfsqltype=CF_SQL_LONGVARCHAR
Can't speak for other DBMS platforms though.
Regards,
Dave.
Is it possible that an cable ISP is blocking session variables or cookies?
I have a user who can't logon to our members only site, our browser
detector
says that his cookies are enabled, and he actually completes the logon (his
information is in our log database) yet he gets returned to the
Hi list, is there an equivalent for cflocation under ASP ?
Response.Redirect(url)
Hope this helps,
Dave.
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Hi All,
I found this on cfdjlist and found it very worth of posting here since this
list
is getting more traffic than cfdjlist these days. I've tried this test
on
several
of our more well known CF sites and many of them failed.
Thanks for the heads-up (again), but this was discussed here
Just curious...
Every instance of code documentation (i.e. comments at the head of CF
tags describing author, function, variables, etc.) I've seen has
'filename' included.
Any reason? Surely it's spurious, the filename being kind of obvious if
you've got to the stage of reading the file's
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