I would think over the years many of us have used various free email accounts,
to name a few, years ago, rockmail and hotmail, in recent years, yahoo mail,
and most recently gmail, aside from desktop-based email like Outlook, then who
knows in three years or so, what new email system would come
Man, I'm not having a good time with a seemingly simple problem, that is, to
generte a bunch of (say, 6) of unique numbers out of a range. Say, the range
is 20.
My current code technique is mainly to use a 'pool of numbers, each less than
20', if found, try generate a number again (and here's
numbers = {};
while (structCount(numbers) LT 6) {
numbers[randRange(1, 20)] = ;
}
numbers = structKeyList(numbers);
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 3:45 PM, D
Beautiful, thank you very much. Thank you too, Paul.
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My follow-up posted last night didn't show up. So, I'm re-doing it now.
Execellent, Peter, thank you very much.
I'll use
rereplace( FileName , '\W' , '' , 'all' )
On the extension stuff I have a way to address it.
Don
rereplace(foo, '[^\w]', '', 'all')
will replace any non-alphanumeric
Regular Expression gurus. How to use the REreplace function to remove special
characters including +, . in an image file name? The ReplaceList function
may miss some unexpected special characters for we don't know what sort of
special character may show up in a dynamically generated image
rereplace(foo, '[^\w]', '', 'all')
will replace any non-alphanumeric character in 'foo' (assuming 'foo' is the
file name).
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 1:41 PM, D
Great. Thank you. I also found out that REreplace(str, [^a-zA-Z0-9],,all)
would achieve the same result but yours seems more elegant
Mostly useless response. You could simply say you dislike it and on the The
upswing of the crutch is indeed in existence, a pointer would be of value.
Instead of nightingale and all that crap.
Too bad the [ ] search box was not aligned on the same line.
I'm not happy with it. What
with very limited control. Do you know anything like that?
Off my head, I'm thinking loud of the following format:
Screen shot
-
_
I resisted the attemptation of voicing my opinion on the current CF but I feel
probably it's sensible to get it out of my chest. Came cross a thread either
on digg or reddit about a week ago asking Adobe to Lose Weight on CF and the
like. Today I ran into the following URL,
Yeah, I know bank would validate a credit card, thanks though, Wil.
Don
The company that you will be using to validate and process the card
will take care of telling you if the card is accepted or rejected and
then you code your user response accordingly. You usually have a
large number of
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 12:50 AM, Don L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
Don
Chunshen Li
You should do an authorization for an amount. This puts a hold for
that amount on the customers credit card but in the end, you know the
card is legit. Just passing check sum's on credit cards
I thought that's possible but can't think of how. thks.
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Archive:
Ahe, I asked too fast. One solution is to look at the the
Adobe_ColdFusion_8_InstallLog.log file's date time stamp under {CF8}
installation.
I thought that's possible but can't think of how. thks.
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About a few weeks ago I asked a question related to cc processing, silly me, I
forgot the CFform family's CFinput has an attribute of cc validation, so, say,
85% customers provide good card and up front say something like if your card is
rejected (you shall bear bank fee). Ok this is the first
Dress makes a lady? True or false is another question. Say true for now. A
crazy question is, could one create/have some sort of GUI as wrapper for DOS
command prompt? In other words, {aGUI}.exe would produce the following:
outlayer: nice presentation
innerlayer: result of cmd.exe (DOS
A crazy question is, could one create/have some sort of
GUI as wrapper for DOS command prompt?
First, this strikes me as a bit OT.
Second, what is there to present? What kind of presentation can you
provide for a box in which to type and read?
Well there's a help command in dos that
Dress makes a lady? True or false is another question. Say true
for now. A crazy question
is, could one create/have some sort of GUI as wrapper for DOS
command prompt? In other
words, {aGUI}.exe would produce the following:
outlayer: nice presentation
innerlayer: result of cmd.exe
I need to flush out the cookie thing with IE6/7. I find cookie
enabling/disabling confusing with IE6 and IE7. On one hand, the Block All
Cookies option seems to have maximum security for user protection but then when
I immediately click on the Advance tab, it indicates First Party Cookies:
Update:
Probably one option would be to have users (all with unique identifier) to
enter his/her simple unique ID for the first time, then use a state management
mechanism, thereafter they no longer need credential for using the forum. So,
it's just one time little hassle if you call it that
Sorry, not exactly CF question, does anyone know of a credit card process
service that provides just the following service?
1. Pay amount = ?
2. Pay method: Visa | Master | AMExp and its procedure (verify it)
3. Redirect back to a site for something upon payment approval
Thanks.
Don
Chunshen Li
Yeah, their site looks very confusing, it does not even list what service
options that it offers. Hard to be convinced to use its service.
Authorize.net is great but I wanted to mention charge.com. Their site
looks crappy but I implemented them on my site
http://www.stylishgiftware.com with
See Paypal.
You don't even have to bother with the credit card type, they handle it.
Not an option, say, 50% of potential customers don't have Paypal account.
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There are many, but two I can think of off-hand are
* Payflow Pro (now owned by PayPal)
* Card Services International (www.cardservice.com)
Took a peek at cardservice.com, I wish it would list its services like:
Plan A -- very basic, bla bla
Plan B -- basic +, bla bla
Plan C -- beyond basic, bla
Thank you, Steve, I've heard good thing about authorize.net as well. Yeah, my
need is just that simple and more importantly easier for potential customers as
well.
Don --
I don't think that you're going to find something that is SUPER simple
like that, but I can tell you, after working with
+ 1 on Don L not coming off like a prick when he asked this question.
Will
LOL. Better than coffee, speaking of which, am drinking now. Thank you, Will.
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I've used Authorize.net since 2001 and it's the easiest out there IMHO.
Thanks.
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Sorry, not exactly CF question, does anyone know of a credit card
process service
We've used Authorize.Net since 2001. They are easy to integrate with
and their Support is pretty helpful. They charge by the number of
transactions and the price isn't bad.
There is a pretty easy to
OpenID.net
myOpenID.com (https://www.myopenid.com/directory)
10,000 sites using the same credentialing system. Not exactly
independently verifiable, but pretty slick.
It should be universal or at least covering all the states hence its real
value, probably W3C should get involved in
I'm sure this topic has come up many times, running a quick search did not
yield a satisfactory result, hence, post it here for thoughts/ideas.
Requirements:
a) simple, meaning, no registration requirements (honor-based, you say who you
are you should be who are or to be banned); just thread
How do you ban someone who can post with no registration?
Like Spammers?
There should be a pattern. IP address etc. Upfront display basic rules,
administrator reserves the right to remove ill-intentioned msg etc or the
like...
Ben Forta, sure, since Allaire's time for those of us, die-hard CFers...
Sean Corfield, CF architecure, sure too
Ok, more on the tech side, now how about the business side? exeutives in charge
of CF product, who comes to your mind?
Thanks.
Don
Chunshen Li
If anything, save the warm, fuzzy feeling considering the fact that winter is
coming.
Earnestly, I'm looking forward to an opportunity of working with Adobe's Cold
Fusion team on both sides (no, not a job) on a project, so, getting to know the
right people over there who can put up with my
Thank you, Dave, also, I've interacted with Jason's boss, Damon Cooper (wow,
just double checked the spelling, it's correct), who seems to be a great person
and easy to work with.
Don
Ok, more on the tech side, now how about the business side?
exeutives in charge of CF product, who comes
I appreciate the thought, Jochem.
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Don L wrote:
Ok, more on the tech side, now how about the business side?
exeutives in charge of CF product, who comes to your mind?
You could google them. If they don't out themselves on their blogs I
guess that means
What I'd like to want to do is to replace a value from a simple text which
looks like this:
a=
b=tyweu8939skdksspdssdsd
c=sd
How do I replace the value of b when the b value is unknown?
Thanks.
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In the example below, you only want to replace the b while leaving the a and
c alone, right?
Right.
Will the b always have a format of
b=tyweu8939skdksspdssdsd. Does tyweu8939skdksspdssdsd have a pattern to
it?
Not certain, most likely yes. It's the cf8's encrypted password for the admin.
Is
Ah! I think he meant the right side of the equals sign after b.
But, if the value (right side of the =) contains 'b=' then we're in trouble
again.
Yes, exactly, one way (theoritically) would be, have 3 segements for all 3
lines and
find the seg2.element[2].value, but I don't know regexp...
It's the cf8's encrypted password for the admin.
Well technically, it's an SHA-1 hash...
It sounds like you're basically trying to parse your
lib\password.properties file?
Perhaps there is another way to accomplish your task through the
adminAPI?
~Brad
Brad, good thought, just looked at the
Have looked at the adminapi's datasoure.cfc, according to it, one method named
DeleteDatasource would require only one parameter of dsnname to delete a
current cf8 datasource but it didn't. Don't have the code handy but if you've
sort of played with it you would understand what I mean. What's
Well, since the objective is to disable cf admin access. Just realized a silly
and yet effective way would be to move the CFIDE directory away from web root.
I hope it won't adversely impact the cf8 server.
What I'd like to want to do is to replace a value from a simple text
which looks
Have looked at the adminapi's datasoure.cfc, according to it, one
method named DeleteDatasource would require only one parameter of
dsnname to delete a current cf8 datasource but it didn't.
Did you login first?
cfscript
admin = createObject(component,cfide.adminapi.administrator);
I'm wondering if there are additional properties or parameters that the
installer.properties file supports in addition to all those listed in the
livedoc.
Or another way to put it, what other configuration files does this file
interact with during the installation process?
Thanks.
Don
Is it true that cf8's admin features can only be accessed via localhost or
127.0.0.1 address vs. universal IP by default? don't remember. Thanks.
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Is it true that cf8's admin features can only be accessed via
localhost or 127.0.0.1 address vs. universal IP by default? don't
remember. Thanks.
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Thanks for the pointer. My need is similar to advanced DOS programming, do you
happen to know which GNU package may fit the bill?
I'm having a hard time with some string manipulation with DOS for the last half
an hour or so including googling to no avail.
Here's the deal.
DOS/Window batch process does not like white space, hence, I need to replace
the following directories that including white space with quotes prefix and
Not an answer to your question, but... rather than parsing the path for
spaces, could you not just wrap the path in double quotes for all paths?
Adrian
Building a database of ColdFusion errors at http://cferror.org/
Craig's technique is also interesting, I forgot. However, the {aUser} is
It's no wonder why so many developers like it (no, not meant to apple-polish
Adobe), just a quick reflection. Just tried silient installation of cf8 on XP
Home edition beta 2 (unfortunately can't find a XP Home Edition -- released
copy and can't wait to purchase it over the net...),
I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to programmatically determine if a
computer (with Windows OS including XP home/pro, Vista) has .NET Framework 2.0
installed with DOS/Window's batch/utility programming.
Googling has not been effective for the solution.
Thanks.
Don
Chunshen Li
I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to programmatically
determine if a computer (with Windows OS including XP home/pro,
Vista)
has .NET Framework 2.0 installed with DOS/Window's batch/utility
programming.
(Purely from a quick google..) what about checking the folder
Check the registry.
Unfortunately, I did not know how to read registry from dos with xp.
Thanks for that. Learn something new every day ..
C:\reg query HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework
Setup\NDP
Bobby is right and your approach is nice as well. And if I need to
I am hosting a Birds of a Feather session at MAX on the future
development and evolution of CFML.
I am looking for suggestions on topics to cover and speakers you'd
like to hear from.
http://www.vertabase.
com/blog/your-ideas-for-the-future-of-cfml-adobe-max-bof-session
With OpenBD,
Here's something that pops out of my head upon reading your post.
Given the recent roadmap that Adobe published for CF in their marketing
kit, I suspect they may be planning to separate some of the features in
a few years when version 11 or so is released. I.e. you would buy CF but
then you
In the future, differences between projects are likely to be smaller
due to the creation of the CFML Advisory Committee.
http://corfield.org/blog/index.cfm/do/blog.
entry/entry/CFML_Advisory_Committee
Hopefully it will delineate a core set of features/functions and
allow for more widely
Part of the reason for Adobe Coldfusion 8 having features that the open
source competitors do not is commercial licensing. Adobe either owns the
license for some of the cool new tag features or paid the bucks to use a
third party license. The open source products may not have the money to pay
Just ran a search for it and found two, of which one is well-known, that is,
BlueDragon, the other contender is Smith, did a quick browse of features
respectively, and noticed that some of 'hot-cake' CF8 features like cfajaxproxy
and associated tags are not supported by neither of them (on
Add Railo to your search
http://railo-technologies.com/
Thanks for the heads-up and the URL, however, unlike BD, it does not list tag
comparison with cf8, hard to tell if it can support some of the great cf8
features listed in my last post.
BlueDragon comes in two flavors. The commercial version, which is
commercially supported, and Open BlueDragon, which is supported by the
community. Their URL's are as follows:
BlueDragon Commercial version (focusing on their .NET version)
http://www.newatlanta.com/products/bluedragon/index.cfm
Umm...
http://www.railo-technologies.com/en/index.cfm?treeID=107
Thanks for the URL. It looks like an alternative could a road to he??
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Are you logged in to the server's console using the same credentials as
the CF service?
If the CF service is running as a different user, then it can't display
a window in another user's session.
Mike
Good thought, Mike, thank you. So, I reset cf8 logon account to be the same as
XP logon
Don,
May be inserting a timeout parameter could be display the DOS prompt???
Cheers
Marco Antonio
Marco, interesting idea, tried it, now I'm getting some 'meaningful' debugging
info,
Timeout period expired without completion of C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe
I've set Timeout to 3 and 6
I don't understand why the following code, won't bring up a 'window' of 'DOS'
command prompt on my server/local box. OS=Windows XP; CF version=CF8 Standard
(licensed copy).
cfexecute name = C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe
/cfexecute
No error code, no security issue. I also try the notepad.exe
The {textarea} definitely has pixels
Just curious, but how do you store pixels in a textarea ?
Javascripting...
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Javascripting...
May be some example will help to understand.
I've never heard of Javascript handling pixels...
This part is non-issue for me now, I've locked myself up for last two
days,haha...
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A tough question, some of you might have some good idea...
the objective is to save pixels in a Form Textarea to an image file.
here's the process I'm taking to tackle it,
first,
form submission method=post and enctype=multipart/form-data or
form submission method=post (without enctype)
CF8,
outside query out: img src='/images/myimage.jpg' br -- displayed
cfset imgVar = img src=/images/myimage.jpg
output var value of image: cfoutput#imgVar#/cfoutput -- displayed
db column named myData of varchar|nvarchar (5000), one row's data stream reads
bla ksk kak alkd sk skd img
Per another thread and based on Andy Allan's pointer and Nasir
Ghaznavi's additional
input, creating a datasource against a sql 2000 db was successful
(did that a while ago),
however, I think the Macromedia's JDBC does not support connection
to a sql 2005
express database, for I've
You can use the IP address, if that's an available option for you.
Even 127.0.0.1, if you're (horrors) running MSSQL and CF on the same
box.
Beautiful, thanks. Previously I also tried it to no avail, maybe then my
network security/firewall/anti-virus program setup etc. messed it up.
Does any of you know if adobe's ftp site has a copy of cf8 trial or
developer edition or any
other adobe's trial/developer software to download (the sign-up and
login process could be
perceived inconvenient to many)? I took a look and didn't find one.
Maybe you'll have a
better
Per another thread and based on Andy Allan's pointer and Nasir Ghaznavi's
additional input, creating a datasource against a sql 2000 db was successful
(did that a while ago), however, I think the Macromedia's JDBC does not support
connection to a sql 2005 express database, for I've tried both
Does any of you know if adobe's ftp site has a copy of cf8 trial or developer
edition or any other adobe's trial/developer software to download (the sign-up
and login process could be perceived inconvenient to many)? I took a look and
didn't find one. Maybe you'll have a better luck.
tia
I'm wondering if there's a way or even using some simple external function with
ColdFusion 8 to draw simple line or box, really simple stuff not some fancy
graphics design tool or the like. Or probably I'm not the first one to ask
this question.
Ideas?
Thanks.
Google: drawing with javascript
lots of interesting stuff turns up!
Sorry, guys, for not being clear. I'd like to provide a space with TextArea,
then, let my user to draw some lines, to form a triangle, square, pentagon,
etc., small or big, on his/her own... ha, the google link seem
post your code.
Azadi Saryev
Sabai-dee.com
http://www.sabai-dee.com/
The following simple code would work, however, code for my app won't, sorry
it's a bit too complex and long to post. Could you think of a way what might
have prevented an image tag to fail? Thanks.
-- top level cf
Don't laugh, a simple img tag would not be rendered in IE7 (haven't tried with
other browser) inside a cfwindow, e.g. img src=/myImages/horse.jpg,
the exact same line would be displayed instead of the image. Am tied, can't
think, tried HTMLcodeFormat to no avail...
Ok, what I meant is, cf8 seems like a car, one needs to start
I don't think you can do this with CF alone, but you should be able to do it
other ways. For example, you could create a batch file that invokes wget to
call a page, and you could launch that batch file after the service has
started
Ok, what I meant is, cf8 seems like a car, one needs to start
I don't think you can do this with CF alone, but you should be able to do it
other ways. For example, you could create a batch file that invokes wget to
call a page, and you could launch that batch file after the service has
started
But wait, what this wget utility is about?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wget
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized
instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta,
Chicago, Baltimore, Northern
Ok, what I meant is, cf8 seems like a car, one needs to start the engine first
then turn on the heat then in a little while the car would be warm, so by then
your girlfriend or wife can step in...
The girlfriend/wife in this case is a main app, so, could we have cf8
application server
Hi,
I have an IFRAME like the following and its content is html text
sometimes with some URLs embedded, when an event trigger is fired, this
frame is for editing.
User Agent: IE7
on XP OS.
iframe id=textID src=somefile.htm
onload=document.frames['someframeID'].document.designMode='on';
Thank you.
found the link:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.
cfm?forumid=1catid=7threadid=1357313
and reading it remembered that i did find this thing:
http://stylizedweb.com/2008/04/26/website-screenshots-services/
hth
Azadi Saryev
Sabai-dee.com
Andrew,
Your following analysis is super. Sorry I wasn't clear. I saw some
interesting futuristic stuff with a mix of image and text but all presented as
an image file, which is a way to protect its IP to some degree, so, it prompted
me to think how could we do it with CF8. Azadi has
Thanks.
A screen, be it, simple text or multmedia content or a mix of them,
does the current CF version have anything like CFscreenCapture
something? I don't think CFimage
would do what I'm asking here.
You can use CFHTTP, then write it to a PDF with CFDOCUMENT. This is
covered in
A screen, be it, simple text or multmedia content or a mix of them, does the
current CF version have anything like CFscreenCapture something? I don't think
CFimage would do what I'm asking here.
TIA.
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Anyone else? thoughts or opinions?
Have you tried 'bare minimum' cf8 installation? Though I'm not sure if it
would make a difference for cf8's RAM requirement.
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Your points are well taken. My goal for this cf project is to implement an
idea with current technology but not necessarily up to last minute one, major
constraint is a very limited time/effort availability. Hence, I tried to nudge
Adobe and via this powerful cf group to make cf8 app server
Well, I think we're in general agreement that Adobe should re-consider the
architecture of the cf8 product which would make it much more flexible, hence,
more options/opportunities for all (provider itself = Adobe, and a broad range
of developers... etc. etc.). Also, along this line of
I recall some of us pushed for Adobe to reduce CF8 price and I think I
understand their rationale. The efforts did not come throgh as one would
desire...
Here's a thought, if Adobe put in a bit of effort to allow the option of
compilation of CF8 app server on demand, then, aside from gov
Sorry for the top posting, where are we now in terms of best practice for cf8
protection again sql injection attack? Going through 136+ posts seems a bit
too much, many thanks. Some one who has closely monitored this thread probably
could help.
Sorry for the problems with the House of Fusion
But I know all this, I thought the sql injection attack went beyond it, thanks
anyway, Justin.
The same place we've always been:
* Validate user input
* Use CFQUERYPARAM
For applications that have old code, run a tool that will tell you
what
queries need to be updated or run a
A quick thank-you note, you guys are awesome! Thank you.
I've read a bit on this guy but still does not know anything
substantial about it, installing it and playing it out is an option
but if I could get some thoughts from someone has done that it would
be very desirable for my decision
I've read a bit on this guy but still does not know anything substantial about
it, installing it and playing it out is an option but if I could get some
thoughts from someone has done that it would be very desirable for my decision
on a small cf8-based app which uses a lot of new and sexy
Gerald Guido
I have a fair amount of experience with Open BD and Railo 3 beta using
Apache and Tomcat on Windows/Fedora/Centos. I would gladly answer any
questions. I would recommend posing your questions to the Open BD Google
Group @ http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en
~G~
Gerald
Andy, beautiful, thank you.
For anyone else who might also be interested in it, look for Nasir Ghaznavi's
comment as well. One more, getDatasource method does not seem to be available
any more.
Andy Allan -- cf8 ds
cfide.administrator.components
I don't have CFMX6.1 installed any more so I
Thank you, Andy, I initially did not find the link about cf8 silient
installation.
The missing attribute may also imply that some of these attributes are
optional...
ColdFusion8 silent installation - Andy Allan
The main differences between the CF7 and CF8 silent installs are the
properties
Sure. But there's a reason to add a cf8 datasource without using the admin API.
ColdFusion8 silent installation - Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
Thanks, Dave. Another question, it looks like one may also
be able to create a cf8 data source dynamically, and the
neo-datasource.xml file
Prefer not to post to the public.
Sure. But there's a reason to add a cf8 datasource without
using the admin API.
What is that reason?
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Lean:
Architechurally, ideally, developer has the option to pick what core features
or family/families to deploy for a given cf server instance, hence, some
'resource-heavy' features like PDF, image, reporting manipulation stuff may be
left out... hence, less CPU requirements...
'mean':
Appreciate your thought though, Dave.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
Then I can't really address why the admin API would/wouldn't be sufficient
for your use. It's worth noting that the admin API is an approved API,
while there are no guarantees about how the neo-*.xml files will work in the
Gerald, right on, I should have said, system resource allocation or the like...
not old yet but I tumbled all the time...
To all, a key point being, I don't need to drive a bus to get some grocery, a
compact car would do...
My deep concern is, if not sufficient thoughts, cf and db/sql skills
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