buying from Insight (who BTW use CF, so you get to support a
vendor who actually uses the product on their public site)
If that's your criteria, then people should buy CF from someone other
than Adobe, who uses PHP instead of CF for their CF 8 preview site:
I can't see a difference between all 6 choices...maybe I'm as blind as
you! :)
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From: Rick Root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 11:38 AM
Can anyone tell me if any of these three thumbnails are of better
quality than the others?
Well, they are all really cool. I only wish my skill set
matched up enough to use it. :)
I'll second Neil's comment, it's not that hard. I had 0 experience with
ajax before I built CFQuickDocs, but the best way to learn is to jump
into a project like that. You already know CF, which means
I have a text field in my DB of type text that contains a product
description. This is creating HUGE problems with queries as
I can't use
DISTINCT or GROUP BY on this field. Is there any way around this?
So the description is the same for each grouped item? If so use a sub
query like so:
I've long recommended PostgreSQL as a very viable and capable
enterprise
alternative to MS SQL or MySQL. While there's nothing inherently wrong
with either of those databases, PostgreSQL has a much more liberal
license. You could pack it up, rebrand it, and sell it right
along with
your
select sub.*, main.description
from products main
join (SELECT sum(stock) AS TotalStock from products) sub
on s.stock = main.stock
Oops, that last s.stock should be sub.stock.
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In PostgreSQL an even better trick is to use INSERT ...
RETURNING * which will result the complete record you just inserted.
AAAH, that is a better trick! :)
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Good solution, that should work for any complex query as well right, I
should be able to put the entire complex query in the sub
select and then
join the description onto it in the main query
Yes, in fact the query I took that from in my code is a largish complex
query. :)
supported is an idea for wimpy CIO/MBA types that don't trust their
staff, but that's another topic altogether. :)
Nah.
'Supported' means when if it falls over in a big steaming
mess at 9am on a
Monday, I can phone someone else and have them come fix it
because they
promised it
Both excellent solutions thanks guys, in the end I went with...
isNull(m.ListPrice,0) + 0.01
Most people don't care, but I always have to point out that isNull is a
proprietary Microsoft function, while Coalesce() is ANSI standard and
has the same basic syntax.
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Aptana also can connect to SFTP sites.
Man, do I love me some Aptana.
Me too. :)
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I'm having trouble following your logic, but I'd think if you have one
function in the onBlur of an input, and the other in the onSubmit of the
form tag, it should keep them separate. What's causing them both to
fire?
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From: Scott Weikert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: combining two types of JS-related validation
Munson, Jacob wrote:
I'm having trouble following your logic, but I'd think if
you have one
function in the onBlur of an input, and the other in the
onSubmit of the
form tag, it should keep them separate. What's causing them
The trick is, in the hit-return-while-email-field-is-focused
scenario,
it's the qForms validation that kicks off first - and hacking
qForms to
do this would be a bear. Now if there was a variable qForms
uses itself
that I could tap into when the other blur-triggered code trips, that
I don't see any problems with this, except that like you said, CSS
editors probably won't parse the CSS. What's the benefit you're trying
to attain here? A CMS type system?
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From: Ian Skinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 2:30 PM
An
Seems to be working alright both with trying to submit via return and
submit via the submit button. My validation doesn't kick,
just qForms.
But if I focus and blur the email field, my validation kicks
as desired.
FYI the main reason I did my own validation using Ajax was so I could
The main problem I see is that the CSS can't be cached by the client.
You will force a new download on each request.
Unless he uses cfhtmlhead to feed it a the file after he's created it.
;)
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There have been a few threads on here in recent weeks discussing various
ways to stop spam bots from attacking your public forms. Even though
most developers these days are using obfuscated text CAPTCHA, this
method is painful to the user, and it blocks blind people. I've
mentioned a few times
Can you show us the query that is giving you the incorrect results? I
think I understand where you're going with this, but I'm not sure why
you're getting the results you are.
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From: mayo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 9:36 PM
Instead I
In that Blog entry, he's using last_insert_id(), which is a mysql
function, so no CF can't do it on it's own. I still say the way that
Oracle and Postgres does this is the best. Before you do an insert, you
can select the next available ID, and this ID can NEVER be used by
anybody else
With SQL Server, for example, @@IDENTITY doesn't work exactly the
same as SCOPE_IDENTITY - if I recall correctly, one is
connection-specific while the other is not.
Both of them are connection specific, but scope_identity is specific to
your current scope. For example, if an insert fires an
As far as hosting, this might be too cheesy, but you could post them to
google video and/or youtube and then just paste the code to your site.
Of course, the quality could suffer this way...
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I was thinking about that as well.
On 12/1/06, Munson, Jacob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As far as hosting, this might be too cheesy, but you could
post them to
google video and/or youtube and then just paste the code to
your site.
Of course
Since the data is not coming from direct user input, I say
that you could
probably skip the cfqueryparam. But if you did decide to use
it, my guess is
that you'd use the varchar type (it's just a string after all).
I'd second that. A lot of people just use cfqueryparam for all
variables,
When it generates the Captcha image it keeps on putting the
path in twice..
I.E. I am using config name=outputDirectory
value=D:\Inetpub\olympus24\captcha\images\/
Which is the full path to the folder.. and i get a error saying
Sounds like a good plan to me. The only suggestion I'd make is to look
at something like Farcry for your CMS parts. Building a feature rich
CMS from the ground up will take a lot of work. I'm lazy at times,
which is why I like to leverage the experience of other projects,
especially open
I had thought about upgrading awhile back, but then the upgrade price
from 4.5 to 7 jumped from about $600 to $1300 and that put a halt to
the upgrade for the moment.
Especially with CF 8 due out next year, I can't see spending $1300 now
and another $600 next year to get into CF 8...
Oh,
It's a lot more powerful than your run of the mill php CMS
systems that
are open source, full commercial support is available for it,
and it's
got pretty much all the features you'd want an enterprise
class CMS to
have, especially from the level of workflows, approvals, and such.
One last thing (Jacob Munson), Vista can't be compared to a
virus protection
application (Norton's, etc). That is what they do...manage virus
definitions. Vista is the OS. If Vista has a hole, MSFT will
fix it. If a
new virus comes out, MSFT will update One Care's virus
definitions (a
I've never heard of them, but with prices that low, they're probably
similar in quality to xtreme-host.com which I wouldn't recommend, from
personal experience. But who knows, you might have found a winner.
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From: Adrian Wagner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:
http://tinyurl.com/oo49m
Sorry for the OT self promotion, but rather than sending a LiveDocs URL
to tinyurl, you could post a short URL from CFQuickDocs:
http://cfquickdocs.com/?getDoc=cfqueryparam
It's not quite as short as tinyurls, but it still won't wrap. :)
Cool. I didn't even know about that.
Thanks!
It works for functions too:
http://cfquickdocs.com/?getDoc=datediff
:)
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My argument is that preventing a user from running
applications is a more
secure approach than letting users run applications, but
checking those
applications' safety at runtime against an existing list of known bad
applications. Therefore, if I were to choose a single
mechanism for
You could specifiy the timeout in the HTTP request itself, instead of in
the encompassing component.
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From: Ky, Kajone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 12:13 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Component timeout
The method in the component
Fortunately, though, if you want to run as a non-privileged
user on Windows
XP, it is doable and practical for most knowledgeable users.
I've been doing
it for quite some time, and the only real problem I've had is
that it takes
me two or three steps, sometimes, to do something that I'd
I used to despise them to, but then I realised something
pretty cool about
these tags, they work out the datatype of the columns for
you, so generating
truly dynamic queries where you don't know what datatype each
column will be
is posisble.
One thing I've always wondered is do you have
The remote attack surface for a patched Windows XP SP2
machine with the
Windows firewall enabled is pretty small. I have every reason
to expect the
attack surface for Vista to be as small or smaller. That, by
itself, doesn't
mean that users can't do stupid things that will get their
I've tried to compile the apache mod_jrun20.so and
mod_jrun22.so connectors
from sources provided in the wsconfig.jar, but I can't seem
to get it to
work on a windows platform. I went and downloading Visual
C++ Express, the
platform SDK and got a version of apxs for windows, and tried
No, those aren't the same at all. It might have as many holes
as a block of
Swiss cheese, but if the user can't execute the virus because he lacks
permissions to do so, the virus can't run. If the user can execute the
virus, but lacks permissions to modify the operating system
itself, the
That being said, my current site at HostMySite was very
stable the first 6 months and now seems to go down a handful
of times a day (based on my error reports and monitoring),
which is probably due to some site on their that eats up CF
resources but still really isn't acceptable. Bringing
I highly recommend viviotech for Linux VPS hosting... comes with
BlueDragon at no extra charge if you ask for it.
I'd highly recommend it as well. Jordan might jump in and correct me,
but I believe they no longer offer the free BD Server with VPS accounts.
However, as long as you're doing
Is there any easy way for ColdFusion to monitor a box on an
Exchange server or to configure a single exchange account to
be POP? Any other Ideas on how I might tackle this requirement?
I'm not an Exchange admin, so don't know the proper answer. But what
about setting up an
I have a date value in this format: mmddhhmmss, for example
20061129041148. What I need to do is calculate the difference in
seconds between this date and now(). So I figured I'd use
createDateTime() to turn it into a valid date/time object, and then use
dateDiff(). However, doing that I
He'll probably check the subject and/or body for one of a list of
approved words.
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From: Bryan Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 4:18 PM
How the heck will code be able to determine OT posts? That
sound pretty slick
Try making them BOTH createDateTime() values THEN using
datediff() on those
values.
Both now() and createDateTime return date/time objects, so that
shouldn't matter.
If that doesn't work, try this...
cfset firstdate = 20061129041148 /
cfset seconddate = dateformat(now(), 'mmdd')
I found the problem. My original date was using the 12 hour clock, but
now() was returning a value from the 24 hour clock. I'm not sure why
that caused dateDiff to return bad results, but it did.
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Where can I read more about her system? I tried IP blocking
but it became
much to cumbersome to maintain. I am always interested in
eliminating spam
of any kind.
Here's a link:
http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/thread.cfm/threadid:48461#25
8090
It's a pretty good system, but
Gosh darn it. I was /really/ interested in a project like this a few
months ago, but now I've got 2 or 3 project ideas of myself to work on.
I'll be keeping my ears open for continued news about this though...
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From: Rick Root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:
If you can't accidentally run executables, you can't
accidentally turn your
machine into a spambot.
I think that the changes that Microsoft have made in Vista are awesome,
but they won't stop the Trojans that take advantage of security
vulnerabilities. Unless you think that Vista won't have
They actually let hackers take a shot at Vista this summer
and rave reviews
came out of it. I think 1 person was able to trick UAC but this was
in...hrmmm...I think Beta 2. That hole was covered in the next major
release.
See, this is exactly what I'm talking about. I have no doubt that
Something I neglected to mention - when I brought up Apache,
I mentioned
in as far as knowing there was a way to do it with that
webserver - I'm
currently on Windows 2000 server, not Apache.
Not to nitpick, but you /can/ run Apache on Windows. In fact, IIRC most
public Apache web
Not enough info. Do you really have the email address exposed in the
form somewhere? If not, maybe they're getting spam from the form (spam
bots)? If it's the latter, you should do something to protect the form.
I used to suggest CAPTCHA, but now there are more accessible methods.
Ben Nadel has
I just looked at the service, and for 2 personal emails
(hosted at a shared
host) received FALSE. My work email, on the other hand,
returned TRUE.
Assume that the hosting co has incorrectly configured
something, and it
isn't the script (as I am), can this really be used with high
I still use Studio 4.5 (true) and I am happy with it
especially when assigning shortcuts to tags and snippets, a
simple feature that DW8 does not offer easily after I
searched everywhere and posted my problems on the forums at
Adobe.
I'm late to the thread, but I want to say that
Having said that, if you have a specific wish for a CF-based blog then
you can presumably find your way around CF code and make your own
BlogCFC add-ons, tidy up the admin, etc. This was something
I had to do
in the past, rebuilding the interface so it was fully semantic mark-up
(in a very
and a full theme system with lots of themes available. The
two big things for me are the workflow process and the plug-in
Agreed. Theming is the major feature planned for 6.0
Great to hear. This is probably the main thing I've missed from
Blogger, when I moved to BlogCFC a long time ago.
The thing that bothers me the most about CFUnited is how cocky Teratech
is when it comes to the sessions. Borland's conference this year had a
user driven schedule. Anybody could submit a session they'd like to
teach, and Borland setup up a site for people to vote on the sessions.
The top x
Dang, David! You must have put a lot of work into this. Fascinating
numbers. If they made over $600,000 just for the registrations, I'd be
curious to know how much the overhead costs are. I'd bet they're making
a pretty penny. And I agree, they won't run a money losing conference.
Unlike
It's kind of a pain, but:
Window-Preferences-CFEclipse-Editor-Show Editor Toolbar
and then you have to restart Eclipse
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From: Dan Vega [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 6:40 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: cfeclipse toolbar
Does anyone know how
Yes, I've noticed it too. I sent a message at 8:30 this morning, and it just
now came through almost 3 hours late.
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From: OÄuz Demirkapı [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 9:51 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: LAG on List?
Hi Michael,
I got
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Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 11:17 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: cfeclipse toolbar
You don't have to restart Eclipse - it's just that the setting doesn't
apply to currently open files, so just close any open files and reopen
them.
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From: Munson, Jacob [mailto
toolbar. I
am using eclipse 3.2
On 11/17/06, Munson, Jacob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's kind of a pain, but:
Window-Preferences-CFEclipse-Editor-Show Editor Toolbar
and then you have to restart Eclipse
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From: Dan Vega [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent
Daniel and Simon,
I agree that CFUnited is a very good conference, but is it perfect? I
don't think so. I've looked around at what some other tech conferences
are doing, and though I haven't attended these, I like their ideas.
Does offering criticism mean I think the conference is bad? Of
Also, they open topic/speaker
suggestions up to the entire community, have allowed the community to
vote on topics/suggestions in the past, and they have asked attendees
for suggestions and likes/dislikes regarding individual speakers,
sessions, and the conference in general, every single
I don't think a bug tracker is exactly what you mean, but if so:
http://lighthousepro.riaforge.org/
It's open source, so it could be a start for a custom change management
system.
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From: Pete [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 11:40 AM
To:
Would you prefer a 5* conference venue, restaurant quality
food, lots of
staff, lots of bells and whitles and spend 3 months of your
salary to get
there.
Just because someone says the food sucked in they survey
answers, doesn't
neccisarily mean they want to pay $200 more next year for
I'm sur ethey wouldn't put on a 3hr slot on asp.net if no-one
was going to
go to it, that would be pointless.
Well, considering that the pre-registration for this course showed very
little interest when compared to courses like Ray Camden's CFC session,
I think you could be wrong. I don't
It does look like it's supposed to be a carriage return, but the code is
expecting cr to be a variable, probably that has the carriage return
ASCII code in it. You could try #chr(13)##chr(10)# instead, or just
chr(10).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL
Are you on the 2007 site? http://www.cfunited.com/2007/ That shows the
dates as June 27th through the 30th. I didn't see any other dates in
the various pages...
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From: R Knutson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 1:49 PM
To: CF-Talk
Oh, I see what you mean. Well, we know it's a 4 day conference, with
the last day being Saturday. So according to my calendar that's June
27th-30th. I'd guess they did some copy/paste and forgot to change
dates. Send them an email and I'll bet they'll fix it. The fixed an
error I saw earlier
The majority of us started from one version or another of the
CFWACK (I'm
not giving my version age heh)
This is something that's interesting to me in the programmer world.
Most people I know love to learn from books, but I'm just the opposite.
I started with CF 4, but didn't seriously get
To Search Engine Friendly URL such as
domain.com/news/example_news_story
Is it really more Search Engine Friendly? Why?
Because search engines favor sites that have real words in their URL
that match the page content. For example, I have a blog entry about a
JavaScript isNumeric
CF7, Shared server at crystalTech, MS Access
Maybe the problem is using a desktop database not designed
for multiple
users as the basis for a multi user application ;)
I agree. I've always wondered why so many CF developers love to use
Access for projects. It's not free, and it's
The only difference is preference and price. I'd much rather
take a book to
the old baño than my laptop though :-)
I've been known to take my laptop to the baño. So I guess that explains why I
don't prefer books. ;)
If you look at the 3 day price, Teratech has raised the price $100 each
year since 2005 (that was my first year). Why? I don't know and I don't
like it, but I've come to expect it. I agree with you though, I don't
see the value going up to match the price increase. Fortunately for me,
my
The increase definitely stops me from attending again in 2007 (2006
was my first cfunited).
If I do hike over to the US from Scotland, it will now definitely 100%
be for cf.Objective().
You could wait until 2008 and go to CFUnited Europe, which will be in
London:
for some reason, I just shut down all of my instances via the windows
services control manager, and for some curious reason, my web
server was
still serving CFML pages. Not cached, either.
I finally noticed that there was still a jrun.exe process running.
If I stop the services on my
AVBlog, BlogCFM, BlogFusion are a few I know of. Personally I like
BlogCFC, but I haven't tried any of the others.
-Original Message-
From: Ryan Stille [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 1:09 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: ColdFusion blogging software?
I'm
Whats wrong with blogCFC it does everything you need, its
easy to customise
and its very simple to use ?
This doesn't bother me, but a lot of people are turned off by the entry
editor, because they want a wysiwyg editor. But with the latest
versions of BlogCFC, Ray abstracted the entry box
I know that even Google claims it won't search pages with
something like
?id=1234 in the URL,
but it is simply not true. I have all my sites with such url,
and they
all get searched every day,
in particular by Google.
Sure, Google still indexes the pages, but the ranking algorithms
Anywhere you dynamically convert URLs to links.. in message boards,
blogs, etc... add the rel=nofollow attribute.
I'm doing this in blogcfm (and I think in cfmbb too)
FYI, BlogCFC does this as well.
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I first put a hidden field in the feedback form with a timecode and
on the action page figured out how much time elapsed. I save each
message to a database along with how long it took them to fill out
and submit the form.On my admin page, I display the emails -
marking the suspect
Do you see your dsn if you cfdump var=#application# ?
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From: Jason T. Slack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 8:09 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: BlueDragon Question
Hi Rick,
I noticed that. Here is what I have:
1:
2: !--- Check
There is an interesting issue with BD that I discovered when
I was trying it
out.
I found that on Linux with Apache, when using user
directories with Apache,
BD it does not go up through the directory structure to find the
Application.cfm or Application.cfc file, as it should. If
Remove the pound signs around APPLICATION.getAllProds
Ok duh.
This is something that REALLY bothers me about ColdFusion. I love CF as
much as the next guy, but I really wish they had made things more
consistent. Sometimes if you are putting a variable name in a quoted
attribute, you use ##,
use # signs when you need the variable evaluated.
Right, and that's how I usually try to do it, and it USUALLY works. ;)
cfdump var=#foo# -- don't really know :)
See, in my mind, you are telling cfdump the variable it needs to throw
on the screen. I guess it kind of makes sense to me that
I got it working on Ubuntu, for a development machine. But this a while
ago, I can't remember what I did. But I think I've got a blog
entry...yup, here it is:
http://techfeed.net/blog/index.cfm/2006/2/25/Installed-ColdFusion-on-Ubu
ntu
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From: Loathe [mailto:[EMAIL
Could someone explain to me which method was the hidden form one (we
talked about so many)?
Is that where you put a form field in which actually is
type=hidden or
where you put in a type=text field in a div which is hidden, mark it
leave me blank and ASSUME the BOT will try to populate
Wow, that's pretty bad. I'm surprised you were able to find that...it
sounds like you copied some code from a file that only uses CR, like
from a website on a Linux server. But if you just typed it in, that's
pretty bad (bad on Microsoft's part).
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From: Brad Wood
Apparently 'most' bots like to fill in every field they find
in the form and
the majority of them won't parse the styles.
You could also just put the field in a div with a message
like Leave this
field empty inside the div as well then hide the div. That
way, if the
field shows to an
I just implemented a solution exactly like this and am waiting for the
results to assess it's effectiveness. Does anyone out there
use this as a
solution? Care to share your assessment?
I did the math thing on my blog contact form:
http://www.techfeed.net/blog/contact.cfm
I haven't gotten
myVAR = cfqueryparam
value=#encrypt('FORM.myVAR','encCODE')#
cfsqltype=CF_SQL_VARCHAR
OK, I now see why this won't work as the encrypt function will return
characters not accepted by cfqueryparam.
Still leave me with trying to find the best way to accomplish
the same
It sounds like you are doing the math JS similar to my method on my
blog, but I'm not providing the answer. That's a good idea.
I will check out your project, though. Can you re-link it if
you already have?
http://cfformprotect.riaforge.org/
I agree making the user think sucks, but it's
I'm trying to think how I would live without the application
scope...hard to fathom. What do they do, store application
level stuff
in files or DBs?
Every PHP guy I've spoken with uses a config file of some sort.
Ok, but that doesn't help for caching application level data. For
Jacob,
There are a bunch of php caching classes available.
Basically, the classes
usually serialize any object to a text representation and
store that in a
file. The serialization and deserialization to from file is
very quick and
once you have the class, performing the process is
I'm jumping in late, but the data is in the bookmark. Microsoft loves
to hide information from users, which drives me crazy! If you open the
actual bookmark file in a text editor, from your Favorites folder in
Documents and Settings on your hard drive, you will see a line like
this:
Some of my frustrations with MySQL are:
- Only 1 query per cfquery
I happen to think that is a good thing :)
Sorry, I have to jump in here. I agree with this, it is a good thing.
They don't allow multiple queries because to do so is a security risk.
But I always laugh because whenever I
You need to use AJAX.
I agree, but I wouldn't recommend CFAjax. It's outdated, and the guy
that wrote it has moved on to MXAjax:
http://www.indiankey.com/mxajax/
Personally I prefer ajaxCFC:
http://ajaxcfc.riaforge.org/
to
use, then use JS to do the lookup on that.
-Original Message-
From: Munson, Jacob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 1:17 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Mixing CF and JavaScript.
You need to use AJAX.
I agree, but I wouldn't recommend
You can do exactly what he wants by loading the data into a JS array.
Then his function would simply look in the array rather than trying to
do a query.
the cfquery in his function is querying for a specific record based on
a value passed to the function.
if he does a query without the
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