Re: Annoying undelivered email issue

2005-07-20 Thread Richard Crawford
. -- Richard Crawford, Programmer III UC Davis Extension Distance Education Group http://unexdlc.ucdavis.edu http://www.extensiondlc.net 2901 K Street, Suite 200C Sacramento, CA 95620 Tel: (916)327-7793 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Annoying undelivered email issue

2005-07-19 Thread Richard Crawford
in the Spool directory. What am I doing wrong? This has worked before, and no changes have been made to our installation. -- Richard Crawford, Programmer III UC Davis Extension Distance Education Group http://unexdlc.ucdavis.edu http://www.extensiondlc.net 2901 K Street, Suite 200C Sacramento, CA

Re: CF vs LAMP

2005-06-02 Thread Richard Crawford
On Thursday 02 June 2005 09:27, Calvin Ward wrote: This is true code running in production I had to review once (because there was an error somewhere) http://www.mschopman.demon.nl/horror.txt Oh, God. The horror! The horror! My eyes are melting! Aii!! (And this only

Re: CF vs LAMP

2005-06-02 Thread Richard Crawford
On Thursday 02 June 2005 09:35, Kevin Aebig wrote: Coldfusion... PHP... dotNET... truely guys, its all the same thing with different implementations. Now Perl on the other hand Why won't that language just die already... For CGI scripting, Perl has its uses (though I personally haven't

Re: CF vs LAMP

2005-06-02 Thread Richard Crawford
On Thursday 02 June 2005 13:42, dave wrote:  I guess  Simon  is trying to say that if I buy a car and everytime it breaks down they will send someone to fix it (even from germany) and he thinks thats a BAD thing? I guess it would be better to take it down to jimmy joes house and confer with

Re: CF vs LAMP

2005-06-02 Thread Richard Crawford
On Thursday 02 June 2005 14:14, Kevin Aebig wrote: We can drop the example anytime... I'm sure everyone here is smart enough to get it. Sorry to bother you. I was hoping to expand on Dave's metaphor to explain why I have a different viewpoint than he does. It certainly wasn't my intention

Re: CF vs LAMP

2005-05-31 Thread Richard Crawford
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 11:03, Joe Rinehart wrote: The 'P' in LAMP usually refers to PHP - which is a pain to read, write, and maintain unless you're very well versed in PHP ;);) Wow. My experience has been very different. I find PHP very easy to work with and quite intuitive, while Cold

Re: CF vs LAMP

2005-05-31 Thread Richard Crawford
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 12:42, Russ wrote: In addition to phpmyadmin (which I've grown to love) there is also the mysql control center and a couple of other GUI tools which have been developed. And for the hardcore, there's always the MySQL command line, which I would frequently kill -- or at

Re: There's got to be a way around this

2005-05-24 Thread Richard Crawford
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 06:54, S. Isaac Dealey wrote: cfparam name=x default= instead of this: cfparam name=form.x default= I'm still not entirely certain how that comes across as the question he asked, except perhaps that he's trying to scope his variables as say variables.x instead of

Re: There's got to be a way around this

2005-05-24 Thread Richard Crawford
On Monday 23 May 2005 22:03, Jim Davis wrote: The developer in question used it as an example of how hard it was to do simple things in CF compared to Java in meeting.  I wrote #listfirst(var, -)# and #listlast(var, -)# on the whiteboard.  ;^) In general, I prefer to program in PHP since I

Re: There's got to be a way around this

2005-05-24 Thread Richard Crawford
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 10:12, Jim Davis wrote: In my company however this is the norm: we moved away from CF almost purely on the say-so of the Java programmers like the one I mentioned and their assertions that Java was easier to work with. In short they produced complete crap and blamed the

Re: js popup resizing ?

2005-05-24 Thread Richard Crawford
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 16:57, Bryan Stevenson wrote: How the heck does that change the window size in any browser? looks to me that it hardcodes the window size to 200x200...which is what IE is doing...what's that about the good browsers Dave?? ;-);-) Uh oh... *donning asbestos pajamas* --

There's got to be a way around this

2005-05-23 Thread Richard Crawford
It seems that on every Cold Fusion page that processes variables from a previous page -- say a form and the page that processes the form -- every variable on the form must be accounted for. This is fine if the form is unchanging, but if the form is dynamic and might change every time it's

Re: There's got to be a way around this

2005-05-23 Thread Richard Crawford
On Monday 23 May 2005 18:22, Ben Forta wrote: FORM is a structure that contains all HTTP POST fields, and you can loop through it easily. Thanks! I'm trying to figure out some old code written by some previous developers, and they used some incredibly complicated tricks to deal with having

Re: import from MySQL to MS SQL

2005-05-05 Thread Richard Crawford
On Thursday 05 May 2005 10:32, Bryan Stevenson wrote: MySQL is not file based like Access. You need to have a copy of MySQL installed and running. I do JochemMySQL 4.1.11...with an imported copy of the live database ;-);-) As I mentionedI can't figure out how to setup the ODBC

Re: import from MySQL to MS SQL

2005-05-05 Thread Richard Crawford
On Thursday 05 May 2005 10:53, Bryan Stevenson wrote: LMAO...I was waiting for this one...umm Richard...it's because MySQL no matter what anybody says is not an enterprise level DB (yet)refrerential integrity comes to mind ;-);-) Heh. Well, note that I didn't go into *why* it boggled my

Re: import from MySQL to MS SQL

2005-05-05 Thread Richard Crawford
On Thursday 05 May 2005 13:09, Bryan Stevenson wrote: Personally, even for the biggest sites I've run, I've never needed a full-fledged enterprise level database.  If I did, though, I'd probably go with Oracle or some other vendor and that's exactly where we're headingbut the VC has to

Re: import from MySQL to MS SQL

2005-05-05 Thread Richard Crawford
On Thursday 05 May 2005 10:53, Bryan Stevenson wrote: LMAO...I was waiting for this one...umm Richard...it's because MySQL no matter what anybody says is not an enterprise level DB (yet)refrerential integrity comes to mind ;-);-) Heh. Well, note that I didn't go into *why* it boggled my

Re: import from MySQL to MS SQL

2005-05-05 Thread Richard Crawford
On Thursday 05 May 2005 14:46, Bryan Stevenson wrote: Here's some justification for all you MySQL fans Ya wanna know why 21 tables are not importing??...huh...do ya?? Because MySQL has allowed NULLS to be entered into NOT NULL fields!!! MySQL can kiss my. Free = data corruption

Re: import from MySQL to MS SQL

2005-05-05 Thread Richard Crawford
On Thursday 05 May 2005 15:01, Bryan Stevenson wrote: Yeah...but if apply the NOT NULL rrule after...it still shouldn't let you if there are NULLs in the data ;-);-) (not that this is the case here...straight import from live DB to local MySQL.and off to MS SQL) I don't see how it's

Re: macromedia and Adobe?!

2005-04-18 Thread Richard Crawford
On Monday 18 April 2005 09:47, Connie DeCinko wrote: I think he was just looking for an excuse, any excuse to ditch CF.  Now he thinks he has it. Whereas in our office we'll be migrating from CF to PHP over the next few months. But that's been in the works for over a year now. -- Richard S.

Re: macromedia and Adobe?!

2005-04-18 Thread Richard Crawford
On Monday 18 April 2005 14:40, Damien McKenna wrote: Let's face it, the internet needs and overhaul at this stage, and RIA's show promise. Several companies have attempted to provide an alternative method of interacting with the internet.  One of the best was Rebol (http://www.rebol.com/)

Escaping #

2005-04-07 Thread Richard Crawford
I have to do something like this: replace bob #1 with bob \#1 I tried, cfset downLoadFile = replace(attachment.attName, \#, \\#, all) But that only gave me an error; I suspect that CF is still trying to process the octothorpe as a variable delimiter. Is there a way to escape the # so that I

Processing quiz with a non-existent script?!!?

2005-01-19 Thread Richard Crawford
I'm trying to track down a serious bug on our website, which is really starting to annoy me. Basic rundown: We have two servers, a development server and a production server. The directory structure is identical in both servers (with the exception of some permissions issues which should not

Re: Processing quiz with a non-existent script?!!?

2005-01-19 Thread Richard Crawford
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ben Doom wrote: | On occasion, I've seen deleted .cfm files continue to work. I had to | manually recompile the directory to make them go away, so I think that | the compiled form gets cached and not deleted properly. That might be the problem.

Re: CF_HappyHolidays

2004-12-22 Thread Richard Crawford
Barney Boisvert wrote: Need to edit that. The 25th is the first day of Christmas, and the 12th day is the 5th of January of the next year (the day before Epiphany, which is the 6th). But funny none the less. I always thought that Epiphany *was* the twelfth day of Christmas. I guess I just

Intercepting Flash....?

2004-12-10 Thread Richard Crawford
I hope I'm explaining this right. We have a Flash movie built by someone else outside of our department. The movie takes in a number of values and then sends them to a Cold Fusion script to send the values to the instructor via e-mail cfmail . The Flash movie then continues. I would like

Re: Intercepting Flash....?

2004-12-10 Thread Richard Crawford
dave wrote: depends on how its getting its values either add a few frames to the movie or get the values in the cfm file and return to flash but ur gunna have to edit the flash movie to do it cfdump aint gunna help at all I was afraid of that. I do not have access to the source code of

Re: Undeliverable CFMAIL

2004-11-12 Thread Richard Crawford
Here's what I've tried so far: Moving one test message from /Undelivr to /Spool. Of course there's a typo in the name, so I changed it from Undelievered_Mailx to Undelivered_Mailx. I also tried removing the Undelivered part of the mail. Once I had moved and renamed it, I restarted

Re: Undeliverable CFMAIL

2004-11-12 Thread Richard Crawford
Richard Crawford wrote: Here's what I've tried so far: Moving one test message from /Undelivr to /Spool. Of course there's a typo in the name, so I changed it from Undelievered_Mailx to Undelivered_Mailx. I also tried removing the Undelivered part of the mail. Once I had

Undeliverable CFMAIL

2004-11-09 Thread Richard Crawford
In about two weeks, our mail server will be going down for a couple of days. Consequently, any messages sent by Cold Fusion during that time will not be delivered. Does the CF server maintain these undelivered messages anywhere? -- Richard S. Crawford Programmer III: Oracle/Solaris Wrangler

Re: Undeliverable CFMAIL

2004-11-09 Thread Richard Crawford
Peterson, Andrew S. wrote: C:\cfusionmx\mail\undelivr Not sure of your path, but look for the undelivr folder. When the mail server goes back online, cut and paste those files into the Spool folder in the same directory I'm actually running CF in a Solaris environment. I executed the

Re: Undeliverable CFMAIL

2004-11-09 Thread Richard Crawford
Venable, John wrote: They will be in {cfroot}/Mail/Undelivr Just respool and you should be good to go. How does one respool? -- Richard S. Crawford Programmer III: Oracle/Solaris Wrangler UC Davis Extension Distance Education Group (http://unexdlc.ucdavis.edu) 2901 K Street, Suite 200C

Re: Undeliverable CFMAIL: code to handle

2004-11-09 Thread Richard Crawford
Anders Green wrote: At 03:58 PM 11/9/2004, you wrote: In about two weeks, our mail server will be going down for a couple of days. Consequently, any messages sent by Cold Fusion during that time will not be delivered. Does the CF server maintain these undelivered messages anywhere? As

Re: Undeliverable CFMAIL: code to handle

2004-11-09 Thread Richard Crawford
Al Everett wrote: I always assumed that the current name was just to have a directory name that was 8 characters or less, for compatibility with something ancient. I was speaking to Richard Crawford's message: I'm actually running CF in a Solaris environment. I executed the following

Forcing CF to send a request back to Apache?

2004-09-03 Thread Richard Crawford
Okay, this is complicated, and I apologize for that. First of all, our website runs a mix of Cold Fusion and Perl scripts. This is generally fine, except that Perl scripts don't run if the context-root in included in the path to the script. Is there a way to force the Cold Fusion server to

Re: Forcing CF to send a request back to Apache?

2004-09-03 Thread Richard Crawford
Barney Boisvert wrote: You can't make CF do it, but you can certainly do that with mod_rewrite.These two rules should be pretty close, though they might not be perfect.(obviously assume your server has mod_rewrite enabled): RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^/cfmx(.*\.pl)$ /$1.pl [L] The

Automated Scripts?

2004-08-23 Thread Richard Crawford
I'm trying to figure out how to run some Cold Fusion scripts automatically. For example: our users have logins that expire every three months.I'd like to set up a script which would run each morning to scan all of the users in the database, and send an e-mail to those users whose logins will

Re: Automated Scripts?

2004-08-23 Thread Richard Crawford
Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. phone: 250.480.0642 fax: 250.480.1264 cell: 250.920.8830 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.electricedgesystems.com - Original Message - From: Richard Crawford To: CF-Talk Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 9:39 AM

Re: Retrieving old CFMAIL messages

2004-08-20 Thread Richard Crawford
Jochem van Dieten wrote: Richard Crawford wrote: We have a situation where we need to retrieve the text of all messages sent through our servers with the CFMAIL tag over the past year to a particular e-mail address.I have already looked at the mailsent.log file, but it only indicates

Retrieving old CFMAIL messages

2004-08-19 Thread Richard Crawford
We have a situation where we need to retrieve the text of all messages sent through our servers with the CFMAIL tag over the past year to a particular e-mail address.I have already looked at the mailsent.log file, but it only indicates whether the mail was sent successfully or not. Is there a

CFINCLUDE question

2004-06-24 Thread Richard Crawford
I'm using CFINCLUDE to bring in a file from another directory into my current file.The problem is that the file being included contains references to images in other folders, via relative paths.Thus, when I load the main page into a browser, the images do not show up. Is there a way around

Why don't query variables persist?

2004-06-22 Thread Richard Crawford
I have the following bit of code: cfstoredproc datasource=DLCampus procedure=dlc_sp_verifyLogin debug=yes cfprocparam type=in value=#trim(FORM.sLogin)# cfsqltype=cf_sql_varchar cfprocparam type=in value=#trim(FORM.sPassword)# cfsqltype=cf_sql_varchar cfprocparam type=in

Re: Replacing strings as part of a query

2004-06-08 Thread Richard Crawford
Deanna Schneider wrote: What database are you using? This sounds like something that would be best handled at the database level, instead of running it through CF. Deanna, I'm using SQL Server 7.The problem is that the field with the characters to be replaced is a TEXT field, and you can't

Re: Replacing strings as part of a query

2004-06-08 Thread Richard Crawford
Deanna Schneider wrote: Don't know SQL Server. Sorry. But, as for your 500 error - make sure that show friendly http errors is turned off in your IE preferences. Then, you should at least see more info. That in itself isn't an issue (I don't use IE if I can possibly avoid it).I had hoped

Re: Good, free (or cheap) webmail application

2004-06-07 Thread Richard Crawford
Burns, John D wrote: Can anyone recommend webmail application that works with POP3 that works well and has a good UI?CF would be nice, but not a necessity.It's a Windows 2003 Server and we have PHP and ASP enabled.Easy to set up would be a good thing.It's actually working with iMail installed

Replacing special characters in a string

2004-06-07 Thread Richard Crawford
I have a set of strings that contain carriage returns.I'd like to go through and strip them out.I figure the REPLACE function would do the job but I'm not sure how to refer to the carriage returns. INPUT STRING: I am a string with a carriage return OUTPUT STRING: I am a string with a

Replacing strings as part of a query

2004-06-07 Thread Richard Crawford
Actually, my question about replacing special characters (thanks to all who answered, by the way) was part of a larger question.What I really need to do is select all rows of one table, modify the value of one field, and insert all of the rows, with that one modified field, into another table.

Re: Secure FTP?

2004-06-03 Thread Richard Crawford
Burns, John D wrote: I asked a question earlier about transferring files from one server to another automatically.The 2 servers are not on the same network and the files that are being copied are sensitive HR-type files.What is the most secure way to transfer files like that?Secure FTP?Is

Re: Secure FTP?

2004-06-03 Thread Richard Crawford
? John Burns -Original Message- From: Richard Crawford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 1:56 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Secure FTP? Burns, John D wrote: I asked a question earlier about transferring files from one server to another

CFMAIL... won't.

2004-05-28 Thread Richard Crawford
Using CFMX under JRun 4 on Solaris 9. I've got a Cold Fusion script which uses the CFMAIL function to send the results of a quiz to an instructor.Unfortunately, no matter what I do, I can't get the mail to go through.I've checked that I'm using the proper syntax for CFMAIL, that my mail server

Re: One slow server...

2004-05-05 Thread Richard Crawford
Dave Watts wrote: I've also checked the SQL in the SP's that CF calls, and there seems to be nothing wrong there; when I run them in the command line they only take a few seconds to run.However, it takes several minutes for the login to process on the web. I'm at a loss. Anyone got any ideas

One slow server...

2004-05-04 Thread Richard Crawford
I am at a loss here. Here's the setup: Webserver running Cold Fusion MX on JRun4 on Solaris9, talking to MS SQL Server database on a different machine. About two weeks ago, we started experiencing serious slow-downs on our site.Neither computer is responsible -- the Solaris box is running

Generic Table Copy from one DB to another

2004-04-22 Thread Richard Crawford
I'm trying to write a script which will take as an argument a table name, then copy the data from that table in one table to an identical table in another database (assuming that the target database has a blank table with an identical structure). Has anyone attempted this sort of task

Re: Generic Table Copy from one DB to another

2004-04-22 Thread Richard Crawford
Dick Applebaum wrote: are the source and target db's 1) on the same db server? 2) on different db servers local to the same host 3) on different db servers local to different hosts. 4) are you trying to create an exact duplicate of the source in the target or update the target? what

Re: Generic Table Copy from one DB to another

2004-04-22 Thread Richard Crawford
Tony Weeg wrote: why not use select into? I am still looking for information about select into. -- Richard S. Crawford Programmer III, UC Davis Extension Distance Learning Group (http://unexdlc.ucdavis.edu) (916)327-7793 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription]

Re: Generic Table Copy from one DB to another

2004-04-22 Thread Richard Crawford
Tony Weeg wrote: ok... here ya go...simple but effective. select * INTO server_B.something.dbo.database_B from server_A.something.dbo.database_A that will take everything from a to b, table structure etc. tw I must need more coffee this morning, because I can't find any reference

Re: Generic Table Copy from one DB to another

2004-04-22 Thread Richard Crawford
Doug James wrote: Presuming M$ SQL Server, one could write a stored procedure the perform the 'select into'. One note, if the goal is to be able to pass in any source table and any matching destination table then the stored proc would have to build a string and then use 'exec

Re: Generic Table Copy from one DB to another

2004-04-22 Thread Richard Crawford
Tony Weeg wrote: with cf? cfquery name=get datasource=dsn1 select * from thisTable /cfquery cfloop query=get cfquery name=set datasource=dsn2 insert into newTable (column1, column2, column3) values ('#get.value1#','#get.value2#','#get.value3#') /cfquery /cfloop

Re: Generic Table Copy from one DB to another

2004-04-22 Thread Richard Crawford
wondering. -Original Message- From: Richard Crawford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 2:42 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Generic Table Copy from one DB to another Tony Weeg wrote: with cf? cfquery name=get datasource=dsn1 select * from thisTable

Re: CFIF Insanity

2004-03-17 Thread Richard Crawford
Matthew Walker wrote: Maybe you know this already but CF still processes content inside HTML comments. So you shouldn't comment out CFML with HTML comment markup. The strange thing is that the troublesome comment markers worked fine before I rearranged some of the code inside the script to

CFIF Insanity

2004-03-16 Thread Richard Crawford
I have a rather long script that I've been editing with HomeSite.When I try to run it, I keep getting this error: Context validation error for tag cfif. The end tag /cfif requires a matching start tag. I've gone over this code with a fine-toothed comb several times and even rewritten big parts

Re: CFIF Insanity

2004-03-16 Thread Richard Crawford
J E VanOver wrote: Can you postyour code? Unmatched comment tags? It turned out to be something similar.Some parts of the code contained comments that started with !--- and some that started with !--.I went ahead and replaced all of the latter with !--- and that seems to have fixed it.

Re: CFIF Insanity

2004-03-16 Thread Richard Crawford
Barney Boisvert wrote: With DMWX I've run into sporadic situations where it will replace certain things with this big long string of nastiness that seems to be some form of metadata markup about a given variable or tag.I've got a couple files in my app (of about 2000) that I can't edit in DW,

Oracle/CF issue apparently resolved

2004-03-15 Thread Richard Crawford
I was receiving an error, Wrong number of type of parameters passed whenever trying to call my Oracle stored procedure from Cold Fusion.I received this error in one stored procedure, fixed it, and then got it with another stored procedure. Both of the stored procedures, as it turned out, were

Even more CF and Oracle stuff: Closing a cursor

2004-03-15 Thread Richard Crawford
After I've executed an Oracle Stored procedure and brought the results into Cold Fusion, is there a way to close the ref cursor within Cold Fusion?I've tried calling a second stored procedure that closes the cursor, but this doesn't seem to do the trick. Is it even necessary to close the

Re: Even more CF and Oracle stuff: Closing a cursor

2004-03-15 Thread Richard Crawford
Deanna Schneider wrote: My understanding is that if you use a cursor for it gets closed implicitly. I've used this syntax before (without closing) successfully: BEGIN OPEN mycursor FOR select blah blah; END; That makes sense to me.It's what I've been assuming as well. -- Richard S.

More Oracle/CF fun!

2004-03-11 Thread Richard Crawford
Consider this stored procedure (part of package DLC): PROCEDURE dlc_mail_countMsg ( studentID IN number, mailInfo OUT types.cursorType ) AS BEGIN OPEN mailInfo FOR SELECT count(*) AS msgCount FROM tblMail WHERE mIndividID = studentID AND mToType = 1 AND

Re: Cold Fusion and Oracle

2004-03-09 Thread Richard Crawford
, Richard Crawford wrote: Well, I altered the stored procedure as follows: = PROCEDURE test_dlc_sp_getStudentInfo ( studentID IN number ) as studentInfo types.cursorType; sFirst varchar2(50); sLast varchar2(50); sOrient char(1); begin open studentInfo

Re: Cold Fusion and Oracle

2004-03-09 Thread Richard Crawford
Janet, Thanks for the suggestion.I tried it, but continue to receive the unsupported data conversion error. This is getting mighty frustrating. Janet Schmitt wrote: I would try something like this for the Oracle portion: CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE schemaname.studentpackage IS TYPE

Re: Cold Fusion and Oracle

2004-03-09 Thread Richard Crawford
Stacy Young wrote: Perhaps I spoke too soon...I just remembered an unsolved mystery with our CF servers relating to an occasional JDBC error involving CF_SQL_NUMBER and a numeric field in oracle. Thanks for the tip! Stace Stace, How did you resolve the issue?I think I'm having

Re: Cold Fusion and Oracle

2004-03-09 Thread Richard Crawford
Janet Schmitt wrote: Richard - What is the format of the table tblStudentInfo?What are the datatypes specified for sFirst, sLast, sOrient and studentId? What is the CFSTOREDPROC code that was used to call this procedure? Janet. Janet, Here is the table definition:

Re: Cold Fusion and Oracle

2004-03-09 Thread Richard Crawford
sampath nellutla wrote: CFSTOREDPROC procedure= mySchema.myPackage.spl_proc_summary datasource=#request.datasource# Based on my own understanding, this line: cfprocparam cfsqltype=CF_SQL_REFCURSOR type=OUT is unnecessary in CFMX+. CFPROCRESULT NAME=rs1 /CFSTOREDPROC Now if only I could

Re: Cold Fusion and Oracle -- RESOLVED

2004-03-09 Thread Richard Crawford
Janet Schmitt wrote: 3.Remove the close cursor statement from the package body. Janet, Turns out that #3, above, was all that I needed to do.I feel kinda silly (why would I want to close the cursor if I wanted to read it later on?!!?), but now the thing works! Thank you very much! --

Re: CFMX with Oracle 9 or 10G?

2004-03-09 Thread Richard Crawford
bret wrote: Me again- The org I work for is currently running Oracle 8.1.7 and is looking to upgrade. The question now is how does the new 10G Oracle version run with CFMX, and does it require custom JDBC drivers. Anyone have experience with this? I'm assuming Oracle 9 runs jim dandy

Cold Fusion and Oracle

2004-03-08 Thread Richard Crawford
The endless issues go on.Sigh. Does anyone know of a very good resource detailing the issues involved with hooking Cold Fusion up to Oracle? -- Richard S. Crawford Programmer III, UC Davis Extension Distance Learning Group (http://unexdlc.ucdavis.edu) (916)327-7793 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Todays

Re: Cold Fusion and Oracle

2004-03-08 Thread Richard Crawford
Kristopher Pilles wrote: What kind of issues are ya having?I have use CF and oracle together extensively... perhaps i can help Kristopher, I've posted about my issues before, but I'll happily do so again.:) I have a stored procedure written in PL/SQL, which I'm attempting to call from Cold

Re: Cold Fusion and Oracle

2004-03-08 Thread Richard Crawford
Richard Crawford wrote: Kristopher Pilles wrote: What kind of issues are ya having?I have use CF and oracle together extensively... perhaps i can help Kristopher, I've posted about my issues before, but I'll happily do so again.:) I have a stored procedure written in PL/SQL, which

Re: Cold Fusion and Oracle

2004-03-08 Thread Richard Crawford
Dave Watts wrote: I have a stored procedure written in PL/SQL, which I'm attempting to call from Cold Fusion, but only errors are generated. Here is the stored procedure: Unfortunately, it didn't come through. But anyway, have you tried calling this stored procedure from SQL*Plus? How

Re: Cold Fusion and Oracle

2004-03-08 Thread Richard Crawford
Doug Keen wrote: I've had similar issues when migrating a CF/Oracle app from CF 4.5 to CF 6.1.During that adventure I found this resource: http://www.blinex.com/~sam/CF_SQL_TYPES.cfm This chart maps CF_SQL_TYPE's to types specific to different database platforms, including Oracle.In your

Re: Cold Fusion and Oracle

2004-03-08 Thread Richard Crawford
got the same error when I tried again. Nick Han [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/08/04 11:28AM Richard Crawford wrote: Kristopher Pilles wrote: What kind of issues are ya having?I have use CF and oracle together extensively... perhaps i can help Kristopher, I've posted about my issues

Re: Cold Fusion and Oracle

2004-03-08 Thread Richard Crawford
Doug Keen wrote: Is types.cursorType a REF CURSOR (not your plain-vanilla CURSOR)?If not, I think that may be another potential cause of your error... try changing types.cursorType to be a REF CURSOR and delete your FETCH ... INTO statement from the proc. Hm.It actually IS a REF CURSOR.I

Re: Cold Fusion and Oracle

2004-03-08 Thread Richard Crawford
Dave Watts wrote: I'll look into ViennaSQL.I currently use the free version of TOAD, which doesn't (as far as I can tell) allow me to test stored procedures. Well, the thing we want to test specifically is what happens when you call it through JDBC. I don't think TOAD uses JDBC. I

Re: Cold Fusion and Oracle

2004-03-08 Thread Richard Crawford
Adrocknaphobia wrote: Use SQL*Plus to test your procedures. Thanks.I've done so, and they both compile and run fine.It's where I'm trying to return the ref cursor to Cold Fusion that it stops working. -- Richard S. Crawford Programmer III, UC Davis Extension Distance Learning Group

Re: Cold Fusion and Oracle

2004-03-08 Thread Richard Crawford
Adrocknaphobia wrote: Sorry, missed the begining of the thread, why do you guys think its an issue with JDBC? Hi, Adam. This is the error message I've been receiving: Error Executing Database Query. [Macromedia][Oracle JDBC Driver]Unsupported data conversion. -- Richard S. Crawford

Re: Cold Fusion and Oracle

2004-03-08 Thread Richard Crawford
Well, I altered the stored procedure as follows: = PROCEDURE test_dlc_sp_getStudentInfo ( studentID IN number ) as studentInfo types.cursorType; sFirst varchar2(50); sLast varchar2(50); sOrient char(1); begin open studentInfo for select sFirst,

Re: Cold Fusion and Oracle

2004-03-08 Thread Richard Crawford
It yields this error: Variable GETNAME is undefined Rob wrote: what does cfdump var=#getName# yield? On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 15:25, Richard Crawford wrote: Well, I altered the stored procedure as follows: = PROCEDURE test_dlc_sp_getStudentInfo

Re: Can someone recommend a good web development browser?

2004-03-04 Thread Richard Crawford
Kevin Graeme wrote: I usually develop with IE on a PC, but I would really like a browser that shows me the *time* taken to request each object in a web request. Also, if it could show me the http headers of the request and response, that would be sweet. I've currently got a page thats

Re: Oracle and Cold Fusion

2004-03-02 Thread Richard Crawford
Deanna Schneider wrote: Have you tried using GenericCursorType for your cursor type? That works for me. (I can give you a sample stored proc that's working for me, if that would be helpful.) I'd appreciate that.I tried using GenericCursorType, and the SP would not compile, throwing this

Re: Oracle and Cold Fusion

2004-03-02 Thread Richard Crawford
Rob wrote: Did you figure out what datatype it is having problems with? i.e. only selecting one field at a time. Can it get just an int ok? All of the datatypes seem to match up just fine.I've gone out of my way to make them all match.If I remove the refcursor from the procedure call, then it

Number of files in a directory

2004-03-02 Thread Richard Crawford
If I'm right, then this code snippet.. = cfdirectory directory=#pDir1# action="" name=daList sort=name filter=les* cfset p = #daList.RecordCount# = would return to p the number of files in the

Re: Number of files in a directory - RESOLVED

2004-03-02 Thread Richard Crawford
Ben Doom wrote: Okay, yeah.That's way smarter than my suggestions.:-) --Ben Doom Nando wrote: Richard, I do this kind of stuff with a Q of Q, and it works well. cfdirectory returns a query. Maybe try that. Something like: cfdirectory directory=#pDir1# action="" name=daList cfquery

Trimming a string after last instance of / character

2004-03-02 Thread Richard Crawford
Given a string that contains a directory name (e.g., /var/www/html/files/classes/admin), what is the best way to trim all of the characters off the last instance of the / character? -- Richard S. Crawford Programmer III, UC Davis Extension Distance Learning Group (http://unexdlc.ucdavis.edu)

Re: Trimming a string after last instance of / character

2004-03-02 Thread Richard Crawford
Stevenson, Christopher wrote: Given a string that contains a directory name (e.g., /var/www/html/files/classes/admin), what is the best way to trim all of the characters off the last instance of the / character? listdeleteat(string, listlen(string, '/'), '/'); Or

Re: Trimming a string after last instance of / character - RESOLVED

2004-03-02 Thread Richard Crawford
This is what I used: cfset pathDir=#GetDirectoryFromPath(CGI.PATH_TRANSLATED)# cfset trimpathDir=listdeleteat(#pathDir#, listlen(#pathDir#,'/'), '/') / Adding the final / at the end turned out to be key. -- Richard S. Crawford Programmer III, UC Davis Extension Distance Learning Group

Oracle and Cold Fusion

2004-03-01 Thread Richard Crawford
Still having issues. Here is the Stored Procedure in question: == CREATE OR REPLACE procedure dlc_sp_getStudentInfo ( studentID IN number, studentInfo OUT types.cursorType ) as sFirst varchar2(50); sLast varchar2(50); sOrient char(1);

Re: Oracle and Cold Fusion

2004-03-01 Thread Richard Crawford
, then it gives an error telling me that the procresult is not defined. On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 16:38, Richard Crawford wrote: Still having issues. Here is the Stored Procedure in question: == CREATE OR REPLACE procedure dlc_sp_getStudentInfo

Re: Cold Fusion and Oracle Stored Procedures

2004-02-24 Thread Richard Crawford
Scott Brady wrote: Try swapping the last two cfprocparams.Assuming you're using CFMX, CFMX no longer uses the dbvarname attribute (at least for Oracle, not sure about other databases), so the order in which you provide the parameters needs to match the order they're defined in the

Re: Cold Fusion and Oracle Stored Procedures

2004-02-24 Thread Richard Crawford
Thomas Chiverton wrote: On Monday 23 Feb 2004 23:37 pm, Richard Crawford wrote: more disturbing indications that Oracle Stored Procedures do not return result sets. I am investigating this today / yesterday. Using cfprocresult works, with Oracle 9i and CFMX6.1 under weblogic, using

Re: Cold Fusion and Oracle Stored Procedures

2004-02-24 Thread Richard Crawford
Thomas Chiverton wrote: Solution: Use native CFMX drivers. Which is a shame :-( I dunno if it's worth putting in on the wish list... I figured out to return a ref cursor, and this appears to return a result set fine.However, now I'm getting an error reading, [Oracle JDBC Driver]Unsupported

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