Michael Tangorre asked:
> Can anyone think of a way that I can achieve a pause for like 30
> seconds to a minute between iterations in a loop?
This question gets asked quite a bit, so I figured I'd forward my
alternative.
Elapsed: #Elapsed#ms
It's nicer p
I can think of several different ways, each with their own pros and
cons. Instead of thinking in terms of when a Session *has timed out*,
think in terms of when a Session *will time out*.
1. Update your DB with the current time {NOW()} plus your session
timeout length every time the user hits a
I've run up against IIS's wonderful inability to correctly parse virtual
paths before, but this one has me stumped. If I have a folder
"test.com" on my web server (a domain name for a client's site we are
working on), any CF files that are under the directory with the ".com"
in the name are all p
I wrote a CFX tag that parses out ID3v2 tags, but it is more
Prrof-of-Concept that production-quality. It comes with full source, so
you are welcome to hack on it to do what you want.
http://www.rixsoft.com/ColdFusion/CFX/MP3Dir/
HTH,
-R
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From: VAN VLIET, SCOTT E (S
Whoops. That last one was from me. Sorry about that, folks. I think I
pasted Michael's email into the From field instead of the CC field. Didn't
want anyone to think I was trying to pull a fast one or anything ...
-R
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED
We're looking to add some verbiage/copy to our licensing agreements that
says something to the effect of "decrypting any encrypted templates violates
the terms of this license". Our management-types want it to sound more
authoritative (and nastier) than that. Does anyone have anything in their
l
Jeffry Houser said:
> I don't see much use beyond "A way to avoid sending
> parameters to custom tags." Unless I'm mistaken the
> only difference between the variables scope and the
> request scope is that variables in the request scope
> are available to custom tags.
Actually, I just thought
Ron Anderson asked:
> Has anyone reached the point of frustration with CFGraph,
> where they've just built their own?
I did, but I did it in Perl with the GD module.
http://www.rickosborne.org/<-- Look at the Insomniograph for an example
I've got a coworker here who says his friend built a
Kay Smoljak asked:
>> Also, the other recommendation was to get the web server
>> to handle this. I will be on IIS5 on Win2K, on shared
>> hosting, but my host is usually quite accomodating when
>> it comes to setting things up for me.
To which Dave Watts replied:
> You might be able to do some
Mark Smeets asked:
> When dealing with databases, how do you name your columns?
Personally, I use the following structure, but I don't really have any
rationale for it.
foo_id int
foo_dt datetime
foo_d date
is_foo boolean
foo_tx string (could be char, or varchar,
I set up a music server for our Intranet a few months ago and wrote a CFX
tag and a really quick-n-simple browser interface for it. (For those whom
using a file interface was too difficult. :p~~~ ) It uses IceCast running
on a Linux server, but it could just as easily use NFS or SMB or whatever
Dave recommended using a single variable:
:
:
:
:
:
:
Actually, you could take this one step further and make it pretty
transparent:
#fname#,#lname#
Then, your CF_SaveFileContent tag is really simple:
You can do pretty much *anything* you want in that first set of tags.
Ou
That solution will only work in Perl. The CF regex engine cannot handle
non-greedy matching. If you do more than a little work with regexes you may
want to consider downloading my (completely free) PCRegEx CFX tag, which
gives CF Server Perl-Compatible regexes, including non-greedy matching.
URL
Jordie Fike asked:
> Is there somewhere to go to get popular custom tags that
> have been ported over to run on Solaris? Does anyone have
> a URL that might point me in the right direction?
AOL
I don't have a solution for you, however I sincerely hope you do find one.
If you do, please let m
Alex wrote:
> Then this has nothing to do with coldfusion. Your webserver
> handles this. IIS has compression and Apache has mod_gzip
> as a compressor.
Actually, theoretically, you *could* do this with CF. Use CFHEADER to
return the correct Content-Encoding (or Transfer-Encodeing) header and t
You may want to look into the "Content-Encoding" HTTP header. Your web
server can actually compress the text file on the fly, and if your web
browser is smart enough to accept it you will accomplish exactly what you
are looking for. I think IIS5 has an ISAPI filter that does this
automagically.
Don Vawter wrote:
> Pardon me for being naive but isnt it a lot easier to just
> combine regex and regular find trying to match a substring
> like this?
> [...]
> If find regex invaluable but sometimes combining with a plain
> old find makes my life simpler.
Very, very true. There's more than o
I know it looks nasty, but this is what I came up with:
]+textline\.cfm[^>[:space:]]*([[:space:]]+[^M][^A=]?
[^X=]?[^H=]?[^S=]?[^I=]?[^Z=]?[^E=]?[_[:alnum:]]*=("[^"]*"|[^>[:space:]]*))+
[[:space:]]*>
I used the following test cases:
It correctly found the 3 lines that do *not* have the M
Don Vawter asked:
> Any advice on storing credit card info?
We're pretty radical about our beliefs on CC#'s: We don't keep them
*anywhere*. We keep the last 4 digits and the CC type, and that's it. The
CC# gets immediately PGP encrypted [1] and emailed to our processing center,
where it is sto
Lee Fuller asked:
> Ok.. I've tried just about every way I know of to escape
> this puppy (the "]" character) so that I can search for it
> in a string using REFindNoCase.
In a character class, you have to make the right bracket the first
character:
[]whatevr]+
-R
Jim-
I can't help you with your first problem, (and it looks like some people
already have) but I may be able to help you with your second.
>
> SELECT table1.*, table2.something
> FROM table1 INNER JOIN table2 ON table2.key1 = table1.key1
> WHERE table1.id = #somevalue#
>
> gives an error:
> [
Chris Norloff asked:
> The question is whether to use Val() or IsNumeric to prevent
> non-numeric characters from being inserted/updated to the
> database. I know this is an individual choice based on your
> own need, but I'm curious what others use.
> Val() or IsNumeric?
Personally, I use IsNume
What would be really useful to me would be the ability to asynchronously
thread sections of my CF code. So, here's my recommendation. If I can get
some feedback from y'all, then I'll throw it at the development team at
Allaire/Macromedia and see what they think of it. I wish I'd thought to do
t
Maybe something like:
It's not perfect, but it worked on a couple of really rudimentary tests I
just ran.
-R
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From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 17:37
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: find inputs with no maxlength
> Does anyone know
How are you summing the data? Is it coming from a query? One of the hacks
I use quote a bit is basically a one-line QuerySum() function:
I tend to find it takes a fraction of the time that looping over the query
does.
If your situation is a bit more complex, you may want to consider using a
Brian Ferrigno said:
> the code does work by creating a deadlock for the session
Deadlock, not race condition. Quite right. Too many Krispy Kremes for me.
Point being, it blocks and *does not* spike your processor or anything lame
like that. The only downside is that it blocks all other locks
Brian Ferrigno asked:
> What would be the best way to dealy the execution of a cf
> tamplate by x amount of seconds?
Simplest way:
Elapsed: #Elapsed#ms
Of course, this will lock your entire session. Anything else trying to
obtain a lock in that sessionwi
Tom Muck said:
> That would be good for small jobs, but I need to take jobs
> of 400,000
Actually, the system I described works on jobs of ~200,000 mails. I think
we run ~20,000 mails per hour, if memory serves. Yeah, that would take 20
hours to process your list of 400,000, but then that's th
I said:
>> We had a similar problem and got around it by making our code smart
enough
>> to only spool mail if there is less than 200 files in the spool
directory.
>> Otherwise, it waits a minute and tries again. Sure, you may not be
getting
>> optimal efficiency out of your mail spool, but you'
Tom muck said:
> Unfortunately, ColdFusion doesn't give us the option to split the
> spool directory into mulitple directories, so the server will
> automatically write all the spool files out to that directory up to
> 65,535 files before crapping out. Then it only sifts through them at
> the rat
Jason asked:
>That's the problem - I need to keep it flexible to accommodate any
>number of levels because I want to output a tree illustrating the
>hierarchy:
>I think I've heard someone talking about "self-joins" but am not sure
>how they'd work and whether they'd be flexible enough - anyone h
Paris Lundis asked:
> in order to get the clueless cat to work with the cold fusion app,
> do I only need to install the cue cat software? Or is there something
> else instead to use...
You don't even need that much. Actually, I think installing (and running)
their software would probably interf
Back when CueCats were all the rage, I wrote a CF app that would take the
input from it, decode it, and do neat things with the UPC. Being the geek
that I am, I didn't have much use for it beyond cataloguing my (comic)
books. But, it all really depends on your scanning hardware. The CueCat is
a
Chad Gray asked:
> When using a tag on a table how do i get every other
> to have a background color?
My favorite way:
.evenrow { background-color: silver; }
.oddrow { background-color: gray; }
#CurrentRow#
This allows me to define any styles I want in the STYLE part, including
back
pport resources, visit:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/
For Customer Service and all Macromedia contacts, visit:
http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/index_contact.fhtml
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From: Rick Osborne [Mojo] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 11:39
To: CF-T
Brian Yager asked:
> My management is sick of Microsoft Project and wants to find another
> project management tool.
Actually, this may not be as OT as you think. I got this email the other
day. I haven't had a chance to check it out yet, so I can't give you any
recommendations, but it might be
Billy Cravens said:
> There's no telling what's running [on the Allaire site]. I know it's
> a different system, but about a month ago I hit the beta.allaire.com
> forums, and it crashed, and [...] I got a standard Access database error!
Speaking of which ... I think this raises an interesting p
Tom said:
>Basically you're saying that it's an option now but the next
>worm may be able to circumvent this as well using
>simple reverse DNS lookup.
Yes and no. We can get away with it because we are using pure virtual
hosting. If someone does a reverse lookup of our primary server they get a
Rick OsborneI realize this is a bit off-topic, but ...
I spent a few hours last week going through logs in an attempt to analyze
how much we were affected by Code Red, even though we were never actually
vulnerable. (We have a guy here who is a patch zealot.) I was just curious
to see how many t
This works for me:
Replace: #(Form.[[:alnum:]_]+)#
With: #Trim(\1)#
Of course, if you want it to handle more complex scenarios (Functions,
Structures, etc), you'll have to do a bit of tweaking.
-R
P.S. - Regexs under CF suck!
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From: Mark W. Breneman [mailto:[EM
Tim Dempsey asked:
> How do I take that data and get it into Excel on the client's machine?
We had to do something like this last month (with Doughnut charts instead of
Pie charts, but it's close enough). I never could get it to work 100% in
CF, as Excel wouldn't honor my Quit() command and woul
Strike that, I found it:
http://www.cfcomet.com/cfcomet/excel/
-R
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From: Rick Osborne [Mojo] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 20:05
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subjec
This URL seems to be toasty. Does anyone happen to know where it might have
been moved to?
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From: Simon Horwith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 17:11
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Excel Charts
go to: http://www.cfm-resources.com/members/comet/
FYI, I wrote an ISAPI DLL for IIS to do pretty much exactly what Steve talks
about at the end there. It is completely free and comes with source. It is
available at:
http://www.rixsoft.com/NWAuth/
Of course, it means that IIS does the authentication instead of CF, but that
may be good or bad d
Something like this will probably work for you:
This will deal with the case of having non-alphanumeric tag attributes in
random order.
-Rick
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From: Christopher S Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 12:25
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Finding a
I said:
>>
>>
>>
>>
To which Dave said:
> You can do this in 4.5.x with StructInsert. If you specify a fourth
> argument, you can allow it to both insert and update:
>
Ummm, not quite. It'd be more like:
But, you can't do that because the StructFind() will fail if var is not
alread
Is there documentation anywhere on what some of these enhancements (will)
do? Just looking at the function names, I have a few questions. The beta
site seems to have a definite paucity of information in this respect, but
maybe I'm just not finding it. (Yes, yes, I know, it's beta so the
functio
Christopher S Martin asked:
> How well does ColdFuison support Regular Expressions?
Ah, the topic has come 'round again. :) This question gets asked about
once a month, so I guess it was time again. :) But, if no one asked it,
then I wouldn't have an excuse to plug my CFX tag.
Ahem-hem.
Th
Easiest way? Recycle your new "Top 10" query as a subquery.
SELECT student_pop
FROM table1
WHERE student_pop NOT IN (
SELECT top 10 student_pop
FROM table1
ORDER BY whatever
)
-Rick
-Original Message-
From: Jim Watkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 22:
Does anyone have MS SQL Server connectivity running on Solaris? I know that
Merant has a Linux driver for MSSS, but I wasn't able to find a parallel for
Solaris. I was also thinking I could just use the Informix Sybase drivers
(hello, same codeline, and it works in Win32), but that went bottoms-
It's the Cayley-Purser Algorithm for encryption. See:
http://www.cayley-purser.ie/
I thought this was a broken algorithm? Yes, no?
As for translating it to CF, why? Why not just use RSA or Twofish or DES?
(Or, if you want to be really topical, use Rijndael. (sp?)) The patent for
RSA is ove
I've wrapped up initial work on CFX_PCRegEx and am freezing the code for
everything except bug fixes. It now does everything the REFind, REReplace,
and their case-insensitive equivalents do, and more. It's primary objective
is to support perl-style regexes, which it does exceedingly well.
CFX_P
I thought about going the COM object route, but that's more of a pain than
it's worth at this point. Maybe eventually. As for CORBA, I've never done
any CORBA programming. I'll have to look into it.
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From: Jared Clinton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, Sept
(This may be OT, as I'm not sure what the list's policy is on this kind of
thing, but I'm just tryin' to help, so I'll give it a shot.)
In light of the vast number of questions we get on the list about the
brokenness of the regular expression engine in CF, I've created a CFX tag
that uses the PCR
I noticed that 4.5.1 does this. I fiddled with tags all over the place, and making sure that I
never called a module from withing CFOUTPUT tags, and that seems to have
cleared it up. I don't know specifically what did it, though. I'm just
letting you know that you're not crazy, as it is indeed
Someone going by the nym "Hydra" said:
>I continue to be mystified by these kinds of discussions. Would
>someone take a moment to explain this phenomenon?
Kindly.
>If someone really writes a "FreeCF" and the Allaire Corp. goes
>down the tubes, then will we really all be better off?
What what?
Allaire gets how many thousand dollars per copy of CF? Do we *really* think
they're going to GPL (or even just OpenSource) it any time soon? I'm naive,
but I'm not *that* naive. :)
I've often pondered the feasibility of writing a "FreeCF" of some sort.
(More and more lately, actually.) Of cou
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