RE: just noticed this when validating email

2005-03-29 Thread Rick Faircloth
not to know how to do it, they're usually no good at writing beginners' tutorials... Rick -Original Message- From: Rebecca Wells [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 5:30 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: just noticed this when validating email Rick: JavaScript will elevate the low

RE: just noticed this when validating email

2005-03-29 Thread Micha Schopman
- -Original Message- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: dinsdag 29 maart 2005 16:04 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: just noticed this when validating email You're right...customers do expect more...I'm trying to keep up! (Somewhat :o) (Still using CF 4.5.2! :o) I wish I could find more

RE: just noticed this when validating email

2005-03-29 Thread Rick Faircloth
To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: just noticed this when validating email There are enough people willing to help you. If you want some guidance with javascript and truly want to invest some time in it, just ask. I am not a writer but passionate enough to ramble about it for hours. Micha Schopman Project

RE: just noticed this when validating email

2005-03-29 Thread Rick Faircloth
Hey, I forgot to add...I do appreciate the offer and just might take you up on it! Rick -Original Message- From: Micha Schopman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 10:09 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: just noticed this when validating email There are enough people

Re: just noticed this when validating email

2005-03-29 Thread Rebecca Wells
-Original Message- From: Rebecca Wells [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 5:30 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: just noticed this when validating email Rick: JavaScript will elevate the low-level work you currently do now to more professional, full-featured applications that users

RE: just noticed this when validating email

2005-03-29 Thread Rick Faircloth
Thanks for the advice and encouragement, Rebecca! :o) Rick -Original Message- From: Rebecca Wells [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 1:01 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: just noticed this when validating email Start by picking up the Visual Quickstart Guide

Re: just noticed this when validating email

2005-03-28 Thread Rebecca Wells
! Rick -Original Message- From: Barney Boisvert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 2:56 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: just noticed this when validating email Yeah, the file fields was me too. You don't do a server request, you do it all client-side with javascript. I

RE: just noticed this when validating email

2005-03-28 Thread Matt Osbun
Rick- yes, there is a Javascript For Dummies. I first encountered JavaScript using Thau's JavaScript Tutorial at Webmonkey. Might want to give it a try- it's a good first brush kind of thing. http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/programming/javascript/tutorials/tu torial1.html Matt Osbun Web

RE: just noticed this when validating email

2005-03-28 Thread Rick Faircloth
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 12:16 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: just noticed this when validating email Rick, I understand where you're coming from. Years ago I really struggled with learning Javascript. I hated it and really resisted it, but realized that it is an inescapably

Re: just noticed this when validating email

2005-03-28 Thread Joe Rinehart
cfif getquery.theID EQ blablah do this /cfif The same thing in JS goes somethin like this. if (getquery.theId == blablah) { doThis(); } Seems similar to me :) Symbollic language is powerful in that it gives those who speak it a common vocabulary that lets them express like ideas without

RE: just noticed this when validating email

2005-03-28 Thread Rick Faircloth
Thanks, Matt...I'll check it out. Rick -Original Message- From: Matt Osbun [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 1:35 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: just noticed this when validating email Rick- yes, there is a Javascript For Dummies. I first encountered JavaScript using

RE: just noticed this when validating email

2005-03-28 Thread Rick Faircloth
PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 1:40 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: just noticed this when validating email cfif getquery.theID EQ blablah do this /cfif The same thing in JS goes somethin like this. if (getquery.theId == blablah) { doThis(); } Seems similar to me :) Symbollic

Re: just noticed this when validating email

2005-03-28 Thread Rebecca Wells
Rick: JavaScript will elevate the low-level work you currently do now to more professional, full-featured applications that users have come to expect. Certainly, you must want to know how to make your web pages more dymamic and your forms more secure and accurate, yes? Perhaps you'd like to be

Re: just noticed this when validating email

2005-03-27 Thread Will Tomlinson
But Will... JS is client-side, and CF is server-side... The whole universe could convert to CF (and I'd probably be out of a job!) and we'd still need JS or something like it (unless, with the mass conversion, MM created a CF-based browser that could use CF With all due respect you missed my

Re: just noticed this when validating email

2005-03-27 Thread Jared Rypka-Hauer - CMG, LLC
I do see your point... and further, I still disagree... With all due respect, is the AND comparison operator. And == is the IS comparison operator. My point was that JS isn't all that hard to read and write once you learn it. My new point is that if all languages were as easy to write as CF,

Re: just noticed this when validating email

2005-03-27 Thread Jared Rypka-Hauer - CMG, LLC
Typos, typos... i=i+1, for one... not i=1+1. And as far as preferring the JS-style syntax in cfscript, it's a style thing. It looks better and is less cluttered... I definitely use more tag-style code than cfscript, but I also use cfscript wherever I can simply to produce cleaner, more readable

RE: just noticed this when validating email

2005-03-27 Thread Adrian Lynch
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 March 2005 19:14 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: just noticed this when validating email I do see your point... and further, I still disagree... With all due respect, is the AND comparison operator. And == is the IS comparison operator. My point was that JS isn't all that hard

RE: just noticed this when validating email

2005-03-27 Thread Dave Watts
With all due respect you missed my point. Or maybe I didn't make it clear. It wasnt to get rid of JS, but rather for it to written as easily as CF. CF makes sense. cfif getquery.theID EQ blablah do this /cfif The same thing in JS goes somethin like this. for (i=0;ig.length;i++)

Re: just noticed this when validating email

2005-03-27 Thread Sean Corfield
On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 05:46:26 -0400, Will Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, so I exaggerated, but who's the numb skull that came up with ++ and ?? And ==? Kernighan and Ritchie, when they invented C I think. But there are far worse syntactic monstrosities out there. C++ has a delightful

Re: just noticed this when validating email

2005-03-27 Thread Will Tomlinson
Learnin alot here from you guys. But there *must* be quite a few of us that don't like JS, don't take the time to write it ourselves because it takes much longer than writing: cfinput name=search type=text required=yes message=Please enter a search term I use that one all the time. lol

RE: just noticed this when validating email

2005-03-27 Thread Dave Watts
But there *must* be quite a few of us that don't like JS, don't take the time to write it ourselves because it takes much longer than writing: cfinput name=search type=text required=yes message=Please enter a search term I use that one all the time. lol In exchange for having

just noticed this when validating email

2005-03-26 Thread Will Tomlinson
I know this one is a little obvious, but I hadn't thought about it until I tried it. I let users enter an email address or multiple emails separated by commas to send and item to a friend. If I validate the email address using cfinput, you can't enter more than one email. If you do, you get

Re: just noticed this when validating email

2005-03-26 Thread Barney Boisvert
Just have one field per email address, and a button/link next to the field that will dynamically add some more fields for more email addresses. That way people can add as many emails as they want, but each one will be a separate field for validation and processsing. cheers, barneyb On Sat, 26

RE: just noticed this when validating email

2005-03-26 Thread Rick Faircloth
] Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 1:34 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: just noticed this when validating email Just have one field per email address, and a button/link next to the field that will dynamically add some more fields for more email addresses. That way people can add as many emails as they want

Re: just noticed this when validating email

2005-03-26 Thread Barney Boisvert
Yeah, the file fields was me too. You don't do a server request, you do it all client-side with javascript. I didn't test this, but here's the general idea: script type=text/javascript window.emailFieldCount = 1; function addField() { var div = document.getElementById(fieldContainer);

RE: just noticed this when validating email

2005-03-26 Thread Rick Faircloth
] Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 2:56 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: just noticed this when validating email Yeah, the file fields was me too. You don't do a server request, you do it all client-side with javascript. I didn't test this, but here's the general idea: script type=text/javascript

Re: just noticed this when validating email

2005-03-26 Thread Barney Boisvert
Flash != RIA, and RIA != Flash. Flash does happen to be one of the more common means of building RIAs, but it's not the only one. I don't really have any good JS howtos to point you at. I'm always a fan of books for hard-core concept learning, so I'd check out your local book store. cheers,

Re: just noticed this when validating email

2005-03-26 Thread Will Tomlinson
Flash != RIA, and RIA != Flash. Flash does happen to be one of the more common means of building RIAs, but it's not the only one. I don't really have any good JS howtos to point you at. I'm always a fan of books for hard-core concept learning, so I'd check out your local book store. This is

Re: just noticed this when validating email

2005-03-26 Thread Jared Rypka-Hauer - CMG, LLC
But Will... JS is client-side, and CF is server-side... The whole universe could convert to CF (and I'd probably be out of a job!) and we'd still need JS or something like it (unless, with the mass conversion, MM created a CF-based browser that could use CF client-side too). JS is a C++ or