RE: Limiting RSS Records
Just change you loop to loop from 1 to your page limit instead of
#item_length#. Then you'd have to handle the paging though.
-Original Message-
From: Steve LaBadie [mailto:slaba...@po-box.esu.edu]
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 12:04 PM
To: cf-talk
Subject: Limiting RSS Records
I am pulling an RSS feed from a 3rd party events calendar and want to
limit how many events show on a page. The only control I have at the
moment is to set the day_count which is currently set to 2. Any
help/guidance would be appreciated.
Here is my code:
cfhttp
url=http://esuevents.admin.esu.edu/r25ws/wrd/run/hot_event.xml?day_coun
t=2otransform=RSSHotEvents.xsl method=get/cfhttp
cfset objRSS = xmlParse(cfhttp.filecontent) /
cfset Item_Length = arraylen(objRSS.rss.channel.item) /
cfloop index=i from=1 to=#Item_Length# step=1
cftry
p class=eventsspan class=newstitle
a class=eventlink a
onClick=javascript:window.open('cfoutput#objRSS.rss.channel.item[i].l
ink.xmltext#/cfoutput','Event','height=450,width=625,toolbar=no,menuba
r=no,status=no,location=no,directories=no,titlebar=no,resizable=yes,scro
llbars=yes'); return false; href=cfoutput
#objRSS.rss.channel.item[i].link.xmltext# /cfoutput
cfset pubdate = #objRSS.rss.channel.item[i].date.xmltext# /
cfset date = #DateFormat(date,mm/dd/)# /
cfoutput #date# /cfoutputbr /
cfoutput #objRSS.rss.channel.item[i].title.xmltext# /cfoutput
/a/spanbr /
cfoutput #objRSS.rss.channel.item[i].space.xmltext#/cfoutput
br /strong|/strong a href=cfoutput
#objRSS.rss.channel.item[i].link.xmltext# /cfoutput
class=eventlinkmore/a/p
cfcatch type=any/cfcatch
/cftry
/cfloop
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RE: Googlebot got me good last night...
I see you got a bunch of answers already and hopefully have solved your problem. However, I wanted to share with everyone a problem we had. We had a site that appended CFID and CFTOKEN on an older site that was using CF5 or 6 (I honestly can't remember at this point). A user had the google toolbar installed that reported links they visited back to Google. Well, the link it reported included CFID and CFTOKEN. Typically, this would timeout before the googlebot started crawling but in this instance it happened before the timeout. What screwed up royally was that the developer did NOT use buttons for deleting records but instead used links. My understanding in talking with some Google reps is that the google-bot does not click submit buttons, but it does follow all links. Needless to say, the google-bot deleted all of the records where that was the case in this app. So, as an added precaution, use input type=button or input type=image but do not use a href=... on any links that you wouldn't want a bot or something to follow. Obviously, a robots.txt should also be added to limit what you want bots to crawl but I figured I'd share that frustrating story to possibly help others. John -Original Message- From: Les Mizzell [mailto:lesm...@bellsouth.net] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 3:10 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Googlebot got me good last night... This happened on a small site with a user admin system that's password protected. Seems Googlebot managed to get into the admin system last night, started crawling admin pages, and ended up munging half the database: 1. Clicking archive or mark inactive buttons on admin area index pages 2. In a few cases, actually seemed to SUBMIT a form, updating data. I'm still scratching my head over how Googlebot got into the admin system to start with. It looks legit from the logs. The IP address, user-agent and everything else checks out. Luckily, this isn't a mission-critical site, and database backups are done nightly, but now it's got me worried for other sites. Googlebot has *never* caused any problems with password protected admin systems before, my robots.txt file usually excludes the admin folder (and you can be sure I'm checking the ones I'm not sure about right now) and the login stuff I use I thought was pretty standard. My login code is below. Tell me I'm a complete idiot. So, 1. Anybody else have this problem recently? 2. I'm an idiot I guess, how *should* I be doing my login systems? (One site on CF8, others still CF7) 4. If you're doing anything like I am, then maybe we're *all* idiots at this point and need to redo our login pages to use whatever somebody much smarter than I says to do in #2 above. - Application.cfm page for the admin folder: - !--- Define that this user is logged out by default --- CFPARAM NAME=session.allowin DEFAULT=false !--- Define this user id to zero by default --- CFPARAM NAME=session.user_id DEFAULT=0 !--- If the variable session.allowin does not equal true, send user to the login page --- cfif session.allowin neq true cfif ListLast(CGI.SCRIPT_NAME, /) EQ ../admin_login.cfm cfelseif ListLast(CGI.SCRIPT_NAME, /) EQ login_process.cfm cfelse !--- Not logged in, alert user and redirect --- script !---alert(You must login to access this area!);--- self.location=../admin_login.cfm; /script /cfif /cfif - login_process page: - **QUERY TO CHECK USER/PASS HERE cfif Verify.RecordCount !--- logged in ... set the value of the session.allowin value --- cfset session.allowin = True / cfset session.user_id = Verify.id / script self.location=idx_admin.cfm; /script cfelse !--- not logged in, redirect to the login page --- script alert(Your credentials could not be verified, please try again!!!); self.location=../admin_login.cfm; /script /cfif ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:319691 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: SmarterStats API
Try cfdump var=#getinfo# -Original Message- From: Jeff Becker [mailto:jpbec...@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 4:12 PM To: cf-talk Subject: SmarterStats API Hello everyone, I am having trouble with the SmarterStats API and utilizing ColdFusion to gather stats. I have successfully made the call and am getting the results back. However, I think because my return of complex type(??), I'm not sure how to interpret/display the results. Based on the minimal documentation, I was hoping to get back. QueryItem Visits id=123 89 id=124 52 id=125 5 The code I have is below. The cfdumps give back just ugly object of com.smartertools.smarterstats.query.ExecuteQueryResponseExecuteQueryResu lt OBJECTS.. not very useful. The attempt below is what I tried in traversing these objects. See code below. Any ideas? cfset query=select * from ftopqueriesbypage(1,'2008-09-08T00:00:00','2008-09-09T00:00:00',20,'/vie wArticle.cfm') order by Visits desc cfinvoke webservice =http://MYSITE.com:/services/query.asmx?wsdl; method =ExecuteQuery returnVariable = getinfo cfinvokeargument name=authUserName value=USERNAME/ cfinvokeargument name=authPassword value=PASSWORD/ cfinvokeargument name=AuthorizationCode value=WEBSERVICES_AUTH_CODE/ cfinvokeargument name=SiteID value=1/ cfinvokeargument name=query value=#query#/ /cfinvoke !---cfdump var=#getinfo#--- cfset a = getinfo.get_any() !---cfdump var=#a#--- cfloop index=x from=1 to=#arrayLen(a)# cfoutput#x# - #a[x].toString()# - - BRBR/cfoutput /cfloop ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:316659 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: LDAP Query Performance question
Mike- When you do this is this a loop that runs 5500 queries or 1 query that updates 5500 records? Just curious what the impact is for each connection. John -Original Message- From: Dawson, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 3:45 PM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: LDAP Query Performance question Oh, by the way, regarding my earlier message. We have about 5,500 accounts that I update on a daily basis. Performance isn't really an issue, however, I have plans to cut this down from taking several minutes, to just a few dozen seconds. Mike -Original Message- From: Burns, John D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 12:03 PM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: LDAP Query Performance question It's just a nightly task but it may have 300-400 results each time it runs. I don't think it'll bring down the house or anything it just brought up the question to see if there was a more elegant way of doing it. ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:314769 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
RE: LDAP Query Performance question
See, I'm doing the opposite. I'm getting a list of accounts from a SQL database and trying to then perform a read query to get those user accounts from AD. However, I can't find an elegant way to do that in 1 query so I'm looping over my results and doing individual queries to the AD for each account. I'm definitely looking into this AD/SQL linking which I had never heard of before. Thanks for the help! John -Original Message- From: Dawson, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 10:27 AM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: LDAP Query Performance question My current process is to query AD using CFLDAP. That returns about 5,500 user objects. Then, I loop over those results and perform a CFQUERY to a SQL 2005 database. Our SQL server is pretty beefy, so we haven't had any performance issues. My goal of this process is to compare names, titles, phones, addresses, etc, from AD to the daily-updated information in SQL. If any one of the data attributes is different, then I perform an LDAP update to refresh that particular user object. It does take a few minutes to run, however, I have found a faster method of connecting AD directly to SQL Server. When I get some time, I'm going to rewrite this process to actually join AD and the SQL table and compare the data in one swoop rather than thousands of swoops. Then, I will be able to schedule this as a SQL job and take the full load of of ColdFusion. Until then, it doesn't hurt a thing. Mike -Original Message- From: Burns, John D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 9:19 AM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: LDAP Query Performance question Mike- When you do this is this a loop that runs 5500 queries or 1 query that updates 5500 records? Just curious what the impact is for each connection. John ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:314771 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
LDAP Query Performance question
I have a query of a SQL table that returns to me a bunch of usernames. From that, I need to query some information out of Active Directory for each user. Right now I have it looping over each row in the result from the SQL query and doing a separate LDAP query to the AD. This just doesn't seem like the best way to do things. Does anyone know if there's a syntax within LDAP querying of the AD to do something like an IN keyword where I could give the whole list of usernames I want to query and get a single result set back from one query instead of doing individual queries? There's no commonality amongst the user accounts in the AD except for the fact that their usernames are all in this external SQL table. Let me know if you have any ideas. Or maybe the single LDAP queries aren't as intensive as bad as what I'm thinking. I just know I always try to avoid multiple queries in SQL whenever possible. Here's the syntax I'm using now when querying the AD: cfldap action=QUERY name=GetEmployeeIDByUsername attributes=cn,displayName,givenName,extensionAttribute1 start=dc=domain,dc=com scope=subtree filter=((objectCategory=Person)(cn=#myQuery.username#)) server=domaincontroller.mydomain.com username=#ADUsername# password=#ADPassword# Thanks in advance for any help. ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:314679 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
RE: LDAP Query Performance question
It's just a nightly task but it may have 300-400 results each time it runs. I don't think it'll bring down the house or anything it just brought up the question to see if there was a more elegant way of doing it. -Original Message- From: Tom Chiverton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 12:51 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: LDAP Query Performance question On Friday 31 Oct 2008, Burns, John D wrote: I have a query of a SQL table that returns to me a bunch of usernames. From that, I need to query some information out of Active Directory for each user. Right now I have it looping over each row in the result from Firstly, how many is a bunch, how up-to-date does the result for each need to be,and how often is the AD data updated (and how) ? It maybe you can just cache the result, or have the new data for a person pushed to you. -- Tom Chiverton Helping to efficiently incentivize visionary intuitive six-generation environments This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at Halliwells LLP, 3 Hardman Square, Spinningfields, Manchester, M3 3EB. A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP. Regulated by The Solicitors Regulation Authority. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 2500. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com. ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:314684 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
RE: Load testing software for website with AD integrated authenti cation
How exactly do you record this? Is it a cookie that's set or do you need a network traffic sniffer to pick up whatever header is being passed? How often do the tokens or whatever is passed get changed? I'm assuming each time you login there's something that gets set? -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 5:27 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Load testing software for website with AD integrated authenti cation We're having some serious trouble with an internal website that uses IIS pass-through authentication that logs you in automatically based on the user you're logged into your computer as. The problem is, I can't find any load testing apps that will test a site with that type of login. My thinking is that it doesn't exist because it would have to spoof to AD authentication which shouldn't be able to be done or it defeats the purpose of that type of security. Can anyone confirm this or point us toward a product that does it? I know most work with form authentication and cookies and such but none seem to do pass-through. I'm not interested in other solutions for debugging the code and finding the slow parts as we are unable to do that for contractual reasons. Thanks for your help. Almost any load testing tool will do this. There's nothing specific to AD here, you simply have to record your browser session from an authenticated machine. The credentials are just another HTTP request header. 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 Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:309571 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
RE: Load testing software for website with AD integrated authenti cation
Any suggestions on a tool like this? We haven't invested in anything yet so I'm willing to take suggestions. Just looking to find the right tool. -Original Message- From: James Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 9:25 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Load testing software for website with AD integrated authenti cation Your load testing tool, if it's worth anything, should come with a browser proxy that records everything you do and provides a script you can then edit and to which you can add username/password pairs from a text file. On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Burns, John D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How exactly do you record this? Is it a cookie that's set or do you need a network traffic sniffer to pick up whatever header is being passed? How often do the tokens or whatever is passed get changed? I'm assuming each time you login there's something that gets set? -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 5:27 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Load testing software for website with AD integrated authenti cation -- mxAjax / CFAjax docs and other useful articles: http://www.bifrost.com.au/blog/ ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:309583 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
SOT: Load testing software for website with AD integrated authentication
We're having some serious trouble with an internal website that uses IIS pass-through authentication that logs you in automatically based on the user you're logged into your computer as. The problem is, I can't find any load testing apps that will test a site with that type of login. My thinking is that it doesn't exist because it would have to spoof to AD authentication which shouldn't be able to be done or it defeats the purpose of that type of security. Can anyone confirm this or point us toward a product that does it? I know most work with form authentication and cookies and such but none seem to do pass-through. I'm not interested in other solutions for debugging the code and finding the slow parts as we are unable to do that for contractual reasons. Thanks for your help. John ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:309541 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: Anything wrong with this code?
Just a quick glance but could you do something like: Insert into properties(mls_number) Values(select mls_number from table where whatever) I think that's the syntac but you may not need the values piece. I can't remember off hand but I've done combined insert/select statements like that before and it basically inserts a row for each row it selects. Does that make sense? The other thing you could do is a Query of a query before you do the loop and weed it out so you only have the criteria you want coming into the loop. Hope that helps. John -Original Message- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 11:57 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Anything wrong with this code? Kind of a dumb thing I'm trying to do...trying to combine an insert statement with a where clause. I think I need another approach. Back to the drawing board... Rick -Original Message- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 11:40 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Anything wrong with this code? (Simplified version... MySQL 5) cfloop query='get_hmls_commercial_data' cfquery name='insert_data' datasource='x' insert into properties (mls_number) values (cfqueryparam cfsqltype='cf_sql_varchar' value='#get_hmls_commercial_data.mls_number#_h' null='#not len(trim(mls_number))#') where '#get_hmls_commercial_data.mls_number#_h' not in (select mls_number from properties) /cfquery /cfloop I'm getting this error upon execution of the template... Error Executing Database Query. You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'where '39438_h' not exists in (select mls_number from prope' at line 32 ??? Thanks, Rick ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:306897 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: Get length of .WAV file
You may look out there at some java classes and see if you can find something that can read the attributes of the wav file or even load the whole wav into memory and then pull the length or something. I don't know of any specific classes that do it for wav but I know I've used some for mp3s and ID3 tagging and such. If you can find one, anything you can do in java you can do in CF. Hope that gets you going in the right direction. John Burns -Original Message- From: Dave Phillips [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2008 9:24 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Get length of .WAV file As a follow up, I installed the CFX tag and it is returning 0 seconds on my .WAV files, so it doesn't seem to work anyway. I really need to find a way to identify the length in time of a .WAV file. Please let me know if you know how. Thanks! Dave ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:306556 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
LDAP Query for group members
I'm trying to find out if there's a simpler way to do this than what I'm doing. Currently, I'm querying a group from LDAP and retrieving the attribute called Member which gives me this ugly result set of one record with all of these domain users' distinguished names instead of just the AD username. I can parse this, but it's a mess because the names look like this: CN=User.Name, OU=Users, OU=Location, OU=Organization, DC=domain, DC=com, CN=User2.Name, OU=Users,. The ldap code looks like this currently: cfldap action=QUERY name=GetGroupMembers attributes=Member start=dc=[domain],dc=com scope=subtree filter=((objectclass=group)(samaccountname=[groupI'mTryingtoGet])) server=[myDomainController] username=[username] password=[password] I'd like to find a way to query the names and have them return as a result set with one row for each user. Obviously, the parsing of the file would be difficult because of all the commas in a single record but it's possible because of each record starting with CN. Anyone have a better way of doing this? Is there some sort of LDAP function you can pass to get it to return just the username instead of the full DN? Eventually, I'm assuming I'll hit the same roadblock on querying a user's groups to see if they're in a specific group. Any information to make my life easier would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! John Burns ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:299695 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: LDAP Query for group members
Michael- AWESOME! Thank you so much for the help. Is it as simple to add users to the group using the same method? Did you come up with this on your own or find this info somewhere? Any other tips of things I can look out for as I'm working with CFLDAP? John -Original Message- From: Dawson, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 12:08 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: LDAP Query for group members There are a couple of solutions to this issue, however, one is the best. I'll save that for last, of course. Member is a multi-value attribute in Active Directory. By default, it is a comma-delimited value. As you have found, distinguished names are also comma-delimted by nature. You can solve this issue by using CFLDAP's SEPARATOR attribute. If you specify a tab char, chr(9), you will get back a tab-separated list of member distinguished names. You can then use CFLOOP to loop over each member. However, if you want to know the member's first name, you would have to perform another LDAP query for each member. That could, and will, be very slow, if you have a large group. You will also have a limitation of 1000 members. Active Directory returns only 1000 values in a multi-value attribute. There is a workaround for this, but it really sucks. I don't even want to talk about it. Basically, this will get you close to what you are doing now, with the only improvement of a tab-separated list of members. The best solution comes now... It is so simple, it will make you giggle. Rather than query a group's members, you are better off querying all users who are a member of a group. Basically, you will set your filter to be: ((objectCategory=Person)(memberOf=DN=GroupName, OU=Org, DC=domain, DC=com)) Also, you need to specify the DELIMITER attribute in the CFLDAP tag. Set it to a tab character chr(9). You won't be passing any tabs in your filter, however, this prevents any errors because of the commas in the group's distinguished name. Then, in your CFLDAP tag, you can specify all of the user attributes that you need: givenName, sn, title, department, telephoneNumber, etc. You will get it all back in one CF query object. The best part is that you are not limited to the 1000-value limit that you would have hit by using the first method. However, you may hit another limit in the number of records that Active Directory returns via LDAP queries. By default, I think it may be 1000, but you can modify your domain controllers to increase that limit. I increased our limit to 10,000 records. If you have this problem, Google ntdsutil and maxpagesize or just click here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315071 m!ke -Original Message- From: Burns, John D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 9:30 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: LDAP Query for group members I'm trying to find out if there's a simpler way to do this than what I'm doing. Currently, I'm querying a group from LDAP and retrieving the attribute called Member which gives me this ugly result set of one record with all of these domain users' distinguished names instead of just the AD username. I can parse this, but it's a mess because the names look like this: CN=User.Name, OU=Users, OU=Location, OU=Organization, DC=domain, DC=com, CN=User2.Name, OU=Users,. The ldap code looks like this currently: cfldap action=QUERY name=GetGroupMembers attributes=Member start=dc=[domain],dc=com scope=subtree filter=((objectclass=group)(samaccountname=[groupI'mTryingtoGet])) server=[myDomainController] username=[username] password=[password] I'd like to find a way to query the names and have them return as a result set with one row for each user. Obviously, the parsing of the file would be difficult because of all the commas in a single record but it's possible because of each record starting with CN. Anyone have a better way of doing this? Is there some sort of LDAP function you can pass to get it to return just the username instead of the full DN? Eventually, I'm assuming I'll hit the same roadblock on querying a user's groups to see if they're in a specific group. Any information to make my life easier would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! John Burns ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:299740 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: LDAP Query for group members
AWESOME! Thank you so much for the help. Is it as simple to add users to the group using the same method? Did you come up with this on your own or find this info somewhere? Any other tips of things I can look out for as I'm working with CFLDAP? John -Original Message- From: Dawson, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 12:08 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: LDAP Query for group members There are a couple of solutions to this issue, however, one is the best. I'll save that for last, of course. Member is a multi-value attribute in Active Directory. By default, it is a comma-delimited value. As you have found, distinguished names are also comma-delimted by nature. You can solve this issue by using CFLDAP's SEPARATOR attribute. If you specify a tab char, chr(9), you will get back a tab-separated list of member distinguished names. You can then use CFLOOP to loop over each member. However, if you want to know the member's first name, you would have to perform another LDAP query for each member. That could, and will, be very slow, if you have a large group. You will also have a limitation of 1000 members. Active Directory returns only 1000 values in a multi-value attribute. There is a workaround for this, but it really sucks. I don't even want to talk about it. Basically, this will get you close to what you are doing now, with the only improvement of a tab-separated list of members. The best solution comes now... It is so simple, it will make you giggle. Rather than query a group's members, you are better off querying all users who are a member of a group. Basically, you will set your filter to be: ((objectCategory=Person)(memberOf=DN=GroupName, OU=Org, DC=domain, DC=com)) Also, you need to specify the DELIMITER attribute in the CFLDAP tag. Set it to a tab character chr(9). You won't be passing any tabs in your filter, however, this prevents any errors because of the commas in the group's distinguished name. Then, in your CFLDAP tag, you can specify all of the user attributes that you need: givenName, sn, title, department, telephoneNumber, etc. You will get it all back in one CF query object. The best part is that you are not limited to the 1000-value limit that you would have hit by using the first method. However, you may hit another limit in the number of records that Active Directory returns via LDAP queries. By default, I think it may be 1000, but you can modify your domain controllers to increase that limit. I increased our limit to 10,000 records. If you have this problem, Google ntdsutil and maxpagesize or just click here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315071 m!ke ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:299741 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
RE: Adding password security to a pdf upload on the fly
No, I mean actually including a password on the PDF itself. So, if someone downloads it and saves it to their computer and then tries to open it they will be prompted for a password within their PDF reader. John -Original Message- From: Bobby Hartsfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 1:28 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Adding password security to a pdf upload on the fly I've passworded the DOWNLOAD of the file. Is that what you mean? -Original Message- From: Burns, John D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 1:03 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Adding password security to a pdf upload on the fly Anyone ever mess with receiving PDF uploads from users and having CF automatically password protect the PDF so that anyone downloading them would need the password to be able to view them? I don't need to be able to make any other adjustments to the PDFs and for the most part the password will be the same on all of them. I'm trying to figure out if there are any Java utils to do this or if I'd need to look into a 3rd party software. Either way, if you have experience with this and wouldn't mind lending your input, that'd be great. John Burns ~| ColdFusion MX7 and Flex 2 Build sales marketing dashboard RIAâs for your business. Upgrade now http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2?sdid=RVJT Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:278150 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Adding password security to a pdf upload on the fly
Anyone ever mess with receiving PDF uploads from users and having CF automatically password protect the PDF so that anyone downloading them would need the password to be able to view them? I don't need to be able to make any other adjustments to the PDFs and for the most part the password will be the same on all of them. I'm trying to figure out if there are any Java utils to do this or if I'd need to look into a 3rd party software. Either way, if you have experience with this and wouldn't mind lending your input, that'd be great. John Burns ~| Create Web Applications With ColdFusion MX7 Flex 2. Build powerful, scalable RIAs. Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJS Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:278072 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
CFDocument image issue
I've been looking around at various answers online for this issue where the X shows up in the PDF generated using CFDOCUMENT when referencing an image. I've tried all of the fixes and I'm still having the issue. I'm wondering if anyone has any more things to try. I've attempted to call the URL of the image from directly on the server via a browser and it loads the way it should. I'm assuming that rules out the firewall issue but am I wrong on that? When I generate the PDF and look at the web server logs for that site, I do not see an entry for the image request so it seems that the request is never making it to the webserver. Where can I look in the Java or CF logs to see what's going on or what I need to fix? I also tried putting a local address (D:\websites...) as the URL for the image but no luck with that either. Any help would be greatly appreciated. John Burns ~| Create Web Applications With ColdFusion MX7 Flex 2. Build powerful, scalable RIAs. Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJS Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:273847 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
RE: CFDocument image issue
I'm not using tbody or any odd tags. All I'm using is tabletrthtd and the respective closing tags. My image call is using a full url. Here's info if you guys wanna test: http://www.smafl.com/admin/schedule.cfm?teamid=26 (this is the page generating the pdf) The image reference is to http://www.smafl.com/images/SMAFLLogo.gif Here's my code to generate the page (with the appropriate queries outside the cfdocument cfdocument format=pdf img src=http://www.smafl.com/images/SMAFLLogo.gif; width=450 height=100 /br / cfoutput h1#getmiscInfo.seasonName#/h1 h2#getMiscInfo.teamName#/h2 /cfoutput table border=0 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=1 width=700 tr thDate/th thTime/th thField/th thHome/th thVisitor/th thResult/th /tr cfoutput query=getTeamSchedule tr class=cfif gameDateTime gt now()tablerowactivecfelsetablerowinactive/cfif td#dateFormat(gameDateTime,mmm d)#/td td#timeFormat(gameDatetime,h:mm)#cfif gameDoubleHeader eq 1 amp; #timeFormat(dateAdd(h,1,gameDatetime),h:mm)#/cfif/td td#gameLocation#/td td cfif homeTeamID eq teamIDstyle=font-weight: bold;/cfif#homeTeamName#/td td cfif visitorTeamID eq teamIDstyle=font-weight: bold;/cfif#visitorTeamName#/td tdnbsp;/td /tr /cfoutput /table /cfdocument ~| Create Web Applications With ColdFusion MX7 Flex 2. Build powerful, scalable RIAs. Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJS Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:273860 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: CFDocument image issue
Jochem- That worked using your file prefix and the file system path. Any ideas on how to troubleshoot why CF is having issues with the HTTP call? Right now all my images are on my server but I may run into an instance where that's not the case. I appreciate the help! John ~| Deploy Web Applications Quickly across the enterprise with ColdFusion MX7 Flex 2 Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:273864 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: CFDocument image issue
Yeah, and per earlier emails, others have had issues with relative URLs and cfdocument. That's why I tried it that way. -Original Message- From: Peterson, Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 11:26 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CFDocument image issue Have you tried a simpler relative url instead of a full one? Chris ~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJV Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:273866 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
WYSIWYG File/Image managers
Hey everyone. I've used FCKEditor quite a bit but I had some problems from time to time with the file/image manager in it with CF. Do TinyMCE or any of the other editors have a better CF file/image manager? I am working on a project and need a very basic WYSIWYG editor to allow bold,italic,underline,images and that's about it. Any suggestions or plugins that anyone may have or know about for any of the popular WYSIWYG editors would be appreciated. Thanks! John Burns ~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 MX7 integration create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:269159 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: WYSIWYG File/Image managers
Yeah, I saw that cffm could integrate with FCKEditor and TinyMCE...at least I see the example. What I don't see is how to actually make that happen. Anyone know of documentation for that? John -Original Message- From: Andy Matthews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 10:17 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: WYSIWYG File/Image managers Rick Root's CFFM integrates quite well with CFKEditor I believe. http://www.opensourcecf.com/ andy -Original Message- From: Burns, John D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 9:11 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: WYSIWYG File/Image managers Hey everyone. I've used FCKEditor quite a bit but I had some problems from time to time with the file/image manager in it with CF. Do TinyMCE or any of the other editors have a better CF file/image manager? I am working on a project and need a very basic WYSIWYG editor to allow bold,italic,underline,images and that's about it. Any suggestions or plugins that anyone may have or know about for any of the popular WYSIWYG editors would be appreciated. Thanks! John Burns ~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 MX7 integration create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:269224 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: webcam software
PySoft has a product called Active Webcam that I've used and it works well. Supports multiple cams including Ethernet cams and directly connected cams. www.pysoft.com -Original Message- From: Bobby Hartsfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 10:34 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: webcam software I LOVE TinCam. http://www.tincam.com/ ...:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com -Original Message- From: Rick Root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 10:33 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: webcam software Can anyone recommend a decent webcam software with the ability to push (via FTP) still images to a web site? Rick ~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:264501 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: Certification
I strongly agree. The one other thing to point out is that it's just like college degrees and even high school diplomas. In reality, they're really not that hard to get. They don't mean you're really all that smart because I've seen plenty of morons with Masters degrees and even PhDs but it's the fact that they did it. I work in the gov't world and they base a lot on the degrees you have. I wouldn't ever claim that a CF certification will get you paid more, but in the mind of a manager (who may not know much) it probably looks pretty impressive. John Burns -Original Message- From: Charlie Griefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 1:59 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Certification On 12/15/06, Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And indeed, as you said they do/can show you what you did and do not know and are a great teaching tool but the actual cert is meaningless. meaningless is subjective. You and me and everyone else on this list know that the cert is meaningless when it comes to determining who is a better programmer. But let's ask someone who's job hunting...and a particular company has narrowed their search down to two candidates... our friend and one other person. EVERYTHING between the two is equal (years of experience, skill level, education)...except the other person has their cert, and in this instance, that is enough to tip the scales in favor of the other person, who gets the job. Ask them if it's meaningless. I've got my cert in MX 6 and MX 7. It's never helped me. But I don't regret having it for one simple fact. It will NEVER hurt me. -- Charlie Griefer ...All the world shall be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with a swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed. ~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:264162 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Convert PDF to HTML
Anyone know of a good reliable software to convert fairly large PDF documents to HTML? We have tried one or two but the one keeps crashing the machines it's being run on (via the gui) because it fills up the memory and dies. We had to run it on a desktop with 2GB of RAM so it wouldn't crash. The end result goal is to do this with either a CFX tag or making a CFEXECUTE call to a command line implementation of the software. This has to be done on a nightly basis on some pretty large pdf files in order to get them into HTML to then be indexed by a google indexing server. The problem is that when indexing the PDFs, apparently the google appliance limits the files being indexed to 30MB. The software can be free or cost (as long as it's nothing outrageous) but definitely has to be reliable. Thanks for any insights or experiences. John Burns ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:259788 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
RE: CF Print coupon one time - STUMPER
Well, this solution wouldn't work for extremely smart people, but if you look into CSS you'll see that you have some options for media types. One type is screen and one is print (I think). You could have a div on the page that shows up blank on the screen and has a background image (the coupon) when printed. You could just do a pop-up window, use javascript to call the print() function of the browser and then close the window after the print function completes. I'd think that should work fairly well. John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 2:06 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: CF Print coupon one time - STUMPER All, We use MeadCo's ScriptX ActiveX control on our Cold Fusion site for printing coupons from a hyperlink without prompting the print dialog box. This restricts the user from printing coupons twice bu using the back button and with a little Javascript they never see the coupon so they can't to a print screen either. However, it only works with IE. Does anyone know of any solutions or have any ideas how to implement this for Mac, Firefox etc.? Whoever creates the firefox entension for this will make some cash. We'd pay at least a few hundred dollars for it. D ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:259795 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
RE: CF Print coupon one time - STUMPER
You could make people enter their mailing address and physically send them just one :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 1:38 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CF Print coupon one time - STUMPER Great feedback everyone. Yes the goal is for eveyone to print the coupon once. You're right you could make copies of the coupon. We're just trying to limit the ways folks could get more than one copy. As far as the earlier post about using Javascript to call the popup window and print, the user can control the number of copies to print from the print dialog box. Right now, for IE users, the ScriptX ActiveX control sends the print job to the printer without the print dialog box showing up or disaplaying the coupon image at all. It's as tight as we can get it for IE users, it just doesn't work on other browsers or a Mac. I told you it was a STUMPER. 8-) How about a reward for anyone that can come up with a solution? Name your price, within reason of course. 8-) D Your goal is for the end user only to print the coupon once, correct? What stops the end user from printing it once, then using a copier to copy it multiple times? Not able to control that. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 2:06 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: CF Print coupon one time - STUMPER All, We use MeadCo's ScriptX ActiveX control on our Cold Fusion site for printing coupons from a hyperlink without prompting the print dialog box. This restricts the user from printing coupons twice bu using the back button and with a little Javascript they never see the coupon so they can't to a print screen either. However, it only works with IE. Does anyone know of any solutions or have any ideas how to implement this for Mac, Firefox etc.? Whoever creates the firefox entension for this will make some cash. We'd pay at least a few hundred dollars for it. D ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:259825 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: CF Print coupon one time - STUMPER
I'm not 100% sure but would a Java Applet allow the same sort of functionality, just cross browser? John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 1:48 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CF Print coupon one time - STUMPER I agree under normal circumstances. However, it's for a major retailer and even though the coupons are $1.00 off, the amount of downloads/prints it a cost control issue that has to be as tight as possible. Is there any other technology besides ActiveC controls of Firefox entensions that I'm not thinking of that would allow me to bypass the print dialog box? Thoughts? Great feedback. Thanks. I totally agree. For your run of the mill Grocery store coupons, Not worth the effort, but something more vital, yes. ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:259826 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
CFCONTENT and CFHEADER to download a file on CF 5
I've got a .mht (multipart html) that I generated from powerpoint. My end result is to be able to fill in pieces of a powerpoint slide on the fly with CF to generate the appropriate .mht file to a user. However, if I pass it to the user as an .mht, it tries to open in the browser. I added a cfcontent and cfheader to the top of the page to try to get it to force the filename to go back to the browser as a ppt so they can save it or open it. The code works fine on MX 6.1 but I can't get it to work on CF5. Anyone have any gotchas or reasons why I can't do it? Snippet: cfheader name=Content-Type value=application/powerpoint cfheader name=Content-Disposition value=inline; filename=test.ppt I also tried to use a cfcontent type=application/powerpoint reset=yes and all the combinations I could think of but it just wouldn't work. Like I said I copied the exact same code to 6.1 and all works well. John Burns ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:250311 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: Select * in a view needs recompiled
Your problem is that your SQL server basically stores a query map of the original query. Even though you pass it * when it actually runs the query it has to map out which queries that actually is. The next time you call it, it runs based on the last map. It's usually a good practice to stay away form * for several reasons. One is just readability for other developers who see your queries. Another is that there's no sense in grabbing data you don't need. Another is what you've pointed out. This is a known issue with SQL server and the only way to make it refresh the map is to restart the SQL service as far as I know. I'd recommend staying away from the * if you can. John Burns -Original Message- From: Brent Shaub [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 12:39 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Select * in a view needs recompiled Using MS SQL Server, I have a view that pulls a table with a *. I added a column to that table, and the view's data did not reflect the new column right away. In Query Analyzer, if I ran the view after adding the column from right-click Open View, the new column wasn't there. If I went into design mode and clicked the !, the new column was there. So in design mode, I added a space and deleted it in the SQL then saved the view. Now I can see the new column from right-click Open View. I'm a bit let down the * isn't as dynamic as it seems. ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:250012 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: Select * in a view needs recompiled
As far as I know, there is no such setting. I believe that's part of what makes SQL perform quickly. If you turned that off it would have to recompile the query every time and that may add up. It's a common problem that people complain about but I don't think there's really a way to fix it. Again, there are other reasons to stay away from select * so you may want to consider those before trying to find a work around for the views problem. John -Original Message- From: Brent Shaub [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 12:50 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Select * in a view needs recompiled I was just thinking that there might be a setting in SQL Server that was geared for optimization and cached the view definition. Perhaps there is a way to reconfigure it to check for changes more often. I might not change it because it's a small extra step to re-save each view (there aren't many) when I change a table that is referenced by a * in that view. It's a question of SQL-processing performance vs development-time performance. Just thinking out loud. Brent ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:250017 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: CF position in Greenville, SC
I believe this belongs on the CF Jobs list. Speaking of which, I have a job offer to post but was curious how many people are on the CF Jobs list. If Mike or anyone else knows please let me know. John -Original Message- From: Andy Matthews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 11:02 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: CF position in Greenville, SC ColdFusion Web Programmer Analyst needed in Greenville, SC for short term contract (3 month minimum) to do modifications and testing for an upgrade from CF 6.0 to CF 7.0 and provide enhancements, maintenance and new CF development to support business needs as defined by the IT department of a large corporation. Contact Kevin Wilmot [EMAIL PROTECTED] 864 467 2223 ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:247873 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
RE: Programmically ending a CF application?
I think setting your application timeout to 0 is the best. You don't have to do it programmatically through the cfapplication you have in your application.cfm. You could have a endApplication.cfm that simply has a cfapplication tag in it with the timeout set to 0 and that will timeout the app. Then redirect to a normal page and that will trigger the cfapplication in your application.cfm that will set the timeout back to normal. John -Original Message- From: Ben Nadel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 3:03 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Programmically ending a CF application? What are you trying to accomplish in the long run? Maybe there is a different route to take? Ben Nadel www.bennadel.com -Original Message- From: Ian Skinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 2:35 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Programmically ending a CF application? How can one 'end' a CF application so that the OnApplicationStart method of an application.cfc will run again? Something better then the two options I've come up with? One, restarting the service. And two setting the application timeout to 0. -- Ian Skinner Web Programmer BloodSource www.BloodSource.org Sacramento, CA - | 1 | | - Binary Soduko | | | - C code. C code run. Run code run. Please! - Cynthia Dunning Confidentiality Notice: This message including any attachments is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete any copies of this message. ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:247666 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
OT: SQL Server Product Key Version Lookup?
Anyone know if there is a way to take a given product key and do a lookup to find out what version of SQL server it is licensed for? I have a client who has their key but no documentation or licensing information. I figure it's a long shot, but let me know if you know of something. Thanks. John Burns ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:247546 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: Microsoft Virtual PC / Should I be interested, or not?
I have kind of a stupid question. Are people using these VM servers for production use? I've heard of people buying one top of the line piece of hardware and run multiple production servers on it using VM. This just scares me because it seems like one more point of possible failure, possible performance losses, etc. Am I just being antsy of a new thing or is this really not a good practice for production? I can definitely see the value in development environments but I'm not sure about production. Do the VMs have much overhead to them? Are there security and/or performance concerns that need to be taken into consideration? Obviously there's the don't put all your eggs in one basket thing with the hardware but if proper precautions are taken for redundancy and such is it really a viable solution? Also, how would all of this work when you get into clustering and such? Would you cluster each VM to the other VMs and then leave the base OS that all the VMs are running on alone and not cluster/replicate them? Any experience or knowledge you can lend would be awesome. John Burns -Original Message- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 10:14 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Microsoft Virtual PC / Should I be interested, or not? Ken, have you used MS's Virtual PC? I have no experience with either, so would be interested in how they compare for ease-of-use... Rick -Original Message- From: Ken Ferguson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 9:34 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Microsoft Virtual PC / Should I be interested, or not? ...free version of VMWare. Which is absolutely incredible. I've been playing with the free VMWare player and server for the last few days and, DAMN! That is freakin' cool!!! http://www.vmware.com/products/free_virtualization.html * Ken Ferguson 214.636.6126 * Bobby Hartsfield wrote: I'm sure Microsoft's recent change of heart has something to do with a free version of vmware. They are great ways to test the impact of software updates and try things without causing any damage to your main installation though. ..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com -Original Message- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 7:56 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: OT: Microsoft Virtual PC / Should I be interested, or not? So I get this email that MS has released Virtual PC for free. Not having used Virtual PC or anything like it, I have to ask.are any of you using Virtual PC or something similar in you CF work? Other ways? Should I bother? Rick ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/message.cfm/forumid:4/messageid:246552 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
RE: Microsoft Virtual PC / Should I be interested, or not?
What about licensing? Are OS licenses based solely on physical processors and such or would you need a separate license for each instance of the OS that you have installed on the server? John -Original Message- From: Robert Everland III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 11:52 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Microsoft Virtual PC / Should I be interested, or not? Not quite sure what you mean by hardware agnostic OS and software...wouldn't each OS have to be just as aware of the hardware it's running on and the software running on it? Rick VMWare and Microsoft emulate hardware to the OS. So no matter what kind of machine you're on, to the OS it's the exact same machine. So if you need to move your server instance to a beefer server that is running VMWare or Microsoft, then nothing will change. You wouldn't have issues with drivers, none of your software you installed that rely on hardware will have issues. It will just work. That's one of the beauties of virtulization. Bob ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/message.cfm/forumid:4/messageid:246586 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
RE: sms msg and euent gateways
Sprint: [EMAIL PROTECTED] At least that's what it has been to this point. I came over as legacy sprint so I'm not sure if Nextel is something different or if they're going to move everything to one domain or what in the future. John Burns -Original Message- From: Josh Nathanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 12:43 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: sms msg and euent gateways I've been compiling a list of the various US telecom providers' email to sms addresses, here it is, this will save you some time. If anyone has more to add (especially Sprint) please post. Qwest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Verizon: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Virgin Mobile: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cingular: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alltel: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TMobile: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sprint: -- Josh - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 9:29 AM Subject: RE: sms msg and euent gateways If you don't know where to start, make it simple. Almost every SMS provider provides email to SMS conversion. I think sprint is (phone number)@sprint.net (I think). Just send an email to whatever address and that will work fine. If you want to process INCOMMING SMS messages, that's a bit more difficult and I don't know how to do that. Original Message: - From: B V [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 11:23:24 -0500 To: cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Subject: sms msg and euent gateways can anyone point me to a good tutorial on sms text messages from configuring to sending the actual messages, because i am having so many issues i don't even know where to start. thanks; ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/message.cfm/forumid:4/messageid:246290 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
OT: Website crawler and spell checker
Anyone know of a web-based or client-based websites crawler/checker that will crawl an entire site and look for misspellings and broken links? I'd prefer something free if anyone knows of one. John Burns ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/message.cfm/forumid:4/messageid:246312 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
RE: MySpace - How they do it: Staff, Software Servers
Although, all of this leads to the same result in the end. If development starts to move to .NET and you have a manger that is bent on getting things over to .NET the shear fact that anything CF will cost and extra $1500+ for licensing is a good reason to get rid of it. .NET already has the huge advantage of coming bundled with Windows and thus seems like the obvious choice if you're a manager who could care less about CF. John Burns -Original Message- From: Munson, Jacob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 1:40 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: MySpace - How they do it: Staff, Software Servers Yeah, but why do you have to use Bluedragon.NET? If you already purchased CF, then what is the point of then buying Bluedragon.NET? From your description it sounds like it would be a seperate app that wouldn't be tied into the other apps, so there wouldn't be a need to integrate into .NET. First of all, this is just a hypothetical, not my own experience. But in the hypothetical, the company does have CF already, but this manager is hell-bent on moving to .Net. There is no logic here, I agree with you that it doesn't make sense to move/integrate to .Net. I'm just saying that if you have a choice of staying with CF /because/ you can tell the manager that it will run on .Net, BlueDragon could save your CF app's life. - This transmission may contain information that is privileged, confidential and/or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the information contained herein (including any reliance thereon) is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. If you received this transmission in error, please immediately contact the sender and destroy the material in its entirety, whether in electronic or hard copy format. Thank you. A1. ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/message.cfm/forumid:4/messageid:245979 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
RE: MySpace - How they do it: Staff, Software amp; Servers
I agree with Vince as well. The only problem I see is that .NET comes integrated with Windows servers which most managers would probably assume is better regardless of any real facts just because they hear the hype from Microsoft. If you're in a shop that has Java/J2EE development going on your managers are probably a little better balanced and realize each language has it's place. I think that the problem is that while CF runs on .NET it is also a peer to .NET in terms of web development. I know Java can also be used as a web development tool but I'm assuming it's not as widespread as .NET. It's the managers that are the problem in all of this. Let's just eliminate them and we'll all be ok :-) John Burns -Original Message- From: Rick Root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 2:35 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: MySpace - How they do it: Staff, Software amp; Servers Vince Bonfanti wrote: I would strongly disagree that there's no point in Bluedragon.NET except as a stepping stone to get off of ColdFusion to go to .NET. Is CFMX just a stepping stone to get off ColdFusion to go to JSP/Java/J2EE? Of course not. Macromedia completely rewrote CFMX because Java/J2EE is a better platform than the C/C++ codebase of CF 1.0 through CF5, whether you choose to use the Java/J2EE integration features or not. We wrote BlueDragon.NET because .NET is a better platform than Java/J2EE on Windows, whether you choose to use the .NET integration features or not. See this blog entry for an elaboration: I just wanted to say that I agree totally with Vince. the original statement (which I missed) is totally off-base, unless you also believe that going with Coldfusion is just a stepping stone to going full blown java. It's just a different integration method, that's all. Coldfusion and Bluedragon JX folks can itnegrate lots of java classes and objects and third party tools for doing stuff that the CFML language itself can't necessarily handle. Bluedragon.NET users can natively integrate .NET objects for doing stuff that CFML itself can't necessarily handle. Rick ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/message.cfm/forumid:4/messageid:245984 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: tracking which templates are in use
Yeah, that sounds like you basically have it figured out. You just need to go through the debug output of which templates were used and log them. I wish there was some sort of CF log, almost like a web server log to show you which templates have been used. One thing to consider is that if a template hasn't been viewed, does that really mean it can be gotten rid of? You may want to find something to crawl the content of your pages to make sure there aren't links to pages that maybe haven't been accessed in the last 6 months but might still be live and available pages. John Burns -Original Message- From: Russ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 1:16 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: tracking which templates are in use We have a huge app with over 10k coldfusion templates. A lot of them are no longer being used, but we are not entirely sure which ones. Is there somewhere I can stick a piece of code (OnRequestEnd.cfm maybe?) that would examine the debug output (through possibly some cfadmin functions) and figure out which templates were used? This way I can log that to a database, and after running it for a while get a good sense of what templates are being used and how often. Russ ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:245011 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: Which version of CF should I download?
They're both the same as far as I've ever seen. When you go to install is when you choose whether you want developer, trial or full (with serial number). I think they display it that way so that you can see your options but I believe the installer is exactly the same for everything. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 1:44 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Which version of CF should I download? CF MX 7 Developer or CF MX 7 Trial? Rick ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:243771 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: Which version of CF should I download?
You don't have to install a separate web server if you don't want. CF has its built in one. It just depends on how you want things configured. You could install IIS if you want to be able to do the sorts of things in your webserver that are beyond the scope of the CF webserver. You could also install apache. It all depends on how you want things setup and how much control you want. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Adkins, Randy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 2:02 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Which version of CF should I download? XP Pro should have IIS. If not go to Control Panel, Add Remove Programs, select Windows Components You can add it in there. -Original Message- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 1:58 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Which version of CF should I download? I'm installed CF 7 on a laptop with Windows XP Pro on it...do I need to install IIS or anything else? -Original Message- From: Ray Champagne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 1:49 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Which version of CF should I download? Trial gets you the 30 day full version, then reverts to developer after that. So, I'm guessing Trial, since why not? Rick Faircloth wrote: CF MX 7 Developer or CF MX 7 Trial? Rick ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:243778 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: Which version of CF should I download?
Great points Dave. I agree completely. I was just explaining more because Rick sound inexperienced. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 2:32 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Which version of CF should I download? That is true. It does have its own web server. I just feel it is better As a developer to use IIS. Personal choice is all. Well, Rick's question was do I need to install IIS, not is IIS a better choice than the JRun web server for development, which is why I gave the answer I did. But going back to that, for most developers, I think that the JRun web server is a better choice, for two reasons. First, unless you actually need to learn how to manage an external web server, why bother? And second and more important, unless you can use the same web server that you're going to manage, the value of using an external server is diminished a lot. The version of IIS that comes with Windows XP is not the same as IIS on Windows 2000 or Windows Server 2003. 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 Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:243812 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: CF-based photo sharing app?
Rick- I've been tinkering with the same kind of thing. I haven't gotten very far though. My thing is that I take a ton of pictures and have people ask me if they can get copies. I'd like to do something where I could upload via ftp or something and then have galleries created where people can view thumbnails, a large view and then have the option to download the full photo if they'd like so that they can get prints made. I was thinking it'd be cool to have multiple accounts as well so other people could do the same. It all makes sense in my head, just hasn't made it into CF yet. Let me know if you find anything good. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Rick Root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 11:30 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CF-based photo sharing app? Paul Hastings wrote: Rick Root wrote: I'd like to build a web site allowing many users to upload and share photos. have a look at seth duffey's photoblog: http://www.leavethatthingalone.com/projects/CFCPhotoBlog/ it's pretty cool. Damn that is pretty sweet.. doesn't do quite what I want but could probably be modified to do so... I want many users to be able to upload photos to a single photo share without having the ability to mess with anything else. But I'll try this, it looks pretty cool. Rick ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:243475 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: virtual directory in IIS?
There are scripts in the inetpub/adminscripts directory that can do some of that. Just call them via cfexecute. I have seen some other products out there that can do this as well but can't think of any off the top of my head. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Rob Wilkerson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 11:31 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: virtual directory in IIS? Sort of, but not the way you're thinking. You need to write a VB script to handle that kind of interaction. At least, that's the only way I know to handle it. CF could then execute the VB script, of course. On 6/14/06, Johnny Le [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to add a virtual directory to the IIS through CF code or Java? ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:243479 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: CF-based photo sharing app?
Because I can't host it myself and because it costs money. I was thinking flickr is a good example of what I want. The big thing that I'd like it to do that it can't is to be able to read the directories I have on my server at home (where CF is also running) and build galleries and such automatically from that without having to upload. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Matt Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 12:02 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CF-based photo sharing app? And you can't just use flickr because... On 6/14/06, Burns, John D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick- I've been tinkering with the same kind of thing. I haven't gotten very far though. My thing is that I take a ton of pictures and have people ask me if they can get copies. I'd like to do something where I could upload via ftp or something and then have galleries created where people can view thumbnails, a large view and then have the option to download the full photo if they'd like so that they can get prints made. I was thinking it'd be cool to have multiple accounts as well so other people could do the same. It all makes sense in my head, just hasn't made it into CF yet. Let me know if you find anything good. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Rick Root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 11:30 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CF-based photo sharing app? Paul Hastings wrote: Rick Root wrote: I'd like to build a web site allowing many users to upload and share photos. have a look at seth duffey's photoblog: http://www.leavethatthingalone.com/projects/CFCPhotoBlog/ it's pretty cool. Damn that is pretty sweet.. doesn't do quite what I want but could probably be modified to do so... I want many users to be able to upload photos to a single photo share without having the ability to mess with anything else. But I'll try this, it looks pretty cool. Rick ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:243483 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: CF-based photo sharing app?
Well, the free edition limits the number of albums or photos or something. Plus, as others have mentioned, then you can't integrate it into another site. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Andy Matthews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 12:47 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CF-based photo sharing app? For the record (AFAIK) flickr is free for base users. You only have to pay if you want the Pro edition. I personally don't use Flickr because I wrote a photo gallery system for my own site. Why use something on someone else's site if you can do it yourself. !//-- andy matthews web developer certified advanced coldfusion programmer ICGLink, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 615.370.1530 x737 --//- -Original Message- From: Burns, John D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 11:15 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CF-based photo sharing app? Because I can't host it myself and because it costs money. I was thinking flickr is a good example of what I want. The big thing that I'd like it to do that it can't is to be able to read the directories I have on my server at home (where CF is also running) and build galleries and such automatically from that without having to upload. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Matt Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 12:02 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CF-based photo sharing app? And you can't just use flickr because... On 6/14/06, Burns, John D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick- I've been tinkering with the same kind of thing. I haven't gotten very far though. My thing is that I take a ton of pictures and have people ask me if they can get copies. I'd like to do something where I could upload via ftp or something and then have galleries created where people can view thumbnails, a large view and then have the option to download the full photo if they'd like so that they can get prints made. I was thinking it'd be cool to have multiple accounts as well so other people could do the same. It all makes sense in my head, just hasn't made it into CF yet. Let me know if you find anything good. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Rick Root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 11:30 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CF-based photo sharing app? Paul Hastings wrote: Rick Root wrote: I'd like to build a web site allowing many users to upload and share photos. have a look at seth duffey's photoblog: http://www.leavethatthingalone.com/projects/CFCPhotoBlog/ it's pretty cool. Damn that is pretty sweet.. doesn't do quite what I want but could probably be modified to do so... I want many users to be able to upload photos to a single photo share without having the ability to mess with anything else. But I'll try this, it looks pretty cool. Rick ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:243541 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: if/switch cf:set/param
If you're doing a large comparison set, my understanding is that switch is better for performance. As for cfset vs cfparam, cfset sets the variable and overwrites and previous value that the variable held. Cfparam sets the variable if it doesn't already exist. Basically, cfparam ensures that the variable has a value when you try to use the variable, however, if the variable is set elsewhere prior to the cfparam, the cfparam is ignored. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Paul Ihrig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 3:55 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: cf:if/switch cf:set/param ok. just looking at a bunch of code. most pages use a combo of if switch what are the reasons to use one over the other. also what is the difference between cfset cfparam. i know cfset sets the variable you want to be but dosnt cfparam also do this? also what should i know about variable pools? thanks -paul ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:241976 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
OT: CF jobs listings?
Ok, I know it's off topic but I figured you all would know. My company is looking to hire some new CF developers and are planning to post to the CF-Jobs list but we were wondering if anyone knows of other good places to post CF job openings. Anyone with experience or information would be extremely helpful. You can reply off-list to me unless you think it's pertinent to keep on the list for others. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:241125 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: CF jobs listings?
We are in the Southern Maryland area. About an hour and half south of DC. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Andy Matthews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 9:29 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CF jobs listings? Where in the country are you? My CFUG posts job listings, but they have to be in the Nashville area. !//-- andy matthews web developer certified advanced coldfusion programmer ICGLink, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 615.370.1530 x737 --//- -Original Message- From: Burns, John D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 8:19 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: OT: CF jobs listings? Ok, I know it's off topic but I figured you all would know. My company is looking to hire some new CF developers and are planning to post to the CF-Jobs list but we were wondering if anyone knows of other good places to post CF job openings. Anyone with experience or information would be extremely helpful. You can reply off-list to me unless you think it's pertinent to keep on the list for others. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:241130 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: embed image in cfmail
Look at CFMAILPARAM, especially the CONTENTID attribute of it in CFMX 7. You give it a contentID and use that in your source for your html. Look at http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/7/htmldocs/wwhelp/wwhimpl/comm on/html/wwhelp.htm?context=ColdFusion_Documentationfile=part_cfm.htm And there's a section entitled To display a file inline in a mail message that tells you all about it. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: kurt schroeder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 9:59 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: embed image in cfmail that get's me to a general docs help page. is there a specific area that has the answer i'm looking for? thanks kes check out http://livedocs.macromedia. com/coldfusion/7/htmldocs/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp. htm?context=ColdFusion_Documentationfile=part_cfm.htm DK On 5/17/06, kurt schroeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to embed an image in a cfmail without using a web reference. Thanks KES ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:240893 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: Generate MS Word Document from ColdFusion
Yeah, this works for most applications. It even works for powerpoint though I haven't figured out how to make separate slides. It's not too bad at doing a single slide though. The only oddity that I've had is if you're using style sheets some of the styles tend to screw with the output in Powerpoint. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Rick Root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 8:23 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Generate MS Word Document from ColdFusion I don't know if this has been brought up, but since you can generate an html table and save it with an .xls extension and open it in Excel, I decided to try to create an html file, save it with a .doc extension, and open it in Word, and it worked great. Rick ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:239481 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: Generate MS Word Document from ColdFusion
I had not tried that yet. In the instance that I was doing it, I actually had to remove all CSS because there was some stuff blowing it up. I can't remember off hand what exactly was causing the issue but it ended up being easier to use font tags and such to adjust the looks. Also, the other thing to keep in mind is that if you're including images and such, when it pulls into the application, the image is still pulling from the webserver. It doesn't get downloaded and embedded into the file. This causes issues if you generate a document from an internal server and try to display it externally or if you're not online when you're looking at it. I haven't found a work around for that problem yet. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Jim Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 8:42 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Generate MS Word Document from ColdFusion On 5/4/06, Rick Root [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know if this has been brought up, but since you can generate an html table and save it with an .xls extension and open it in Excel, I decided to try to create an html file, save it with a .doc extension, and open it in Word, and it worked great. Did you try forcing css page breaks? I would be curious to know if it recognizes those...which would make the method even more powerful. -- Jim Wright Wright Business Solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED] 919-417-2257 ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:239484 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: Generate MS Word Document from ColdFusion
That works in Powerpoint? John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Rick Root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 9:09 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Generate MS Word Document from ColdFusion Jim Wright wrote: On 5/4/06, Rick Root [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know if this has been brought up, but since you can generate an html table and save it with an .xls extension and open it in Excel, I decided to try to create an html file, save it with a .doc extension, and open it in Word, and it worked great. Did you try forcing css page breaks? I would be curious to know if it recognizes those...which would make the method even more powerful. Is this what you mean? If so, then yes it works. br clear=all style='page-break-before:always' rick ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:239488 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: Web Cam
Panasonic has a similar cam. I have one of them and it's really nice. Has pan/tilt capabilities and all sorts of stuff. It's ethernet as well and they even have wireless cams now that do the same thing. All of the ones that I've seen have a built in webserver and dynamic dns. It's a pretty nice solution. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Larry Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 11:28 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Web Cam I work for a student government association. We want to broadcast the senate meetings over the internet. What would be the most affordable solution? You might want to try D-Links' DCS-900 Internet Camera. It costs around $100. As long as you have a 10/100 ethernet connection this will stream video over the internet. See http://www.dlink.com/products/?sec=0pid=270 for more info. From the website: The D-Link Securicam NetworkTM DCS-900 Internet Camera combines the functionality of video surveillance with the reliability and scalability of Fast Ethernet. With its compact, all-in-one design, the DCS-900 Internet Camera is a low-cost remote monitoring solution ideal for home use. The DCS-900 Internet Camera connects quickly and easily to your existing Fast Ethernet network and a setup wizard will guide you through the set up process to get you up and running in a matter of minutes. The DCS-900 Internet Camera features a built-in Web server which means that it can stream video images directly to the Internet. Video images captured by the DCS-900 can be viewed remotely by typing the IP address of the DCS-900 into a Web browser. With its easy-to-use Web-based interface, the DCS-900 can be managed and configured from anywhere in the world. By signing up with one of the many free Dynamic DNS services available on the web, you can assign an easy-to-remember name and domain (e.g. www.mycamera.myddns.com). This allows you to remotely access your camera without having to remember the IP address, even if it has been changed by your Internet Service Provider. The included Windows-based software provides even more features, allowing you to archive streaming video straight to your hard drive, monitor up to 4 cameras on a single screen, enable motion detection, and update the firmware on your DCS-900 Internet Camera. hth, larry -- Larry C. Lyons Web Analyst BEI Resources American Type Culture Collection http://www.beiresources.org email: llyons(at)atcc(dot)org tel: 703.365.2700.2678 -- ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:239534 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: Generate MS Word Document from ColdFusion
Rick- I just tried using the br page break code you gave and it doesn't give me separate cells in powerpoint. Did you test it yourself? John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Rick Root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 9:09 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Generate MS Word Document from ColdFusion Jim Wright wrote: On 5/4/06, Rick Root [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know if this has been brought up, but since you can generate an html table and save it with an .xls extension and open it in Excel, I decided to try to create an html file, save it with a .doc extension, and open it in Word, and it worked great. Did you try forcing css page breaks? I would be curious to know if it recognizes those...which would make the method even more powerful. Is this what you mean? If so, then yes it works. br clear=all style='page-break-before:always' rick ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:239543 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: Generate MS Word Document from ColdFusion
Lol, ok that would explain it. I guess we got off topic with powerpoint and then you took it back to word :-) It's been a long day. Anybody had experience with how to brake slides in powerpoint via html? John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Rick Root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 2:26 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Generate MS Word Document from ColdFusion Burns, John D wrote: That works in Powerpoint? Maybe, but we were discussion MS Word =) John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Rick Root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 9:09 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Generate MS Word Document from ColdFusion Jim Wright wrote: On 5/4/06, Rick Root [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know if this has been brought up, but since you can generate an html table and save it with an .xls extension and open it in Excel, I decided to try to create an html file, save it with a .doc extension, and open it in Word, and it worked great. Did you try forcing css page breaks? I would be curious to know if it recognizes those...which would make the method even more powerful. Is this what you mean? If so, then yes it works. br clear=all style='page-break-before:always' ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:239545 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: Put yourself on the map
That just proves we all need to be doing more work! :-) John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Andy Matthews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 3:07 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Put yourself on the map Wow! It jumped from 89 when I signed up earlier to over 130 now. Awesome! !//-- andy matthews web developer certified advanced coldfusion programmer ICGLink, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 615.370.1530 x737 --//- -Original Message- From: Matt Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 1:58 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Put yourself on the map Should have given credit to Neil and Feed Squirrel when I posted. For further credit, I picked it up from Sean Corfield's blog (corfield.org). On 5/4/06, Neil Middleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, I did google for an existing map before creating this one, but couldn't find one. Hopefully,now though, we've got a good one going.For all you guys with sites/blogs/podcasts etc, please spread the word. The more people there are, the more useful it is. Neil http://www.feed-squirrel.com On 5/4/06, Crow T. Robot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I take that back. Yours is, um, bigger than ours. :) Matt Williams wrote: http://www.frappr.com/cfdevelopers ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:239553 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: cffile and files starting with '0'
Do you need to close the stream you have open in java in order to copy it? By the way, I'm not sure if this was asked, but does this work for all of the files other than the ones that begin with 0? John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Patrick Forsythe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 10:47 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: cffile and files starting with '0' Here is the code for those that have asked for it. permissions on the folder are all good. cfdirectory action=list name=getfiles directory=e:\renamedatafile\ filter=*.csv cfloop query=getfiles cfoutput---#Name#---br / /cfoutput cfscript fileReader = CreateObject(java, java.io.FileReader); fileReader.init(e:\\renamedatafile\\#name#); br = CreateObject(java, java.io.BufferedReader); br.init(fileReader); /cfscript cftry cfloop condition=true cfscript line = br.readLine(); /cfscript cfoutput cfif imagename neq Thumbs.db cfquery datasource=imagevault UPDATE photo SET photostatusid = 2, digloc = 19, photoname = '#listgetat(line,2)#' WHERE imagenum =#imagename# /cfquery /cfif /cfoutput /cfloop cfcatch type=coldfusion.runtime.UndefinedVariableException !--- this indicates end of file, ok to ignore error --- /cfcatch /cftry cffile action=move source=e:\renamedatafile\#name# destination=e:\renamedatafile\done\#name# nameconflict=overwrite /cfloop ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:238877 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: http://www.fullasagoog.com/
I got a . when I looked. Viewing source makes it look like no content is displaying except some p tags and stuff. No text or anything. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Kay Smoljak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 11:09 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: http://www.fullasagoog.com/ On 4/27/06, Chris Tilley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's wrong with this site? http://www.fullasagoog.com/ Nothing that I can see. What do you get? -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.zombiecoder.com/ ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:238883 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: Solved Re: cffile and files starting with '0'
Glad it worked. That seems odd that it gave you the error that it did. It seems that it would have given you a this file is in use error or something. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Patrick Forsythe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 11:22 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Solved Re: cffile and files starting with '0' Burns, John D wrote: Do you need to close the stream you have open in java in order to copy it? By the way, I'm not sure if this was asked, but does this work for all of the files other than the ones that begin with 0? Bingo. Closing the stream allowed it to be able to copy the file. I really should have seen that earlier. This list is great. I raise a beer or your beverage of choice to everyone that helped out. ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:238958 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: Image resizing on the fly?
Rick- I agree and that's what I'm leaning toward. The only thing I don't like is that if I want to change dimensions of all the images for some reason, I have to go back through and run everything over again. The big thing that prompted this question was that I saw .Net people using image.ashx (do a google search on it) and it seems they do it on the fly everytime. I'm not sure if .net is just better at doing it with very little overhead or if the people doing it are a timebomb waiting to explode on their server if they ever get significant traffic. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Rick Root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 1:16 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Image resizing on the fly? John, Since you don't want to always be resizing on the fly every time someone views an image, you might try something like this: img src=showImage.cfm?foo=myImage.jpg and in showImge.cfm just use imageCFC to read the image dimensions. If the image hasn't been resized, resize it and save it back. Then use cfcontent to send the image. That way every time you display the image, the only added overhead would be getting the image dimensions. ALTERNATIVELY, save the resized image with a different filename like myImage_resized.jpg and then have showImage.cfm check for the existence of the file - if it's not there, resize the original image and save it. Then you're not even calling java to get image dimensions, you're only checking for the existence of a file with a specific name. ultimately, you're better off not doing any of this dynamic stuff cuz it won't scale. You'd be better off using some kind of event gateway directory watcher and just resizing the images as they appear. rick ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:238791 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: cffile and files starting with '0'
Umm, this is a shot in the dark, but is there any chance that you're missing a d in the folder name. Currently, it looks like it's rename data file minus the spaces. I'm thinking maybe it is really named renameD data file or something like that. Could be off, but just figured I'd throw it out. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Ben Nadel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 4:03 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: cffile and files starting with '0' Call me crazy, but tryin doing a cfdump var=#FileExists( File path )# / cfabort / Before the CFFile... Make sure that that is YES. If not, then maybe something else is going wrong. Ben Nadel www.bennadel.com -Original Message- From: Patrick Forsythe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 3:30 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: cffile and files starting with '0' Has any one seen any weirdness with trying to do a move using cffile with files that start with '0' (zero)? It keeps telling me that The value of the attribute source, which is currently e:\renamedatafile\0508302.csv, is invalid. but I know the file is there. Server CF MX Windows 2000 Thanks -- Patrick Forsythe Tech Support Smallville Communications http://www.toto.net ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:238825 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: cffile and files starting with '0'
You should try moving the file to somewhere like C:\filetest\filename.csv and try copying it to C:\filetest2\filename.csv and try to narrow down that it's the filename causing issues and not something else in the path. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Patrick Forsythe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 4:20 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: cffile and files starting with '0' Burns, John D wrote: Umm, this is a shot in the dark, but is there any chance that you're missing a d in the folder name. Currently, it looks like it's rename data file minus the spaces. I'm thinking maybe it is really named renameD data file or something like that. Could be off, but just figured I'd throw it out. I rechecked and it is rename data file -- Patrick Forsythe Tech Support Smallville Communications http://www.toto.net ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:238831 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Image resizing on the fly?
I've been using ImageCR3 to do some image resizing and in the past I've used imagemagick and alagad's image component. I've always done it where I've done file resizing at the time of upload. However, I'm facing a situation of having to display an unknown amount of directories of photos that are being uploaded into folders via FTP. Rather than forcing someone to go fire off a page that goes out and does all the resizing, I'm wondering if it would be feasible to resize the images as needed. I'm not sure what the overhead would be on something like that. I've seen some .NET developers doing it with something called image.ashx where they call their images like img src=image.ashx?file=/myfiles/photo1.jpgwidth=600height=400 and it appears to just do the resizing everytime someone hits that image. I was thinking of writing a CFM that did the same thing by resizing the photo and pass it back to the browser using cfcontent but I wasn't sure if the overhead is too much. This isn't a large site and there won't be a ton of people hitting it at once, but even 2 or 3 people on there pulling up a page of 20-30 thumbnails with each image being resized on the fly sounds a little scary to me. I'm just looking for some more knowledge and expertise on the subject. Thanks! John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:238619 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: Image resizing on the fly?
Interesting. Have you run into performance issues? Do you then delete the cached file or do you leave it for future requests? That was the second thing I was wondering if I should save then the first time and mark those as resized so I don't run it again next time. The only benefit I see with doing it each time is that you can specify a different file size whenever you'd like and it doesn't have to recreate anything into a cache. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Katz, Dov B (IT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 12:29 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Image resizing on the fly? I've done this before. Basically what I do is create a Image proxy Assuming you have W, H, and ImageFilename variables, and that you pretty much want a specific dimension most of the time You can create imageProxy.cfm?file=/myfiles/photo.jpgw=600h=400 ImageProxy.cfm will do a CFIF NOT fileExists(expandpath(.#w#_#h#/#imagefilename#)) CFLOCK name=some-derivative-of-the-filename CF_RESIZE_IMAGE_TO_THAT_PATH /cflock /CFIF Cfset pageContext.forward(.#w#_#h#/#imagefilename# This is the general idea, so 9 times out of 10 it just forwards your request onward... Dov -Original Message- From: Burns, John D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 12:19 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Image resizing on the fly? I've been using ImageCR3 to do some image resizing and in the past I've used imagemagick and alagad's image component. I've always done it where I've done file resizing at the time of upload. However, I'm facing a situation of having to display an unknown amount of directories of photos that are being uploaded into folders via FTP. Rather than forcing someone to go fire off a page that goes out and does all the resizing, I'm wondering if it would be feasible to resize the images as needed. I'm not sure what the overhead would be on something like that. I've seen some .NET developers doing it with something called image.ashx where they call their images like img src=image.ashx?file=/myfiles/photo1.jpgwidth=600height=400 and it appears to just do the resizing everytime someone hits that image. I was thinking of writing a CFM that did the same thing by resizing the photo and pass it back to the browser using cfcontent but I wasn't sure if the overhead is too much. This isn't a large site and there won't be a ton of people hitting it at once, but even 2 or 3 people on there pulling up a page of 20-30 thumbnails with each image being resized on the fly sounds a little scary to me. I'm just looking for some more knowledge and expertise on the subject. Thanks! John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:238637 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: protect downloaded files?
I don't think you can unless you use the embedded features to protect the documents. However, as with all items, anytime there's security there's usually some way around it. Setting the file Read only attribute would not really do much if someone knew how to turn it off, or they could just save it as a different filename. For things like Powerpoint, you could save it as a .pps file which is just the show without editing capabilities. However, I'd imagine there's some sort of utility to make it editable again. Same thing with PDFs. You can set a password on it but there's probably a way around it. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Ray Champagne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 4:42 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: protect downloaded files? Anyone know if there is a surefire way to make all downloaded files read-only? We have a client that wants to have files available to download, but the original author doesn't want to have them be able to be edited. We're talking PowerPoint, Word, PDF files here, BTW. Any advice on how to make this happen would be appreciated. We've found that even using the Read Only attribute in the file properties doesn't persist once a copy has been downloaded to the client. TIA Ray ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:238327 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: adobe certification site
= is an assignment operator, not a comparison operator. EQ and IS are comparison operators. I wouldn't say it's an inconsistency. It actually makes a little more sense. With that said, I screw it up all the time. However, one thing that's helped me is that at MAX in New Orleans we covered some performance tips and if you use EQ on numerical comparisons and IS on string comparisons, the performance will be better. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Mike Kear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 10:49 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: adobe certification site The one that annoys me is the use of eq in a CFIF, but = in a CFSET.Does anyone know if there is a reason for the difference, or is it that they were written by different people or something? Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month On 4/13/06, Andy Matthews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A PHP programmer I work with said needle, haystack. It actually helps me remember. It's really irritating that MM wasn't consistent with the argument ordering across their variables. It should ALWAYS be variable first. !//-- andy matthews web developer ICGLink, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 615.370.1530 x737 --//- ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:237525 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: adobe certification site
That's probably a good point because once it is compiled down to a java class it all looks the same. I think the speed was probably only in the compiling of the file while CF took all of the non-typed language and turned it into java matching the appropriate variable types necessary. Therefore, it's probably not a huge increase in performance but it probably makes CF's initial compiling job a little easier. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: S. Isaac Dealey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 1:33 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: adobe certification site = is an assignment operator, not a comparison operator. EQ and IS are comparison operators. I wouldn't say it's an inconsistency. It actually makes a little more sense. With that said, I screw it up all the time. However, one thing that's helped me is that at MAX in New Orleans we covered some performance tips and if you use EQ on numerical comparisons and IS on string comparisons, the performance will be better. I remembered someone saying this had been debunked as something that was true at one point in time but no longer true with recent versions of CF, like the idea that cfscript is faster than tags or the fact that iif() is slow compared to equivalent cfif and cfset statements. Both of these two latter examples are items which were true once upon a time, but not with recent versions. Or so I've heard. s. isaac dealey 434.293.6201 new epoch : isn't it time for a change? add features without fixtures with the onTap open source framework http://www.fusiontap.com http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/author/4806Dealey.htm ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:237628 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: adobe certification site
True. I just tend to do it to stay more consistent with data types even though CF isn't a typed language. Plus, in case it ever moves more towards a typed language, it helps me to be that much closer to being ready. If nothing else, it makes me feel like I'm a better coder :-) John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: S. Isaac Dealey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 5:23 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: adobe certification site That's probably a good point because once it is compiled down to a java class it all looks the same. I think the speed was probably only in the compiling of the file while CF took all of the non-typed language and turned it into java matching the appropriate variable types necessary. Therefore, it's probably not a huge increase in performance but it probably makes CF's initial compiling job a little easier. It's possible. Although that's the point at which I stop worrying about optimization -- I only worry about optimization if I see something on a human scale (i.e. more than a few milliseconds). In some cases the optimization turns out to be a collection of smaller optimizations, but I've never found it to be anything as small as choice of evaluation operators. s. isaac dealey 434.293.6201 new epoch : isn't it time for a change? add features without fixtures with the onTap open source framework http://www.fusiontap.com http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/author/4806Dealey.htm ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:237631 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: maximum number of files in directory
This begs another question that I haven't run into a problem with yet but makes me feel uneasy. What about folders within a folder? I have a folder where I create a new folder for every user on the site and then anything they upload goes into their folder. This is working well so far as we only have around 1000 users. We're using a Windows 2003 Server. As it grows am I going to hit the same kind of limitations or does windows handle the folders well enough that it won't be a problem? Just curious because I've never dealt with the issue before when it comes to folder. Definitely had some headaches with the number of files (especially images) in a folder. Anyone have experiences or thoughts? John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Ken Ferguson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 12:01 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: maximum number of files in directory A customer of mine had a Windows 2K server on a cheesy little box. It had about 15,000 images in one folder and was still serving them up without much if any problem. However, I made the mistake of trying to open the folder in Explorer one day and the machine laughed maniacally then went unconscious. After the reboot, I used the command line to move some things about and reorganize, changed the code in the application and it's continued to work very well to this day with that load spread over about 20 directories arranged by product line and category. A couple of the categories still have folders with 600-700 images in them, but nothing more than that. --Ferg Mike Klostermeyer wrote: I've served images from a Windows 2000 Server that was fine until it reached 20,000-30,000, at which point it became unstable. Mike -Original Message- From: Gilbert Midonnet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 10:19 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: maximum number of files in directory ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:237431 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: DB Pagination Question
I believe this was talked about a couple of months back and some people suggested using a method of selecting not only max rows but to find do a hack to get the start row by using the IN keyword to somehow filter out the ones for the pages you're already past. That would do it on the DB side instead of passing the whole dataset to CF and then using the startrow and maxrows attributes of CF. May want to search the archives. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Jordan Michaels [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 1:49 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: DB Pagination Question Jim Curran wrote: what is the most efficient way to paginate through the results, without hogging memory or re-running the entire query for each page view? Unfortunately, I believe those are your only two options. You either cache the query into resident memory (memory hog) or you run the query at each request. You can do little things like adding the MaxRows attribute to your query (which will lessen the amount of memory used per query), or using views instead of joins (to improve query speed), but I know of no other way to accomplish what you're trying to do then with query caching or a query on every page. HTH! -- Warm regards, Jordan Michaels Vivio Technologies http://www.viviotech.net/ Blue Dragon Alliance Member [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:236255 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: Multiple file upload - flash forms?
I would imagine that you'd have to build it directly in flash. Even then, I'm not sure you could do a multiple upload with a drag-and-drop type control. You could do multiple file selects and that sort of thing, but I don't know that there's a mass file select option in flash. I could be wrong as I have just brushed the surface of the new file controls in flash. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: muzl hed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 10:44 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Multiple file upload - flash forms? I'm working on a photo gallery application and need to provide a user friendly way of uploading multiple image files. I would prefer to NOT use an ActiveX or Java widget so a Flash based solution seems ideal. Can ColdFusion Flash Forms be used to allow users the ability to select multiple files at once? Would I need to build this in Flash rather than Coldfusion? Does anybody have any ideas or inspiration? ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:235318 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: A very specific message board/forum question...
There's definitely a market. Just no one has stepped up and met the need. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Che Vilnonis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 9:10 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: A very specific message board/forum question... I'm all for using the best product as well... but it would be *cool* if it were CF. And honestly, I'm kind of surprised that none exist. The fact that there is no equivalent to phpBB or vBulletin may demonstrate the fact that there is no market for one. And yes, Ray's Galleon rocks! -Original Message- From: Rick Root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 5:49 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: A very specific message board/forum question... Che Vilnonis wrote: I wish an entrepreneurial CF company would create a CF board that matched feature to feature and then some! I'd buy it. I started to with cfmbb (www.cfmbb.org)... but I went down a path I wasn't prepared to go down (making it multilingual) which caused the code to be REALLY hideous. It actually does support some of the phpbb features, but it's so very far from being good. I just fixed the BBML support in it. Honestly, if I decided i wanted to go back to working on a message board, I'd probably scrap cfmbb and use Ray's Galleon Forums as the base product. Rick ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:233078 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: A very specific message board/forum question...
Ray- Sorry, I didn't mean to bash yours. Personally, I think yours is great. The issue that I have is that I have clients who have used PHPBB, YABB, etc. for years and think that's how a forum SHOULD look and act. Anything outside of that, they think it's wrong. Even other PHP boards get scoffed at from the people I deal with. The UI is the biggest piece. I agree with you about not putting all of the frills and the stupid rankings and stuff on the boards, but they seem to find that stuff important, even if it is over complicated. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Raymond Camden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 9:29 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: A very specific message board/forum question... I have to say I'm really surprised by this. I don't mean to say my product is the best, there are other good forums apps out there. But do folks truly think that the only good CF forum would be a phpBB clone? Maybe it's just personal bias, but I've never liked forums built upon it. I don't think they are bad per se - just a bit over complicated. On 2/22/06, Burns, John D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's definitely a market. Just no one has stepped up and met the need. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Che Vilnonis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 9:10 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: A very specific message board/forum question... I'm all for using the best product as well... but it would be *cool* if it were CF. And honestly, I'm kind of surprised that none exist. The fact that there is no equivalent to phpBB or vBulletin may demonstrate the fact that there is no market for one. And yes, Ray's Galleon rocks! -Original Message- From: Rick Root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 5:49 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: A very specific message board/forum question... Che Vilnonis wrote: I wish an entrepreneurial CF company would create a CF board that matched feature to feature and then some! I'd buy it. I started to with cfmbb (www.cfmbb.org)... but I went down a path I wasn't prepared to go down (making it multilingual) which caused the code to be REALLY hideous. It actually does support some of the phpbb features, but it's so very far from being good. I just fixed the BBML support in it. Honestly, if I decided i wanted to go back to working on a message board, I'd probably scrap cfmbb and use Ray's Galleon Forums as the base product. Rick ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:233090 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: A very specific message board/forum question...
Last I heard, someone on the list was working on a direct Open Source port of phpbb to CF. I believe it was being called cfmbb or cfbb or something like that. Not sure what the status is or if it's being continued, but it was an idea at one point. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Jeff Small [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 3:08 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: A very specific message board/forum question... Does anyone have any recommendations for Message Boards/Forums that are CF based that are as close to being like phpBB as possible? I'm in the process of possibly being tasked to take over and redesign a site, and one of the things they've asked for is message board/forum continuity, and they're currently using phpBB. Now, the reason I want to find a CF alternative and hopefully port over their users, is because one of the things they're doing is creating lots of login type stuff sitewide, and I'm naturally going to use CFLogin and the CFLogin framework to validate users sitewide and provide security via that way, tying in session management for a shopping cart, little games, user persistence, etc, and I'd LOVE for the message board to be tied to that user persistence. I'm looking at this board www.phpbb.com and would love to hear from anyone in the CF community who has experience with a CF equivalent. Jeff ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:233027 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: A very specific message board/forum question...
Even easier than passing a username and password would be to generate a session key and set the cookie automatically. PHPBB just generates the key and stores in a cookie and stores it in the database. I've looked into making some CF code to do this, but we're currently having problems with PHPBB on the site we're using and so it hasn't been worth my time since we may not stick with it. The only thing to keep in mind here is that you need to find everywhere on PHPBB where they can control their usernames/passwords and remove those links or point them to your CF pages so that they can't change their PHPBB usernames/passwords to stuff different than your normal site because that will just get confusing. The other way to come at it would be to rewrite the php portions to login based on the scheme you're using on the CF side. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Robert Everland III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 2:25 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: A very specific message board/forum question... I just started using PHPbb on one of my sites and I am quite impressed with it. I don't see anyreason why you wouldn't be able to use the database that PHPbb uses and either import the usernames and passwords into what you're doing in CF or just feed off of the usernames and passwords directly. You could even do something where when they log into ColdFusion and they try to go to the forums that you pass the username and password into a page you create in PHP so that they are automatically logged on. Why reinvent the wheel if you got a nice performance tire ready and willing to be used. Bob ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:233031 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Null Null Error?
I've got a cferror tag in my application.cfm to catch errors and email me with the error information as well as display some text to the user. I've noticed lately that I've got a few errors happening where I get an email and the error diagnostics is something along the lines of :null null brThe error occurred on line 79. I'm looking at the code and can't find a problem. I know that in one instance for sure, the person actually doesn't see an error. Another high-level user of the site is one of the people generating the errors so I finally asked her if she'd been seeing errors and she said she hasn't ever had a problem. So, what's causing me to get an email if the error is empty and nothing is happening to the user? Any ideas? John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:232443 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: Null Null Error?
Yeah, I didn't see anyone with a clear answer so I was curious. FYI, my configuration is: Windows 2003 IIS 6 CFMX 7 Updater 1 This is the only site on the server and the page the error seems to be generated from the most is one of the admin pages that is not hit very often. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Rick Root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 11:32 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Null Null Error? Burns, John D wrote: I've got a cferror tag in my application.cfm to catch errors and email me with the error information as well as display some text to the user. I've noticed lately that I've got a few errors happening where I get an email and the error diagnostics is something along the lines of :null null brThe error occurred on line 79. I'm looking at the code and can't find a problem. I know that in one instance for sure, the person actually doesn't see an error. Another high-level user of the site is one of the people generating the errors so I finally asked her if she'd been seeing errors and she said she hasn't ever had a problem. So, what's causing me to get an email if the error is empty and nothing is happening to the user? Any ideas? I've seen this come up before.. I'm too lazy to read your entire message though, and thus also too lazy to read any of the house of fusion posts on the topic of null null, but this might help =) http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=%22null+null%22+%2Bsite%3Ahouseoffu sion.com Rick ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:232495 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: lincense on a test server?
Obviously, you'd be limited to the 1 IP address to access the Testing server though. Not sure how you do testing, but it may not be the best way to do it. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:232508 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: problems installing 6.1 on windows 2003
That's right DEP. I knew mine looked funny. Yeah, sorry, I can't help you with the ODBC services since I haven't seen that error before. Any chance that maybe the ODBC service is already installed or something? John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Plunkett, Matthew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 11:30 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: problems installing 6.1 on windows 2003 I ran into that DEP problem, and got past it. The installer ran successfully. It is failing in the administrator portion that configures the ODBC service. -Original Message- From: Burns, John D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 11:12 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: problems installing 6.1 on windows 2003 Is this failing during the actual windows installer or the web configuration? I know I've run into problems trying to install CF on a windows 2003 box because of windows blocking that type of installer. I think it's called DES but for some reason that doesn't sound right to me. Someone else should be able to give more details. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Plunkett, Matthew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 10:59 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: problems installing 6.1 on windows 2003 I'm used to Windows 2000, so this may just be a server question. I got the 6.1 installer to install ColdFusion, but I cannot get the administrator wizard to set up the ODBC services. For debugging purposes, I have added Everyone: FC to the website root that holds the administrator and the CFusionMX directory. The Windows firewall is currently stopped. Nothing is showing up in the event log. What could stop the ODBC setup from happening? Thanks, Matthew ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:232509 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: coldfusion and SQL2005
To add to Dave's point, you may get by with this sort of technical thinking for the time being, but in future versions if your budgeting isn't accounting for paying for right amount of licensing, you're gonna be screwed when things like activation kick in. Imagine if you're getting by with a single cal right now for say $200 for a site running thousands of users a day and then the next version requires activation and it tells you that you need a per processor license for your dual processor and now you've suddenly jumped into a 2-4k range for licensing. A 1000% increase doesn't seem like good business. It may not be a big deal if you're in a large corporate environment, but it's an issue if you're a smaller shop. Don't get in bed with a technology you may not be able to afford in a couple of years. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:232545 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
SMS Gateways
I heard some stuff when Macromedia first came out with the gateways for CFMX about the costs of SMS Gateways. Does anyone have round about figures for that? Pricing for the gateway account and then prices per message? I thought that it was pretty expensive but wanted to know if it's changed or if anyone knows more details. I don't need exact numbers, just an idea. Thanks! John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:231267 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: Load Balancing issues
Down these lines, does anyone have a recommendation for a good hardware load balancer? Doesn't have to be top of the line or have a ton of features. Just something reliable with decent features at a good price. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Nathan Strutz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 1:50 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Load Balancing issues On 2/3/06, Russ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The load balancer has to specifically support sticky sessions. I think it does this via some sort of cookie, but I'm not entirely sure. Yes, depending on your HWLB device, it can set a cookie, go by IP address or segment, URL params, etc., aka, literally anything that can be used to identify the end-user. Smart ones will use a combination of these tricks. Now, session replication in CF is enterprise only, but I've been able to get it to work with CF7 Standard. This is not documented or supported by Macromedia AFAIK, but I don't think it's against the EULA. I am planning to write an article on it sometime soon. Look for it in the next few issues of Fusion Authority. You've peaked my interest. I'm wondering how it would be possible... of course there are always workarounds like client variables (yuck!) or other DB storage mechanisms, and at one point i'd thought up a plan to allow web service session lookups between servers. In any event, I'd love to hear what you've got. :) -nathan strutz http://www.dopefly.com/ ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:231269 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: db eamil cleaner
I don't have a script but the basic idea would look like this: Select distinct email addresses and the id with it. Then delete all records whose ID is not in that list. Then, I'd use a regex to loop over the emails, compare them to the regex and if it's not valid, delete the record. I hope that helps. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 3:18 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: db eamil cleaner really only 2 fields: id (primary) and tbl_email, pretty simple ~Dave the disruptor~ google will pay you money to getting rid of ie :) http://explorerdestroyer.com/ http://www.killbillsbrowser.com/ From: Rick Root [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 3:15 PM To: CF-Talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Subject: Re: db eamil cleaner dave wrote: anyone have a good script to run through a mysql db and remove duplicate(but leave 1) and improper emails? That would totally depend on your database design =) Rick ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:231188 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: db eamil cleaner
Hmm, good point. I should look before writing. I know I've done something to that effect but I can't remember the specifics. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 3:45 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: db eamil cleaner The problem with that is when you use distinct and then add the ID field it no longer grabs only one email because the id field is a distinct number as well so you get all the records back not just one of each. ~Dave the disruptor~ google will pay you money to getting rid of ie :) http://explorerdestroyer.com/ http://www.killbillsbrowser.com/ From: Burns, John D [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 3:25 PM To: CF-Talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Subject: RE: db eamil cleaner I don't have a script but the basic idea would look like this: Select distinct email addresses and the id with it. Then delete all records whose ID is not in that list. Then, I'd use a regex to loop over the emails, compare them to the regex and if it's not valid, delete the record. I hope that helps. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 3:18 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: db eamil cleaner really only 2 fields: id (primary) and tbl_email, pretty simple ~Dave the disruptor~ google will pay you money to getting rid of ie :) http://explorerdestroyer.com/ http://www.killbillsbrowser.com/ From: Rick Root Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 3:15 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: db eamil cleaner dave wrote: anyone have a good script to run through a mysql db and remove duplicate(but leave 1) and improper emails? That would totally depend on your database design =) Rick ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:231206 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: Suggestions For dedicated Server hosting
Glad I'm not the only one with that experience. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Jennifer Gavin-Wear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 6:33 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Suggestions For dedicated Server hosting I've always stuck with Pentiums and it has saved me a few times when Application providers have tried to blame the processor, hard for them to say they didn't test on an Intel. My impression of Celeron is that they are terribly slow. Jenny -Original Message- From: Jordan Michaels [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 January 2006 22:19 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Suggestions For dedicated Server hosting Burns, John D wrote: Ewww, a celeron! :-) I don't think I could bear to host anything on that. That's just me though. Lots of bad experiences with celeron processors. So what CPU type do you prefer? Just a curiosity question really. I see a lot of celerons in low-end servers these days - you can get them almost anywhere and their prices are hard to beat. -- Warm regards, Jordan Michaels Vivio Technologies http://www.viviotech.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:230822 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: Including a remote aspx page
You'd still have to use cfhttp or something to make a call to the aspx page over http to make the code execute and then the results would be passed back to the cf page in the cfhttp struct. As others have mentioned, you'd have to have BlueDragon .NET to locally just include an aspx file and have it execute. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Eric Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 8:20 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Including a remote aspx page What about a cfc...aren't you supposed to be able to make an object that can communicate between cf and other web dev languages? Eric -Original Message- From: Robert Munn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 30 January 2006 13:54 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Including a remote aspx page You would need to use BlueDragon .NET edition to execute .aspx pages inside your .cfm pages. Pedro wrote: I wonder if this is possible: I need to use several include files on my .cfm pages. These files are in aspx, and are located on a different server in the network. I've tried using a mapping, but I guess it only works with local files. It is possible to include a remote file, isn't it? Thanks in advance. This may be obvious, but I just can't see it :-) ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:230825 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: Suggestions For dedicated Server hosting
Ewww, a celeron! :-) I don't think I could bear to host anything on that. That's just me though. Lots of bad experiences with celeron processors. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 4:55 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Suggestions For dedicated Server hosting -Original Message- From: applemicro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 3:32 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Suggestions For dedicated Server hosting Does anyone have any suggestions for a dedicated hosting provider? I like www.CrystalTech.com - I have a dedicate Celeron 2.26Ghz, 80 Gig disk and 512 Meg of Ram from them (with shared SQL server and lots of extras) for $80 a month. I've not seen anybody else even remotely as economical and you get quality service to boot. Jim Davis ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:230777 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: Suggestions For dedicated Server hosting
I've used rackspace. Great support and such. Prices are a little higher, but it's kind of a hybrid of you having full control of the server and them maintaining it 100%. Their support is awesome. The real money comes when you start upgrading stuff. Everything is priced per month and it adds up quick. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: applemicro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 3:32 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Suggestions For dedicated Server hosting Does anyone have any suggestions for a dedicated hosting provider? Thanks ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:230778 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: Suggestions For dedicated Server hosting
Yeah, my dedicated servers are Pentium. I would prefer Xeon, but I at least feel comfortable with pentium. Most of my experience with Celerons were in the desktop environment and I could have a Pentium 800 mhz machine and a Celeron 800 mhz machine sitting side by side with the same setup and the pentium would blow it away. I don't know all of the technical aspects as to why, but I've just equated the word celeron with bad in my memory. I could be wrong though. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Jordan Michaels [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 5:19 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Suggestions For dedicated Server hosting Burns, John D wrote: Ewww, a celeron! :-) I don't think I could bear to host anything on that. That's just me though. Lots of bad experiences with celeron processors. So what CPU type do you prefer? Just a curiosity question really. I see a lot of celerons in low-end servers these days - you can get them almost anywhere and their prices are hard to beat. -- Warm regards, Jordan Michaels Vivio Technologies http://www.viviotech.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:230781 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: Scope Woes Virtual Directories
Can you set the variables that need to be shared in a scope that can be shared? Like the server scope? The only other option would be to handle your sessions manually in my mind. Have a table where you generate unique session keys and assign those to the user via a cookie or url variable. Keep track of last accessed time and that sort of thing. Then you can save whatever variables you want into another table and reference by the session key and variable name. It's more DB intensive but it gives the flexibility you want as long as db datatypes can handle the data you're wanting to shared. You can also let CF manage your sessions, but store the vars you want to share in a table with the session key and variable name so you can query it out from any app. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: jonese [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 2:55 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Scope Woes Virtual Directories Howard: Nice idea but the SQL cost is more than we want to deal with. John: Our applications have to have unique names so that we don't have application scoped vars over written (thinks like DSN, file paths etc are stored in the application scope). Any other ideas or thoughts?? I wish CF would just see this directory as a sub directory of each of my sites. Eric Jones On 1/24/06, Burns, John D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You don't need unique application names. Lets say you have one site and at the top of it you have cfapplication name=myApp then you set some application variables somewhere in there. Then, you have another site on the same server, you can put cfapplication name=myApp in that site and it will have access to the variables that are set in the first site. However, keep in mind, you want to be careful about multiple sites setting and getting variables to make sure that you're not relying on a variable that may not have been set. Especially when the server is rebooted or something like that. Many people have the misconception that the cfapplication tag has to go in the Application.cfm but that's not true. It can go at the top of each individual page and you could leave out the Application.cfm altogether. The Application.cfm just makes it easier because it gets called everytime. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: jonese [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 10:59 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Scope Woes Virtual Directories right but how can we do this and still maintain the fact that these files are shared among 50 other sites, with 50 unique application names? On 1/24/06, Burns, John D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It depends on the scope you're using. If you're talking application and session variables, you need cfapplication to define that these pages are part of the application, thus allowing it to access the scoped variables. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: jonese [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 9:59 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Scope Woes Virtual Directories Ok here's the scenario. We have 50 sites on a server using our CMS. Each of these sites has an IIS virtual Directory called global. global is a mapped directory in CF Admin. The problem we are having is when a person referances http://theresite.com/global/ticket/index.cfm the code doesn't have access to many of the scoped variables. Any ideas how we can get global to see all the scoped variables? jonese ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:230407 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: Scope Woes Virtual Directories
James- Very good idea. I didn't think of that one but that would work very well if we're understanding his needs correctly. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: James Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 11:52 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Scope Woes Virtual Directories Create a common app name for all your shared application scope variables. In each site's Application.cfm file, use a CFAPPLICATION tag to get the variables from this scope and put them in the request scope. Then use a second CFAPPLICATION tag to swap the application to the unique one for that site. When you need to write to the common application scope, swap back again with a new CFAPPLICTION tag, etc etc. It will be far quicker that the DB calls. On 1/24/06, jonese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howard: Nice idea but the SQL cost is more than we want to deal with. John: Our applications have to have unique names so that we don't have application scoped vars over written (thinks like DSN, file paths etc are stored in the application scope). Any other ideas or thoughts?? -- CFAJAX docs and other useful articles: http://jr-holmes.coldfusionjournal.com/ ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:230408 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: convert windows media file to flash video on the fly
Yeah, that was my thought. They could upload it and when the upload finishes, it could fire off a scheduled task or something. Does the package have command-line calls? Does it allow resizing and bitrate changing or does it just reencode at the current settings as a different file type? John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Bryan Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 4:49 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: convert windows media file to flash video on the fly FFMPG http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/index.php This is used by many viedo re-encoding packages out thereI use for AVI to MPG conversion...works great!! I would not want this to be an on-the-fly process while the user waits. AVI to MPG conversion takes as long to convert as it does to play the videoupt to twice as long or a bit more... ..so a user is not going and sit and wait all that time whilea video is converted. Of course this conversion may take place at a different time...in which case ignore me ;-) Cheers Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP 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 ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:230301 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: from 6 to 7
Even mySQL would be an upgrade if you can't afford the SQL upgrade. At least it's reliable. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Ray Champagne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 5:17 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: from 6 to 7 Aha! After they finally escalated the issue to the higher-ups, I found the issue. There are two DB apps running in background. They have the server set up so that only one connection can be open at a time when connecting to Access DB's. So, the scripts are timing out when concurrent requests are being made to two different Access DB's. They claim that they worked with Macromedia and this was the solution to a stability issue with Win2003. Whatever - I guess it's time to upgrade to a SQL Server DB. Thanks for the help and suggestions, guys. Russ wrote: Well we all know how bad access can get under load... is it possible that they mapped it using the wrong db type? I believe CF7 introduced MS Access vs MS Access Unicode. Also are persistent connections to the db enabled? How big is the access file? If it's a big file, and persistent connections are not enabled, I can see it timing out form time to time. Russ -Original Message- From: Ray Champagne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 4:55 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: from 6 to 7 Sorry, was out shoveling snow. :( Nope, this is an Access DB. I know that's not the best situation, but like I said, it was my first project, and it worked fine on the other server. And, just so it's known, I'm on a shared host, so there is no access to anything outside my web root, including the administrator. Ray Jim Wright wrote: That was where I was going...I just wanted to eliminate a local db like Access. I don't think this is a shot in the dark...a lot of hosts out there these days are just renting equipment in others co-lo facilities...and often in more than one co-lo facility. You want to make sure they are not pulling your data from one datacenter to anothernot just different segments of their network. On 1/23/06, Burns, John D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As well as the question other have asked about which database are you using, I also wonder if this server sits in a different segment of the network than the previous one. If the server and the database are further removed, they could have network issues that are causing longer delays in the calls to the database. You may want to ask if there is a database server in the same segment as your server that you could use instead of your old one. That's a shot in the dark, but you may want to research it. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Ray Champagne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 3:26 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: from 6 to 7 Hey all: I'm having an issue with my hosting company that I wanted to run by everyone. I've had a site up and running fine at this particular host for quite a while now. While it is not the most elegantly coded site (one of my first large projects), it works fine. To take advantage of newer hosting options (more disk space), we migrated this site from a CF6Win2000 server to a CF7 Win2003 server. Now it seems like even the most menial database queries are sometimes timing out. Mind you, this is not occurring all the time with the same query, it seems to be happening with different queries at different times. I'm now in a debate with said host - they are telling me that it's because of my coding in general, they say I need to upgrade my coding to adapt to CF7. I say this is pure BS, a copout answer. From what I know, the release of CF7 was more a features release, so this shouldn't matter, right? Ray ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:230303 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: convert windows media file to flash video on the fly
Bobby- That would work exactly the way I want. Our video conversions would only happen 1 time for account holders and wouldn't be something that would happen a lot. It's just that right now, I have to do them by hand and that sucks. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Bobby Hartsfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 5:19 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: convert windows media file to flash video on the fly From what I gather, FFmpeg is a command line utility though I've never used it, I have used Riva... which uses FFmpeg to do its conversions. As for CF, no. you'd probably have to write your own if that's the way you wanted to go with it. But encoding video files can be pretty strenuous on a machine and take quite a while. You'd probably be better off keeping a directory of the video files and use schedules to fire off a nightly task to convert video files from a specific directory or something. ...:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com -Original Message- From: Burns, John D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 4:47 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: convert windows media file to flash video on the fly Bobby- Is this accessible via command line or something? I can't find any info on that or any way that it could be called from CF. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Bobby Hartsfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 4:38 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: convert windows media file to flash video on the fly http://www.flashstreamworks.com/archive.php?post_id=1095873165 Riva just updated their free FLV Video encoder to version 1.2. The encoder is based on the FFMPEG video conversion command line tool (GNU LGPL). FFMPG http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/index.php .:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com -Original Message- From: Jason Rogoz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 4:31 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: convert windows media file to flash video on the fly Are they any plugings available that would allow one to upload a windows media file and convert it to a flash video file? Jason Rogoz Programmer / Analyst Zoom Communications Inc. Calgary, Alberta, Canada Office: (403) 229-2511 Fax: (403) 229-4211 Toll Free: 1-866-698-8932 www.zoomcom.ca http://www.zoomcom.ca/ ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:230304 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: Scope Woes Virtual Directories
It depends on the scope you're using. If you're talking application and session variables, you need cfapplication to define that these pages are part of the application, thus allowing it to access the scoped variables. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: jonese [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 9:59 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Scope Woes Virtual Directories Ok here's the scenario. We have 50 sites on a server using our CMS. Each of these sites has an IIS virtual Directory called global. global is a mapped directory in CF Admin. The problem we are having is when a person referances http://theresite.com/global/ticket/index.cfm the code doesn't have access to many of the scoped variables. Any ideas how we can get global to see all the scoped variables? jonese ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:230312 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: Scope Woes Virtual Directories
You don't need unique application names. Lets say you have one site and at the top of it you have cfapplication name=myApp then you set some application variables somewhere in there. Then, you have another site on the same server, you can put cfapplication name=myApp in that site and it will have access to the variables that are set in the first site. However, keep in mind, you want to be careful about multiple sites setting and getting variables to make sure that you're not relying on a variable that may not have been set. Especially when the server is rebooted or something like that. Many people have the misconception that the cfapplication tag has to go in the Application.cfm but that's not true. It can go at the top of each individual page and you could leave out the Application.cfm altogether. The Application.cfm just makes it easier because it gets called everytime. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: jonese [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 10:59 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Scope Woes Virtual Directories right but how can we do this and still maintain the fact that these files are shared among 50 other sites, with 50 unique application names? On 1/24/06, Burns, John D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It depends on the scope you're using. If you're talking application and session variables, you need cfapplication to define that these pages are part of the application, thus allowing it to access the scoped variables. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: jonese [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 9:59 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Scope Woes Virtual Directories Ok here's the scenario. We have 50 sites on a server using our CMS. Each of these sites has an IIS virtual Directory called global. global is a mapped directory in CF Admin. The problem we are having is when a person referances http://theresite.com/global/ticket/index.cfm the code doesn't have access to many of the scoped variables. Any ideas how we can get global to see all the scoped variables? jonese ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:230329 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
