CFCs, Scopes Thread Safety code review

I am currently on a performance crusade and have been rewriting lots of my current projects. One of the biggest changes as a result has been the way I architect my applications. I have started to use the application scope to cache commonly used components. For example...

Re: CFCs, Scopes Thread Safety code review

Sorry it was not clear about how I was catching. The CFCs are indeed created inside the onApplicationStart function (application.cfc) Also re traffic: it's not a large amount I would agree, but for a small ecommerce store it does handle £50,000 of orders per month so for them that traffic is

Re: CFCs, Scopes Thread Safety code review

@ Jason: thanks for the links I will check them out. I have been learning ColdBox over the last few months. It was cool until I found out half way into my project I could not call the layout without the handler. I don't that defeats the point of MVC but I needed it to brake the rules just once

Re: CFCs, Scopes Thread Safety code review

Hi again Isaac, you just hit the nail on the head, the query given is just 1 of hundreds in that CFC but the problem of the user deleting a category happen sometime back. Halloween products after the season had ended and a customer placed an order they should not. I put it down to a catching

Re: How to deal with multiple sites within one

i think this is more of a IIS issue than CF. yes you can use CGI to redirect the user but why do it at this level. if each domain is on the same server you can just setup one ColdFusion datasource then each domain can access the same database and its content. if you want to keep it secure

Re: CFCs, Scopes Thread Safety code review

yes thats where query in the add to cart comes into play, from now on when they add an item I check to see if it is active AND active = 'on' lol anyhow again thank for the help :) ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most

Re: CFCs, Scopes Thread Safety code review

I figured that was the case, but that still doesn't eliminate the race condition. The cart lives for the duration of their session, which is like 20 minutes or so. So the item that was active when they added it to their cart could become inactive at any time after it's added and before they check

Re: market rates

this question depends on what part the the UK you are. we had someone on a contract on £35 per hour but that was a short contract only 3 months and we really needed them. we advertised for someone with 2 years CF experience last year to work fully time at our offices, we found it VERY hard to

Re: Best performace/practice for storing temp data

I think a struct in a session is so much easier first you dont have to worry about cleaning up the database after the uses has finished or if the user drops out you dont have to create tasks to find redundancy data. you can have just as much hassle storing temp data in a database as in a

form inside a cfpresentationslide?

can I create a form inside a cfpresentationslide? As it does not work for my, nothing is clickable! cfpresentationslide title=Signup h1Signup/h1 form name=test input type=submit /form /cfpresentationslide many thanks ~|

Timeout in CFHTTP

Hi all, Having some problems with trying to catch an error when my http post times out. I have followed the livedocs and included a try and catch statement however when it times out I get an white page with error 500 tag exceeded etc I assumed that a try statement would overrule any error

Re: Timeout in CFHTTP

I put it to a high 200 seconds on a url I knew would time out, however I get the error after around 30 seconds so its just ignoring the timeout on the CFHTTP call. does requesttimeout come before? which takes precedence? ~|

UML Modeling

Hi a quick question, what tools do you guys/girls used for UML Modeling, am I looking for a good software package to help speed me up a little. thanks ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic

CSV File Upload. best way?

Hi everyone, I have a CSV file I need to take the values out of and update a database with them. Any suggestion or best ways to do this? ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date

richtext edit a file and save?

I want to load a html page into my editor exmaple below but it just will not work, anyone have any better ideas? What I need is a system where the file can be edited and update saved cfset urlAddress=http://www.mydomain.co.uk/afile.html; cfhttp url=#urladdress# method=GET resolveurl=Yes

scheduled tasks and performance, whats the impact on the server?

A quick question re scheduled tasks and performance/load on the server. My server is NOT running slow however what worries me is how many scheduled tasks I can see in the administrator (25 of them). At what point does this become a problem or am I fussing over nothing? Many Thanks :)

Re: scheduled tasks and performance, whats the impact on the server?

Thanks for all your answers. The main ones are all created by Sava CMS set to run every 15 mins I have no idea what they do. the rest are my own and is just simple code to run or refresh my email marketing system in the middle of the night.

coldfusion datefield mac problem

I have a very strange problem which only affects mac users. In my datefield, on macs its shows as 2000 not 2009. after looking around it seems to be a bug maybe with CF, is this true? for example the following code on a pc shows the date as 01 April 09 on a mac it shows 2000 cfinput

Re: coldfusion datefield mac problem

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Re: coldfusion datefield mac problem

Yes client side of the same application same URL online You meant that the error occurs on client Mac users of the same application, not of installations of your application on Mac CF servers, right ? Then, since the CF language doesn't know nor it cares for the type of browser, the error may

show x words not x characters

Ho every one, bit of a simple question, my website shows a snippet of text using the 'left(myvar,30)' function in ColdFusion. however this some times cuts off words mid flow, is there a function in CF that shows x words and not x characters? thanks in advance

Re: show x words not x characters

There should be a UDF for that @ cflib.org I would search for word count or some such. G! On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Glyn Jackson glyn.jack...@newebia.co.ukwrote: thanks ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8

CFDIV external

Can this be done? I am using cfdiv so all my links are like so... ColdFusion.navigate('paymenterror.cfm','productlistDiv'); This makes sure all content is submitted back to the cfdiv named 'productlistDiv' Now my problem is... I have form which I enter a URL to which an external API posts

Re: CFDIV external

Thanks Ray. You were right but I did find a very messy way of doing without have to make a http post. I used the coldfusion.navigate to post the form and display the results at the same time. javaScript:ColdFusion.navigate('#Response.ACSURL#','mydiv',null,null,'post','myform');return false;

Coldbox and ColdSpring How to?

I am trying to get my head around ColdBox and ColdSpring (manly ColdSpring) so please be kind and any example code with comments would be much appreciate. My question I have a CFC called model/common.cfc This CFC contains all my SQL code that interacts with the database. However in

Re: Coldbox and ColdSpring How to?

Hi Sean, thanks for the reply. Quote: Common.cfc has to be managed by ColdSpring for the dependency injection to take place So the dependency injection would be... bean id=common class=model.Common property name=dsnBean ref bean=dsnBean / /property property name=ConfigBean ref

Re: Coldbox and ColdSpring How to?

PS would i also not have to change my User Service as all i want to do is call my User Service and have common available otherwise I dont see the point i can set this in init method. i.e would it be something like so only the user service is called... User Service cfcomponent name=User

Re: Coldbox and ColdSpring How to?

sorry, so do i go back to how I was before... bean id=Common class=model.Common property name=dsnBean ref bean=dsnBean / /property /bean bean id=UserService class=model.UserService / but then how does UserService know what common?

Re: Coldbox and ColdSpring How to?

how about below would this allow me to call any method from common.cfc using the user service bean. beans bean id=coldboxFactory class=coldbox.system.extras.ColdboxFactory / bean id=ConfigBean factory-bean=ColdboxFactory factory-method=getConfigBean / bean id=dsnBean

Re: Coldbox and ColdSpring How to?

I think I have it now in my handler... variables.oUserService = getPlugin(ioc).getBean(UserService).getUserGateway(); and i now see all common.cfc methods is this right? ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with

Re: Coldbox and ColdSpring How to?

Thanks Mr Corfield, perfect. last question I promise (fingers crossed). I am just playing with ColdSpring, however maybe I am missing the point with what I have done in the example so far. this could have been all done in the init() method or I could have extended the CFC or I could have

Re: Coldbox and ColdSpring How to?

I see, thanks for taking the time to explain, you have been very helpful. Glyn. On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:36 AM, Glyn Jacksonglyn.jack...@newebia.co. uk wrote: what are the benefits of working this way, am just ignorant having never used it or AOP before in CF. Any docs online you can

using my injected bean within a CFC

Hi, I have my DNS bean injected into my CFC, I have used a setter. how do I now use the dns details now 'within' my CFC. do I create it in my init method? I want to do something like the following... cfquery name=test datasource=#instance.dsn.getName()# etc.

Re: using my injected bean within a CFC

Hi, I did try that with... cffunction name=init access=public returntype=any hint=constructor cfargument name=dsnBean type=any / cfset variables.instance['dsnBean'] = arguments.dsnBean / cfreturn this / /cffunction however I just get the error Element DSNBEAN is

Re: using my injected bean within a CFC

the parameter to the init function was not passed in for some reason? ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive:

Re: using my injected bean within a CFC

I like this example (below) but for some reasons its not being passed... cffunction name=init access=public returntype=any hint=constructor cfargument name=dsnBean type=any required=yes / cfset variables.instance['dsnBean'] = arguments.dsnBean / cfreturn this /

Re: using my injected bean within a CFC

Hi Dominic, I have tried... bean id=dsnBean factory-bean=ColdboxFactory factory-method=getDatasource constructor-arg name=alias valueDBDetails/value /constructor-arg /bean bean id=userService class=model.UserService / bean id=userGateway

Re: using my injected bean within a CFC

I know it exsits as if I go back to the setter version i can dump the bean in the CFC cffunction name=setdsnBean access=public returntype=void output=false _wireme=ioc cfargument name=dsnBean type=any required=true hint=Set DNS Beand / cfset variables.instance['dsnBean'] =

Re: using my injected bean within a CFC

Still not sure why I am getting this error since it should have been passed. any more ideas? thanks ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists

Re: using my injected bean within a CFC

Restarted and used the dump as suggested and I get... struct [empty] strange! If I was to go back the to setdnsBean i can dump in that function and its there however I want to inject using the init It should work again just in cause I will post the full code below, if you have any more ideas

Re: using my injected bean within a CFC

do you or anyone else have any more ideas on this? Thanks :) ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive:

Re: using my injected bean within a CFC

Hm, time to try the ColdSpring list I'd say. Maybe its a ColdBox issue! ?And while you wait for an answer from there, use the property method and move on ;) Will do, thanks for your help :) Dominic 2009/7/26 Glyn Jackson glyn.jack...@newebia.co.uk do you or anyone else have any more

singletons ColdSpring and ColdBox

I have another question regarding ColdSpring and ColdBox. I will be using it to create a bean on the init() method of my handler, I will not create the object again after that. This bean contains all my SQL and database interactions (example below). My question is, singletons. is this ok, I

Re: singletons ColdSpring and ColdBox

So is my common.cfc classed as a singleton? ColdSpring should generally only be used to create and manage singletons, if that answers the question. mxAjax / CFAjax docs and other useful articles: http://www.bifrost.com.au/blog/

Re: singletons ColdSpring and ColdBox

Sorry it makes more sense now I have read this... http://www.coldspringframework.org/coldspring/examples/quickstart/index.cfm?page=factory ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on

venture into OO, well sort of, need help!

The more I venture into OO type of design the more I have to get my head around todays its getters and setters. I think I am 'getting' in to the swing of this but I could do with some advice please! any advice and help is welcome! I have no idea if I am just making this up as I go along

Re: venture into OO, well sort of, need help!

@Matt Quackenbush thanks so much for taking the time to help me out :) that makes sense. kinda starting to get it. I think its going to be one of those things I need to do real world things with before I see the benefits. at the moment all I seem to be doing is adding extra overhead lol. is

ColdBox and ColdSpring Login

leading on from my last example which would be the best way to the following... 1) get the username from the database to store in a session 2) log them in I was thinking about added the following in my handler after the validation checks.. variables.adminUsersService.doLogin(userBean);//Login

Re: ColdBox and ColdSpring Login

Thanks Kevan quote: user object would be stored in the session rather than just the username. Interesting idea, thanks makes way more sense. PS, thank you for the link, just what I was looking for. Glyn. if I should be do this all in my service, or should I come out again with the username

Illudium PU36, queryRowToStruct?

Hi, Thank you to everyone on house of fusion who has been very helpful so far with my stupid questions. I have another ;) I was looking at some code I generated for a gateway by Illudium PU36. The read and update functions do not make any sense in that it does not have any return for me to

Re: Illudium PU36, queryRowToStruct?

quote: Because CF passes CFCs by reference, your adminusers object will magically have all of the updated info in it wherever you called readAdminUsers() from. really, no way? so my admin object will have the data populated using the getters and setters! thats cool! so let me see if I

Re: Illudium PU36, queryRowToStruct?

This really works! Look at me I am starting to get this (is it really sad this is making me smile with joy lol) I love this object stuff! So here is what I am doing, I have just checked my user exist, got their details and set there session in 4 lines of code in my handler! Now that's

Re: Illudium PU36, queryRowToStruct?

Glad its not just me. Thanks again for you help, I am sure I will have more questions but I have a bit to be going on with now for a while at least. Glyn ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let

returning all table records ColdBox ColdSpring via an object?

Confused about how I would go about returning all records from a table from my DAO? this is how I would return a record with an ID (see below), however when returning all records needed for a cfloop i am not sure. handler variables.adminUsersService.getUserByID(userBean); -- access service

Re: returning all table records ColdBox ColdSpring via an object?

Thanks for the reply. reading my question back it did not make much sense, so you did well to work out what I was on about lol! I'd go with a query unless you have a particular reason not to. no reason, that would be the way I would normally do it, however if I wanted to try and keep this

Re: returning all table records ColdBox ColdSpring via an object?

@ Judah McAuley thanks very detailed response. its just a simple record set to display. So what your saying makes sense. ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of

submit one big form post of all tabs

I want to submit the data in all tabs as one big form post. this does not seem possible I had tried below and put my cfform tag around the whole cflayout but all i get now is he tag must be nested inside a cfform tag. which is not the case lol cfoutputh1#Event.getValue('pageTitle','Please

Re: submit one big form post of all tabs

someone must have done this before? using tab layout in CF8 had tabs with just one form post submitting all data in all tabs at once? ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the

Re: submit one big form post of all tabs

yes that would work but not with using includes with the tabs or source. the issue is that when you do it with an include it does not work due to CF thinking you dont have a completed form Sorry I meant wrapping the whole set of tabs in 'form tags' ... I didn't mean to confuse you :)

Re: submit one big form post of all tabs

I see, never mind back to the drawing board. thanks. ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive:

cfinput type=datefield

I am using CF8 and want to use cfinput type=datefield but without cfinput does that make sense? ok I want to use ext popup calender for a input box but not via cfinput tag i.e. input type=datefield can I still use the library without cfinput? if so can soneone give me an example? Thanks

Re: cfinput type=datefield

I did try that but because I am using cflayout on the same page it all goes wrong coldfusion gets confused to which ext its using or should I sat the JS does. wondering it we can just yap into the ext1 JS bot use the paths or URL's that CF uses.

Re: cfinput type=datefield

Thanks Think I will try the jquery ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive:

Re: submit one big form post of all tabs

_ http://blog.cutterscrossing.com On 8/28/2009 7:57 AM, Glyn Jackson wrote: I see, never mind back to the drawing board. thanks. ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House

CFMENU - message submenu collapsed. click to expand submenu

could someone cut and paste the the code below and tell me if you see the message submenu collapsed. click to expand submenu under products items. I dont remember CFMENU having this message before and I cannot get rid of it! running CF 8.01 cfmenu bgColor=##c0c0c0 cfmenuitem

Re: CFMENU - message submenu collapsed. click to expand submenu

very strange. it is def 100% being generated by CFMENU tag for me! ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive:

Re: CFMENU - message submenu collapsed. click to expand submenu

you can see it happening here http://demo.salesmaxx.co.uk/test.cfm only code on the page is cfmenu bgColor=##c0c0c0 cfmenuitem display=Adobe href=http://www.adobe.com; / cfmenuitem display=Products cfmenuitem display=ColdFusion href=http://www.adobe.com/go/coldfusion; /

CF TAG that allow me to dump server specs?

Hi All, Is there a CF tag I don't know about which will allow me to dump my server specs like memory, processor speed etc Thanks :) ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the

Re: CF TAG that allow me to dump server specs?

Thanks ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:326062 Subscription:

Hot Fixes Explained

After installing the new hotfix chf8010002.jar in my libs/update folder I have the following... chf8010002.jar hf801-1875.jar hf801-1878.jar hf801-71634.jar now it states in cfadmin the update level is hf801-1875.jar (is this the case? what about the chf8010002 I just installed?) in the tech

Re: Hot Fixes Explained

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Re: Hot Fixes Explained

Hi Tom how are you? That makes sense, its a mess! anyhow spent the time doing a bit of research this is what I have installed... chf8010003.jar - latest hotfix hf801-71634.jar- a fix for CFLAYOUT which came with new CSS so cannot be deleted hf801-1875.jar - JRun Security Hotfixes

Its Friday please dont be mad! - checkbox which corresponded with the value?

Going a bit mad! I should know how to do this but my brain is not working today when the form below is submitted if the checkbox is checked I want to update the option on the valueId (which is a hidden field) and keep looping all the results only updating option have is ticked. however

How to Handle Objects when Doing Several Updates and Once?

I am trying to work with objects and better understand how to use them. So far it has been straight forward when updating/creating/deleting one record at a time. But I now need to update many records at once is getting a bit tricky. I simplified version of what I am doing so far is below...

Re: How to Handle Objects when Doing Several Updates and Once?

Thanks you, yes thats the way I was thinking, makes sense. ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive:

can I do the following entirety in script? (CF8)

Hi, cfscript (ColdFusion 8) can I do the following entirety in script? cfloop index=i list=#listToUpdate# DELIMITERS=, value = #i# /cfloop Thanks ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let

CFFileServlet/_cf_image why?

I am using CFIMAGE do resize images and use write to browser to view them I have noticed that when I view the image the path is something like this... /CFFileServlet/_cf_image/_cfimg-x how long does it say in this directory for? does it delete them when its done? I can still navigate to

Re: Coldbox plugins vs interceptors for user management

Interceptors make requests in specific execution points in which it can process, pre-process, post-process and redirect requests, perfect for security! Think of interceptors as listeners to any request in your application.

Re: CFFileServlet/_cf_image why?

Are you sure it deletes it afterwards I.E http://www.safe4sure.co.uk/CFFileServlet/_cf_image/_cfimg-7294859208909333435.PNG its still there? do you set how CF treats these files in CFadmin? ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion

Re: can I do the following entirety in script? (CF8)

barneyb thats interesting thanks ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive:

Re: CFFileServlet/_cf_image why?

O went back 5 mins later to that URL and got... 404 Not Found so there must be some sort of time frame before its deleted, anyone know what this is? ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let

Re: CFFileServlet/_cf_image why?

LOL, set myself up for that one :) ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive:

Whats wrong with this SQL?

Any reason why below does now work? no errors it just does not do what it states. it should look at all valueId's in the database and if its not in the list delete it, simple, right, so why does it not work? DELETE FROM options WHERE valueId NOT IN cfqueryparam value=#arguments.list#

Re: Whats wrong with this SQL?

PS the list looks like... 1,2,3,4,5,6 etc ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive:

Re: Whats wrong with this SQL?

simple when you know how. Thank you! ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive:

ColdFusion Server keeps falling down!

We have recently moved to a new virtual server, since the move we have been having issues with ColdFusion almost everyday. What seems random, ColdFusion slows down and then stops responding all together. I then try and restart the service and it errors stating CF cannot be stopped as it's busy

Re: ColdFusion Server keeps falling down!

Old server has gone, what figures should we be looking at? ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive:

REReplace Statment Help

I am just going over some old code, I found the following... productPageName = Replace(#FORM.pageName#, ,-,All); productPageName = REReplace(#productPageName#,[.*+?^${}()|[\]/\\],,All); its seems like its create a page name but removed spaces and special characters i.e. this page! becomes

Re: REReplace Statment Help

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AJAX CFGRID will not sort by column?

Can anyone spot what is wrong here? my AJAX grid IS working but when I try and sort the columns (by clicking in the grid) I get the following error... Error Executing Database Query. :http: Invoking CFC: /admin/coldboxproxy.cfc , function: getAllproducts , arguments:

Re: AJAX CFGRID will not sort by column?

Found the issues on this line... ORDER BY cfqueryparam cfsqltype=cf_sql_varchar value=#ARGUMENTS.gridsortcolumn# cfqueryparam cfsqltype=cf_sql_varchar value=#ARGUMENTS.gridsortdir# it seems to work without the cfqueryparam. can anyone tell me why this is the case?

Re: AJAX CFGRID will not sort by column?

Thanks Ray, seems strange, I did not know that. ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive:

fusebox layout adding to csv?

Hi I have an old fusebox app i am working on. it outputs a csv file with data however the html (layout) is also getting added to the csv? anyone know why. cfsetting enablecfoutputonly=yes cfscript function cleanField(sField){ sField = (replace(sField,,,;,All));

convert this cfscript back to tag?

Hi all, could someone convert this cfscript back to tag? for(i=1;i lte listlen(#form.whatToUpdate#,,);i++){ tempVal = #listgetat(form.whatToUpdate,i,,)#; form.ID = #tempVal#; //Option ID form.newRank = form[rank_ #tempVal#]; } thanks

detect multiples?

I have a loop which counts, I need to detect multiples of 6 i.e loop count is it a multiple of 6? true else do nothing is there a tag that does this? ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let

ColdFusion debug stored procedures

I have always had problem with the way ColdFusion reports errors in stored procedures and I was wondering how other CF’ers go about debugging the same sort of errors (without costly software). For example, the following ColdFusion error is generated on a stored procedure... Application

Web Service SSO

I need to know where I start for the following I have been given a Web Service SSO URL test against, I need to open a new window and send login details accross. all i have is the xml. my question is in CF how to i go about this? CFHTTP, xml etc? below is what I hev been given Envelope

Code Review?

I have been asked to looked as some code within this page is below. I have no idea what its doing however I was told its needed but keeps giving me errors. is your opinion why does this exists? cfparam name=referer_itemID default=0 cfparam name=referer_popupID default=0 cfif

Re: Code Review?

yep the error was because of a users firewall not sending the http_referer so the value was - which mid function does not like. ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of

CFDIV does not work in IE8 and any one review domain?

Hi could someone take a look at the following domain... http://www.she-says.net/ In Firefox, Chrome etc the cfdiv works however in IE 8 when you click submit, read answer then it brakes coming back i.e. does not display. any reason why this happens in IE8? code below cfajaximport

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