I agree. I'm going to have to look into it more. The devil is in the details and I don't have a heck of a lot more than what I posted in the original. I told her (my boss) to get them on our service but that would require some effort and that's something that she avoids like the plague. She's much rather 'delegate' (read: pawn, dump).
This might actually be fun. You want to know what they have me doing 90% of the time? Writing and formatting <cfmail> tags and content!! They think that being able to automatically send e-mails is just wonderful!!! It takes me like 30 minutes to write the code and three days making adjustments that should never have needed to be made in the first place. I loathe asking them what they want in the e-mail because it usually involves pulling teeth. I feel what skills I have slipping away. This is the honest to God truth here. When this whole topic started, she asked my if I can 'simply' <cfmail> the content to the web page!!! Meaning, when the page is called, have the cfmail tag email the content of the page to the browser!!!!! Amazing!! Michael Corrigan Programmer Endora Digital Solutions www.endoradigital.com 630/942-5211 x-134 ----- Original Message ----- From: Benjamin Falloon To: CF-Community Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 5:31 PM Subject: Re: An actual CF Question It could be simple though... you could make an ultra simple template, wack the html into a db table, load the layout from the db table into a wysiwyg editor like ezedit and then just post the content of that form to a page that updates the db table with the new html, writes the contents to a text file using cfcontent, uses cffile to rename the file from .txt to .htm and then use cfftp to throw it over to the remote server. Simple! Then, all the client has has to do is load the appropriate page (if you had more than one) and edit the page like it was a word document. Benjamin ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 9:13 AM Subject: Re: An actual CF Question > YEAH!!!! I'm glad that it's not like, a really simple thing to do. I > was really afraid that I was going to get responses like... > > uhh...dude? All you have to do is nothing really because there is > nothing easier to do in ColdFusion that what you are asking it to do!!! > > My initial idea was to use cfhttp and then output the .filecontent. But > I think the cfftp way is probably better because the content is not > likely to change too regularly and I think cfhttp is pretty slow. > > Thanks folks!! > > Michael Corrigan > Programmer > Endora Digital Solutions > www.endoradigital.com > 630/942-5211 x-134 > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Benjamin Falloon > To: CF-Community > Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 5:04 PM > Subject: Re: An actual CF Question > > > You could run the app and control panel from your servers then modify > the > app to use cfftp to throw dynamically created but 'static' pages back > over > to their server... > > that would do the trick. but changing host providers would be > easier... > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 8:51 AM > Subject: An actual CF Question > > > > We have an application that allows clients to update the content of > > their websites and that application is on our server. We have one > > client that is on a completely different hosting company, server > etc. > > My boss wants to know if they can use our application (that's on our > > server) to update content on their site (a different server). Their > > site is currently static and want to switch over to something more > > dynamic but don't want to switch hosting companies. The databases > are > > on a different server and everything. Can I do this? I've never > been > > asked this before and never had to even think about it so i don't > know. > > > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Michael Corrigan > > Programmer > > Endora Digital Solutions > > www.endoradigital.com > > 630/942-5211 x-134 > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-community@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
