cleaning up a word file
i have a user that will be using a mac and copying & pasting code from word files, any good tags to make sure that code is cleaned up good? I remember seeing something somewhere but cant remember where ty! [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: Java-CF MX 6.1 (Enterprise edition) integration
Thanks Kola, I am interested in using some jar files (tag libraries) but I will also need to call some funciton stored in class files (directly from cfscript). My main concern is drawbacks that might be caused when trying to integrate java function in CF. [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: HitBox for web traffic/marketing
came across this cgi.variable the other day, not sure if this helps or not but: ColdFusion with Proxy detection: [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
RE: Dreamweaver seeing database
No, Dreamweavers sees none of the datasources. (snippets, etc.) What does "IIRC" mean? -Original Message- From: C. Hatton Humphrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 5:18 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Dreamweaver seeing database > I have loaded CFMx & DreamweaverMx on a newly formatted laptop. > CF Administrator sees the datasource, but Dreamweaver does not...any > thoughts on how to proceed or where to look for the problem? Thanks Does Dreamweaver see any of the datasources? IIRC you need to open up a ColdFusion site and specify the RDS login for Dreamweaver to connect properly. Hatton [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: cfscript'd switch with multi-params?
I like that better myself. Thx for sharing. And I noticed you weren't using braces around the case statement. Nice that I can get rid of those. Been using 'em since I learned this. Cheers, -- --Matt Robertson-- MSB Designs, Inc. [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: CF Compatible Menus/Products?
E-mail me off list at angolden @ airdatanetworks.com and I will send you the menu system I hacked together from some freely available _javascript_ code. It code use a little cleanup as it was quick and dirty, but I haven't had time and allows lots of nested menus. I am currently looking for a good freely avaialable js based dhtml menu system to improve upon this system. It's appearance is configurable via js(and could be modified to be configurable via CF), it supports lots of nesting(I don't remember the limit of the js I started with) and works pretty damn well for a 2 hour hack. Andrew Golden [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
RE: cfscript'd switch with multi-params?
This is how I learned to format switchblocks, and I like it. It makes it
very obvious what leads up to what, especially since a scripted switch is so
different from a CFSWITCH in how it executes.
switch (variables.switchParam) {
case "1":
case "2":
case "3":
parameters.foo[1] = parameters.foo[1] + 1;
break;
}
Cheers,
barneyb
> -Original Message-
> From: Matt Robertson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 4:15 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: re: cfscript'd switch with multi-params?
>
> Never mind. RTFM.
>
> switch (variables.SwitchParam)
> {
> case "1": case "3": case "3": {
> parameters.foo[1]=parameters.foo[1]+1;
> break; }
> } // end switch
>
> Clunky, but works.
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re: cfscript'd switch with multi-params?
Never mind. RTFM.
switch (variables.SwitchParam)
{
case "1": case "3": case "3": {
parameters.foo[1]=parameters.foo[1]+1;
break; }
} // end switch
Clunky, but works.
--
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cfscript'd switch with multi-params?
I'm trying to do this in cfscript:
switch (variables.SwitchParam)
{
case "1,2,3": {
parameters.foo[1]=parameters.foo[1]+1;
break; }
} // end switch
which is similar to this:
This is a chopped-down snippet. There's more of course. The trouble
is that I can't get the cfscript version to take multiple parms. I've
tried a few variations. Is this not supported in cfscript'd switches?
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RE: JRUN and ColdFusion MX
> Is there another list for JRUN or would this be the list > for JRUN? There is a separate JRun list hosted by houseoffusion.com. > Does anyone have a recommendation for a book on JRUN so > that I can get up and running soon as possible. To the best of my knowledge, there are no books specifically about the latest version of JRun. In general, writing applications for JRun doesn't seem to be much different than writing them for any other J2EE application server, so if that's what you're looking for you might just pick up a book on that general topic. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ phone: 202-797-5496 fax: 202-797-5444 [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: Dreamweaver seeing database
> I have loaded CFMx & DreamweaverMx on a newly formatted laptop. > CF Administrator sees the datasource, but Dreamweaver does not...any > thoughts on how to proceed or where to look for the problem? Thanks Does Dreamweaver see any of the datasources? IIRC you need to open up a ColdFusion site and specify the RDS login for Dreamweaver to connect properly. Hatton [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: JRUN and ColdFusion MX
Hi, Why not have a look at the Cold Fusion Developer Journal (http://www.sys-con.com/coldfusion/). Over the last couple of months there were a number of articles on setting up JRun with CFMX as a J2EE application. Here you can find a bunch of resources I put together on the topic: http://gregs.tcias.co.uk/jrun/jrun_resources.php Hope this helps Greg >All, > >Is there another list for JRUN or would this be the list for JRUN? >Does anyone have a recommendation for a book on JRUN so that I can get >up and running soon as possible. > >Thanks, >Troy > >-- >Troy Simpson > Applications Analyst/Programmer, OCPDBA, MCSE, SCSA >North Carolina State University Libraries >Campus Box 7111 | Raleigh | North Carolina >ph.919.515.3855 | fax.919.513.3330 >E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: HitBox for web traffic/marketing
hehe...thanks Mattjust figured that one after looking at their code. So it looks like they use a combo of IP address and cookies to determine unique visitsboth have their obvious flaws. Does anyone know of a tag/UDF/CFC/code snippet that could parse http_referrer info to determine which search engine a user came from (assuming they came from one at all) and what keywords they used (sucked from the URL params from the referrer)? I know I could write it...but finding all the variants of search engine referrers etc. would take some leg work ;-) Cheers Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP & Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. t. 250.920.8830 e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Macromedia Associate Partner www.macromedia.com - Vancouver Island ColdFusion Users Group Founder & Director www.cfug-vancouverisland.com - Original Message - From: Matt Robertson To: CF-Talk Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 3:00 PM Subject: Re: HitBox for web traffic/marketing >Does anyone know how to identify unique users hitting a site via the same proxy >server? HitBox plants a cookie if it doesn't find one already. Run Spybot on yourself and you'll probably find several. -- --Matt Robertson-- MSB Designs, Inc. [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: HitBox for web traffic/marketing
>Does anyone know how to identify unique users hitting a site via the same proxy >server? HitBox plants a cookie if it doesn't find one already. Run Spybot on yourself and you'll probably find several. -- --Matt Robertson-- MSB Designs, Inc. [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Dreamweaver seeing database
I have loaded CFMx & DreamweaverMx on a newly formatted laptop. CF Administrator sees the datasource, but Dreamweaver does not...any thoughts on how to proceed or where to look for the problem? Thanks [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
JRUN and ColdFusion MX
All, Is there another list for JRUN or would this be the list for JRUN? Does anyone have a recommendation for a book on JRUN so that I can get up and running soon as possible. Thanks, Troy -- Troy Simpson Applications Analyst/Programmer, OCPDBA, MCSE, SCSA North Carolina State University Libraries Campus Box 7111 | Raleigh | North Carolina ph.919.515.3855 | fax.919.513.3330 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: HitBox for web traffic/marketing
Does anyone know how to identify unique users hitting a site via the same proxy server? (this relates to HitBox's claims and I'm not sure how they would do it). TIA Cheers Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP & Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. t. 250.920.8830 e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Macromedia Associate Partner www.macromedia.com - Vancouver Island ColdFusion Users Group Founder & Director www.cfug-vancouverisland.com - Original Message - From: Bryan Stevenson To: CF-Talk Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 1:42 PM Subject: OT: HitBox for web traffic/marketing Has anyone used HitBox from WebSideStory? I've got some specific questions but don't want to bother the whole list with them ;-) Cheers Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP & Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. t. 250.920.8830 e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Macromedia Associate Partner www.macromedia.com - Vancouver Island ColdFusion Users Group Founder & Director www.cfug-vancouverisland.com [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: OT: HitBox for web traffic/marketing
replied offlist Jerry ;-) Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP & Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. t. 250.920.8830 e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Macromedia Associate Partner www.macromedia.com - Vancouver Island ColdFusion Users Group Founder & Director www.cfug-vancouverisland.com - Original Message - From: Jerry Johnson To: CF-Talk Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 1:54 PM Subject: Re: OT: HitBox for web traffic/marketing I tried to respond directly, but the mail was bounced. I updated a site that had hitbox code in it. I think I may still have the code base at home. Is it something I could find out from the legacy code for you? Jerry Johnson >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/21/04 04:42PM >>> Has anyone used HitBox from WebSideStory? I've got some specific questions but don't want to bother the whole list with them ;-) Cheers Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP & Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. t. 250.920.8830 e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Macromedia Associate Partner www.macromedia.com - Vancouver Island ColdFusion Users Group Founder & Director www.cfug-vancouverisland.com [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: OT: HitBox for web traffic/marketing
I tried to respond directly, but the mail was bounced. I updated a site that had hitbox code in it. I think I may still have the code base at home. Is it something I could find out from the legacy code for you? Jerry Johnson >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/21/04 04:42PM >>> Has anyone used HitBox from WebSideStory? I've got some specific questions but don't want to bother the whole list with them ;-) Cheers Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP & Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. t. 250.920.8830 e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Macromedia Associate Partner www.macromedia.com - Vancouver Island ColdFusion Users Group Founder & Director www.cfug-vancouverisland.com [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
OT: HitBox for web traffic/marketing
Has anyone used HitBox from WebSideStory? I've got some specific questions but don't want to bother the whole list with them ;-) Cheers Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP & Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. t. 250.920.8830 e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Macromedia Associate Partner www.macromedia.com - Vancouver Island ColdFusion Users Group Founder & Director www.cfug-vancouverisland.com [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: ColdFusion Blogging Tool
>By the way, is there a cf-based (or otherwise) blog that can be >installed for multiple users on the same server. I know Ray's blog can >be used for this, but then it would mean about a hundred datasources. >Anything database-driven? You mean with one datasource, rather than one per blog? BlogFusion does multiple bloggers per blog, but each blog is a separate datasource. I have that on the to-do list, as several purchasers have been implementing multiple blogs on a single server. So tell me who you would like to see this working and I'll add it to my task notes. Thanks! Jake [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: Follow Up on Case Sensititive ( was Determining Directory Where Current Template Is Located)
Dave Carabetta wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 21:20:41 +0200, Pascal Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> It will only break on case-sensitive DBs like ORACLE. But even then you >> can convert the strings to lowercase >> >> WHERE LOWER(directory) = >> value="#Lcase(variables.CurrentDirectory)#> >> >> (or whatever the lowercase function is on the DB) > > Well, I'd be careful before utilizing that strategy, particularly for > a case like Oracle. If you use a DB function around a column name, > such as you have with LOWER(directory), then Oracle will not use an > index to search if one exists on that column. This can have a major > impact on query performance, depending on the size of your table. Then define a functional index: CREATE INDEX lower_dir_idx ON Products (LOWER(directory)); Jochem [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
RE: FileExists() ?
> Can I use the FileExists() function on Map network drives? I > have a line like below and for some reason it cannot validate > that the file exist at all when it actually does. > > > Sites\Images\AgentPictures\#Trim(AgPicture.PATH)#") is "Yes"> > Does the drive mapping actually exist for the account that's running CF? By default, CF runs as SYSTEM, which has no access to network resources. If you're running CF as a different user, you'll need to create the drive mapping for that user. You might just stick to UNC paths, in that case. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ phone: 202-797-5496 fax: 202-797-5444 [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: FileExists() ?
Is your ColdFusion Service running under an account with network permissions and is that drive mapped in that account? Marlon On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:00:31 -0500, Bailey, Neal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey guys... > > Can I use the FileExists() function on Map network drives? I have a line > like below and for some reason it cannot validate that the file exist at all > when it actually does. > [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: Follow Up on Case Sensititive ( was Determining Directory Where Current Template Is Located)
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 21:20:41 +0200, Pascal Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> It will only break on case-sensitive DBs like ORACLE. But even then you
> can convert the strings to lowercase
>
> WHERE LOWER(directory) =
> value="#Lcase(variables.CurrentDirectory)#>
>
> (or whatever the lowercase function is on the DB)
>
Well, I'd be careful before utilizing that strategy, particularly for
a case like Oracle. If you use a DB function around a column name,
such as you have with LOWER(directory), then Oracle will not use an
index to search if one exists on that column. This can have a major
impact on query performance, depending on the size of your table.
>
> PS As Barney and I said: you can use "\/" as dilimiter to make it *nix
> compliant
Or you could call this UDF and not worry about it (adapted from
Christian Cantrell's blog entry at
http://www.markme.com/cantrell/archives/002195.cfm:
function getFileSeparator() {
var fileObj = "";
fileObj = createObject("java", "java.io.File");
return fileObj.separator;
}
in your code:
Regards,
Dave.
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Re: Follow Up on Case Sensititive ( was Determining Directory Where Current Template Is Located)
Bob Haroche wrote: > > Even though the value of "directory" stored in the DB is > "MyDirectory", the query works with the variable passed as > "mydirectory". No problem, but I'm wondering if this is going to break > if I try it some day on another DB like MS SQL. I would probably insert the data in upper case, then compare using the CF UCASE() function.. ie, WHERE DIRECTORY='#UCASE(CurrentDirectory)#' Just make sure that you don't need the case of the directory name in other situations.. ie when creating product links. If you do, then you'd also have to store the direct name in actual case as well as upper case. Alternatively, if you're going to a case-sensitve database, you CAN have functional indexes in some, like oracle... WHERE upper(DIRECTORY) = '#UCASE(DIRECTORY)#' That will actually use an index in oracle if you've specified an index including the upper() function. I recently learned how to do that but have since forgotten and am too lazy to look at my code where I'm doing it :) - Rick [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: Kevin Roche is Lame
Please move this thread off of CF-Talk to your OT list of choice. Thanks [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
RE: Follow Up on Case Sensititive ( was Determining Directory Where Current Template Is Located)
It will only break on case-sensitive DBs like ORACLE. But even then you can convert the strings to lowercase WHERE LOWER(directory) = value="#Lcase(variables.CurrentDirectory)#> (or whatever the lowercase function is on the DB) Pascal PS As Barney and I said: you can use "\/" as dilimiter to make it *nix compliant > -Original Message- > From: Bob Haroche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: maandag 21 juni 2004 20:49 > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Follow Up on Case Sensititive ( was Determining > Directory Where Current Template Is Located) > > So this works fine to tell me the current directory: > > > > > I find however that if my directory is called "MyDirectory", > the value returned for the variable "CurrentDirectory" is all > lowercase, ie "mydirectory". I'm then using this variable to > query an Access > database: > > Select * > From Products > Where directory = '#CurrentDirectory#'; > > Even though the value of "directory" stored in the DB is > "MyDirectory", the query works with the variable passed as > "mydirectory". No problem, but I'm wondering if this is going > to break if I try it some day on another DB like MS SQL. > > Need I be concerned, or is there a way to get the > CurrentDirectory variable returned with actual upper/lower case? > > Thanks again. > > - > Regards, > Bob Haroche > O n P o i n t S o l u t i o n s > www.OnPointSolutions.com > > > > [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
RE: Follow Up on Case Sensititive ( was Determining Directory Whe re Current Template Is Located)
> SQL comparisons are case insensitive, unless you tell it > otherwise. This is true in MS Access, I think, but isn't always true. Case sensitivity will usually depend on your database's collation settings. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ phone: 202-797-5496 fax: 202-797-5444 [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
RE: Follow Up on Case Sensititive ( was Determining Directory Where Current Template Is Located)
case sensitivity in the database depends on the DB, Oracle is case sensitive for example. Paths are usually case insensitive in Windows but Java is case sensitive so there are situations where differences in case can be a problem. Specifically, CFMX can generate a "Wrong name" error when calling a JSP from a CF template. More info here: http://www.rewindlife.com/archives/000142.cfm Best regards, Sam > -Original Message- > From: Barney Boisvert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 2:55 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Follow Up on Case Sensititive ( was Determining > Directory Where Current Template Is Located) > > SQL comparisons are case insensitive, unless you tell it otherwise. > > You can probably get the proper case if you go through a java.io.File > instance, and use the canonicalPath method. However, CF may > be doing this > already, and the canonical path according to your JRE is all > lower case > (since case is irrelevant on windows). > > Cheers, > barneyb > [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
RE: Follow Up on Case Sensititive ( was Determining Directory Where Current Template Is Located)
SQL comparisons are case insensitive, unless you tell it otherwise. You can probably get the proper case if you go through a java.io.File instance, and use the canonicalPath method. However, CF may be doing this already, and the canonical path according to your JRE is all lower case (since case is irrelevant on windows). Cheers, barneyb > -Original Message- > From: Bob Haroche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 11:49 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Follow Up on Case Sensititive ( was Determining > Directory Where Current Template Is Located) > > So this works fine to tell me the current directory: > > > > > I find however that if my directory is called "MyDirectory", the value > returned for the variable "CurrentDirectory" is all lowercase, ie > "mydirectory". I'm then using this variable to query an Access > database: > > Select * > From Products > Where directory = '#CurrentDirectory#'; > > Even though the value of "directory" stored in the DB is > "MyDirectory", the query works with the variable passed as > "mydirectory". No problem, but I'm wondering if this is going to break > if I try it some day on another DB like MS SQL. > > Need I be concerned, or is there a way to get the CurrentDirectory > variable returned with actual upper/lower case? > > Thanks again. > > - > Regards, > Bob Haroche > O n P o i n t S o l u t i o n s > www.OnPointSolutions.com > > > > [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Follow Up on Case Sensititive ( was Determining Directory Where Current Template Is Located)
So this works fine to tell me the current directory: I find however that if my directory is called "MyDirectory", the value returned for the variable "CurrentDirectory" is all lowercase, ie "mydirectory". I'm then using this variable to query an Access database: Select * From Products Where directory = '#CurrentDirectory#'; Even though the value of "directory" stored in the DB is "MyDirectory", the query works with the variable passed as "mydirectory". No problem, but I'm wondering if this is going to break if I try it some day on another DB like MS SQL. Need I be concerned, or is there a way to get the CurrentDirectory variable returned with actual upper/lower case? Thanks again. - Regards, Bob Haroche O n P o i n t S o l u t i o n s www.OnPointSolutions.com [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
RE: Determining Directory Where Current Template Is Located
If you want it to work on *nix too, use "\/" as delimiter. > -Original Message- > From: Bob Haroche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: maandag 21 juni 2004 20:31 > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Determining Directory Where Current Template Is Located > > Ah, beautiful. Thanks to both of you. > > > Use GetDirectoryFromPath(GetCurrentTemplatePath()) to get > the current > > directory path and then treat the directory as a list using > \ as the > > delimiter to get the last item in the list! > > I actually was doing that (almost). I was using "/" as my > delimiter which of course returned a single item list, which > didn't work. > > > - > Regards, > Bob Haroche > O n P o i n t S o l u t i o n s > www.OnPointSolutions.com > > > > [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: Determining Directory Where Current Template Is Located
Ah, beautiful. Thanks to both of you. > Use GetDirectoryFromPath(GetCurrentTemplatePath()) to get the > current > directory path and then treat the directory as a list using \ as > the > delimiter to get the last item in the list! I actually was doing that (almost). I was using "/" as my delimiter which of course returned a single item list, which didn't work. - Regards, Bob Haroche O n P o i n t S o l u t i o n s www.OnPointSolutions.com [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
RE: Determining Directory Where Current Template Is Located
Use GetDirectoryFromPath(GetCurrentTemplatePath()) to get the current directory path and then treat the directory as a list using \ as the delimiter to get the last item in the list! Paul [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
RE: Determining Directory Where Current Template Is Located
dir = getDirectoryFromPath(getCurrentTemplatePath());
dir = listLast(dir, "\/");
The first line basically does an expandPath('.'), but relative to the
current template, rather than the root template for the request. The second
line gets the last part of the directory, using the slash and backslash as
delimiters, so it'll work on windows or *nix.
Cheers,
barneyb
> -Original Message-
> From: Bob Haroche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 11:18 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Determining Directory Where Current Template Is Located
>
> I've done this before but of course now I can't remember how...
>
> I have a template located at:
>
> f:\wwwroot\client\myDirectory\template.cfm
>
> I need to extract just the name of the directory holding the
> template -- ie, "myDirectory". And I need to do this in such a way
> that the CFML doesn't rely on hard coding "f:\", "wwwroot" or
> "client" as copies of this template will reside in different locations
> on different servers.
>
> Ideas? Thanks.
>
> -
> Regards,
> Bob Haroche
> O n P o i n t S o l u t i o n s
> www.OnPointSolutions.com
>
>
>
>
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Determining Directory Where Current Template Is Located
I've done this before but of course now I can't remember how... I have a template located at: f:\wwwroot\client\myDirectory\template.cfm I need to extract just the name of the directory holding the template -- ie, "myDirectory". And I need to do this in such a way that the CFML doesn't rely on hard coding "f:\", "wwwroot" or "client" as copies of this template will reside in different locations on different servers. Ideas? Thanks. - Regards, Bob Haroche O n P o i n t S o l u t i o n s www.OnPointSolutions.com [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: cfmail only works internally
Go into the CF Admin and add the IP address of the local Server. Then you do not need to specify the server in the CFMAIL tag. If you are behind a firewal running NAT then you may have a 192.168.0.* IP address this would be the Local IP address. The External IP would be the one that the visitors see from OutSide the firewall. For expample I have a server with the IP 192.168.0.74 but you would go to 65.16.30.74 and the firwall/Router would redirect the request to the internat IP. Rick - Original Message - From: Christy Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 13:56:06 -0400 Subject: Re: cfmail only works internally To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks! Okay, I've done that much - although I didn't rewlize there was a difference in local vs. external IP addresses. Now I'm trying to figure out how to use this server in my cfmail code. :) Christy [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: cfmail only works internally
Thanks! Okay, I've done that much - although I didn't rewlize there was a difference in local vs. external IP addresses. Now I'm trying to figure out how to use this server in my cfmail code. :) Christy [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: cfmail only works internally
When you get IIS SMTP installed (if its not allready). Go into the proporties and under the Access Tab click the Relay button. Then Add the Local IP and the External IP of the server to this list and select the Radio Button "Only the List Below" Rick Eidson Partner & CTO ArcRiver Technology, LLC ASP, PHP, PERL, Cold Fusion Hosting Kansas City http://www.arcriver.com/ Kansas City Musicians http://www.1sourceentertainment.com/ - Original Message - From: Christy Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 13:25:12 -0400 Subject: Re: cfmail only works internally To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Well, that sounds promising, Rick...I'm off to figure out how to do it. :) I'm running Windows 2000 with IIS so that sounds promising. Thanks! Christy [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: JS Issue submit() to CF Form
James, Put POST = #form.fieldnames# NO POST in your action page ... and you will find that it's all good. As my friend/pipefitter told me numerous times this weekend as we were wrangling gas-lines: "I'd rather answer your stupid questions now than fix your stupid mistakes later!" ;) -mike James Blaha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/21/2004 01:30 PM Please respond to cf-talk To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject:JS Issue submit() to CF Form Hello All, I have a really stupid question. Can anyone please send me a html template that auto submits to a cf page that will have the form variable show up properly on the CF template that recieves the POST. Regards, -JB Example:
function login()
{
document.LoginForm.submit();
}
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Re: cfmx and CAPTCHA
Still working on it - :-) == Our Anti-spam solution works!! http://www.clickdoug.com/mailfilter.cfm For hosting solutions http://www.clickdoug.com http://www.forta.com/cf/isp/isp.cfm?isp_id=1069 == - Original Message - From: Burns, John D To: CF-Talk Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 12:44 PM Subject: RE: cfmx and CAPTCHA Doug, Any break on your Image Manipulation CFC for fellow CF-Talkers? Just figured I'd ask :-) John -Original Message- From: Doug Hughes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 11:57 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: cfmx and CAPTCHA 1) Hi Joe! 2) I talked to Ben Forta when he came to the DC WAMMO meeting about the CFCs being replicated across clustered servers. His answer, in a nutshell was that they didn't have the time to do it. He also indicated that there was a good chance that it would be supported in the future. However, I know nothing about blackstone. Doug Hughes (Check out my ColdFusion Image Manipulation CFC at http://www.alagad.com/index.cfm/name-aic) On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 17:50:58 +0100, Kola Oyedeji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Apparently Blue dragon can but I haven't tried it ;-) > > KOla > > -Original Message- > From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 18 June 2004 13:43 > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: cfmx and CAPTCHA > > > why don't CFC instances go across cluster members? > > I don't really know why they don't, just that they don't. I suspect > that JRun has some sort of serializer to write its own session > variables to strings, and that this serializer doesn't know what to do > with CFC instances, but I really don't know for certain. > > Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software > http://www.figleaf.com/ > phone: 202-797-5496 > fax: 202-797-5444 > _ > > [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
RE: cfmx and CAPTCHA
Doug, Any break on your Image Manipulation CFC for fellow CF-Talkers? Just figured I'd ask :-) John -Original Message- From: Doug Hughes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 11:57 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: cfmx and CAPTCHA 1) Hi Joe! 2) I talked to Ben Forta when he came to the DC WAMMO meeting about the CFCs being replicated across clustered servers. His answer, in a nutshell was that they didn't have the time to do it. He also indicated that there was a good chance that it would be supported in the future. However, I know nothing about blackstone. Doug Hughes (Check out my ColdFusion Image Manipulation CFC at http://www.alagad.com/index.cfm/name-aic) On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 17:50:58 +0100, Kola Oyedeji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Apparently Blue dragon can but I haven't tried it ;-) > > KOla > > -Original Message- > From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 18 June 2004 13:43 > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: cfmx and CAPTCHA > > > why don't CFC instances go across cluster members? > > I don't really know why they don't, just that they don't. I suspect > that JRun has some sort of serializer to write its own session > variables to strings, and that this serializer doesn't know what to do > with CFC instances, but I really don't know for certain. > > Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software > http://www.figleaf.com/ > phone: 202-797-5496 > fax: 202-797-5444 > _ > > [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
RE: JS Issue submit() to CF Form
> Can anyone please send me a html template that auto submits > to a cf page that will have the form variable show up > properly on the CF template that recieves the POST. > > ... > > > METHOD=POST"> The code you have is fine, except you're missing a quote around POST. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ phone: 202-797-5496 fax: 202-797-5444 [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
JS Issue submit() to CF Form
Hello All, I have a really stupid question. Can anyone please send me a html template that auto submits to a cf page that will have the form variable show up properly on the CF template that recieves the POST. Regards, -JB Example:
function login()
{
document.LoginForm.submit();
}
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Re: cfmail only works internally
Well, that sounds promising, Rick...I'm off to figure out how to do it. :) I'm running Windows 2000 with IIS so that sounds promising. Thanks! Christy [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: cfmail only works internally
IF you are the admin for the CF server why don;t you just use a local SMTP server instead of the campus email server. If you are running Windows then IIS has an SMTP server that works fine. Rick Eidson Partner & CTO ArcRiver Technology, LLC ASP, PHP, PERL, Cold Fusion Hosting Kansas City http://www.arcriver.com/ Kansas City Musicians http://www.1sourceentertainment.com/ - Original Message - From: Christy Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 13:09:21 -0400 Subject: Re: cfmail only works internally To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks, Scott. Yep, just as you guys suggested - the majority of the emails say this. "Error","1004","06/21/04","10:42:59",,"Failed to send the spooled mail file, C:\CFusion\Mail\spool\D5.cfmail. SMTP server replied ""Relaying is prohibited"" Moved file to C:\CFusion\Mail\undelivr\D6.cfmail." I guess I'll have to talk to the admin. Are there any downsides to enabling relaying? Just trying to anticipate if I'll have to fight for this. :) Thanks! Christy [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: ODBC Service Hangs on Query
It appears I *might* have found the problem. As I inherited this database, I didn't check all the fields to see if any queries were being done from the front end lookup tab and sure enough, there was a query to a non-existant table. Will keep troubleshooting. Thanks [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
RE: ODBC Service Hangs on Query
First, make sure the query gives you what you want. Because you have no parenthasise this query is going to give you ALL records from the tables: tblbillingaddr, tblterm That's because the WHERE clause reads "Give me everything WHERE" where tblmasterclients.clientname = "tblbillingaddr.Client Name" and tblmasterclients.clientname = tblterm.clientname and tblterm.leaseid = tblbilling.leaseid and tblmasterclients.acctstatus = 'A' OR give me everything WHERE tblmasterclients.acctstatus = 'ACT' Because the second part of the where has no joins - you get it all baby! I suspect you wanted it to look more like this: where tblmasterclients.clientname = "tblbillingaddr.Client Name" and tblmasterclients.clientname = tblterm.clientname and tblterm.leaseid = tblbilling.leaseid and (tblmasterclients.acctstatus = 'A' OR tblmasterclients.acctstatus = 'ACT') -Mark -Original Message- From: hammerin hankster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 11:42 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: ODBC Service Hangs on Query I've got two problems. One is that I'm running a (bad) query that causes the ODBC service to hang during the query attempt. I have to repeatedly try to stop the service and once it finally times out, I can restart it. In a nutshell, I have inherited a database full of relationships (which is good), but poorly designed. All I've done is add a new table to the query and a new field to search on. Here's the query: SELECT DISTINCT tblmasterclients.ClientName, AliasName, AlphaPrefix, SiteID, Infinity, AuthCode, POBox, POBoxCombo, tblmasterclients.Comments, DID, SVCType, tblmasterclients.AcctStatus, PreparedDate, URL, TerminationReason, TerminationDesc, billingaddr, billingaddr2, billingstate, billingcity, billingzip, billingcontact, billingemail, billingphone, billingext, billingfaxnumber, billingcellnumber, leaseid FROM tblMasterClients, tblbillingaddr, tblterm where tblmasterclients.clientname = "tblbillingaddr.Client Name" and tblmasterclients.clientname = tblterm.clientname and tblterm.leaseid = tblbilling.leaseid and tblmasterclients.acctstatus = 'A' OR tblmasterclients.acctstatus = 'ACT' ORDER BY tblmasterclients.clientname Note: leaseid field and anything related to tblterm is new part I'm adding. Thanks for any help! [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: cfmail only works internally
Thanks, Scott. Yep, just as you guys suggested - the majority of the emails say this. "Error","1004","06/21/04","10:42:59",,"Failed to send the spooled mail file, C:\CFusion\Mail\spool\D5.cfmail. SMTP server replied ""Relaying is prohibited"" Moved file to C:\CFusion\Mail\undelivr\D6.cfmail." I guess I'll have to talk to the admin. Are there any downsides to enabling relaying? Just trying to anticipate if I'll have to fight for this. :) Thanks! Christy [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: Kevin Roche is Lame
My gateway server blocks 98% of spam with a rare false positive requiting whitelisting. And no challenge - response either. Currently serving 180 domains. == Our Anti-spam solution works!! http://www.clickdoug.com/mailfilter.cfm For hosting solutions http://www.clickdoug.com http://www.forta.com/cf/isp/isp.cfm?isp_id=1069 == >> "On average it stops about 82% of all incoming mail" > You mean people don't mind not receiving 82% of their email? ;-) > KOla Not if whats incoming is pure, unadulterated kaka. I host what I would consider is a general mix of ordinary folk, plus a few with extremely low tolerance for false positives (government types). Three times since its inception someone has gotten the jitters and requested that I take them off the system so they can manage spam for themselves... They've never lasted more than 48 hrs. 300+ spams per day will do that to you. Plus the system drops the connection (NOT a bounce msg) back to the sending mail server that includes a human-readable message, so if it is a real person then their own server's postmaster will let them know the score. I used to spend an hour a day massaging my previous, very capable anti-spam system. After a week of training, now I spend zero. And the thing was free. -- --Matt Robertson-- MSB Designs, Inc. [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: cfmail only works internally
Original Message: > From: Christy Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Yep, just looked in my Undeliverable folder (thanks - didn't realize this was there!) and all the messages are there. Must be something to do with the mail server - I suspect I'll have to talk to the admin guys. Have you checked the mail logs? That should tell you why they're not getting delivered. (The mail log should tell you what the name of the undelivered mail's file name in the Undeliverable folder is) Scott --- Scott Brady http://www.scottbrady.net/ [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: cfmail only works internally
I'm running version 5 right now... Not sure about sending emails outside of CF - I don't administer the mail server - I'm just a client. I just put in my own email address as the "from" address, and put the name of the mail server in CF administrator. Christy [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: cfmail only works internally
KOla, it's definitely a valid address, as it's the one I use every day for work purposes. But I think it probably has to do with the permissions on my account... Christy [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: cfmail only works internally
Yep, just looked in my Undeliverable folder (thanks - didn't realize this was there!) and all the messages are there. Must be something to do with the mail server - I suspect I'll have to talk to the admin guys. Thanks! Christy [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
RE: cfmail only works internally
Christy Is the from address a valid from address? Have you checked the undelivr folder and the mail logs? These will normally give you a good clue as to what the problem is. KOla -Original Message- From: Christy Carter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 June 2004 17:37 To: CF-Talk Subject: cfmail only works internally I use cfloop and cfmail to send a mass auto-email to all the users in my database. Or I try to anyway! :) It goes through to all users on our local email server - i.e. anyone with the same email extension (for example [EMAIL PROTECTED]). But nobody else seems to get it - nobody with a yahoo or hotmail account, and nobody with a different ISP account...and I have no idea why. Here's my code...any ideas? Thanks, Christy server="#application.mailserver#" to="#email#" subject="#form.subject#"> Dear #getlist.Username#, #form.body# Sincerely, "The Company" _ [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: cfmail only works internally
Well, I'm using a mail server here at the university. I'm the admin of ColdFusion, but not of the mail server. Perhaps I should talk to our tech guy in the building, the one who administers the netowkr and mail server. So he would have to enable it for me? We are moving out on our own at the end of this month, and will be running (somehow haha!) our own local network. Maybe I should wait and try to set it up myself then... THanks for your help and ideas... Christy [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: cfmail only works internally
Christy Carter wrote: > It goes through to all users on our local email server - i.e. anyone > with the same email extension (for example [EMAIL PROTECTED]). But nobody > else seems to get it - nobody with a yahoo or hotmail account, and > nobody with a different ISP account...and I have no idea why. I suspect that it has nothing to do with CFMAIL. Have you looked in the mail logs for cold fusion? Are the mails being put in the undeliverable mail folder (ie, C:\CFUSIONMX\mail\undelivr)? Is the from address a local domain? If not, your mail server may be rejecting the messages as relay. - Rick [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: cfmail only works internally
Make sure that your mail admin has enabled relaying for your CF server. Otherwise, it will only allow local addresses. What mail server are you using? Cheers, Jeff Garza - Original Message - From: Christy Carter To: CF-Talk Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 9:37 AM Subject: cfmail only works internally I use cfloop and cfmail to send a mass auto-email to all the users in my database. Or I try to anyway! :) It goes through to all users on our local email server - i.e. anyone with the same email extension (for example [EMAIL PROTECTED]). But nobody else seems to get it - nobody with a yahoo or hotmail account, and nobody with a different ISP account...and I have no idea why. Here's my code...any ideas? Thanks, Christy Dear #getlist.Username#, #form.body# Sincerely, "The Company" [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
RE: cfmail only works internally
What version of CF are you running and can you send email to these addresses using this mail server outside of ColdFusion? Christine _ From: Christy Carter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 12:37 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: cfmail only works internally I use cfloop and cfmail to send a mass auto-email to all the users in my database. Or I try to anyway! :) It goes through to all users on our local email server - i.e. anyone with the same email extension (for example [EMAIL PROTECTED]). But nobody else seems to get it - nobody with a yahoo or hotmail account, and nobody with a different ISP account...and I have no idea why. Here's my code...any ideas? Thanks, Christy server="#application.mailserver#" to="#email#" subject="#form.subject#"> Dear #getlist.Username#, #form.body# Sincerely, "The Company" _ [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
RE: CFPOP streamlining
You could always use CFX_POP3 to fix the utf-7 issue... http://www.web-architect.co.uk/downloads.cfm Paul [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
ODBC Service Hangs on Query
I've got two problems. One is that I'm running a (bad) query that causes the ODBC service to hang during the query attempt. I have to repeatedly try to stop the service and once it finally times out, I can restart it. In a nutshell, I have inherited a database full of relationships (which is good), but poorly designed. All I've done is add a new table to the query and a new field to search on. Here's the query: SELECT DISTINCT tblmasterclients.ClientName, AliasName, AlphaPrefix, SiteID, Infinity, AuthCode, POBox, POBoxCombo, tblmasterclients.Comments, DID, SVCType, tblmasterclients.AcctStatus, PreparedDate, URL, TerminationReason, TerminationDesc, billingaddr, billingaddr2, billingstate, billingcity, billingzip, billingcontact, billingemail, billingphone, billingext, billingfaxnumber, billingcellnumber, leaseid FROM tblMasterClients, tblbillingaddr, tblterm where tblmasterclients.clientname = "tblbillingaddr.Client Name" and tblmasterclients.clientname = tblterm.clientname and tblterm.leaseid = tblbilling.leaseid and tblmasterclients.acctstatus = 'A' OR tblmasterclients.acctstatus = 'ACT' ORDER BY tblmasterclients.clientname Note: leaseid field and anything related to tblterm is new part I'm adding. Thanks for any help! [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
cfmail only works internally
I use cfloop and cfmail to send a mass auto-email to all the users in my database. Or I try to anyway! :) It goes through to all users on our local email server - i.e. anyone with the same email extension (for example [EMAIL PROTECTED]). But nobody else seems to get it - nobody with a yahoo or hotmail account, and nobody with a different ISP account...and I have no idea why. Here's my code...any ideas? Thanks, Christy Dear #getlist.Username#, #form.body# Sincerely, "The Company" [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: CF Compatible Menus/Products?
On Monday 21 Jun 2004 16:09 pm, Kenneth Wilson wrote: > Project samples can be downloaded at > http://more.ericmeyeroncss.com/projects/06/ but the book is well worth > the cost. Extemely lightweight with just a stylesheet and unordered > lists controlling it. I belive alistapart.com show you how to do that sort of thing for free... -- Tom Chiverton Advanced ColdFusion Programmer Tel: +44(0)1749 834997 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] BlueFinger Limited Underwood Business Park Wookey Hole Road, WELLS. BA5 1AF Tel: +44 (0)1749 834900 Fax: +44 (0)1749 834901 web: www.bluefinger.com Company Reg No: 4209395 Registered Office: 2 Temple Back East, Temple Quay, BRISTOL. BS1 6EG. *** This E-mail contains confidential information for the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us immediately. You should not use, disclose, distribute or copy this communication if received in error. No binding contract will result from this e-mail until such time as a written document is signed on behalf of the company. BlueFinger Limited cannot accept responsibility for the completeness or accuracy of this message as it has been transmitted over public networks.*** [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: CFPOP streamlining
One thing that I came upon when using CFPOP and deciding which method to use, is that if you are using CFMX there is a nasty bug that deals with encoding. Check out http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg149313.html for some information. I know Raymond Camden also wrote about this bug on his blog. See it here: http://www.camdenfamily.com/morpheus/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=437EFED9-B15B-8957-860C45AFE6E30A4D . Basically, if an email comes in with he unsupported encoding type, anytime you try to do a GETALL with CFPOP, it will break. The only way to recover is to delete the offending email some other way. Due to this bug, all of our CFPOP apps now describe your method of retrieving the headers, and then downloading each piece of email one at a time. Cedric Villat http://www.cornfeed.com Creators of CFTicket - A customer support, trouble ticket application > Subject: CFPOP streamlining > From: "James Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 11:06:12 +0100 > Thread: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm/method=messages&threadid=33372&forumid=4#167433 > > I have a template that retrieves mail and processes it to extract order > information using cfpop. At any one time it can be retrieving up to 300 > emails of which around 200 will be orders, the rest will be a mixture of > junk and correspondence aimed at the human who reads the account. > > I am currently doing a cfpop to retrieve the headers only, then looping over > these doing another cfpop for each to get the message body resulting in 200+ > pop connections in total. > > Would it be better to just do one connection, retrieve everything, and > simply ignore to 100 message bodies I am not interested in? > > -- > James Smith > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.707 / Virus Database: 463 - Release Date: 15/06/2004 > > [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: Kevin Roche is Lame
>> "On average it stops about 82% of all incoming mail" > You mean people don't mind not receiving 82% of their email? ;-) > KOla Not if whats incoming is pure, unadulterated kaka. I host what I would consider is a general mix of ordinary folk, plus a few with extremely low tolerance for false positives (government types). Three times since its inception someone has gotten the jitters and requested that I take them off the system so they can manage spam for themselves... They've never lasted more than 48 hrs. 300+ spams per day will do that to you. Plus the system drops the connection (NOT a bounce msg) back to the sending mail server that includes a human-readable message, so if it is a real person then their own server's postmaster will let them know the score. I used to spend an hour a day massaging my previous, very capable anti-spam system. After a week of training, now I spend zero. And the thing was free. -- --Matt Robertson-- MSB Designs, Inc. [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
RE: Kevin Roche is Lame
"On average it stops about 82% of all incoming mail" You mean people don't mind not receiving 82% of their email? ;-) KOla -Original Message- From: Matt Robertson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 June 2004 16:42 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Kevin Roche is Lame If you have your own mail server, try ASSP (http://assp.sourceforge.net). Its unbeatable, but like all Bayesian systems you have to train it for a week or so. Been running it for about 4 months. and I have zero complaints from customers. YMMV. -- --Matt Robertson-- MSB Designs, Inc. _ [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
CFCHARTSERIES cannot do different colors for each bar in bargraph
Hi all, Trying to switch my charts finally from the old Allaire Java applets to the new CFCHART ones. I am using CFMX 6.1 with CFCHART and CFCHARTSERIES to show total sales for each sales rep for the current day. It is a Bar graph style outputting flash content and specifying the query parameter in the cfchartseries tag. Problem is, I want each bar on the bargraph to be a different color, but it seems to ignore my barcolor parameter even thought it is valud a fieldname in the database. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Here is my code: SELECT smuser.id, smuser.id, smuser.name, smuser.barcolor, sum(orders.Total) As SumSales FROM smuser,orders where smuser.id = Orders.salesrepid and (orders.odate >= #CreateODBCDateTime(start_date)# and orders.odate <= #CreateODBCDateTime(end_date)#) AND completed=1 group by smuser.id,smuser.name,smuser.barcolor #Replace(DollarFormat(GetTotals.SumSales[i]), '$','')#> xaxistitle="Sales Rep" yaxistitle="Dollar Amount" show3d="yes" labelFormat="currency" foregroundColor="##33" chartheight="250" chartwidth="480" backgroundcolor="#color_table_background2#"> query="Gettotals" itemcolumn="name" valuecolumn="SumSales"> #graph_data# Thanks for any help you can provide, Dustin Snell Unisyn Software, LLC [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: cfmx and CAPTCHA
1) Hi Joe! 2) I talked to Ben Forta when he came to the DC WAMMO meeting about the CFCs being replicated across clustered servers. His answer, in a nutshell was that they didn't have the time to do it. He also indicated that there was a good chance that it would be supported in the future. However, I know nothing about blackstone. Doug Hughes (Check out my ColdFusion Image Manipulation CFC at http://www.alagad.com/index.cfm/name-aic) On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 17:50:58 +0100, Kola Oyedeji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Apparently Blue dragon can but I haven't tried it ;-) > > KOla > > -Original Message- > From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 18 June 2004 13:43 > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: cfmx and CAPTCHA > > > why don't CFC instances go across cluster members? > > I don't really know why they don't, just that they don't. I suspect that > JRun has some sort of serializer to write its own session variables to > strings, and that this serializer doesn't know what to do with CFC > instances, but I really don't know for certain. > > Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software > http://www.figleaf.com/ > phone: 202-797-5496 > fax: 202-797-5444 > _ > > [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: Kevin Roche is Lame
If you have your own mail server, try ASSP (http://assp.sourceforge.net). Its unbeatable, but like all Bayesian systems you have to train it for a week or so. Been running it for about 4 months. On average it stops about 82% of all incoming mail and I have zero complaints from customers. YMMV. -- --Matt Robertson-- MSB Designs, Inc. [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
RE: CF Compatible Menus/Products?
Something to bookmark for when you have the time... If you like CSS and don't need to support pre-5.0 browsers, you might want to take a look at the CSS menu code from Eric Meyers latest book. Project samples can be downloaded at http://more.ericmeyeroncss.com/projects/06/ but the book is well worth the cost. Extemely lightweight with just a stylesheet and unordered lists controlling it. Ken -Original Message- From: Nick Baker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 10:51 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: CF Compatible Menus/Products? I am looking for a nice expandable/retractable menu. Have looked at several DHTML/_javascript_ offerings. Prefer CF 5.0 compatibility for some backwards projects, but will use 6 if necessary. Main concerns are: 1. CF compatible 2. Minimum time ;-) Any recommendations? One I ran across was Sothink.com. These folks have a very interesting offering that includes DHTMLMenu, Flash Editor. The marketing words sound great, but don't they always? Anyone have experience using CF with Sothink's products. Thanks, Nick [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
OT: Kevin Roche is Lame
I've found that a combination of the Bayesian filter on Thundermail and the use of K9 (http://www.keir.net/k9.html) eliminates me having to see virtually all spam. It will require some training, of course, but it eliminates the need to use a challenge-response system. (Almost every message that happens to get through K9 will then get caught by the junk mail filter on Thundermail) Scott --- Scott Brady http://www.scottbrady.net/ [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
RE: CF and Eclipse
Thanks Ian, All setup now, Jb. -Original Message- From: Ian Sheridan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 June 2004 13:57 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CF and Eclipse DL the FTP and WEBDAV plugin. it's a little tricky but basically you deploy with FTP. http://download.eclipse.org/downloads/drops/S-3.0RC2-200406111814/ index.php scroll down you should see what you need. I manage using the FTP deployment with import and export. Hope that helps Ian On Jun 18, 2004, at 10:52 AM, John Beynon wrote: > I've just put the new version on and the latest cfeclipse...i can see > me > switching to this as my preferred IDe very quickly...just need to > figure out > how to ftp from within eclipse - anyone? [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: CF Compatible Menus/Products?
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:50:32 -0500, Nick Baker wrote: > > I am looking for a nice expandable/retractable menu. Have looked at several > DHTML/_javascript_ offerings. > Prefer CF 5.0 compatibility for some backwards projects, but will use 6 if > necessary. > > Main concerns are: > > 1. CF compatible > 2. Minimum time ;-) > > Any recommendations? > > One I ran across was Sothink.com. These folks have a very interesting > offering that includes > > DHTMLMenu, Flash Editor. The marketing words sound great, but don't they > always? Anyone have experience using CF with Sothink's products. We've used AllWebMenus with some success, although the initial setup was a little bit of a pain as I had messed up some of the JS settings (all my fault, not the product ) [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: CF Compatible Menus/Products?
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:50:32 -0500, Nick Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am looking for a nice expandable/retractable menu. Have looked at several > DHTML/_javascript_ offerings. > Prefer CF 5.0 compatibility for some backwards projects, but will use 6 if > necessary. > > Main concerns are: > > 1. CF compatible > 2. Minimum time ;-) > > Any recommendations? Give the Milonic menu a good look. Cheap, powerful, super fast, and fully compatible with ColdFusion (for generating the menu options) and all major browsers (for display). www.milonic.com Regards, Dave. [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: ColdFusion Blogging Tool
> This feed actually works in most aggregators I > tried (about 10-12 so far). Jake, Yep, as they should. Most aggregator authors try to parse anything you throw at them. The number of feeds out there with invalid s is staggering, so they're conditioned to simply ignore a bad date and carry on. But that can be annoying for readers... aggregators that stick to the spec (like Newzcrawler) will render all your entries with the date they were retrieved, making date sorting impossible. > It's a fun non-standardized world, that RSS. It's not that bad. Just pay heed to the spec (email address in , RFC822 in ) and run everything through the feed validator to see where you're at. It's relatively painless. The only murky areas are related to escaping in s and s, and the inexplicable problem some folks have with figuring out how to use the isPermaLink attribute on the element. -- Roger Benningfield work: http://journurl.com/ blog: http://admin.support.journurl.com/ [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
CF Compatible Menus/Products?
I am looking for a nice expandable/retractable menu. Have looked at several DHTML/_javascript_ offerings. Prefer CF 5.0 compatibility for some backwards projects, but will use 6 if necessary. Main concerns are: 1. CF compatible 2. Minimum time ;-) Any recommendations? One I ran across was Sothink.com. These folks have a very interesting offering that includes DHTMLMenu, Flash Editor. The marketing words sound great, but don't they always? Anyone have experience using CF with Sothink's products. Thanks, Nick [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
RE: cflocation fails
The problem has been reported on two different machines. Although there is conditional logic the required location including URL variables is definitely shown in the address box. I am begining to think there is a response time problem on the server. Kevin -Original Message- From: James Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 June 2004 13:24 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: cflocation fails I wouldn't have thought so because the correct URL is in the browser window, if conditional logic was stopping the cflocation being executed then there would be no way for the browser to have the URL. I would suspect the browser is not handling the relocation properly, are you able to test it from a different machine? > is it possible that there is conditional logic around the > relocation and the conditional test fails the first time that > page loads? > > Hi, > > > > I have a strange situation which I can't track down. > > > > I have an application that I have been using successfully for some > > time running on CFMX 6.1 > > > > Recently the application has been giving problems because the > > tags are not working sometimes. > > > > The characteristics are that the browser shows the > redirected URL at > > the address bar and the content (Usually nothing or debug info) for > > the page that issues the cflocation. > > > > If you position the cursor in the address bar and hit enter you do > > then go to the correct page. > > > > Anyone seen this before? > > > > Anyone know what could possibly cause it? [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: Kevin Roche is Lame
lol. you do exist. no problems at all just worried about the same thing you are. -Adam - Original Message - From: Kevin Roche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 08:32:40 +0100 Subject: RE: Kevin Roche is Lame To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Apologies, if they annoyed you. I am getting way too much SPAM now and was spending hours throwing it away. -Original Message- From: Philip Arnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 June 2004 15:31 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Kevin Roche is Lame On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 16:25:53 -0400, Adrocknaphobia wrote: > > Is anyone else getting Spam Interceptor emails from this guy? > > (This message will probably trigger another one.) I got one and promptly ignored it I've seen cases of these things as harvesters, so I'm not trusting any of them anymore [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: Datasource creation errors
> -now it will work ;-) Unfortunately not. Also there is no provision for testing Access DSNs in Windows ODBC (like there is for SQL). Perhaps I am missing something here? [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: Unresponsive requests - very strange
Earl, George wrote: > > Any thoughts on what might be causing this problem ONLY on the production > server and ONLY with dates starting on May 1? Where would you look next to > try to find the source of this problem? Enable query tracing (ODBC Control Panel) and get a log of the actual query being send to the database. Then scrutinize that for issues in the date pattern: 04/30/04 vs 05/01/04 vs 04/05/01 etc. Jochem [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: ColdFusion Blogging Tool
"Don't let yourself get carried away with that." +1 :-) [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: Unresponsive requests - very strange
Employing Ockham's Razor here.. Are you sure that the app on production is submitting the right date when the user selects "May 1st, 2004" ?? Brian From: Earl, George To: CF-Talk Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 8:31 AM Subject: Unresponsive requests - very strange I have a very strange and frustrating problem - We are running CF 5.0 on Windows 2000, Oracle 8i, and the Merant ODBC drivers that ship with CF (we have had problems with the Oracle native drivers). We have a reporting application that submits requests with 5 queries to Oracle and then massages the answer sets into a report before sending it back to the browser. There are 7 x 4 x 4 x 3 different ways the reports can be requested (by choosing different combinations of radio buttons and dates from dropdown boxes), and all work fine except for one report which will time out every single time ONLY on our production web server and ONLY when using week and month ending dates starting this past May . . . I can run the problem report from our production web server, accessing production data, with any dates after April 30 and it will time out every time and write an unresponsive request message in the server.log file. Dates before May 1 work fine. I can run the problem report from our development and integration servers, also accessing production data, with any dates after April 30 (and before May 1) and it works fine every time! So it appears that the problem is not with the data. I have compared cfm and date files between the different environments using WinMerge and everything appears to be identical except for the expected differences in references to data sources in the different environments . . . and when I switch these differences to point to production data, the reports work. So it appears it is not something in the code. Any thoughts on what might be causing this problem ONLY on the production server and ONLY with dates starting on May 1? Where would you look next to try to find the source of this problem? Thanks! George [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: ColdFusion Blogging Tool
By the way, is there a cf-based (or otherwise) blog that can be installed for multiple users on the same server. I know Ray's blog can be used for this, but then it would mean about a hundred datasources. Anything database-driven? Thanks, George [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Unresponsive requests - very strange
I have a very strange and frustrating problem - We are running CF 5.0 on Windows 2000, Oracle 8i, and the Merant ODBC drivers that ship with CF (we have had problems with the Oracle native drivers). We have a reporting application that submits requests with 5 queries to Oracle and then massages the answer sets into a report before sending it back to the browser. There are 7 x 4 x 4 x 3 different ways the reports can be requested (by choosing different combinations of radio buttons and dates from dropdown boxes), and all work fine except for one report which will time out every single time ONLY on our production web server and ONLY when using week and month ending dates starting this past May . . . I can run the problem report from our production web server, accessing production data, with any dates after April 30 and it will time out every time and write an unresponsive request message in the server.log file. Dates before May 1 work fine. I can run the problem report from our development and integration servers, also accessing production data, with any dates after April 30 (and before May 1) and it works fine every time! So it appears that the problem is not with the data. I have compared cfm and date files between the different environments using WinMerge and everything appears to be identical except for the expected differences in references to data sources in the different environments . . . and when I switch these differences to point to production data, the reports work. So it appears it is not something in the code. Any thoughts on what might be causing this problem ONLY on the production server and ONLY with dates starting on May 1? Where would you look next to try to find the source of this problem? Thanks! George [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: CF and Eclipse
DL the FTP and WEBDAV plugin. it's a little tricky but basically you deploy with FTP. http://download.eclipse.org/downloads/drops/S-3.0RC2-200406111814/ index.php scroll down you should see what you need. I manage using the FTP deployment with import and export. Hope that helps Ian On Jun 18, 2004, at 10:52 AM, John Beynon wrote: > I've just put the new version on and the latest cfeclipse...i can see > me > switching to this as my preferred IDe very quickly...just need to > figure out > how to ftp from within eclipse - anyone? [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: ColdFusion Blogging Tool
> Ironically, the support forum for this CF blogger is written in ASP? > http://www.countersinkdg.com/forum/default.asp Indeed. It was some excellent free code. The only ASP I've run before, but very very easy to setup. It taught me a few things for how simply code should be to install. I threw the forums on in a hurry after a quick search for CF code revealed (or so it seemed) that CF forums were either costly or low on features. I'm sure this isn't actually true, but I didn't have time to wait at the time. Can someone prove me wrong by posting a few links? > On the flip side, I can understand the way you feel when advertising a > product and the list responds by pointing out alternatives that are > free Did you do much market research before developing this > product? Did you perceive a market need or simply decide to sell > something you had already written? No worries. Didn't really mean for this thread to come across as advertising. The long history short is that I created a CF blogging tool of my own more than a year ago (just a few rough features and pages). After realizing I liked blogging, but needed a real tool, I looked around at all of the CF tools I could find (again, a year ago, so there weren't that many). I liked some features from some, but not from others. I liked some of the features from Moveable Type and some of the other non-CF versions. So I started coding. I use the tool myself on the three blogs I run, and it works quite effectively, which was the original goal #1. At some point a year ago, I thought that others might get use out of the code I had created. > I am in the process of developing some software for intended developer > purchase also. It is fascinating and a learning experience seeing > people do a similar thing. I wish you all the best in your endeavours. Yeah, absolutely agree. I've downloaded a number of CF apps of varying purpose lately just to see how things work and what their install process is like. As mentioned about the WebWiz forums, the install process was amazing, and prompted me to reduce the BlogFusion setup steps to nearly none. I really hope the next version of CF Server does a better, more documented job of handling service.Factory stuff so that users have to do very little, if any setup when installing new apps! Jake [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
RE: Load testing
And thanks Kelly... I'll certainly read the article. Yves _ From: Kelly Tetterton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: June 21, 2004 9:18 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Load testing I won't beat a dead horse here, other than to agree with the previous posters: look at the database and caching strategies first. We documented our recent load testing experience in an April CFDJ article; you can read it here: http://www.duoconsulting.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/news.detail/object_id/5ea7 ed33-8896-49d1-9945-e6e216dc85ed/TheArtScienceofLoadTestingonaBudget.cfm -- Kelly Tetterton Technical Lead | Duo Consulting Internet Strategy, Design and Development 312.529.3000| main 312.529.3014 | direct 312.529.3001| fax www.duoconsulting.com -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2004 7:45 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Load testing > I was wondering what was the general pratice for testing > your app is In my experience, the general practice is to release your application, and it either supports the number of users it needs to, or it doesn't. Of course, that's not the best practice, but it's certainly the most common. > Is there any way of similating a certain number of hits > per minute? Yes, there are plenty of load testing tools. Some are free, such as my favorite free load tester, OpenSTA (http://www.opensta.org/). Some are incredibly expensive, such as Segue SilkPerformer, which can run up to $50K. The commercial tools generally provide richer feature sets, and if you do enough load testing, they're worth the money in the amount of time they save you. > I'd like to test some sections of some apps and see what > kind of performance my code is getting (or not getting). > > Does anyone have any suggestions as to how this test could > be done? Unfortunately, load testing isn't a trivial task. In general, though, to oversimplify things a bit, you write a test script which travels through your application, then you give that script to your load test tool and let it run the script with some predetermined number of virtual users. As it runs the script, it measures response time and throughput, and stores those measurements. After the test has been run, you can generate data about which pages took longest on average, and those are your bottlenecks. You can then examine those pages specifically, and use GetTickCount within those pages to find out which section of the page is causing trouble. This kind of load test is called a performance test. You can also use load test tools to perform capacity planning tests. > I liked the example on the houseoffusion.com home page where > the question was asked, "Is CFLOOP really needed?"... little > tricks like that, I'm sure are almost trivial but running > sloppy queries/loopsetc... Just want to tighten it up. I'm sorry, but that kind of question is like asking how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. You won't find your performance problems can be solved by "little tricks" like that. I've analyzed literally hundreds of CF applications, and their problems were never caused by those sorts of things. Instead, the problems almost always come down to poor database schema design, poorly written SQL, inadequate caching, or some combination of those. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ phone: 202-797-5496 fax: 202-797-5444 _ _ [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
RE: Load testing
Thanks to all who replied... Thanks for the info Dave. :-) Yves _ From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: June 20, 2004 9:45 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Load testing > I was wondering what was the general pratice for testing > your app is In my experience, the general practice is to release your application, and it either supports the number of users it needs to, or it doesn't. Of course, that's not the best practice, but it's certainly the most common. > Is there any way of similating a certain number of hits > per minute? Yes, there are plenty of load testing tools. Some are free, such as my favorite free load tester, OpenSTA (http://www.opensta.org/). Some are incredibly expensive, such as Segue SilkPerformer, which can run up to $50K. The commercial tools generally provide richer feature sets, and if you do enough load testing, they're worth the money in the amount of time they save you. > I'd like to test some sections of some apps and see what > kind of performance my code is getting (or not getting). > > Does anyone have any suggestions as to how this test could > be done? Unfortunately, load testing isn't a trivial task. In general, though, to oversimplify things a bit, you write a test script which travels through your application, then you give that script to your load test tool and let it run the script with some predetermined number of virtual users. As it runs the script, it measures response time and throughput, and stores those measurements. After the test has been run, you can generate data about which pages took longest on average, and those are your bottlenecks. You can then examine those pages specifically, and use GetTickCount within those pages to find out which section of the page is causing trouble. This kind of load test is called a performance test. You can also use load test tools to perform capacity planning tests. > I liked the example on the houseoffusion.com home page where > the question was asked, "Is CFLOOP really needed?"... little > tricks like that, I'm sure are almost trivial but running > sloppy queries/loopsetc... Just want to tighten it up. I'm sorry, but that kind of question is like asking how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. You won't find your performance problems can be solved by "little tricks" like that. I've analyzed literally hundreds of CF applications, and their problems were never caused by those sorts of things. Instead, the problems almost always come down to poor database schema design, poorly written SQL, inadequate caching, or some combination of those. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ phone: 202-797-5496 fax: 202-797-5444 _ [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
RE: cflocation fails
I wouldn't have thought so because the correct URL is in the browser window, if conditional logic was stopping the cflocation being executed then there would be no way for the browser to have the URL. I would suspect the browser is not handling the relocation properly, are you able to test it from a different machine? > is it possible that there is conditional logic around the > relocation and the conditional test fails the first time that > page loads? > > Hi, > > > > I have a strange situation which I can't track down. > > > > I have an application that I have been using successfully for some > > time running on CFMX 6.1 > > > > Recently the application has been giving problems because the > > tags are not working sometimes. > > > > The characteristics are that the browser shows the > redirected URL at > > the address bar and the content (Usually nothing or debug info) for > > the page that issues the cflocation. > > > > If you position the cursor in the address bar and hit enter you do > > then go to the correct page. > > > > Anyone seen this before? > > > > Anyone know what could possibly cause it? [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: cflocation fails
is it possible that there is conditional logic around the relocation and the conditional test fails the first time that page loads? ~Simon Simon Horwith CTO, eTRILOGY ltd. Member of Team Macromedia Macromedia Certified Master Instructor http://www.cfstandards.org Kevin Roche wrote: > Hi, > > I have a strange situation which I can't track down. > > I have an application that I have been using successfully for some time > running on CFMX 6.1 > > Recently the application has been giving problems because the > tags are not working sometimes. > > The characteristics are that the browser shows the redirected URL at the > address bar and the content (Usually nothing or debug info) for the page > that issues the cflocation. > > If you position the cursor in the address bar and hit enter you do then go > to the correct page. > > Anyone seen this before? > > Anyone know what could possibly cause it? > > Kevin Roche > [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
RE: Load testing
I won't beat a dead horse here, other than to agree with the previous posters: look at the database and caching strategies first. We documented our recent load testing experience in an April CFDJ article; you can read it here: http://www.duoconsulting.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/news.detail/object_id/5ea7ed33-8896-49d1-9945-e6e216dc85ed/TheArtScienceofLoadTestingonaBudget.cfm -- Kelly Tetterton Technical Lead | Duo Consulting Internet Strategy, Design and Development 312.529.3000| main 312.529.3014 | direct 312.529.3001| fax www.duoconsulting.com -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2004 7:45 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Load testing > I was wondering what was the general pratice for testing > your app is In my experience, the general practice is to release your application, and it either supports the number of users it needs to, or it doesn't. Of course, that's not the best practice, but it's certainly the most common. > Is there any way of similating a certain number of hits > per minute? Yes, there are plenty of load testing tools. Some are free, such as my favorite free load tester, OpenSTA (http://www.opensta.org/). Some are incredibly expensive, such as Segue SilkPerformer, which can run up to $50K. The commercial tools generally provide richer feature sets, and if you do enough load testing, they're worth the money in the amount of time they save you. > I'd like to test some sections of some apps and see what > kind of performance my code is getting (or not getting). > > Does anyone have any suggestions as to how this test could > be done? Unfortunately, load testing isn't a trivial task. In general, though, to oversimplify things a bit, you write a test script which travels through your application, then you give that script to your load test tool and let it run the script with some predetermined number of virtual users. As it runs the script, it measures response time and throughput, and stores those measurements. After the test has been run, you can generate data about which pages took longest on average, and those are your bottlenecks. You can then examine those pages specifically, and use GetTickCount within those pages to find out which section of the page is causing trouble. This kind of load test is called a performance test. You can also use load test tools to perform capacity planning tests. > I liked the example on the houseoffusion.com home page where > the question was asked, "Is CFLOOP really needed?"... little > tricks like that, I'm sure are almost trivial but running > sloppy queries/loopsetc... Just want to tighten it up. I'm sorry, but that kind of question is like asking how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. You won't find your performance problems can be solved by "little tricks" like that. I've analyzed literally hundreds of CF applications, and their problems were never caused by those sorts of things. Instead, the problems almost always come down to poor database schema design, poorly written SQL, inadequate caching, or some combination of those. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ phone: 202-797-5496 fax: 202-797-5444 _ [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: ColdFusion Blogging Tool
> Oh, and as a head's up, you appear to be producing broken RSS. You'll > usually be able to skate by with invalid elements, but your > invalid s will result in most aggregators simply ignoring > the date info entirely. Either switch to with W3CDTF dates, > or produce full RFC822 for . RSS is a strange beast. This feed actually works in most aggregators I tried (about 10-12 so far). This particular demo feed may be a little off, but the final version has gotten a handful of tweaks. In the next version, I'm actually adding Atom support, as well as more robust RSS 2.0, RSS blog comments feeds, etc. It's a fun non-standardized world, that RSS. Jake [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
CGI variables
hi, We have a cold fusion web application. Which is under the security of another applicaiton. Security application passes the user id to our application in form of something like below. cgi.http_scempnum We access this variable value in applicaiton.cfm file and query the user table for this user id every time when any cold fusion page is accessed. SO for every coldfusion request send query is fired against the database. We have 1000 users and out of them only 5 are losing that cgi user id variable passed on to us from security applicaiton. In the first attempt some users get thru it and we are able to access above mentioned value. But in is subsequent requests send after successfully login in to our site , we are losing that value. For some users in the very first attempt we are losing the value of cgi variable. It comes as blank string. One work around we have though is to store in cookie for very first time and then in subsequent requests we can use cookie value. But what if we dont get the cgi variable valiue in first attempt itself and so cookie will also contain blank string. Users are using IE 6.0 all 1000 users. Its happening in production only and not devleopment . Can any help me on this issue.Is it related to some server settings? thanks hemant [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
cflocation fails
Hi, I have a strange situation which I can't track down. I have an application that I have been using successfully for some time running on CFMX 6.1 Recently the application has been giving problems because the tags are not working sometimes. The characteristics are that the browser shows the redirected URL at the address bar and the content (Usually nothing or debug info) for the page that issues the cflocation. If you position the cursor in the address bar and hit enter you do then go to the correct page. Anyone seen this before? Anyone know what could possibly cause it? Kevin Roche [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: ColdFusion Blogging Tool
>Sometimes, the paid versions aren't worth the money >http://www.countersinkdg.com/demo/admin/login.cfm?url=""> >dg.com/demo/admin/index.cfm? No need to be rude. As I stated in the notes to this demo, it's a demo and a testbed, and as such always getting tweaks. I was doing some testing this weekend and forgot to copy a file up to the server. Oops! Sorry about that. It's all good now. Jake [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
RE: CFPOP streamlining
In this case I am using MX, but that in useful information to be filed in the "for future reference" folder, cheers. > I'm not sure which version of CF you are using but on CF4.x/5 > the getheaderonly action actually retrieved the entire mail > although it didn't present it all in the query so for what > you are doing, a single pass is probably preferable under the > circumstances outlined above... I haven't really played with > CFPOP on CFMX that much to know it's nuances so this > information may or may not be correct when using CFMX [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
RE: CFPOP streamlining
James I just had a look at the livedocs for CFMX http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/tags-b14.htm#wp11 01854 (assuming you are on cfmx) and message number can actually be a comma separated list of all the messages you would like to retrieve, this should save you having to call cfpop for each email and allow you to re-use the connect. Not sure if the getHeaderOnly action correctly only gets the header but you can look at the commands being sent to the mail server in the mail logs which should give you some indication of what POP commands are being sent to the mail server HTH KOla -Original Message- From: James Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 June 2004 11:37 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CFPOP streamlining Thanks, that is what I am in the process of doing now, I was more wondering if there were any protocol issues here where one method would be considered "more propper" than the other. _ From: Kola Oyedeji [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 June 2004 11:32 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CFPOP streamlining James you could well be right, it may actually be quicker to download and then ignore the additional emails as opposed to constantly opening/closing connections to the mail server - I would test both options and see which one performs better. Kola -Original Message- From: James Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 June 2004 11:06 To: CF-Talk Subject: CFPOP streamlining I have a template that retrieves mail and processes it to extract order information using cfpop. At any one time it can be retrieving up to 300 emails of which around 200 will be orders, the rest will be a mixture of junk and correspondence aimed at the human who reads the account. I am currently doing a cfpop to retrieve the headers only, then looping over these doing another cfpop for each to get the message body resulting in 200+ pop connections in total. Would it be better to just do one connection, retrieve everything, and simply ignore to 100 message bodies I am not interested in? -- James Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.707 / Virus Database: 463 - Release Date: 15/06/2004 _ _ _ [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
RE: CFPOP streamlining
I'm not sure which version of CF you are using but on CF4.x/5 the getheaderonly action actually retrieved the entire mail although it didn't present it all in the query so for what you are doing, a single pass is probably preferable under the circumstances outlined above... I haven't really played with CFPOP on CFMX that much to know it's nuances so this information may or may not be correct when using CFMX Paul [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
