date:20050127

Re: better way to code?

2005-01-27 Thread Barney Boisvert

I'd say that any application that allows file paths to come from the
URL is wrong, no matter the code.  Second, any application that allows
mixed relative and absolute paths for the same file is asking for
trouble.  And third, make sure you check for a leading "/" as well, or
you code will puke on *nix.

Now as for the coding style, the former is definitely better, though
the whole block should be in a CFTRY..CFCATCH.  In the second example,
you need a CFTRY around the second CFFILE, and having multiple nested
CFTRY..CFCATCH blocks gets too nasty to quick.  Chances are good that
if that scenario arises, you'd be better off doing some abstraction
with either includes, UDFs, or a CFC.  But again, I think it's
unlikely you would ever be in this scenario with a well designed
application.

Also, don't use CONTAINS as your operator, use mid(url.dir, 2, 1) and
see if it's a colon.

cheers,
barneyb

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 23:43:25 -0400, Johnny Le <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Which method of programming do you consider is better?
> 
> This one:
> 
>
> 
>output="">
> 
> 
> or this one:
> 
> 
>
>
>   output="">
>
> 
> 
> I know that the first one is most people use, but the second one is more 
> interesting.  It seems to use the power of CF more. So let me know what you 
> think.
> 
> Johnny
> 
> 

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Re: Blackstone and XHTML

2005-01-27 Thread Sean Corfield

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 01:10:16 -0500, S. Isaac Dealey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You might also have a look at the onTap framework -- which has much
> more robust, bulletproof and reuseable (but no more difficult to use)
> form validation features.

That is *way* more complex than the equivalent Blackstone form!

Blackstone's XML forms allow you to specify just the plain fields
without formatting and have an automatic XSL transformation applied to
create nicely lined up form fields and labels...

For example, the following simple form:










With no other code, this produces:

http://www.corfield.org/articles/stuff/ike.gif

(I didn't both mapping Ike's radio button stuff)

Form labels are automatic and aligned. Required fields are indicated
with a red *.
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Re: Frequent Server Restart

2005-01-27 Thread Barney Boisvert

First thing I'd do is find another host, and then let them worry about
their problem.  But I'm a heartless bastard when it comes to people
not doing their job, when it's the only thing they have to do.  If
they can't even get time synchronization right, it shouldn't be much
surprise that they can't keep CF running consistently.  Without having
access to the server to monitor other things (memory usage, CF/JRun
logs, web server logs, etc), it's hard to even guess what the issue
might be, though.

cheers,
barneyb

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 23:45:16 -0400, Andrew Grosset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a site (that is not yet public) which is on a shared server with a 
> major CF hosting company running MX 6.1 . In the last nine days the server 
> has been restarted nine times including twice today.
> 
> The server restarts are monitored by scheduling cfscheduler to call a 
> template once an hour that checks if a specific application variable is 
> defined, if it's not it emails me and resets the application variable.
> 
> They are also unable to synchronise the server time with nist.time.gov but 
> that is a separate issue.
> 
> Any suggestions as to what they (the hosting Co) and I can do?
> 
> Andrew.
> 

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Re: WYSIWYG Rich Text Area Editor

2005-01-27 Thread Barney Boisvert

You're not alone.  It's my editor of choice for simple stuff.  Very
easy to customize, and it's themes stuff makes it amazingly simple to
expose different capabilities to different users, or in different
editing situations.  Still use HTMLArea for heavy lifting (the plugin
architecture, while complex, is very helpful), but with the success
I've had with TinyMCE, that might change.

cheers,
barneyb

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 20:09:18 -0400, Will Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Am I the only one retarded enough to use TinyMCE? Why do I like it so much? 
> Is something wrong with me?
> 
> Just wondering...
> 
> Will
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Re: Blackstone and XHTML

2005-01-27 Thread S . Isaac Dealey

> Is Blackstone going to take care of this non XHTML
> compliant code CF writes for cfform? Everything is
> uppercase.

> I'm trying to make all my stuff XHTML compliant, and I
> like using cfform/validation because I'm extremely lazy!

> Will

You might also have a look at the onTap framework -- which has much
more robust, bulletproof and reuseable (but no more difficult to use)
form validation features.

quick example:

http://www.fusiontap.com"; tap:dbtable="product">

Product Name

Product Category

Status

List Price

Available Date

This form is actually a little more complicated than is entirely
necessary for the sake of demonstrating features. At the top you see
the attribute tap:dbtable="product" in the form tag which tells the
framework that the forms values being entered will ultimately reside
in this table and the framework uses the meta-data from that table in
your database to automate required, date and numeric field
information. The tap:dbtable attribute could be placed in any element
in your xhtml, not just the form and affects all child-elements.

Within the input elements, the tap:label attribute identifies the
label used in form validators (both server and client-side), so for
example when a user fails to provide a value for the productname
field/column (which will be required if the products.columnname column
in your database is not nullable), both client and server validation
will use the contents of the identified element to display the
name of the input element to the user.

Assuming the listprice column is numeric and the availabledate column
is a date/timestamp column in your database, these columns will both
be automatically validated as numeric and date values respectively in
both client and server validation. The element will make these values required if they aren't
already required due to matching columns in the product table being
not-nullable. The tap:validate="numeric" attribute in the listprice
field will ensure this value is numeric if it's not already numeric as
a result of database integration.

The tap:highlight tag at the top will cause elements which fail to
validate to be colored (default is yellow) to alert the user
immediately to what elements need to be corrected.

Both the category (select) and product status (radio buttons) fields
will have options automatically generated from the database if these
columns are foreign keys in the products table. The tap:dbfilter tag
will limit the list of options to those records in the theoretical
productcategory table where the "active" column has a value of 1.
Unlike cfselect the extra tag in the select element will
appear at the top instead of the bottom of the select list.

You might also notice that none of the input elements in this form
contain any value attributes. By default the form is populated with
matching values in the attributes scope (a combination of form and url
variables). By filling the attributes scope with default values from a
database query it's easy to use the same form for both insert and
update tasks without any modification. (It's also just plain good
separation of presentation from model.) The framework also ensures
that all these values are properly formatted with htmleditformat()
before being displayed in the xhtml returned to the browser.

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