Preventing cache in IE with cfheader

2007-05-02 Thread Christophe Maso
I'm having trouble getting IE not to cache image files on a particular page.
I have a page where image files can be uploaded and overwrite existing files 
(similar to a Myspace type page that displays your picture; you can upload 
another gif or jpg via form field, submit, and then page refreshes).  The file 
uploads, but the browser is still caching; the refreshed page still shows the 
old image file.

In order to prevent browser caching of image files, I've used

, and also added




for good measure.  Firefox seems to respond to this, but not IE(7).  Am I doing 
something wrong, or is IE just a less than optimal browser?

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Re: Preventing cache in IE with cfheader

2007-05-02 Thread Christophe Maso
> I'm having trouble getting IE not to cache image files on a particular 
> page.
> I have a page where image files can be uploaded and overwrite existing 
> files (similar to a Myspace type page that displays your picture; you 
> can upload another gif or jpg via form field, submit, and then page 
> refreshes).  The file uploads, but the browser is still caching; the 
> refreshed page still shows the old image file.
> 
> In order to prevent browser caching of image files, I've used
> 
> , and also 
> added
> 
> 
> 
> 
> for good measure.  Firefox seems to respond to this, but not IE(7).  
> Am I doing something wrong, or is IE just a less than optimal 
browser?

Further puzzling - the info on following post didn't seem to help...
http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/thread.cfm/threadid:50692

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Re: Preventing cache in IE with cfheader

2007-05-03 Thread Christophe Maso
> Instead of messing with HTTP headers, just append a random variable to 
> 
> the image URL: 
> 
Jochem

Thanks!  Works perfectly.

The developer I work with points out that sometimes you might want the image 
cached unless it has been updated, and the solution to that is saving the 
modification date of the image in the DB, and outputting that to the image url 
as an integer.  To express a date in integer form, we typically use the number 
of seconds that have passed between a fixed date in the past and the date in 
question. So, http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJQ 

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Function to decode string?

2011-08-18 Thread Christophe Maso

I have a string variable that I'm using dynamically in an XML document, so it's 
necessary to use XMLFormat() or HTMLEditFormat() to change special characters 
like "<", ">", and "&" so that the XML doesn't break.

However, I need to convert those back to their literals before saving to the 
DB, i.e., I need ">" to be converted back to ">", and "&" to be 
converted back to "&", etc.

Is there a CF function that will do this? I haven't been able to find one.

Also, not for CF but for web dev in general, is there a standard term for the 
">", " ", etc. format?

Thanks! 

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Get text value from xmlsearch()

2011-12-07 Thread Christophe Maso

Is there any way to get the "09-09-2009" string using xmlSearch() for the below 
xml?


   09-09-2009


I've been doing something like this, which is a real pain:

arrDate = xmlSearch(xml, "//employee/startDate");
strDate = arrDate[1].XmlText;

It seems that xmlSearch() must always return an array and is unable to return a 
string, which makes sense, but using the above code has gotten old, real fast. 

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problem using cfheader to create csv file from query

2012-05-24 Thread Christophe Maso

I'm running into a problem using cfheader, and wondering if there's a 
workaround. What's happening is this:

I have a form page, and onSubmit of the form, a js validation function is 
called. This performs a number of tasks in addition to validation, and during 
its execution it looks at the document object. On the action page, a query is 
generated and fed to a custom changeQueryToCSV(query) function. Ultimately I 
want the user to be able to view (in Excel) and/or save the resulting .csv to 
their own pc.
I use this at the bottom of my action page to make it happen:
[code]



#csvStringThatWasReturnedByFunction#
[/code]

The problem is that the content type is being changed, and this seems to wipe 
out the DOM document object. When I submit the form, a dialog box comes up 
asking if I want to view or save myFile.csv, which I want. But then a js error 
pops up saying that "document.all" is not defined.

As an attempt at working around, I used iframe. So the action page has only the 
iframe tags, with the src being another cfm page which contains all of the 
action code. This seems to work; document.all is defined in this case. But both 
the form page and the action page happen inside a modal window, which I want to 
close as soon as it's done executing. Any code on the action page (which has 
the iframe tags) to close the window causes it to close before the view/save 
dialog box appears. I also tried using window.open() on the action page instead 
of iframe, but I don't want any visible window to actually pop up.

I've tried using cfmodule and cfinclude with no lock. Might cfthread work here?
Mostly, I'm wondering if there's any other way to do what needs to be done 
(create csv file user can save to own pc) without using cfheader.

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Asynchronous action inside CFC function

2012-11-13 Thread Christophe Maso

Hi I have a function that gets some binary data, uses that data to do a cffile 
action=write, and then returns the file's path as a string. I'm experiencing a 
problem that suggests the function is doing the return before the write action 
has completed. In the code below, will the function wait for the write action 
to complete before it sends the return? I'm almost certain it will not; is 
there a way to force the function to wait for the write to complete before it 
returns strWPTempFilePath, such as cftransaction or something along those lines?



 

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cfflush - flushing quits sometimes in middle of loop

2013-06-03 Thread Christophe Maso

I have a page where a query resultset of various documents to be emailed or 
faxed to clients is being looped over. These can take up to 10 seconds to 
process, so I flush the progress to the browser so the user can see that 
document x of y total has been sent (or has failed). Y is usually 200, and 
never more than that.

This is infrequent, but sometimes the flush just stops flushing to the browser 
during a random iteration in the loop, even though the process is still running 
in the background and runs all the way to completion. I'm using CF8, viewing on 
IE9 (I have also viewed on IE8; I have yet to see this happen using IE8. So far 
has only happened on IE9).

I use divs to mimic table rows, as IE will not flush actual table rows one at a 
time; it waits until the whole table is done and only then renders it to the 
screen. I also set a very low interval so it doesn't wait too long before 
flushing the next bit of html. My code basically looks like this (btw - I 
didn't see any tags to enclode a codeblock; will try to keep this neat...):





   Processing documents...#repeatString(" ", 10)#  



   
  Work Request IDDelivery MethodSuccessProgress
   



   
  
  
 
  
   
 
   
   
class="red">
 #qryDocsToSend.DocID[currentrow]##qryDocsToSend.Delivery_Method[currentrow]#YN#qryDocsToSend.currentrow# of #qryDocsToSend.recordcount# 
processed.
  
   

   
  
  
   



   
   
  #qryWRsToSend.recordcount - IntNumFailed# records were was 
sent.
  
 #IntNumFailed# failed.
  
   



Has anyone else experienced this kind of behavior with cfflush?

Thanks,
Christophe

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maintaining state in multipage form

2006-03-12 Thread Christophe Maso
I've taken over a web application where at one point, the user has a long list 
of items to choose from to be compared to one another.  Each product has a 
checkbox next to it, and after checking off those products the user wants to 
see, the user submits the form and views a comparison table.

This would be simple if the form were all on one page, but it's not.  Since 
there can be potentially be a lot to choose from, the form is codes to display 
only 30 or so items at a time.  There's hyperlink navigation at the bottom of 
the page to go to next/previous page, or to go to page x, in order to see other 
items.  Clicking on any of these links executes a new request and the previous 
page's checkboxes lose their state.  So right now the user can only compare 
items if they happen to be listed on the same page in the same group of 30.

I need the user to be able to check boxes on any page and jump around to other 
pages of the form, checking or unchecking as they want, and have the form 
maintain it's overall state for when they finally submit.  Any leads on where I 
can get some tips on how to do this?

Thanks,
Christophe

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Re: maintaining state in multipage form

2006-03-13 Thread Christophe Maso
>It sounds like a session variable containing an array of checkboxes and
>their selected values might be in order.  Assuming the user has cookies
>enabled (or if you pass the session tokens on the URLs) this should be
>fairly simple to implement.
>
>-Justin
>
>
>>

I'd considered using a session var, but then it occurred to me that there's no 
way to save the checked values to a session list or array until the submit 
button has been clicked.  I could start on page 1, check a few boxes, and then 
click on the link for page 2 (or 3 or 4).  At that point, page 1's checked 
boxes have been forgotten.

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Re: maintaining state in multipage form

2006-03-13 Thread Christophe Maso
True, but then the user needs to be able to go back to any form page they've 
been to, uncheck boxes if they want, and have those values effectively removed 
from the session array...

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Re: maintaining state in multipage form

2006-03-13 Thread Christophe Maso
Think I might have the solution - in the session array or list, save each 
element in the list as [widgetid]|[pagenumber].  Submit each page to the next, 
appending the session var with the checked widgets' ids, but first REMOVE all 
widgets from the list that have the submitting page's number.  That way, 
widgets remain in the session var if and only if they are still checked (I'm 
overwriting the page's contents with each submission, for all intents and 
purposes.)

Thanks much- I'll post again on how well it works...

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Re: maintaining state in multipage form

2006-03-13 Thread Christophe Maso
The only problem with that is that the form isn't linear; in addition to to the 
"previous page/next page" links, each page has a direct link, so the user can 
go straight to page 56 if they don't want to have to click "next page" 55 
times.  But you're right; the bottom line is that each click needs to result in 
the page's form vars being passed to the next page, which means either 56+ 
submit buttons or maybe some kind of onClick=form.submit() mechanism.

It's a little simpler since I'm dealing only with checkboxes (all have the same 
name), so I get a comma-delimited list with each submit without having to do a 
loop, but then the question is how to remove widget IDs from the cumulative 
list if the user goes back and unchecks them.  E.G., user goes to a page and 
checks the boxes for widgets 42, 44, and 61.  Later they go back to that page, 
uncheck widget 42, and visit another page. Widget 42 has been unchecked, but it 
still hasn't been removed from the cumulative list, because unchecked 
checkboxes submit nothing.  Hence my idea to create a list or structure that 
looks like "widgetID|pagenumber, widgetID|pagenumber, widgetID|pagenumber..." 
with each submission, first remove all elements from the cumulative list that 
have pagenumber=submitting page's pagenumber, and then append the  received 
widget IDs currently being passed.

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cfhttp and tab-delimited

2006-03-23 Thread Christophe Maso
If I have a tab-delimited text file I want to make into a query object using 
cfhttp, how should I enter the value for the delimiter attribute in the cfhttp 
tag?  The O'Reilly book demonstrates how to write it for comma-delimited:

http://...file.txt"; name="myquery" delimiter="," textqualifier="">

But not for tab-delimited.

Also, if each row in the file ends with carriage return, do I need to use a 
special value for the textqualifier attribute?

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Re: cfhttp and tab-delimited

2006-03-23 Thread Christophe Maso
Thanks!

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Re: macromedia certification

2006-04-27 Thread Christophe Maso
Speaking of the CF Cert test - has anyone heard of a preparation product called 
"testbuster"?  I thought I saw something about that linked off of the 
Macromedia site some time back, but can't seem to retrace it.

On cert tests in general, sure, in the end they don't prove much.  I'm having 
fun studying for the CF exam, though - getting exposure to a few advanced 
features I've never had to use on the job, as well as a couple smalls tips and 
tricks I didn't know about before.

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Re: macromedia certification

2006-04-27 Thread Christophe Maso
Thanks!  Has anyone used the CF ExamBuster, and if so did you find it to be 
worth the  $40?

-Christophe

> CFExambuster
> 
> http://www.centrasoft.com/
> 
> Christophe Maso wrote:
> > Speaking of the CF Cert test - has anyone heard of a preparation 
> product called "testbuster"?  I thought I saw something about that 
> linked off of the Macromedia site some time back, but can't seem to 
> retrace it.
> > 
> > On cert tests in general, sure, in the end they don't prove much.  
> I'm having fun studying for the CF exam, though - getting exposure to 
> a few advanced features I've never had to use on the job, as well as a 
> couple smalls tips and tricks I didn't know about before.
> > 
> > 

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Passing a query string as a single url variable

2006-05-26 Thread Christophe Maso
Trying to pass a custom query string to a template through the URL, example 
(assume all inside cfoutput tags):


Here is the qrystr encoded: #URLEncodedFormat(qrystr)#
http://www.hfdkldf.com/main.cfm?action=saveinfo&qrystr=#URLEncodedFormat(qrystr)#">save
 her info

Testing this out, I'm seeing that the second line's output indeed shows qrystr 
with "=" and "&" replaced by "%3D" and "%26", respectively. However, when I 
mouseover the link on line 3 and look at the URL in the status bar, I see the 
link's url does not have qrystr encoded. So, the receiving template is going to 
see qrystr only as "name=Jane", and not the full string. How can I pass qrystr 
in the URL so that it remains encoded and will be received with it's complete 
value?

I could use the replace function to custom encode qrystr myself, and then 
decode it at the receiving template, but I thought the whole point of a 
function like URLEncodedFormat was to avoid having to do that.

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secure logout

2006-06-12 Thread Christophe Maso
Thought this was a simple process - I have a website where, after the user logs 
out, clicking the back button on the browser should take the browser back to 
the login page.  Instead, it's taking the browser back to the previous page, 
with previous user logged in.

On the logout page, I clear the session structure and force cookie.cfid and 
cookie.cftoken to expire.  Looking at the debugging, I see all of that is 
happening as it should, yet clicking the back button still seems to restore the 
previous browser state.  Good thing I'm not running a banking website.  Am I 
missing something?

Thanks,
Christophe

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Re: secure logout

2006-06-12 Thread Christophe Maso
But regardless of the browser's cache settings, isn't there a way to ensure 
that the back button can't display the previous page at all?  For example, if I 
sign off of my Bank of America page, hitting the back button will not reveal 
any cached page; instead, it takes me to a "sorry, you've logged off, please 
log in again" page.

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Get character in string at position X?

2005-07-28 Thread Christophe Maso
I can do this in Javascript, but I've been through the index of my CF book and 
haven't found the a CF function that will return the character at position X in 
a given string. (I tried treating the string as a list, using the listGetAt 
function and specifying "" as the delimiter, but CF balked at that...)  Can 
anyone help me out?  Thanks!

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Re: Get character in string at position X?

2005-07-28 Thread Christophe Maso
> I can do this in Javascript, but I've been through the index of my CF 
> book and haven't found the a CF function that will return the 
> character at position X in a given string. (I tried treating the 
> string as a list, using the listGetAt function and specifying "" as 
> the delimiter, but CF balked at that...)  Can anyone help me out?  
Thanks!

Of course I find something right after posting...looks like the Mid function 
does this.  Any other practices to suggest? Thanks!

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Trouble connection to local database

2005-10-24 Thread Christophe Maso
I'm trying to set up a local dev/testing environment on my PC, using CFMX 6.1 
and SQL Server 2000 (both installed on my local box).  I've got the correct un 
and pw for CF to get into the database, but each time I try to set the DSN in 
CF administrator, it gives me an error saying:

"Connection verification failed for data source: Localdb 
[]java.sql.SQLException: [Macromedia][SQLServer JDBC Driver]Error establishing 
socket. Connection refused: connect The root cause was that: 
java.sql.SQLException: [Macromedia][SQLServer JDBC Driver]Error establishing 
socket. Connection refused: connect"

Which sounds like it isn't a un/pw problem, but an outright refusal of SQL 
server to allow the CF app server any connection at all.  Am I overlooking 
something?  In CF admin, the info for the DSN is simple - data source name is 
localdb, name of the database in SQL is localdb, server is localhost, un is 
"sa", and pw has been entered correctly.  

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Re: Trouble connection to local database

2005-10-24 Thread Christophe Maso
>Forgot to add, after you do the Service Pack, get the latest updates
>from
>Macromedia especially the macromedia_drivers.zip.
>
>Sorry do not remember which HotFix it was. 
>

Thanks!  Looks like DLing and installing Servce Pack 4 was all I had to do - 
SQL Server DSNs in CF are connecting and validating fine now. 

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cfgraph problem

2006-02-13 Thread Christophe Maso
This is a troublesome problem I’m having with Cfgraph (using CF 6.1).  I’m 
thinking that the root of the problem may be that I’m trying to create a 
graph that has 2 scale axes, rather than 1 scale axis and 1 item axis.  In any 
event, I’d greatly appreciate the help of any gurus or sub-gurus out there…

What I’m trying to do isn’t all that complicated.  I’m basically trying 
to create a scatter graph, for all Manhattan rental apartments in our database, 
in which every apartment in the table is represented by a dot on the graph, 
with its x value being the rent per month, and its y value being the 
apartment’s number of bedrooms.  So the query “get_aptinfo” returns 
something like:

Aptnumbdrm  Rent
0.0 1000
0.0 1095
1.0 1100
1.0 2000
1.5 2300
2.0 2495

“Aptnumbdrm” is the column in the table that holds the apartment’s number 
of bedrooms, which is (almost) always within the range of 0 (for studios) to 5, 
in steps of 0.5.  So, 0, 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, etc.  In the rare case that the 
number of bedrooms exceeds 5, it’s still of a value x.0 or x.5.  “Rent” 
is the column that holds the apartment’s rent per month in dollars (which can 
be any integer value between 1,000 and 40,000.

What I’m running into is this – setting rent on the x axis, and number of 
apartments on the y axis, the x axis doesn’t render in proper order (even 
though the query is set to order by rent and there’s a “sortxaxis=yes” 
parameter in the cfchart tag) :





I tried switching the x axis and y axis so that rent is the valuecolumn and 
aptnumbdrm the itemcolumn, but that doesn’t help.  In that case, the x axis 
is still out of order, and now all points with 0 BR, 0.5 BR, etc. are overlayed 
as though they have the same x and y values when they in fact don’t.



Now, here’s where it really gets screwy – when I try to overlay 2 datasets 
(e.g., all rental apartments in Manhattan that have broker’s fees for the 
renter, and all rental apartments in Manhattan that do not).  Like this:






In this case, same problem.  The x axis is not in order, and the increments 
aren’t to scale, either (e.g., goes from a hash at 1095, to a hash at11950, 
to a hash at 1300…)

So, am I doing something wrong?  Is there any way to accomplish what I’m 
trying to do using cfgraph?

Thanks,
Christophe

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CFMX and memory Leaks

2005-03-04 Thread Christophe Maso
I have ColdFusion MX and SQL Server 2000 running on the same WIN 2003 Server. 
We run a pretty query intensive site, and we've had problems with SQL Server 
memory leaks for a long time which I'd really like to clean up so we don't have 
to stop and restart SQL Server every 24 hours...Stopping and restarting SQL 
Server reset it, but looking at the performance monitor over the course of 24 
hours, you can watch the total SQL server server memory creeping up toward the 
target server memory until it maxes out and the site slows waaay down

I've been told that this has to do with our site's code, specifically SQL 
queries, and I'm trying to educate myself on what the best coding practices are 
to prevent these leaks. I'm not sure where to start - I've always tried to 
build efficient queries, and follow proper cflocking practices, but I inherited 
this site, and I'm not even sure what kinds of bad coding would cause SQL 
server leaks. Can anyone give me some tips, or point me in the right direction? 
Thanks...

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cfhttp - connection refused

2005-01-27 Thread Christophe Maso
I have a template that accesses another local template through cfhttp:

http://www.mysite.com/directory/session_tracker_update.cfm"; 
method="post">
 

 
 


And then displays #get_sessions# a few lines down.  It used to be that 
cfhttp.filecontent came back as a number, but ever since last night (when we 
had a firewall installed) it's coming back as "connection refused".  I figure 
probably has something to do with the firewall blocking a port somewhere, but I 
don't understand why the cfhhtp request is being refused. Does cfhttp use some 
obscure port? Note, from my browser here at the office, I can connect to 
http://www.mysite.com/directory/session_tracker_update.cfm just fine, and the 
browser displays the number I'm looking for...

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Recursion to retrieve blog thread - help please

2008-11-05 Thread Christophe Maso
I feel I should know how to do this, but I haven't really had to write a 
function like this yet.

We have a blog site where, currently, users can post entries to their own 
respective blog, and replies can be made to that entry.  Entries are kept in an 
"entries" table, and replies are kept in a "replies" table.  Each reply belongs 
to a parent entry, so "entryId" is a foreign key within the replies table.

I've been tasked with modifying the site so that replies can be made to 
replies, so you can have multi-level threads.  I've done this, by adding 
"parentReplyId" as a column in the replies table.  Each reply still has the 
entryID of the entry that ultimately started the thread to which it belongs, 
but now parentReplyId gives additional info - if this is null, then the reply 
is a "top-level" reply, made to an entry directly, and if it is not null, then 
the reply has been made to another reply.  Now it comes down to writing a cfc 
function that will retrieve an entry's reply nodes in the correct order, 
following each reply down the "tree" until it dead ends and then continuing on 
at the next level up (I'm sure there's a more technical term for this type of 
structure).

So ultimately I'll be able to display reply "A" on the page with its child 
replies indented below it, and any of their child replies further indented 
below them, etc., until there are no more and its on to reply "B"...like how 
you see replies displayed on Daily Kos and Livejournal.  I'm really not sure 
how this is typically done in a CFC function, or if I'm best off with 
returntype query, or returntype array, or if maybe this can be done in a single 
SQL query.  But I've a strong feeling that it's done with recursion.  Help 
please?  Thanks,

Christophe 

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Re: Recursion to retrieve blog thread - help please

2008-11-05 Thread Christophe Maso
Thank you very much - this works beautifully! 

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cftransaction

2009-12-11 Thread Christophe Maso

Hi all, I understand the gist of cftransaction, but I've tried using it with a 
conditional rollback on an action page in the below example and it doesn't seem 
to work. saveDataToDatabase() submits data to a stored procedure, which always 
returns a string: empty string if the data was saved, or a message stating what 
the problem was if not.



  
  
  ">
  
  
 
  


I'm not including cftry in this example, just to illustrate that I'm not 
looking for a database or other type of CF error per se - rather, I'm looking 
for any return message from the stored proc that isn't an empty string, such as 
"sorry - everything is otherwise kosher, but this stored proc is coded not to 
save the data if field x is above value y". That's not a database error as far 
as CF is concerned, so cftry wouldn't catch it. But in testing this code, I've 
found that the rollback doesn't take place, even when the cfif statement is 
true. Am I not using cftransaction correctly? 

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Re: cftransaction

2009-12-11 Thread Christophe Maso

Good catch - you're right; I would normally include a cfif to append the return 
string and the "" to allReturnMessages only if the return string isn't 
empty.

The stored proc was written by someone else, so I'm not 100% sure what's 
happening with it, which is part of the problem.  I suppose what I should be 
asking is - is it even possible to do what I'm trying to do? Which is, loop 
over a variable number of records to be saved or updated, and after the loop 
has finished, test to see if ANY of them have gotten a positive-length string 
back from the proc, and if so, rol lback ALL of them? 

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Re: cftransaction

2009-12-15 Thread Christophe Maso

Thanks everyone - looks like the sproc is indeed committing on the backend. I 
do miss writing my own queries...


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Re: Cfcontent MS Excel 2007 errors?

2009-12-31 Thread Christophe Maso

I've had the same problem, although the file will open after the user clicks 
"yes". I Looked to see if there's a different MIME type to use for .xlsx files 
vs. .xls files, and there is (see 
http://blogs.msdn.com/vsofficedeveloper/pages/Office-2007-Open-XML-MIME-Types.aspx).
 But using that mime type didn't help at all; the file saved can't even be 
opened. 


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cfcontent with excel 2007

2009-12-31 Thread Christophe Maso

Have seen a few posts around the web with this problem, but no evident 
solution.  I have a cfm page that I want to make exportable to excel 2007 
(.xlsx file).  From what I've seen here: 
http://blogs.msdn.com/vsofficedeveloper/pages/Office-2007-Open-XML-MIME-Types.aspx

it looks like the correct MIME type for Excel 2007 (.xlsx) files is NOT 
"vnd.ms-excel", but rather 
"application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
". So, when the proper url var is passed to the page, I include these lines of 
code:





And in that case the user is prompted to open or save the .xlsx file.  However, 
Excel 2007 can't open the file; it gives an error message saying that the file 
format is not valid.

No problem if I export it all using "vnd.ms-excel" as the MIME-type instead, 
but then it saves as an .xls file, not an .xlsx file.  Any help on how I can 
get it to save as an .xlsx file? (Using CF8).

Thanks,
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String to List?

2009-03-19 Thread Christophe Maso

Disclaimer - I haven't had to do any fancy string manipulation in a while...

I had thought that ANY string can be treated like a list (for example, such 
that "abcdef" can be treated as a list containing six elements and a delimiter 
of "").  Not so, I recently discovered when I tried to use 
listChangeDelims("abcdef", ",", "").  I wanted to input "abcdef" and get 
"a,b,c,d,e,f" returned, but CF doesn't recognize an empty value as a valid 
delimiter for any of its list functions...and it doesn't accept an empty value 
as the second argument in replace(), either.

So I wrote a function that'll do what I want, taking a string and the desired 
delimiter as arguments, then looping through each character in the string and 
inserting the delimiter after it (except for the last character in the string). 
 But as one might imagine, it's SLOW for very long strings.  String and list 
manipulation is kid stuff, or so I'd thought...surely there's a faster, simpler 
means? 

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Re: String to List?

2009-03-19 Thread Christophe Maso

Thanks all!  Good stuff all around...really must get myself locked onto regex 
one of these days :).

I came up with this:


























 

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Re: String to List?

2009-03-20 Thread Christophe Maso

>You've gotta love this bit of code:
>
>REreplace(arguments.strInputString,"(.)(.)","\1#arguments.strDelimiter#\2#ar
>guments.strDelimiter#","ALL")
>
>lol
>
>Oh come on, that's funny! :OD

Yeah, I know. :)  I haven't added regex to my knowledge repertoire yet, so I 
just modified the code snippet offered in the third post 
(#REreplace(list,"(.)(.)","\1,\2,","ALL")#).  Mine's not as pretty as it could 
be, but is a vast improvement from my original function. I created a string 
360k chars long for testing - this function processed it 9 times faster than my 
old function (which loops through every char in the string). 

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Re: String to List?

2009-03-20 Thread Christophe Maso

> I'd be interested to know how the code I suggested performs in
> comparison to the regex with the 360k string - in theory it 
> outperform
> it:
> 
> 

Running on CF8, I used cftimer to test execution time on a string 360K long 
(all alphanumerics, just alphabet appended with 1 to 0 and concatenated 10,000 
times).  No cfdump or output; just a cfset statement.

My original function - over 60 seconds, times out.  this.s**tCan().
ArrayToList( myString.toCharArray() ) - 188 ms
StringToDelimListRE() (the one with the ASCII breasts (Hah, I missed that)) - 
172 ms
listFromChars() - 125 ms

I'm not 100% positive on which ones will/will not accept non-alphanumerics in 
the string; didn't test for that in all cases.  Anyone else care to time these 
out?  In any ase, there's something to be said for using only 1 line of code - 
well worth the price of a few millseconds in my book, so long as I don't have 
to run this process on War & Peace... 

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Re: String to List?

2009-03-20 Thread Christophe Maso

I just noticed that listFromChars() is essentially 1 line of code, also.  My 
bad...

Bottom line for me is to learn regex and more Java! 

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