RE: Renaming Files with CFFILE
A good alternative would be to resize the original to something just larger than 100x150, say 105x150 or 100x154 (whichever site is longest), then crop the remaining pixels to fit the intended size. Once the photo is that small they're not going to notice much difference between 150 pixels and 154 pixels. -Original Message- From: Tom Chiverton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 10:21 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Renaming Files with CFFILE On Thursday 24 May 2007, Andy Matthews wrote: > If you resize an image to 100x150 it'll skew the ratio unless you crop it. Easy and obvious solutions include resizing to something slightly different (102x147) but with the same aspect, or using CSS to do the cropping if the CF solution can't. But yeah, clients are pains - nice to be have enough work that you can feel you can drop them - means you have the power, not them ! -- Tom Chiverton Helping to enormously innovate global ROI on: http://thefalken.livejournal.com ~| ColdFusion MX7 and Flex 2 Build sales & marketing dashboard RIAâs for your business. Upgrade now http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2?sdid=RVJT Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:279083 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: Renaming Files with CFFILE
On Thursday 24 May 2007, Andy Matthews wrote: > If you resize an image to 100x150 it'll skew the ratio unless you crop it. Easy and obvious solutions include resizing to something slightly different (102x147) but with the same aspect, or using CSS to do the cropping if the CF solution can't. But yeah, clients are pains - nice to be have enough work that you can feel you can drop them - means you have the power, not them ! -- Tom Chiverton Helping to enormously innovate global ROI on: http://thefalken.livejournal.com This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at St James's Court Brown Street Manchester M2 2JF. A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP. Regulated by the Law Society. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 8008. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com. ~| Create Web Applications With ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2. Build powerful, scalable RIAs. Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJS Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:279076 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: Renaming Files with CFFILE
If you resize an image to 100x150 it'll skew the ratio unless you crop it. -Original Message- From: Tom Chiverton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 10:02 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Renaming Files with CFFILE On Thursday 24 May 2007, Les Mizzell wrote: > "We just need to be able to export directly out of the camera. How did the ratio ever get broken then ? -- Tom Chiverton Helping to enormously deliver cross-media design-patterns on: http://thefalken.livejournal.com This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at St James's Court Brown Street Manchester M2 2JF. A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP. Regulated by the Law Society. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 8008. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com. ~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJQ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:279074 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: Renaming Files with CFFILE
On Thursday 24 May 2007, Les Mizzell wrote: > "We just need to be able to export directly out of the camera. How did the ratio ever get broken then ? -- Tom Chiverton Helping to enormously deliver cross-media design-patterns on: http://thefalken.livejournal.com This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at St James's Court Brown Street Manchester M2 2JF. A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP. Regulated by the Law Society. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 8008. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com. ~| ColdFusion MX7 and Flex 2 Build sales & marketing dashboard RIAâs for your business. Upgrade now http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2?sdid=RVJT Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:279070 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Renaming Files with CFFILE
> The last I saw in this category was somebody who absolutely wanted to > enter several values in a text field using the Enter key in order to enter > several lines... Mine was a client with an admin for their image gallery. It was set up for a main image and a thumb. First round was my mistake. I trusted the client. WRONG!! I showed them how to use the system and how to properly size the images for use. The input fields *clearly* stated that the thumbs needed to be 100x150px and the main images could be no wider than 550px. A week later, I get a phone call asking why their site isn't working and I find they've placed 20 or so full sized 3.5 to 6 meg images in as thumbnails! Their index page was weighing in at over 100 megs at this point! I should have know better... So, I rewrote it with the proper validation and file size checking as it should be. I immediately get an angry phone call - The admin isn't accepting our images!!". "Have you sized them the way I showed you in your photo editing software?" "We don't have time to edit anything. Make it so we can just put whatever we want in." I went back in again and added imageCFC to take care of that. Which seemed to be working pretty good. Another angry phone call. "Out thumbnails are DISTORTED!!!" "Have you sized them correctly?" "We told you we wanted the application to do that!" "Well, they're getting sized to 100x150, so if you put something larger in there, at least the ratio needs to be 2/3 or it's going to proportioned incorrectly. I originally showed you how to use the application and you've got image editing software to do your sizing and optimization for you. You'll be much happier with the results if you do it that way." "We just need to be able to export directly out of the camera. Got no time to fool with anything else. We've asked you to fix it. So FIX IT!" I never could get the imageCFC "crop" function to work correctly for me, and even if i had, they wouldn't have been happy with how the crop was working. Because of this and a number of other issues with the client, I finally "fired" them. Couldn't take any more... ~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJV Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:279063 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: Renaming Files with CFFILE
>>you put in place, somebody comes up with *something* that mucks up the works and refuses to "do it right" The last I saw in this category was somebody who absolutely wanted to enter several values in a text field using the Enter key in order to enter several lines... Of course, this submit the form instantly, thus the frustration ;-) -- ___ REUSE CODE! Use custom tags; See http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/tagstore.cfm (Please send any spam to this address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Thanks. ~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJV Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:279060 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
RE: Renaming Files with CFFILE
There's all kinds of stuff available when you upload a file. cffile.serverFileExt will hold the extension Dump #cffile# for the rest #listlast(filename, ".")# will get you the extension too ;-) ..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com -Original Message- From: Les Mizzell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 10:50 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Renaming Files with CFFILE It's so difficult accounting for every single "Stupid User Trick" that you often just want to run screaming off into the sunset at times. Regardless of what safeguards (client *and* server side validation, cfquery param, blah...blah) you put in place, somebody comes up with *something* that mucks up the works and refuses to "do it right" and your client says "YEs, that's stupid, but figure out how to deal with that!". Now that I've got that off my chest... I'm dealing with a CFFILE field. It accepts text, .doc, and .xls files. I do *not* want to accept the original file names, because folks are pretty much idiots and will name a file anything. Here's one somebody tried to enter as a test today: "Insurance Enroll. Info for Germany Partnership for Jason & Tommy..xls" Yup, that whole line of text is an actual file name. OK, I want to rename this with the record ID that goes into the database, so "397564.xls" looks great to me instead of the above. Got no problem with the record ID part - how do I extract the correct file extension to tag onto the renamed file, since it can vary, and since it can look like something really stupid like the above .xls file? ~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJV Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:279049 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Renaming Files with CFFILE
You can use listlast() with . as the delimiter. On 5/24/07, Les Mizzell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, I want to rename this with the record ID that goes into the > database, so "397564.xls" looks great to me instead of the above. > Got no problem with the record ID part - how do I extract the correct > file extension to tag onto the renamed file, since it can vary, and > since it can look like something really stupid like the above .xls file? -- mxAjax / CFAjax docs and other useful articles: http://www.bifrost.com.au/blog/ ~| Create Web Applications With ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2. Build powerful, scalable RIAs. Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJS Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:279036 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Renaming Files with CFFILE
It's so difficult accounting for every single "Stupid User Trick" that you often just want to run screaming off into the sunset at times. Regardless of what safeguards (client *and* server side validation, cfquery param, blah...blah) you put in place, somebody comes up with *something* that mucks up the works and refuses to "do it right" and your client says "YEs, that's stupid, but figure out how to deal with that!". Now that I've got that off my chest... I'm dealing with a CFFILE field. It accepts text, .doc, and .xls files. I do *not* want to accept the original file names, because folks are pretty much idiots and will name a file anything. Here's one somebody tried to enter as a test today: "Insurance Enroll. Info for Germany Partnership for Jason & Tommy..xls" Yup, that whole line of text is an actual file name. OK, I want to rename this with the record ID that goes into the database, so "397564.xls" looks great to me instead of the above. Got no problem with the record ID part - how do I extract the correct file extension to tag onto the renamed file, since it can vary, and since it can look like something really stupid like the above .xls file? ~| ColdFusion MX7 and Flex 2 Build sales & marketing dashboard RIAâs for your business. Upgrade now http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2?sdid=RVJT Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:279035 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
