Re: Education

2009-10-25 Thread K Simanonok
It's not surprising how many folks have Music as a part of their skill set who are also programmers. There's a natural synergy there I think. Music and mathematics are processed by adjacent regions of right parietal cerebral cortex, and programming of course uses the basic skill set of

Re: Making a Recently Viewed list

2008-11-26 Thread K Simanonok
Reverse will reverse the whole string, not order of the list. Do something like this: cfloop index=i from=#ListLen(Cookie.LastVisited)# to=1 step=-1 cfset CurId = ListGetAt(Cookie.LastVisited,i)/ !--- TODO: lookup/output product details. --- /cfloop Thank you, that is a very good

Making a Recently Viewed list

2008-11-25 Thread K Simanonok
I am trying to build a 'Recently Viewed' feature for an ecommerce site to display thumbnail images and product names with links on them in the reverse order that customers click on them; in other words, the product they last viewed should appear at the top of the list. I am having problems

Can ColdFusion detect if Flash is available?

2008-05-21 Thread K Simanonok
I'd like to be able to detect if a user's browser will support Flash, and ideally be able to tell if the version is up to date enough to handle my Flash application. Is this possible? TIA ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8

Dreamweaver CS3 with ColdFusion and Style Sheets

2008-05-20 Thread K Simanonok
Just a few years ago Dreamweaver was a horrid product with meaningless icons scattered all over the place, now I've downloaded the trial for CS3 and find that most of the deficiencies have been fixed to make it a proper Windows application with normal dropdown text menus and only a few

Server Side Include Injection creates a License Exception

2008-05-12 Thread K Simanonok
Anyone use ScanAlert.com's HackerSafe product? They scan your website to look for security vulnerabilities and let you know when they find any. Well there's something called a Server Side Include Injection vulnerability which apparently can sometimes allow a hacker to access data and services

PS: Server Side Include Injection creates a License Exception

2008-05-12 Thread K Simanonok
PS: There is a TechNote about a License Exception at http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb400595sliceId=1 although it doesn't say anything about how to trap the error or about dealing with it when it's caused by a Server Side Include Injection attack.

Re: SOT: Holy Grail? Hosting?

2008-02-16 Thread K Simanonok
I have a dedicated server at CrystalTech and I think they've been fantastic. No they're not going to hold your hand and teach you everything you need to know about managing DNS and IIS but you're supposed to be grown up enough to RTFM on your own. I've only ever had a few issues, they were

Re: Huh? EMBED and OBJECT Tags Get Modified During CFFILE WRITE?

2008-02-15 Thread K Simanonok
Jochem's tersely abbreviated post at first seemed to read as if the solution was to ENABLE Global Script Protection (which didn't make sense), but James you made me realize that he meant to point me in that general direction and that the real solution was to NOT ENABLE Global Script Protection.

Re: Huh? EMBED and OBJECT Tags Get Modified During CFFILE WRITE?

2008-02-14 Thread K Simanonok
Jochem, can you be a little more specific? The webserver is not mine, I don't have control of the CF Administrator, and any changes are going to affect other people so I have to make a strong case to my hosting provider that any change I suggest is going to actually solve the problem. In this

Re: Huh? EMBED and OBJECT Tags Get Modified During CFFILE WRITE?

2008-02-14 Thread K Simanonok
Jochem, can you be a little more specific? The webserver is not mine, I don't have control of the CF Administrator, and any changes are going to affect other people so I have to make a strong case to my hosting provider that any change I suggest is going to actually solve the problem. In this

Re: Huh? EMBED and OBJECT Tags Get Modified During CFFILE WRITE?

2008-02-14 Thread K Simanonok
Jochem, can you be a little more specific? The webserver is not mine, I don't have control of the CF Administrator, and any changes are going to affect other people so I have to make a strong case to my hosting provider that any change I suggest is going to actually solve the problem. In this

Re: Beyond Captcha

2008-02-09 Thread K Simanonok
Tom Chiverton said the following on 2/8/2008 3:41 AM: Frankly, I think we users / developers spend way too much time trying to one-up the lowlife spammers. Instead, we should quit wasting time, re-channel our energies, grab some baseball bats, and start hunting the bastards down and beat the

Re: Executing Code in a CFINCLUDE within CFMAIL

2007-07-09 Thread K Simanonok
I am trying to get CF code to run inside a CFMAIL tag where the code is called by a CFINCLUDE. There are plenty of historical examples here showing how people have done it in the past, but when I reproduce their code all that gets emailed is the bare code, unexecuted. There must be some

Executing Code in a CFINCLUDE within CFMAIL

2007-06-06 Thread K Simanonok
I am trying to get CF code to run inside a CFMAIL tag where the code is called by a CFINCLUDE. There are plenty of historical examples here showing how people have done it in the past, but when I reproduce their code all that gets emailed is the bare code, unexecuted. There must be some

Re: Executing Code in a CFINCLUDE within CFMAIL

2007-06-06 Thread K Simanonok
Are you trying to send a HTML message? If yes, add this attribute cfmail type=html I have tried sending both HTML and plain text, and yes I have tried that cfmail type=html attribute in addition to a lot of other things following some of the historical examples on this forum, but nothing

When Assholes Play Games

2007-05-18 Thread K Simanonok
On Friday 18 May 2007, Tom Chiverton wrote: You didn't ask 'how do I'. You asked 'is it possible'. If someone abuses the purpose and intent of this forum to amuse themselves by trying to be clever, rather than sharing knowledge for those seeking help, what does it take to get them booted off

Re: Regular Expression to count links

2007-05-17 Thread K Simanonok
Thanks Charlie, looks like your solution will work, I'll test. Andy, I appreciate your suggestion even if it won't work. Tom, you may be well-intentioned, but do you realize your posts were useless? A question like Hey buddy, can you tell me where the train station is? is never intended to be

Regular Expression to count links

2007-05-16 Thread K Simanonok
Is it possible to use a regular expression to count the number of links A HREF=http://something.com;like so/A in a given block of text? ~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new

Re: defeating offline form posts

2007-05-11 Thread K Simanonok
Offsite forms can be submitted to use your email templates as Here's the header you'd have to include. Referer: http://mywebsite.com/ Not too much to that, is there? Not if they are able to figure it out, which someone determined enough would probably eventually do. Fortunately my

Re: defeating offline form posts

2007-05-09 Thread K Simanonok
At 03:10 AM 5/9/2007, Eric wrote: Curious question here. If I think about this, if someone takes a form of ours for login, for example, and makes a local copy on their machineand they set the post action to be the live server authenticate filewhat is the best way to detect this and

Paymentech Issues

2007-02-20 Thread K Simanonok
Pardon me if this turns into a double posting, but for some reason CF-Talk isn't getting my emails. So I tried the Yahoo interface once but there's text there with a link saying it should be done from http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/reply.cfm. =

Regular Expression Help on Email Addresses

2007-02-20 Thread K Simanonok
I would like to use a regular expression to camouflage email addresses in a forum I'm building. I'd like to replace just the domain name (not the .com or .net or other extension though) with x's: FROM THIS: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO THIS:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Where the number of x's exactly

Regular Expression Help on Email Addresses

2007-02-20 Thread K Simanonok
I would like to use a regular expression to camouflage email addresses in a forum I'm building. I'd like to replace just the domain name (not the .com or .net or other extension though) with x's: FROM THIS: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO THIS:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Where the number of x's exactly

Regular Expression Help on Email Addresses

2007-02-20 Thread K Simanonok
I would like to use a regular expression to camouflage email addresses in a forum I'm building. I'd like to replace just the domain name (not the .com or .net or other extension though) with x's: FROM THIS: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO THIS:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Where the number of x's exactly

Re: Is this the best approach?

2007-02-20 Thread K Simanonok
Before you get too far into your sweepstakes coding, I would suggest that you have your client check with his attorney, if he hasn't already done so, to be sure that the details of what he intends to do are legal. I'm not any kind of expert in this area but I have heard of sweepstakes going

Re: Is this the best approach?

2007-02-20 Thread K Simanonok
Before you get too far into your sweepstakes coding, I would suggest that you have your client check with his attorney, if he hasn't already done so, to be sure that the details of what he intends to do are legal. I'm not any kind of expert in this area but I have heard of sweepstakes going

Re: Is this the best approach?

2007-02-20 Thread K Simanonok
Ryan's right, and I'll go so far as to say what he's described to you is a *much* better way to create new sweepstakes. Think about it: once you start creating a bunch of subdirectories and copying .cfm templates into them, at some point in the future you may find yourself maintaining them all

Re: Is this the best approach?

2007-02-20 Thread K Simanonok
A couple of other thoughts: 1) Separate landing pages for each sweepstakes gives you the opportunity to name them with keywords to benefit your clients' SEO. So http://mysite.com/sweepstakes/win-a-2008-mustang.cfm is significantly better in Google's eyes than