dsn-less connections to mysql databases

2002-05-28 Thread Leong Yew
Does anyone know if it's possible for CF to have dsn-less connections to MySQL databases? If so, what would an example connection string look like? __ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusi

Re: ColdFusion vs. ASP.NET

2000-12-11 Thread Leong Yew
I must confess that my original concern seems to be so adequately captured by Dave Watt's insight into how Microsoft operates. Yes the market for web application servers is competitive, and for someone (like myself) who keeps falling back on CF as a prefered development platform, reading Richard A

ColdFusion vs. ASP.NET

2000-12-10 Thread Leong Yew
Hi guys, The recent thread of discussion on CF vs PHP/ASP is pretty old hat by now. I thought I might throw in something that hasn't been mentioned yet. Does anyone have any opinion how CF 4.5 will compete with ASP.NET (previously called ASP+) when MS releases it next year? Will CF's next majo

Re: Anyone familiar with php?

2000-11-16 Thread Leong Yew
Hi, It's been a while since I dabbled with PHP. I may be able to help. Could you repost this message to me (not the list). There's something wrong with the encoding/decoding, so your code has become garbled. Leong - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Certification Exam

2000-11-15 Thread Leong Yew
Hi, I'm pretty new to this thread. Not knowing what's transpired, I'm just wondering if anyone who's taken the certification exam could comment on the following: 1. What sort of familiarity are you expected to have with each CF tag and function? Are you supposed to know every attribute that you

What happens after a timeout?

2000-11-08 Thread Leong Yew
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0007_01C04A42.B43EDED0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi there, A number of CF tags like CFHTTP and CFPOP that connect to remote servers = allow you to specify a

Re: Hosting Question???

2000-11-07 Thread Leong Yew
Yes, I'm currently testing their services as well. So far the host seems excellent. Try the control panel demo. I haven't seen anything like that. You can install custom CF/CFX tags and activeX components, set up DSNs, all in realtime. Tech support always responds (but since so much is automated,

Re: Cheap hosting?

2000-11-04 Thread Leong Yew
You can try Crystaltech.com or webexpose.net . Webexpose has an unbelievable control panel that allows you do install custom CF, CFX tags and ActiveX components yourself as well as set up DSNs in real time. Webexpose uses CF 4.5.1 enterprise. Plans start at $10.95. Leong At 08:43 PM 11/4/2000

RE: CF hosting needed

2000-09-17 Thread Leong Yew
Paul, I encountered this problem when I used a CF hosting service with these tags disabled. For me the solution was simple. Since most CF hosts will be using Windows NT, you can most certainly expect them to support ASP. All you'll have to do is to write an ASP template using FileSystemObject

Re: Web Hostings

2000-09-05 Thread Leong Yew
Vikram, I suppose you mean "free" CF hosting services. Well some time ago FusionAuthority did mention something about this. I visited the site and thought I bookmarked it. But now, I can't seem to find the URL in my favorites folder. I hope I've least pointed you in the right direction. I vis

RE: Hosting Solutions???

2000-08-04 Thread Leong Yew
Chris, I'm using powersurge myself, and as far as I know, they're using CF enterprise. I emailed them back in May or June about tag restrictions and they claim to have none. I've not used the CFDIRECTORY tag on their servers yet but CFFILE works pretty well. Leong -Original Message- Fro

RE: CFStudio - is the 4.5a upgrade for 4.5.1?

2000-07-23 Thread Leong Yew
Actually, I think it's the other way around. 4.5.1 supercedes 4.5a. Correct me if I'm wrong... Leong -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 8:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: CFStudio - is the 4.5a upgrade for 4.5.1? I'm su

How does CFXHosting do it?

2000-07-23 Thread Leong Yew
Hello everyone, I've just come across a webhosting provider by the name of CFX_hosting, from the same people who brought us Halfpricehosting. The question is this. CFX_hosting claims that all customers will be put on virtual server accounts, yet each virtual server account will have full acces

RE: HTML mail

2000-06-28 Thread Leong Yew
Hi Tom, Sorry for taking a while with this. I had a look at the code for cf_HTMLmail but it looks to be a very simple tag and I don't see why it should use up so much of your resources. Are you using this tag in conjunction with a database? Leong -Original Message- From: Tom Rainey [mai

RE: email reciepts

2000-06-28 Thread Leong Yew
Not to worry, there's still a way out of this. I learned this trick while looking at the code of a custom tag. If you're using CF 4.0 you don't have access to the cfmailparam tag, but you can still add additional headers by adding a line break within your subject heading. So to add the the header

RE: email reciepts

2000-06-27 Thread Leong Yew
Hi, If you're using CF 4.5.1. it's pretty easy. Just nest the following CFMAILPARAM tag in your CFMAIL tags: This should work if the recipient is reading your mail through outlook. I'm not sure about other mail clients. Leong -Original Message- From: lsellers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Why won't this work?

2000-06-27 Thread Leong Yew
Chris, I don't know if this is what the template's supposed to do. The buy now button seems to work for me and I get directed to the page with title "STEP 3 provide information." and this was the output: Hi guys. Your CFID is 128893 and your CFTOKEN is 9047698 All the links I followed worked o

RE: Cheap, reliable ColdFusion ISP Host??

2000-06-26 Thread Leong Yew
Yes, I'm in the process of getting something like this started. The site will be at http://www.cfhostguide.com. In a few weeks I'll be sending general information about this to the cf-talk list. So stay tuned. If anyone is interested, please feel free to send your email to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: CFHTTP and connection failures

2000-06-19 Thread Leong Yew
Thanks, Dave. That was a very informative reply. I've analyzed the HTTP headers generated by my browser when the form data is sent directly to the script as well as the headers CF sends to the script when CFHTTP is called. I tried "forwarding" the client's user agent variable over to the script bu

CFHTTP and connection failures

2000-06-17 Thread Leong Yew
Does anyone know under what conditions the use of cfhttp returns "connection failure" as the value of cfhttp.filecontent? I tried submitting form data to a cgi script on a different server with the following code, and all I kept getting was a connection failure. When I get rid of the form data

No Subject

2000-06-17 Thread Leong Yew
Hi everyone, I'm wondering if anyone could help me out with a problem I'm having with CFLOCATION. On one CF template I'm trying to do two things. The first is to use javascript to open a new window. The second is to redirect the parent window to a different (non CF) page using CFLOCATION. The

RE: Sending an attachment vie email (CF Newbie)

2000-06-04 Thread Leong Yew
Les, You don't need to have a dedicated server to do this. As long as you have access to CFFILE and CFMAIL tags, you'll be able to get the job done. The process is simple. Write a form page that requests for the file on the client. Use CFFILE to upload the file onto your website or off-website d

RE: Posting with to an Active Server Page

2000-05-30 Thread Leong Yew
and the problem is the same with remote servers. As far as I can tell the problem is with the "Content Type". ASP defaults to "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" and CFHTTP always uses "Content-Type: text/html". If Content-Type is the problem, I ha

RE: Need Suggestion : About Uploading files

2000-05-29 Thread Leong Yew
anks you very much :) I am in NT , so How i should do next. Phim. -Original Message- From: Leong Yew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 12:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Need Suggestion : About Uploading files Hi, I take it you're looking to transfer a

RE: Need Suggestion : About Uploading files

2000-05-29 Thread Leong Yew
Hi, I take it you're looking to transfer a file from your computer to the server? If this is the case there's no need to install any additional components. CF already has a built-in tag called CFFILE. All you have to do is write a forms page with the input-file html tag and send that to a CF act

Using authenticated SMTP with CFMAIL

2000-05-29 Thread Leong Yew
Does anyone know if it is possible to use CFMAIL tag to send email through SMTP servers that need authentication? The tag doesn't seem to support additional attributes for that process but does anyone know if there's a trick to doing this? Thanks. Leong

RE: Posting with to an Active Server Page

2000-05-26 Thread Leong Yew
show up on that end. Seems like a simple thing to post to a page and have the page receive your form variables, but not for me so far. No hurry, have a good evening. Bill -Original Message- From: Leong Yew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 10:00 AM To: [EMAIL PR

RE: Posting with to an Active Server Page

2000-05-25 Thread Leong Yew
File Content Returned From posttest.cfm: #CFHTTP.filecontent# -Original Message- From: Leong Yew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 1:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Posting with to an Active Server Page Bill, What you've done h

RE: Posting with to an Active Server Page

2000-05-24 Thread Leong Yew
Bill, What you've done here is to merely pass the form data to your asp page. You must add the following (after the CFHTTP tags) if you want that CFM template to display the results from the asp page: #cfhttp.content# Hope this helps. Leong -Original Message- From: Bill Plummer [mailto

CF hosting directory

2000-05-23 Thread Leong Yew
Hello everyone, I'm thinking of starting a searchable directory of ColdFusion hosting companies and their plans. Since there are plenty of general hosting directories out there, the intention of this directory is to make it possible for users to make as detailed searches as possible concerning

RE: Wierd error

2000-05-22 Thread Leong Yew
Have you tried running the code again? On some occasions I've experienced these unknown exception errors. The code seems perfectly fine but throws these errors only the first time it is executed, and then works normally afterwards. Try clicking on your browser's refresh button a couple of times...

RE: CFMAIL - "BCC"

2000-05-19 Thread Leong Yew
THis feature is available in CF 4.5. -Original Message- From: Troy M. Wussow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2000 7:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: CFMAIL - "BCC" This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all

RE: Cold Fusion hosting on unix?

2000-05-18 Thread Leong Yew
Try Pegasus. The website I think is http://www.pwebtech.com or .net Also Tri Star web. http://www.tristarweb.com Leong -Original Message- From: Douglas Jordon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 19, 2000 2:54 AM To: Cold Fusion List Subject: Cold Fusion hosting on unix? Hi all

RE: Custom tag question

2000-05-12 Thread Leong Yew
Thanks for your reply, Larry. ThisTag.GeneratedContent works but not very well in the situation below. Since it fails to encounter any tags it literally passes everything between the opening and closing tags without processing the embedded variable. Hence the pound signs are literally sent to the

Custom tag question

2000-05-12 Thread Leong Yew
I've been going through my CF 4.5 documentation on writing custom tags. I know that you can nest additional tags within a custom tag like so: But I just can't find anything on something simpler. For instance If I want to wrap a fairly complex text string around the custom tag and have that p

RE: OT-XML-SOAP

2000-05-10 Thread Leong Yew
Look at the Jan 2000 issue of the Microsoft Internet Developer magazine. It's got a cover article on SOAP. You can find the article at http://www.microsoft.com/mind/ . The magazine's name has now changed and so has the URL to the archives. You'll be redirected if you use the above link. Leong --

FW: Anyone using ASP in a CFM file???

2000-05-10 Thread Leong Yew
substitute the and tags with the following: http://www.domain.com/aspfile.asp"> Leong -Original Message- From: Leong Yew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 10:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Anyone using ASP in a CFM file??? Nancy, I'm not sure

RE: CFSCRIPT Question??

2000-05-09 Thread Leong Yew
Bill, Here are two suggestions. I know CF variables are typeless butit might help. Try putting quotes around each case. Eg. CASE "1":... CASE "2":.. and so on. Also you might want to place each case within {}s. Eg. CASE 1":{ COPY_BLOCK...; ...TITLE="whatever"; } Hope this helps. Leong PS: I've

RE:(OT) ASP equivelant of CFHTTP (& per & php)..

2000-05-09 Thread Leong Yew
I don't think ASP has native support for this. You'll have to use a third party component like AspHTTP. You can find a listing of the others in http://www.aspin.com . Leong -Original Message- From: Ben Lowndes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 1:31 AM To: CF-Talk S

RE: Anyone using ASP in a CFM file???

2000-05-09 Thread Leong Yew
Nancy, I'm not sure what you hope to achieve here. Are you trying to embed ASP code in your CF template and get the CF server to parse that code and perform actions on it? This can't be done directly. CF won't recognize that code and the processed CF template will be sent to the browser with the

RE: cfobject & com

2000-05-09 Thread Leong Yew
Nicklas, I'm not sure how the function calls are made in this component. It seems to me you may have been using the "authorize" method incorrectly. Perhaps you could check to make sure you have the correct order in the list of arguments. Leong. -Original Message- From: Nicklas af Ekensta

RE: CFHTTP

2000-05-08 Thread Leong Yew
r problem is that the info on their site is not sted by any special character, so I can't set the start and end points fe grab from the CFHTTP very easily. Anyone see an easy way to grab say jhe temp off this page? /weather.com/weather/us/zips/91350.html t whatever digits which are between the phra

RE: CFHTTP

2000-05-08 Thread Leong Yew
I believe it's the file in its entirety. If you want to get rid of the stuff nested in the tags there's a custom tag in the Allaire gallery that parses this for you. -Original Message- From: Computer Simplistics Suppoer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 12:16 PM To:

RE: REVERSE QUESTION --- Is there anything that Cold Fusion can do that ASP can't do?

2000-05-08 Thread Leong Yew
But more importantly, how about CF runs on Linux, Solaris and Windows? But ASP runs on Unix platforms as well through the Chilisoft version... Nick At 21:04 8/05/00 -0400, you wrote: >Hi Cold Fusion Users, > >Recently, someone asked if there is anything that ASP can do that COLD >FUSION can't

RE: Experience with www.shanje.com??

2000-05-08 Thread Leong Yew
Yes I've used their services and at those prices the offerings are pretty good. No setup, unlimited domains or subdomains without additional setup or monthly fees, unlimited aliased email servers, unlimited POPs. I've run a few CF scripts and they've worked fine. But there are few things I'm suspi

RE: cf vs. ASP strengths: need to convince client

2000-05-07 Thread Leong Yew
I haven't been following this thread very closely so I don't know if the following has already been mentioned... One thing you could argue is the issue of components. With CF more functionalities (there's that word again ;) ) are supported, and if you want to replicate those in ASP, you'll have t

RE: Is there anything that ASP can do and CF cannot?

2000-05-05 Thread Leong Yew
User defined functions. If only ColdFusion could have what VBScript and Javascript have. That's actually from a coding point of view rather than functionality. -Original Message- From: aslam bajaria [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2000 1:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subj

RE: CF undeliverable mail

2000-05-02 Thread Leong Yew
I think this might be the one you're looking for: CF_ResendUndeliverableMail2 and the description at the allaire custom tags site says: CF_ResendUndeliverableMail2 Description This tag, when used in conjunction with the Scheduler in Cold Fusion 4.x, will scan the UNDELIVERABLE directory of your

RE: Thank you for choosing Smart Web Tech your online business provider. We have received you

2000-05-01 Thread Leong Yew
I thought it was pretty obvious. This person probably subscribed to the list with an email address that had an autoresponder attached to it. So every time a message was sent to that address from cf-talk, the autoresponder automatically sent this default message back to the sender (the list). ---

RE: "=" in mail sent through cfmail tag

2000-04-24 Thread Leong Yew
ectic place called "The World". The soothing sound of a gentle waterfall fills the air with a cascading serenity. The water is clear. You can easily make out the face of the person you are holding underwater. Feeling better? - Original Message - From: "Leong Yew" &

"=" in mail sent through cfmail tag

2000-04-24 Thread Leong Yew
Dear list members, Several weeks ago someone posted a message to the list concerning the appearance of "=" signs in mail that has been sent through the CFMAIL tag. I vaguely remember someone responding to this as a result of CF wordwrapping the message body at certain intervals. Does anyone have

RE: OT Javascript Detection

2000-04-22 Thread Leong Yew
There's a third party custom tag called cf_nojavascript available at the allaire developers' site. It uses the html tag to another webpage. Leong -Original Message- From: Curtis Layton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 10:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: OT J

Browser detection in CF

2000-04-15 Thread Leong Yew
Just a quick question. Apart from the very few cgi variables available (eg. cgi.HTTP_USER_AGENT) is there any other way to find out more about the browser as well as the client requesting a particular CF template? Thanks. Leong

RE: WebHosting

2000-04-14 Thread Leong Yew
Just a note on halfpriceosting... Be very careful with them. They have quite a few essential tags like CFOBJECT, CFREGISTRY, CFFILE disabled. Also technical support and uptime was quite poor. I say "was" because they claim to have made a few changes in recent weeks, hiring new staff. I host with t

RE: CF and COM example

2000-04-13 Thread Leong Yew
Here are a couple of examples using CF to create an instance of Server Object's ASPMail. I've been working on this piece of code lately using and CF 4.5's new function, CreateObject. Mailer = CreateObject ("COM", "SMTPsvg.Mailer"); Mailer.FromName = "

RE: Automatically Processing Email in CF

2000-04-12 Thread Leong Yew
.coolfusion.com Software and utilities for ColdFusion, iHTML, Website, NTMail Latest versions available from our web site (inFusion Authenticator version 2.0 for WebSite and NTMail is now released) - Original Message ----- From: Leong Yew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent

Automatically Processing Email in CF

2000-04-12 Thread Leong Yew
e the mail server to monitor for incoming email and then run the CF script? Thanks in advance. Leong Yew -- Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?side