Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-05 Thread James Holmes
The manual says PHP doesn't support unsigned integers either... http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.integer.php On 6/6/07, Paul Vernon wrote: > It's all to do with signed and unsigned integers and the fact the CF > operates using signed integers whereas PHP uses unsigned integers. If CF

Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-05 Thread John Paul Ashenfelter
On 6/5/07, Doug Bezona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > C. This brings us back to the question... what makes this a good idea? Why > > overly complicate something? > > > > While it may not be common, there are a lot of large organizations out there > with multiple applications in multiple lan

RE: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-05 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Paul, >> Oh, I thought you were saying that you received an error when trying to >> cfhttp to a php page which returned a large number. You were just >> saying it seemed like overkill. > >Indeed. > >> I'm guessing 32-bit CF doesn't support numbers large enough for you to >> do the calculations di

RE: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-05 Thread Paul Vernon
> -Original Message- > From: Brad Wood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 05 June 2007 19:39 > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page > > Oh, I thought you were saying that you received an error when trying to > cfhttp to a php pag

RE: Using an ASP object in CF (was Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page)

2007-06-05 Thread Kevin Aebig
PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 1:56 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Using an ASP object in CF (was Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page) > Than you might just be finding yourself in quite the mess. Is this CMS only > supposed to support windows users? No, it's supposed to run o

Re: Using an ASP object in CF (was Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page)

2007-06-05 Thread C. Hatton Humphrey
> Than you might just be finding yourself in quite the mess. Is this CMS only > supposed to support windows users? No, it's supposed to run on a Windows server. The editor is extremely cross-platoform (IE, NS, FF, Opera and Safari) friendly. H ~~~

RE: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-05 Thread Dave Watts
> Because I'm a firm believer in choice - and I find .NET > restrictive and limiting. Is this solely because it requires Windows? If so, that's certainly a valid answer, but perhaps irrelevant to lots of people. > What I *AM* saying, (read this part carefully) is that it > limits you in your ch

RE: Using an ASP object in CF (was Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page)

2007-06-05 Thread Kevin Aebig
PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page) On 6/5/07, Kevin Aebig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would definitely prove to him that a classic ASP component can't compare > to the modern stuff that's out. Also, unless it uses a DLL (crap), there's > no reason that you could

RE: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-05 Thread Brad Wood
guess this would be a case where there was something another language like PHP (on a 64-bit machine, I assume) could do and CF could NOT do. ~Brad -Original Message- From: Paul Vernon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 1:25 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Run PHP code i

Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-05 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
om -Original Message- From: Jordan Michaels To: CF-Talk Sent: Tue Jun 05 19:07:29 2007 Subject: Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) wrote: > There is absolutely no basis in this, why wouldn't you touch it? Because I'm a firm believer in ch

RE: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-05 Thread Paul Vernon
> Out of curiosity, why is that a problem with cfhttp? > Don't you think using cfhttp or any http client for that matter to perform what should essentially be a function call and handled either by a UDF or the language itself is a little bit of overkill? I guess I could always write a CFX tag in

RE: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-05 Thread Kevin Aebig
ecurity is something that any company can appreciate. I understand that this approach isn't for everyone, but in my experience it pays out big in the end. @@ !k -Original Message- From: Doug Bezona [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 11:45 AM To: CF-Talk Su

Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-05 Thread Jordan Michaels
Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) wrote: > There is absolutely no basis in this, why wouldn't you touch it? Because I'm a firm believer in choice - and I find .NET restrictive and limiting. > CFML upon .NET would be the same as running CFML upon Java False. .NET and Java are very different. Platform in

Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-05 Thread Jordan Michaels
Dave Watts wrote: >> Simply because you personally immediately see the benefits of >> integrating PHP into CFML code, doesn't mean that the value >> is not there. It only means that you can't see it (yet). > > One could say the same to your reaction to .NET. But then one could be > accused of sn

Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-05 Thread Doug Bezona
On 6/5/07, Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Porting functionality isn't interop though. That's a business decision to > rewrite -- as well as bridge options now available to you you no doubt had > Web services, COM, Shared DB procs as options? Absolutely. There are a lo

Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-05 Thread Doug Bezona
On 6/5/07, Kevin Aebig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So patch the problem and deal with it later? I didn't say it was ideal, but in a business situation when you have numerous, large legacy apps, and your choice is to spend a small amount of effort to do some integration, vs. multiple thousands

RE: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-05 Thread Brad Wood
Out of curiosity, why is that a problem with cfhttp? -Original Message- From: Paul Vernon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 10:47 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page I can think of one real world example that I cannot do with CF at

Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-05 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
ication are not necessarily those expressed by Reed Exhibitions." Visit our website at http://www.reedexpo.com -Original Message- From: Doug Bezona To: CF-Talk Sent: Tue Jun 05 17:28:07 2007 Subject: Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page > > > C. This brings us back

RE: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-05 Thread Kevin Aebig
happy with that But I'm not... !k -Original Message- From: Doug Bezona [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 10:28 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page > > > C. This brings us back to the question... what makes this a good idea? W

RE: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-05 Thread Damien McKenna
> -Original Message- > From: James Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 11:49 AM > Subject: Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page > > On 6/5/07, Damien McKenna wrote: > > From what I've seen you also are not going to be

Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-05 Thread Doug Bezona
> > > C. This brings us back to the question... what makes this a good idea? Why > overly complicate something? While it may not be common, there are a lot of large organizations out there with multiple applications in multiple languages. Having a tool that can integrate these applications can b

Re: Using an ASP object in CF (was Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page)

2007-06-05 Thread C. Hatton Humphrey
On 6/5/07, Kevin Aebig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would definitely prove to him that a classic ASP component can't compare > to the modern stuff that's out. Also, unless it uses a DLL (crap), there's > no reason that you could reverse engineer it to use it in a custom tag. It's actually a VBSc

RE: Using an ASP object in CF (was Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page)

2007-06-05 Thread Kevin Aebig
. !k -Original Message- From: C. Hatton Humphrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 9:23 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Using an ASP object in CF (was Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page) Here is a real-word application for interoperability: The company that I

Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-05 Thread James Holmes
Actually, Quercus runs phpBB, Wordpress, Drupal and a bunch of other stuff essentially out of the box. Sean's using part of the Quercus technology to provide the CF integration, but it it is possible to deploy Quercus by itself in a J2EE server to make it run whole PHP apps. On 6/5/07, Damien McKe

RE: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-05 Thread Paul Vernon
I can think of one real world example that I cannot do with CF at unless I'm on a 64-bit JVM. For me dropping into PHP to do that tiny bit would solve a whole host of albeit self imposed issues surrounding the use of CFHTTP to call a math function that returns a very large integer as the HTTP respo

RE: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-05 Thread Kevin Aebig
ck Mason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 9:30 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page Kevin, Here's a couple of ideas that come to mind: A. You're a hosting company and it's a lot simpler to all of sudden be offering PHP and Ruby

Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-05 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Tuesday 05 Jun 2007, John Paul Ashenfelter wrote: > Clearly those people have never tried to develop with Drupal :) > That'll fix them. OTOH, it makes writing a Drupal->CF bridge a whole lot easier :-) And by extension, a Flex frontend to Drupal :-) -- Tom Chiverton, whos blog runs Drupal **

Using an ASP object in CF (was Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page)

2007-06-05 Thread C. Hatton Humphrey
Here is a real-word application for interoperability: The company that I work for just bought another company that has a CMS written in classic ASP. They utilize CuteEditor (http://cutesoft.net/asp/). I have been tasked with porting their CMS to ColdFusion... kicker is that the boss wants to kee

Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-05 Thread John Paul Ashenfelter
On 6/5/07, Damien McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Rick Mason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 11:30 PM > > Subject: Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page > > > > A. You're

Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-05 Thread John Paul Ashenfelter
On 6/5/07, Damien McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 6:53 PM > > Subject: RE: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page > > > > but I just don

RE: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-05 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Dave, >Aside from that, which you've been able to integrate with CF via CFEXECUTE >already, are there any other examples that come to mind? There just aren't >that many things PHP can do that CF can't (and vice-versa). I could see where being able to run some PHP code could be useful to a small c

RE: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-05 Thread Damien McKenna
> -Original Message- > From: Rick Mason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 11:30 PM > Subject: Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page > > A. You're a hosting company and it's a lot simpler to all of > sudden be offering PHP and

RE: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-05 Thread Damien McKenna
> -Original Message- > From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 6:53 PM > Subject: RE: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page > > but I just don't see much value for PHP integration. You just *know* there are people out there w

RE: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-05 Thread Billy Cox
s "why not?" -Original Message- From: exH [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 6:11 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page Great. The next time I get a project brief to uglify my CF code in an obscurely unnecessary way... I'll know what t

Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-05 Thread James Holmes
That's pretty much how I see it. It gets PHP into an environment with clustering, DB connection pooling, portability and all the other things we can get out of J2EE. On 6/5/07, exH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Great. > > The next time I get a project brief to uglify my CF code in an obscurely > un

Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-05 Thread exH
Great. The next time I get a project brief to uglify my CF code in an obscurely unnecessary way... I'll know what to do :) Seriously though, the genaral opinion here is it's not needed, but I argue that you never know when stuff like this will save your bacon. It seems more an enhancement for

Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-05 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
ot; Visit our website at http://www.reedexpo.com -Original Message- From: Jordan Michaels To: CF-Talk Sent: Mon Jun 04 23:36:03 2007 Subject: Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page Simply because you personally immediately see the benefits of integrating PHP into CFML code, doesn'

Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-04 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
xpressed within this communication are not necessarily those expressed by Reed Exhibitions." Visit our website at http://www.reedexpo.com -Original Message- From: Jordan Michaels To: CF-Talk Sent: Mon Jun 04 23:03:31 2007 Subject: Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page Oh I'm

Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-04 Thread Rick Mason
py opensource > PHP > apps that are out there, but if that's the case, save some time and just > open up your firewall. =] > > !k > > -Original Message- > From: Andy Matthews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 8:45 AM > To: CF-Talk > Su

Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-04 Thread John Paul Ashenfelter
On 6/4/07, Dave Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If CF can leverage existing apps written in other languages > > even to a modest degree, this greatly increases the value of > > ColdFusion. > > Since PHP, Ruby, etc are free, the only possible value can come from > integration between existing a

RE: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-04 Thread Dave Watts
> Simply because you personally immediately see the benefits of > integrating PHP into CFML code, doesn't mean that the value > is not there. It only means that you can't see it (yet). One could say the same to your reaction to .NET. But then one could be accused of snarkiness, I suppose. > The

Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-04 Thread James Holmes
Thanks for the extra info Sean. I was mainly addressing the genenral "why bother?" question regarding running a PHP app on J2EE and it's good to know about the extra caveats when trying to integrate with CF in this way. On 6/5/07, Sean Corfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/4/07, James Holmes

Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-04 Thread Sean Corfield
On 6/4/07, James Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) PHP should be run on a single threaded webserver, as some of the C > libraries used in PHP apps aren't thread safe. This means running > Apache 1, or Apache 2 in prefork mode. CF (for example) is quite happy > running in multithreaded configur

Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-04 Thread Sean Corfield
On 6/4/07, Jordan Michaels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The GD > libraries that are included in PHP are far superior to anything I've > ever seen from a Java environment. With this innovation - I can just > write PHP code right in the middle of my CFML code to generate my > thumbnails. Well, this

Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-04 Thread James Holmes
There are a number of reasons to run PHP from a J2EE server using Quercus (as Sean's work does), rather than deploying PHP itself; 1) PHP should be run on a single threaded webserver, as some of the C libraries used in PHP apps aren't thread safe. This means running Apache 1, or Apache 2 in prefor

Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-04 Thread Jordan Michaels
net/ BlueDragon Alliance Member [EMAIL PROTECTED] Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) wrote: > Yeah, PHP integration just seems pointless. > > If you want to do PHP, use PHP. > -Original Message- > From: Dave Watts > To: CF-Talk > Sent: Mon Jun 04 23:53:11 2007 > Subject

Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-04 Thread Jordan Michaels
Oh I'm not knocking .NET integration. I'm sure that it helps a lot of folks. I'm just saying that I'd personally never use or buy a CFML server that was compiled in .NET. It's a personal fact, and I doubt I'm alone in that thought. That's all I was saying. ;) I commend NewAtlanta for spearheadi

Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-04 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
al Message- From: Dave Watts To: CF-Talk Sent: Mon Jun 04 23:53:11 2007 Subject: RE: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page > If CF can leverage existing apps written in other languages > even to a modest degree, this greatly increases the value of > ColdFusion. Since PHP, Ruby, etc

RE: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-04 Thread Dave Watts
> If CF can leverage existing apps written in other languages > even to a modest degree, this greatly increases the value of > ColdFusion. Since PHP, Ruby, etc are free, the only possible value can come from integration between existing apps. I can see that value with Java, where I can use CF as

Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-04 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
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Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-04 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
Mon Jun 04 18:50:10 2007 Subject: Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page There's no way I would ever use (let alone purchase) such an animal. I'm sure I'm not the only one. Warm regards, Jordan Michaels Vivio Technologies http://www.viviotech.net/ BlueDragon Allianc

Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-04 Thread Jordan Michaels
There's no way I would ever use (let alone purchase) such an animal. I'm sure I'm not the only one. Warm regards, Jordan Michaels Vivio Technologies http://www.viviotech.net/ BlueDragon Alliance Member [EMAIL PROTECTED] Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) wrote: > This reminds of the latest edition to .N

RE: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-04 Thread Kevin Aebig
I completely agree. We've had really good luck with using compiled .NET... !k -Original Message- From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 10:47 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page This reminds of the l

RE: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-04 Thread Kevin Aebig
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 10:24 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page "...why would you want to?" Two words: Cost-savings If CF can leverage existing apps written in other languages even to a modest degree, this greatly increase

Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-04 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
Reed Exhibitions." Visit our website at http://www.reedexpo.com -Original Message- From: Billy Cox To: CF-Talk Sent: Mon Jun 04 17:24:24 2007 Subject: RE: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page "...why would you want to?" Two words: Cost-savings If CF can leverage exis

Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-04 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
of ColdFusion. > > We are in this for the money, right? ...not just for the pure love of the > ColdFusion gospel? > > > -Original Message- > From: Kevin Aebig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 11:05 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Run PH

RE: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-04 Thread Brad Wood
"pure love of the ColdFusion gospel?" Well we do have an "evangelist". Preach it brotha' ~Brad ~| Macromedia ColdFusion MX7 Upgrade to MX7 & experience time-saving features, more productivity. http://www.adobe.com/products/cold

RE: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-04 Thread Billy Cox
--Original Message- From: Kevin Aebig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 11:05 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page The real million dollar question is why would you want to? Almost anything PHP can do, CF can do. Almost anything CF can do, .

Re: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-04 Thread James Wolfe
>PHP code mixed in with CF code is pretty kick ass. >I read that someone else has done the same thing for Ruby. I recently did almost the exact same thing with JSP (obviously a much simpler task considering CF is java based). I didn't bother posting the code anywhere because I thought it was si

RE: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-04 Thread Brad Wood
Integration. According to Forta, Integration is two of the three main goals of Scorpio. ~Brad -Original Message- From: Kevin Aebig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 11:05 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page The real million dollar

RE: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-04 Thread Kevin Aebig
s the case, save some time and just open up your firewall. =] !k -Original Message- From: Andy Matthews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 8:45 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: OT: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page For those of you who don't know, Coldfusion is

OT: Run PHP code inline on a Coldfusion page

2007-06-04 Thread Andy Matthews
For those of you who don't know, Coldfusion is built upon Java. Someone has taken it upon themselves to write a Java library, called Quertus, which parses PHP code. Someone else then built upon THAT and wrote a Coldfusion library which references the Quertus library and allows you to combine PHP an