Longview, Texas Web Design, ColdFusion, PHP and SEO Blog - ColdFusion

Favorite E-Commerce Package

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:36:00 -0500

What is your favorite e-commerce software package and why? I have several different packages I use depending on the requirements of the project.

FCKEditor Controls Missing in ColdFusion

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:47:00 -0500

I have used FCKEditor for WYSIWYG for many of the custom ColdFusion applications I have built. Recently the FCKEditor stopped rendering and the code was just rendering a normal textarea. [More]

Deleting all files in a directory with ColdFusion

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:37:00 -0500

This not something I have to do very often so I tend to forget how to do it although it is very easy. I have a folder that is holding temp files that get written by a data export. I need to go through and clean out these files on a daily basis.

I needed code to read a directory, loop through all files and delete them. This is a simple task with CFDirectory and CFFile. [More]

Coldfusion 9 - cfspreadsheet tag

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:32:00 -0500

In the past when I needed to create a data export and dump it to a csv/xls file, I would create a file then loop through the query and append each line of data. This was not a hard task and did not take too many lines of code.

However, with ColdFusion 9 this task can be done with one line of code using the cfspreadsheet tag. [More]

Select a Tab in CF8 +

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:14:00 -0500

Today I needed to select a tab that was created using the built-in ColdFusion tabs with cflayout. I had never had this request before but found a quick and easy solution. The ColdFusion.Layout.selectTab function made short work of it.
Click Here Replace tablayoutname name with the name of your cflayout and replace tabname with the name for your cflayoutarea.

When the link is clicked, it selects the tab and displays it's contents.

It is a very simple but useful function.

Mura Timeout Issue Fixed

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:15:00 -0500

In the past when I installed a new Mura CMS site, I would get a timeout error trying to load the admin. I recently upgraded my server to CF 9 and a newer version of the JVM. Since upgrading the CF and JVM, I am no longer having the timeout issue. Old Setup:
CF: 8,0,1,195765
JVM: 1.6.0_04
New Setup:
CF: 9,0,0,251028
JVM: 1.6.0_14
Server is Windows 2003. See this thread for more info on the issues:
http://www.getmura.com/forum/messages.cfm?threadid=E29AFC2E-1307-4CE1-8AD3F64777FD8F79

Adding reCaptcha to ColdFusion Site

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:31:00 -0500

Thanks to Rocketbooks for the great tag for integrating reCaptcha into a ColdFusion site.
The tag makes it very easy to integrate with just a few lines of code.

More info on the project:
http://recaptcha.riaforge.org/

More info on the other RocketBooks projects:
http://www.rocketboots.com.au/site/index.cfm/page/osprojects

Sample integration Code:

ColdFusion 9 Migration Issues

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:24:00 -0500

Here is more details on the issues encountered when migrating from ColdFusion 8 to ColdFusion 9 on a Windows2003 VPS server:
"The 1st attempt the install failed completely at the end and broke both CF9 and CF8. I uninstalled CF9 and rebooted, CF8 was working again.

2nd attempt the install completed, but the settings migration failed. I had to follow this Adobe KB:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/527/cpsid_52797.html

After that, the migration completed fine."

My hosting company did a great job working out these issues.

Now Powered by ColdFusion 9

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:11:00 -0500

My ColdFusion VPS that runs www.Design903.com and multiple other sites is now upgraded to ColdFusion 9.

My hosting company took care of the upgrade so I did not deal with any of the technical issues of the upgrade. They did say they ran into a few small issues but got everything resolved.

The only issue I had was with a site using the ColdBox framework with Transfer 1.1. That version of Transfer is not compatible with ColdFusion 9. I just downloaded the bleeding edge version from their Subversion and replaced the Transfer folder and was back in business.

Other than the small issue with Transfer everything went smoothly on my end. I will report more when I hear what issues the hosting company ran into on the upgrade.

Everything seems to be running well right now and I am anxious to see if that continues.

ColdFusion serializeJson issues

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:17:00 -0500

Today I was using serializeJson to pass a query object back to a form via jQuery.
I ran into two different issues:
1. serializeJson automatically converted a value of "yes" to "true" and "no" to "false". This was causing issues as I need the "yes" or "no" not "true" or "false".
2. serializeJson automatically stripped out a leading zero from a string. Ex: "02" became "2".

The only solution I could find was to add a leading space in these strings. Ex: For Number 1, I changed the string to: " yes" and for number 2 I changed the string to " 02".
I didn't really like this solution because I then had to strip out the spaces on the front end.
However, jQuery made this simple with the jQuery.trim function. Ex:


$('#user_custom_1').val(jQuery.trim(user_custom_1));

Anybody know of any other solution?

Top 10 most frequently used ColdFusion Tags

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:34:00 -0500

Here are the 10 top ColdFusion tags that I frequently use the most, in no particular order:

cfquery
cfif
cfset
cftry
cfcatch
cfparam
cfqueryparam
cfloop
cfoutput
cfcase

This is just off of the top of my head as I don't really think about it on a day to day basis.

What are your top 10 most frequently used ColdFusion tags?

Design903.com Now Powered by Mura

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:16:00 -0500

Design903.com is now powered by Mura CMS. The guys at Blue River Interactive Group have done a great job with Mura. I am biased to any solution that is written in ColdFusion but I must say this is a great product regardless. I am still working out a few kinks but overall the process went very smooth. What is your experience with Mura? What do you like and not like?

Longview Daily Deals Coming Soon

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:54:00 -0500

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DataMgr

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 02:45:00 -0500

I have been using DataMgr for a while now and I must say that it saves me tons of time when building new ColdFusion applications. I use it for all of my CRUD functions and my select functions which make up 90% of my apps. I use it and one other "generic select" cfc and I can pretty much build a basic app with no other CFCs. It really has saved me countless hours of programming and I thank Steve Bryant for the time he has put into it. DataMgr combined with SebTools(also by Bryant) covers pretty much all of my basic functions that I need to build a CF site. Have you used DataMgr? What do you like and dislike about it?

Follow up on Mura

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 08:56:00 -0500

I must say that Mura is one of the best CMS's that I have worked with. Whether or not it is written in ColdFusion does not matter, although it is a huge bonus. Every time I think I come up with something that I think is not built in, I just do a search in the Mura forums and quickly find out it is built in. I have yet to write any custom code for a site running on Mura CMS - so far all of the functionality I have needed has been built in.