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If you want Lucee to use the .htm and .html file extensions instead of (or in addition to) .cfm and .cfml you can set this up in 3 quick steps.
/conf/web.xmlFrom:
CFMLServlet
*.cfc
*.cfm
*.cfml
/index.cfc/*
/index.cfm/*
/index.cfml/*
To:
CFMLServlet
*.cfc
*.cfm
*.cfml
*.htm
*.html
/index.cfc/*
/index.cfm/*
/index.cfml/*
My company has a legacy application built in FoxPro 9 which contains a table that I need to extract data from on a recurring basis. I have never worked with FoxPro. Apparently in FoxPro each table has a corresponding .dbf file. For this example we will say that the table file is persons.dbf, which resides at C:\legacyapp\data\.
The first step for connecting ColdFusion to the FoxPro database was to find an acceptable driver. I initially tried to use some ODBC drivers but abandoned this route. Not only was it just not working, but I do my development on a Mac (whereas production is Windows) and I really wanted a solution that did not involve a Windows and a Mac configuration.
So the following steps describe how I set up a jdbc connection to FoxPro 9 from ColdFusion.
{ColdFusion-Home}/cfusion/lib aka C:\ColdFusion10\cfusion\lib\SELECT
LASTNAME, FIRSTNAME
FROM
persons
It was actually not too bad to set up once I located the driver.
Today I had to write a script to process a form and send an email as part of the processing. The form allows the user to specify an email address to bcc, but it’s not required. I’m a big fan of using the Ternary Operator for doing either/or stuff like css classes. So I decided to extend that fandom to set the bcc attribute of the <cfmail> tag if the email specified in the form was valid.
Assumptions for this example:
The “magic” is in the bcc attribute below:
Message Body here...
I had an annoying issue this morning where a function I wrote that rounds and formats values for use in an internal financial app kept sticking a single space before the value returned. This was obviously not good for a financial app. After spending 10-15 minutes tearing the function’s innards apart it turns out what was going on in the function was not the cause. The cause was simple.
In a tag based ColdFusion function you need to be sure to include the ‘output=”no”‘ attribute.
... MAGIC STUFF HERE ...
This post assumes you are working with the default instance (cfsusion) and that you installed ColdFusion 10 to the default location on you Mac.
STATUS:
/Applications/ColdFusion10/cfusion/bin/coldfusion status
START:
/Applications/ColdFusion10/cfusion/bin/cf-standalone-startup
OR
/Applications/ColdFusion10/cfusion/bin/coldfusion start
STOP:
/Applications/ColdFusion10/cfusion/bin/coldfusion stop
RESTART:
/Applications/ColdFusion10/cfusion/bin/coldfusion restart
Launch GUI for configuring Web Connectors:
sudo /Applications/ColdFusion10/cfusion/runtime/bin/wsconfig
RESET CFADMIN PASSWORD:
/Applications/ColdFusion10/cfusion/bin/passwordreset.sh
(Then Enter 1 for changing Admin Password and put in your new super strong password!)
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I have had this issue for a while and it finally made me crazy enough to try to figure it out. It appears that this error occurs when the “RDS Query Viewer” file does not exist in the .rdsTempFiles folder within your project.
On Mac
On Windows
For some reason this took me some effort to figure out. Maybe others will find it useful.
CategoryList = '1,2,3';
Categories = ormExecuteQuery("from Category where Id IN (:IdList)",{IdList=ListToArray(CategoryList)});
If you know a better way please drop me a comment. I posted this in the Adobe Coldfusion forum for a few days but didn’t get anything.
There is a post at 12robots.com for how to add resource navigator filters to CFBuilder:
The solution below is similar, but does not involve accessing .jar files.
Step 1: Locate your version of CFBuilder by selecting “About Adobe ColdFusion Builder 2”. Make a note of the Version and Build numbers. For this post I am on Version: 2.0.0 and Build: 277745
Step 2: Locate the plugin.xml file in the com.adobe.ide.coldfusion.rcp_X.X.X.XXXXXX folder (Notice how X.X.X.XXXXXX corresponds to the Version and Build from Step 1):
com.adobe.ide.coldfusion.rcp_2.0.0.277745
Step 2: Locate the following section:
<extension
point="org.eclipse.ui.ide.resourceFilters">
Step 3: Add a block like this for each new filter you want:
<filter
pattern="_notes"
selected="true"/>
Step 4: Start CFBuilder from the command line. For me on the Mac I execute the following command in Terminal:
"/Applications/Adobe ColdFusion Builder 2/CFBuilder.app/Contents/MacOS/CFBuilder" -clean
Step 5: Enjoy your new navigator filter(s).
Disclaimer:
Still with me? Ok. Here is the specification for this little ditty:
Here are the cliff notes of what’s about to go down:
Without further adieu:
<cfset local.viewPath=”#VARIABLES.FRAMEWORK.BASE#views” />
<!— Make an array of rc.action (we use this to append subfolders) —>
<cfset local.arrAction=ListToArray(rc.action,”.”) />
<!— Set the counter to be 1 short of the action array len b/c the last member will be our view page —>
<cfset local.counter=ArrayLen(local.arrAction)-1 />
<!— Set the last member of our action array to be our action page —>
<cfset local.viewPage=”#local.arrAction[ArrayLen(local.arrAction)]#.cfm” />
<!— Append any subfolders to our viewPath —>
<cfloop from=”1″ to=”#local.counter#” index=”local.a”>
<cfset local.viewPath=”#local.viewPath#/#local.arrAction[local.a]#” />
</cfloop>
<!— Look for our viewPage cfm file in our viewPath —>
<cfdirectory action=”list”
directory=”#ExpandPath(local.viewPath)#”
name=”qGetLastdateModified”
filter=”#ListLast(local.viewPage, “/”)#”>
<!— If we have a record count then calculate the last modified date —>
<cfif qGetLastdateModified.recordCount>
<cfset local.siteLastUpdated=’#DateFormat(qGetLastdateModified.dateLastModified,”long”)# at #TimeFormat(qGetLastdateModified.dateLastModified,”hh:mm:ss tt”)#’ />
<cfelse>
<cfset local.siteLastUpdated=”unknown :- (” />
</cfif>
<cfoutput>#local.siteLastUpdated#</cfoutput>
I got the following pretty obscure error the other day from a cfscheduler job that runs nightly to index documents uploaded to our site:
org/apache/pdfbox/pdmodel/PDDocument null
Turns out that the error is caused by a file having the extension of .PDF instead of .pdf. No, really. Luckily I only had one offending file, but what if I had many? Also, what if users uploaded more after I renamed the problematic one? There are two parts to “future proofing” my situation. The first part it to address the .PDF extensions in the uploads. The second part, and what I’m going to pass on to you, is a custom tag that will look in a directory you specify and rename all .PDF extensions to .pdf.
To implement:
<cf_pdf_cleanup dirToClean="C:\mysuperdocs">Be forewarned I take no responsibility for your use of the tag 😉