I would like to continue my ColdFusion rantings by quoting Lee Brimelow, Adobe Platform evangelist…
“I’ve never written a line of ColdFusion in my life and we use PHP all the time at Adobe.”
I have had many discussions within my ColdFusion circles about how large the ColdFusion community actually is. So I here is my [...]
What makes a good hosting provider? Uptime? Security? Disk Space? Transfer? Speed? Email? Anti-Spam? Shell Access? VPS? Tools & Languages?
Of course you wouldn’t host Bank Of America on a $10 a month service, but you also wouldn’t charge thousands of dollars a month for your local beauty salon, lawn service, church website.
Sure everyone can [...]
I am not trying to ruffle too many feathers, just trying to let others know how I see the ColdFusion community. I have used ColdFusion for 10+ years, and most of my major applications use CF. I currently run CF8 on all my production servers. I use ColdFusion at my place of employment, but [...]
This is in response to a recent blog post by Sean Corfield (Click For Details)
No “pitching” in the world will make up for the ColdFusion license cost. ColdFusion has a lot of powerful strengths, but a large & active community is not one of them. The Open Source & Microsoft communities have slowly squeezed [...]
One of the 2008 Republican Candidates Mike Huckabee’s Website is Built with ColdFusion & Fusebox. Maybe I should take a second look at Huckabee ;)
http://www.mikehuckabee.com/
After much frustration, it appears that per application settings can not be initialized inside of an Application.cfc method. Your this.mappings structure must be set outside of all functions.
For Example
Will Not Work
<cfcomponent>
<cfset this.name = “MyApp” >
<cfset this.sessionmanagement=”True” >
<cfset this.loginstorage=”session” >
<cfset this.applicationTimeout=”#CreateTimeSpan(0,1,1,0)#” >
<cffunction name=”onApplicationStart” >
<cfset this.mappings["/mypath"]=”/mysite/mypath” >
<cfreturn true >
</cffunction>
Will Work
<cfcomponent>
<cfset this.name = “MyApp” >
<cfset this.sessionmanagement=”True” [...]
Use this URL.
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
Yes this was copied from the manual, but now I will never forget. Here is the order in which ColdFusion will look for your CFCs!
Local directory of the calling CFML page
Web root
Directories specified on the Custom Tag Paths page of ColdFusion Administrator
See the note for unix/linux machines!!!!!!!!
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Specifying the CFC location
When you instantiate or [...]
Here is my Application.cfc Skeleton
<cfcomponent>
<cfset This.name = “TestApplication” >
<cfset This.Sessionmanagement=”True” >
<cfset This.loginstorage=”session” >
<cffunction name=”onApplicationStart” output=”false” hint=”Runs when ColdFusion receives the first request for a page in the application.” >
<cfreturn true >
</cffunction>
<cffunction name=”onApplicationEnd” output=”false” hint=”The application ends: the application times out, or the server is stopped” >
<cfargument name=”ApplicationScope” required=”true” />
</cffunction>
<cffunction name=”onError” output=”false” hint=”Runs when an uncaught [...]
Zebrahead (one of my favorite bands) uses ColdFusion for their shopping cart. It also appears that they use Flash/Dreamweaver for the rest of their website.