Articles by Tag #cfml
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Hack WKHTMLTOPDF PDF to enable Adobe Acrobat Field Editing
I recently integrated the auto-generation of survey results into a downloadable PDF using ColdFusion...
ColdFusion Dump Alternative
The cfdump tag (AKA cfscript "writedump" function) outputs the contents of a variable of any type for...
Using IPAddress Java Library with ColdFusion to Standardize IPv4 & IPv6 Addresses
Our Microsoft IIS web server is configured to accept IPv4 connections and, since 1996, we've recorded...
Comparing Language Detection Libraries (& API) Using Java/ColdFusion/CFML
Language detection is a feature that we needed in a past project. I wrote an article in 2020...
PDF Generation, Bloat and Optimization
The State of myCFML PDF Generation My current comparison is with CFDocument on the...
ColdFusion PayPal REST API CFC
PayPal's NVP/SOAP API for Website Payments Pro accounts suddenly stopped working sometime around...
phoneFormat & makeTelLink ColdFusion UDFs
Standardization & validation is important, but good luck getting all you clients and your...
structToTable - Generate HTML/Text Output for Display/Email
When working on new logic and I want to dump a variable, I often use an internal CF_DumpLite...
ColdFusion Wrapper for Zint Barcode Generator
I referenced Zint Barcode Generator in a post from 2020 and included a very basic command line syntax...
getLastWorkWeekInMonth() ColdFusion - Returns Last Full Work Week
While integrating a new feature for a client to flag customers that were requesting vouchers to be...
Using ColdFusion to Generate Pre-Signed Wasabi Download URL
There was an internal decision to use Wasabi Cloud Storage instead of Amazon S3 and I needed to use...
ColdFusion colorTools CFC (In Progress)
While working on some internal graphs to represent daily Fastly WAF/CDN statistics, I realized that I...
Testing if IP is within a CIDR Range
I recently wrote a blog entry about using a third-party Java library to standardize IPv4 & IPv6...
Searching the CFML Output Buffer for a String
In one of our projects about 10 years ago, we were fetching HTML fragments from a trusted third-party...
isValidHexString ColdFusion UDF
While working on my ColdFusion colorTools CFC, I wondered if isValid() supported a "hex" type since...
CFML wrapper for emoji-java (identify, sanitize & convert emojis)
A ColdFusion application that we developed a couple years ago worked with Twilio to log incoming text...
Embed a Full HTML Document Inline Using Shadow DOM
We use ColdFusion/CFML to generate valid HTML documents for PDF generation using jsoup &...