Articles by Tag #coldfusion
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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...
ColdFusion Summit History (Tourist Edition)
I wouldn't call myself a regular at conferences, but I've enjoyed attending some CF-related...
PDF Generation, Bloat and Optimization
The State of myCFML PDF Generation My current comparison is with CFDocument on the...
Ben & Ryan Show Guest Appearance & myCFML
I was recently invited to be a guest on the "Ben & Ryan Show" podcast to share some custom...
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...
ColdFusion Wrapper for Zint Barcode Generator
I referenced Zint Barcode Generator in a post from 2020 and included a very basic command line syntax...
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...
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...
HeatColor UDF (based on jQuery library)
When displaying values in a table, I like to use color to visually indicate whether the number is...
getLastWorkWeekInMonth() ColdFusion - Returns Last Full Work Week
While integrating a new feature for a client to flag customers that were requesting vouchers to be...
How to run SF7 lucee on linux
CommandBox Setup Download CommandBox for the stable version (it’s recommended to download...
isValidHexString ColdFusion UDF
While working on my ColdFusion colorTools CFC, I wondered if isValid() supported a "hex" type since...
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...
CF_Timer Revisited
I posted an update to my ColdFusion CF_Timer custom tag on my new myCFML blog with the same title. ...
Using ColdFusion and Xpdf to extract PDF metadata
Xpdf is an open source projects that includes a PDF viewer, but it also includes a collection of...
Transforming TSV data using ColdFusion & Miller (Command line FTW!)
We license data from multiple providers and discovered that not all data can be treated equally even...
ColdFusion colorTools CFC (In Progress)
While working on some internal graphs to represent daily Fastly WAF/CDN statistics, I realized that I...
Support Unlimited Forwarded Email Messages via API (and ColdFusion)
We have clients that use dedicated email addresses to receive and process messages and attachments. I...