Articles by Tag #coldfusion

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ColdFusion Dump Alternative

The cfdump tag (AKA cfscript "writedump" function) outputs the contents of a variable of any type for...

Learn More 7 2Dec 12 '24

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...

Learn More 4 0Nov 19 '24

ColdFusion Summit History (Tourist Edition)

I wouldn't call myself a regular at conferences, but I've enjoyed attending some CF-related...

Learn More 4 0Sep 23 '24

Hack WKHTMLTOPDF PDF to enable Adobe Acrobat Field Editing

I recently integrated the auto-generation of survey results into a downloadable PDF using ColdFusion...

Learn More 4 4Oct 8 '24

Ben & Ryan Show Guest Appearance & myCFML

I was recently invited to be a guest on the "Ben & Ryan Show" podcast to share some custom...

Learn More 3 0Apr 24

PDF Generation, Bloat and Optimization

The State of myCFML PDF Generation My current comparison is with CFDocument on the...

Learn More 3 1Apr 10

ColdFusion PayPal REST API CFC

PayPal's NVP/SOAP API for Website Payments Pro accounts suddenly stopped working sometime around...

Learn More 3 2Oct 15 '24

ColdFusion Wrapper for Zint Barcode Generator

I referenced Zint Barcode Generator in a post from 2020 and included a very basic command line syntax...

Learn More 2 1Oct 30 '24

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...

Learn More 2 0Oct 28 '24

Convert Numbers to Text using ColdFusion and ICU4J

(This is a repost from my abandoned tumblr blog; dated 2016-11-17) A client requested that we spell...

Learn More 1 0Jul 25 '24

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...

Learn More 1 0Mar 20

getLastWorkWeekInMonth() ColdFusion - Returns Last Full Work Week

While integrating a new feature for a client to flag customers that were requesting vouchers to be...

Learn More 1 0Nov 7 '24

HeatColor UDF (based on jQuery library)

When displaying values in a table, I like to use color to visually indicate whether the number is...

Learn More 1 2Sep 25 '24

TempCache ColdFusion UDF

There's been many occasions where a user-specific payload has been generated (shopping cart, check...

Learn More 1 0Jun 24 '24

phoneFormat & makeTelLink ColdFusion UDFs

Standardization & validation is important, but good luck getting all you clients and your...

Learn More 1 0Nov 14 '24

ColdFusion colorTools CFC (In Progress)

While working on some internal graphs to represent daily Fastly WAF/CDN statistics, I realized that I...

Learn More 0 0Feb 27

How to run SF7 lucee on linux

CommandBox Setup Download CommandBox for the stable version (it’s recommended to download...

Learn More 0 0Apr 28

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...

Learn More 0 0Sep 5 '24

Blackboxing SQL in CFScript - Part 1

Working in a small development group, one of my goals is code reduction and *blackbox * major aspects...

Learn More 0 0Jul 31 '24

CF_Timer Revisited

I posted an update to my ColdFusion CF_Timer custom tag on my new myCFML blog with the same title. ...

Learn More 0 0May 1

isValidHexString ColdFusion UDF

While working on my ColdFusion colorTools CFC, I wondered if isValid() supported a "hex" type since...

Learn More 0 0Mar 7

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...

Learn More 0 0Dec 5 '24