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ColdFusion Config Settings

Wed, 28 May 2008 01:02:00 GMT

Here is the problem I needed to come up with a way to allow my client admins to set alias's for entry forms and report headers. So I started looking at localization and quickly found that, that was not a good Idea at all so then I started looking at using ini files since ColdFusion has functions for reading and setting config keys. I also found that I didn't like using the config file for this so I created a table to store the infromation. Then I decided to do some test to see if the was some benefit to using a DB verses the ini file low and behold there is.
This code block took [58ms] to run

<cftimer label="iniSettings" type="debug">  <cfscript>   iniFile = expandPath('config_1234_12.ini.cfm');   clientStruct  ={    clientNameLabel = getProfileString(iniFile, "client", 'clientNameLabel'),    clientNameHasValidation = getProfileString(iniFile, "client", 'clientNameHasValidation'),    clientNameValidation = getProfileString(iniFile, "client", 'clientNameValidation')   };  </cfscript>  <cfoutput>   <label>#clientStruct['clientNameLabel']#</label>   <input type="input" name="clientName">   <input type="button" value="Click Me!" onclick="validate()">   <script>    function validate(){     <cfif IsBoolean(clientStruct["clientNameHasValidation"]) AND clientStruct["clientNameHasValidation"] is true>      #ReReplaceNoCase(clientStruct["clientNameValidation"],'~clientname~', clientStruct["clientNameLabel"])#     </cfif>    }   </script>    </cfoutput> </cftimer>

This code block took [2ms] to run

<cftimer label="DBSettings" type="debug">  <cfscript>   args = {    cfSection = "client"   };      clientStruct=application.configSettingsService.queryToPropStruct(application.configSettingsService.getByAttributesQuery(argumentcollection=args));   if(StructKeyExists(clientStruct,'')){      }  </cfscript>  <cfoutput>   <label>#clientStruct['clientNameLabel']#</label>   <input type="input" name="clientName">   <input type="button" value="Click Me!" onclick="validate()">   <script>    function validate(){     <cfif IsBoolean(clientStruct["clientNameHasValidation"]) AND clientStruct["clientNameHasValidation"] is true>      #ReReplaceNoCase(clientStruct["clientNameValidation"],'~clientname~', clientStruct["clientNameLabel"])#     </cfif>    }   </script>    </cfoutput> </cftimer>

I know 58ms doesn't seem like much but remeber in this example its only one field and I have pages the have 50 fields that a client might alias.

Handleing Results in Model-Glue

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:40:00 GMT

Ok I am not the world’s best blogger but I am going to give a shot. So I am working on a Model-Glue Application that I started about a year and a half ago. And I am finally starting to reuse some of my functions. For example I have a saveUserAddress function and a saveUserAccount function and in both of these function’s I add result named success if there wasn’t an error. So here is the problem, we adding a new feature that allows a user to setup a new address and a new account on the same screen but in Model-Glue if there is a result the next function will not be called. So to fix this problem I added an argument to the message in the modelglue.xml file like so.

<message name="SaveUserAddress">     <argument name="addResult" value="false" /> </message> <message name="SaveUserAccount" />

Then in the controller component I add some logic to account for this.

<cfif arguments.event.ArgumentExists("addResult")>     <cfif arguments.event.getValue("addResult") EQ true>         <cfset arguments.event.addResult("success", true) />     </cfif> </cfif>

I know there some Mach-II guys out there so I would like to know how you handle this in Mach-II.

Quick CFC Gotcha

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:50:00 GMT

Lets say you have a bean for an employee and it has getFirstName and setFirstName and lets you forget to put parenthesis like this

<input type="Text" name="firstname" id="firstname" value="<cfoutput>#employeeBean.getFirstname#</cfoutput>" />

at then end when calling getFirstName you might expect to get an error but you wont you will get this

<input type="Text" name="firstname" id="firstname" value="cfemployee2ecfc490364409$funcGETFIRSTNAME@25a2fe" />

I am not sure why so if anyone knows why please leave a comment.

I am moving over .

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:06:00 GMT

I am moving my over to instantspot.