CSS – Long URL

This is an older post that did not make it through to the new site when I converted to WordPress. Hopefully this will still be relevant to someone out there.

CSS and the Long URL:

I was working on a webmail client a while back and had been having a few design problems. Sometimes when you subscribe to a blog, forum or usergroup the e-mails from those respective subscriptions will include an “unsubscribe url”. This Blog does. Now this URL can be really long and, in a normal email client (Outlook, Thunderbird etc) this is a non issue. But, writing a webmail client this became an issue.

In Firefox, if the url is longer than the width of the div area it would break my layout. In IE the long url would wrap to the next line as expected. The only Fix I could find for this was
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Time to learn CFCs once and for all!

I’ve been putting this off for a while. I’m not sure why, maybe it was just laziness. Anyway, I feel it’s time to buckle down and finally learn to create and use CFCs correctly… You know, to unleash the power, so to speak.

Ok, I know now you are thinking I’m talking about chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) but I’m not. What I actually am trying to get a firm grasp on are ColdFusion Components (CFCs). What are these, you ask?

From the Coldfusion Live Docs

A ColdFusion component (CFC) is a file saved with the extension .cfc. A CFC can contain data and functions. Within a CFC, data is referred to as properties. Although you use the cffunction tag to define functions within a CFC, they are typically referred to as methods instead of functions.

The page on which you define a CFC is also known as a component page. Component pages use the same tags and functions that regular CFML pages do, plus a small number of special tags (in particular, the cfcomponent tag) and tag attributes.

You define related methods in a CFC. Unlike ColdFusion custom tags, a single CFC can perform many related actions, defined in multiple methods. The methods may share a data context, such as metadata and scoping, or manage a particular database or set of tables. For example, you can define the methods to insert, update, delete, and retrieve records from a particular database or table in one CFC.

So there ya go. Sounds fun and useful, right? Well, thus continues my quest at bettering my Coldfusion knowledge and hopefully taking one more step forward in my Coldfusion Jedi Training. Because we all aspire to be like the master. Tomorrow, I hope to have, for your approval of course, my first CFC.

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Wow!! Long time now type!

Sorry for the utter lack of posts! The holidays were extremely busy! I hope that Santa was good to all… No Coal in the stockings?

Well, here is my yearly reminder. If you are still doing it manually…. Don’t forget to update the copyrights on your website(s).

If you are still doing it manually.. Then QUIT IT!! Save yourself some work.. I know, it’s not hard.. Only once a year.. But why think about it.

Check out my entry from last year on a Javascript AND Coldfusion method of keeping those pesky copyrights in check.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

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CFX_PFPro_Java Download – Finally

I’ve been pulling my hair out for a few days looking for the Coldfusion CFX tag for PayFlow Pro. I’m moving/upgrading a customer’s webstore and the old cfx tag would not work on the new server’s CF installation. So I had to get a more current tag. Only, PayPal no longer supplies the Coldfusion SDK and they don not have access to any older versions!?!?!

But, thanks to a very helpful person on the CFWebstore yahoo group I was directed to Apok-Technology. They had a copy of the tag and supplied a link to download the zip! Thanks guys!! You saved Me!

So, if you are searching for the Coldfusion SDK for PayflowPro I’ll attach the zip file to this entry for you to download or you can go visit Dave over at Apok Technology. Also, if you are having issues making this tag work on CF 8 Read a little deeper on that site, they have a fix for that as well!

Download the zipfile: cfx_pfpro_java

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Coldfusion 7

Well, Being as Coldfusion version 8 (aka Scorpio) has been released, I decided to try and get my server copy updated as well… However, being a CHEAP … I decided only to move up to version 7..

I really couldn't pass it up. My server was running version 6.1 and I could have upgraded to 8 for ONLY $649.00.. But, Looking on EBAY I found a NEW… Still in the original package, plastic wrap still on the box, never opened, never used copy of the FULL version of CFMX 7.0.2. And, for ONLY $ 475.00 it could be mine… All Mine..

Well, the cheap meter in me when off like a gun blast and I got it… The cool thing about upgrading is that it opened up a new feature of my Blog.. Printing to PDF. You'll now notice that there is a “Print” selection following each blog. Clicking that link will create a PDF out of the entry it is listed with. So, if you want to save my brilliant rantings in your scrap book; you can now, with ease!

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Day for Announcements!!

Well, today is starting to shape up quite nicely.

This morning Adobe announced the beta release of Coldfusion 8 (Scorpio). Head over and check it out.. From the examples going on over at Ray Camden's Site It looks like this release will be well worth it!!

And Also, a friend of mine just e-mailed me with this little tid-bit:

Fred Dalton Thompson is planning to enter the presidential race over the Fourth of July holiday, announcing that week that he has already raised several million dollars and is being backed by insiders from the past three Republican administrations, Thompson advisers told The Politico.

You can read the full article over at the Politico

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The Online Coldfusion Meetup Group

If you live in an area without a local User group… I do… then I would suggest signing up for the:

The next meeting will be about:

“Attack of the Spam Bots”

RSVP now

Jake Munson, creator of CFQuickDocs, will discuss various methods for preventing spammers from attacking your forms. CAPTCHA is very popular, and there are also some new prevention techniques appearing on the horizon. He will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of these different methods. He will also talk about how spam bots work, which helps you understand how to stop them.

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