Do You Have A Permit For Those Guns? : Kinky Solutions : A Student's Perspective by Ben Nadel

Do You Have A Permit For Those Guns?

Posted December 14, 2007 at 8:18 AM

Tags: ColdFusion, Project HUGE, Health / Fitness

Sorry I was late getting to the gym, but I had to stop off and pick up my permit.

Permit for what?

For these guns!!!:

Anyone who has spent any time in the gym has probably heard a hundred different references to the "Guns". Guns, are of course, your arms. Sometimes referred to as pipes or pythons, the "guns" terminology hit the mainstream when Ubran Outfitters came out with their "Gun Show" t-shirt (as in, Hey ladies, did you have a chance to pick up your tickets for the GUN SHOW!!!!).

Yesterday, I was thinking that it'd be kind of fun to actually make a "Gun Permit" for gym shenanigans. And, it felt like a cool ColdFusion 8 exercise. Here's what I came up with:

Of course, my arms aren't really that large (at least not yet). The two blank boxes are for the inspector's signature and your signature.

Make your own gun permit here - Online Demo

The ColdFusion 8 code that creates this image is fairly basic. The majority of the graphic is composed of a background image; this contains the field lines and header text. ColdFusion 8 is just being used to input the dynamic form fields based on the user input:

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<cffunction
name="AddPermitText"
access="public"
returnvariable="any"
output="true"
hint="Adds text to the image given gun permit.">
<cfargument
name="Permit"
type="any"
required="true"
hint="The permit image object."
/>
<cfargument
name="Text"
type="string"
required="true"
hint="The text to be applied."
/>
<cfargument
name="X"
type="numeric"
required="true"
hint="The X coordinate of the text."
/>
<cfargument
name="Y"
type="numeric"
required="true"
hint="The Y coordinate of the text."
/>
<cfset var LOCAL = {} />
<cfset ImageSetAntialiasing( ARGUMENTS.Permit, "on" ) />
<cfset ImageSetDrawingColor(
ARGUMENTS.Permit,
"##454545"
) />
<cfset LOCAL.FontAttributes = {
Font = "Courier New",
Size = "20"
} />
<cfset ImageDrawText(
ARGUMENTS.Permit,
ARGUMENTS.Text,
ARGUMENTS.X,
ARGUMENTS.Y,
LOCAL.FontAttributes
) />
<cfreturn ARGUMENTS.Permit />
</cffunction>
<cfparam name="FORM.name" type="string" default="" />
<cfparam name="FORM.birthday" type="string" default="" />
<cfparam name="FORM.forearm" type="string" default="" />
<cfparam name="FORM.arm" type="string" default="" />
<cfparam name="FORM.weight" type="string" default="" />
<cfparam name="FORM.height" type="string" default="" />
<cfset arrErrors = ArrayNew( 1 ) />
<!---
Read in the background image to act as our permit canvas.
This includes the design and all the non-dynamic text.
--->
<cfimage
action="read"
source="./gun_permit.gif"
name="objPermit"
/>
<!---
Check to see if the form has been submitted. We will
know this if there are any fields listed.
--->
<cfif StructKeyExists( FORM, "FieldNames" )>
<cfif NOT Len( FORM.name )>
<cfset ArrayAppend(
arrErrors,
"Please enter your name."
) />
</cfif>
<cfif NOT IsNumericDate( FORM.birthday )>
<cfset ArrayAppend(
arrErrors,
"Please enter your birthday (mm/dd/yyyy)."
) />
</cfif>
<cfif NOT Val( FORM.forearm )>
<cfset ArrayAppend(
arrErrors,
"Please enter your forearm circumference in inches."
) />
</cfif>
<cfif NOT Val( FORM.arm )>
<cfset ArrayAppend(
arrErrors,
"Please enter your upper arm circumference in inches."
) />
</cfif>
<cfif NOT Len( FORM.weight )>
<cfset ArrayAppend(
arrErrors,
"Please enter your weight."
) />
</cfif>
<cfif NOT Len( FORM.height )>
<cfset ArrayAppend(
arrErrors,
"Please enter your height."
) />
</cfif>
<cfif NOT ArrayLen( arrErrors )>
<cfset AddPermitText(
objPermit,
DateFormat( Now(), "mm-dd-yyyy" ),
375,
53
) />
<cfset AddPermitText(
objPermit,
FORM.name,
26,
103
) />
<cfset AddPermitText(
objPermit,
DateFormat( FORM.birthday, "mm-dd-yyyy" ),
375,
103
) />
<cfset AddPermitText(
objPermit,
"#NumberFormat( Val( FORM.forearm ), '0.0' )#""",
26,
153
) />
<cfset AddPermitText(
objPermit,
"#NumberFormat( Val( FORM.arm ), '0.0' )#""",
155,
153
) />
<cfset AddPermitText(
objPermit,
FORM.weight,
284,
153
) />
<cfset AddPermitText(
objPermit,
FORM.height,
413,
153
) />
<cfset AddPermitText(
objPermit,
"Inspector in",
330,
180
) />
<cfset AddPermitText(
objPermit,
"Charge",
330,
203
) />
<cfset AddPermitText(
objPermit,
"Project Huge Fitness New York, NY 10011",
26,
253
) />
<cfset AddPermitText(
objPermit,
RandRange( 1000, 9999 ),
413,
291
) />
<cfset AddPermitText(
objPermit,
RandRange( 1000, 9999 ),
413,
322
) />
</cfif>
</cfif>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Gun Permit Using ColdFusion 8</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif ;
font-size: 62.5% ;
}
div.errors {
color: #CC0000 ;
}
div.errors h4 {
font-size: 1.4em ;
font-weight: bold ;
margin-bottom: 7px ;
}
div.errors ul {
font-size: 1.2em ;
line-height: 1.4em ;
margin-top: 0px ;
}
form {
position: relative ;
}
label {
display: block ;
font-size: 1.4em ;
margin-bottom: 5px ;
}
input {
display: block ;
margin-left: .5in ;
width: 175px ;
}
div#permit {
border: 1px solid #333333 ;
left: 325px ;
position: absolute ;
width: 545px ;
top: 5px ;
z-index: 100 ;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<cfoutput>
<h1>
Gun Permit Using ColdFusion 8
</h1>
<cfif ArrayLen( arrErrors )>
<div class="errors">
<h4>
Please review the following:
</h4>
<ul>
<cfloop
index="strError"
array="#arrErrors#">
<li>
#strError#
</li>
</cfloop>
</ul>
</div>
</cfif>
<form action="#CGI.script_name#" method="post">
<label for="name">
Name (First, Middle initial, Last):
</label>
<input
type="text"
name="name"
id="name"
value="#HtmlEditFormat( FORM.name )#"
/>
<br />
<label for="name">
Birthday (mm/dd/yyyy):
</label>
<input
type="text"
name="birthday"
id="birthday"
value="#HtmlEditFormat( FORM.birthday )#"
/>
<br />
<label for="forearm">
Forearm Circumference:
</label>
<input
type="text"
name="forearm"
id="forearm"
value="#HtmlEditFormat( FORM.forearm )#"
/>
<br />
<label for="forearm">
Upper Arm Circumference:
</label>
<input
type="text"
name="arm"
id="arm"
value="#HtmlEditFormat( FORM.arm )#"
/>
<br />
<label for="weight">
Weight:
</label>
<input
type="text"
name="weight"
id="weight"
value="#HtmlEditFormat( FORM.weight )#"
/>
<br />
<label for="weight">
Height (F'I"):
</label>
<input
type="text"
name="height"
id="height"
value="#HtmlEditFormat( FORM.height )#"
/>
<br />
<input
type="submit"
value="Build Gun Permit »"
/>
<div id="permit">
<cfimage
action="writetobrowser"
source="#objPermit#"
format="gif"
/>
</div>
</form>
</cfoutput>
</body>
</html>

This was just a post for fun, nothing revolutionary going on here.

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Reader Comments

Ben...

If your card is correct, you and I share a birthyda, albeit I was born in 1971, rather than 1980.

So Happy Birthday to you!

Posted by Andy Matthews on Dec 14, 2007 at 9:08 AM

@Andy,

That birthday is accurate. Very cool. AND, we both share the day with Bill Murray. I don't know about you, but that's pretty awesome in my book :)

Posted by Ben Nadel on Dec 14, 2007 at 9:14 AM

hehe, that's awesome!

cool use of cfimage..

Posted by Mat Evans on Dec 14, 2007 at 9:15 AM

I didn't know that, and yes...that IS really cool. He's got to be one of the funniest guys to come around in the last 30 years.

Posted by Andy Matthews on Dec 14, 2007 at 9:22 AM

@Andy,

Have you seen this video on Fact Checking:

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/eae26bb96d

Quality stuff and unexpected Murray.

Posted by Ben Nadel on Dec 14, 2007 at 9:25 AM

"That's a man, BABY!"
-- Austin Danger Powers

Posted by Roe on Dec 14, 2007 at 12:47 PM

Ben, call me paranoid but I'd be careful about putting your DoB up on a public site. Combine that with the address data from your whois record and your employer details and you're in a huge mess if someone gets credit cards in your name.

Posted by George Bridgeman on Dec 18, 2007 at 9:14 AM

@George,

You make a good point. As someone who has never had to deal with any kind of theft of any kind (I never even had a calculator stolen in school), I have a certain amount of boyish naiveté. But, that doesn't mean I shouldn't be cautious. Thanks for the reality check. I will look into making things more secure.

Posted by Ben Nadel on Dec 18, 2007 at 9:25 AM

dude.. that's damn entertaining.

Posted by Rob on Feb 21, 2008 at 12:16 PM

I honestly can't believe you spent time writing this code. And here I thought you were lazy :S.

Posted by Anime on Apr 4, 2008 at 11:54 AM

You are such a dork, haha! But, Bravo! It's hilarious. I should come up with something like that for runners like my friends and myself. :)

Posted by Aliksandra on Apr 25, 2008 at 3:20 PM

@Aliksandra,

Glad to entertain... and perhaps... inspire??

Posted by Ben Nadel on Apr 25, 2008 at 4:15 PM

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Do You Have A Permit For Those Guns? : Kinky Solutions : A Student's Perspective by Ben Nadel