Ask Ben: Checking The ColdFusion Version

Posted July 14, 2006 at 2:44 PM by Ben Nadel

Tags: ColdFusion, Ask Ben

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As a newbie, I am finding myself unable to connect to my ColdFusion 8 server and came across your valued information.

Could you kindly help me understand WHERE to put this code snippet?

Thanks in advance.

@Jeannie,

You can put this code on any page. However, if you cannot connect to your ColdFusion server, you cannot run the above ColdFusion code.

OK that is the heart of my problem. My ColdFusion runs beautifully on my XP, but I cannot get it to run on my Vista laptop.

Could you kindly direct me to help? I have googled and sought to fix this since June 6. I would be most grateful for assistance.

Kind regards,

Jeannie

@Jeannie,

Did you install it as a stand-alone version?

Thanks so much ben, i'm newbie here in coldfusion :)

Thanks Ben! You saved me from having a heart attack. I thought a client's host was running CF 6 until I dumped the server scope ... whew, that was almost really bad ;)

@Pedro,

Version 6?? I vaguely remember there being a version 6 ;)

Will ColdFusion Server Enterprise 6,1,0,63958 version supports style attribute for cfchart?

I'm getting "Attribute validation error for tag chart." error

@CFUser,

I guess not. I don't have access to anything less than CF8.

Thanks Ben, Very informative article man.

But what if we want use Server Scoped Variables as pseudo-constructor in Application.cfc or Application.cfm?
In this case where we need to define Server Scoped Variables?

@Sanoop,

In ColdFusion 9, you can now specify a ColdFusion component that defines an onServerStart() event handler. You can then, in the ColdFusion admin, point to this CFC to be used when the server initializes.

However, if you don't want to go that route, you can definitely use server-scoped variables within the Application.cfc pseudo-constructors; however, you just have to be careful that you don't reference a value before it's defined. You can define those in the Application.cfc if you want.

I don't typically store anything in the server scope so I don't have great advice on this matter.

In our code base we have our own arrayFind() and arrayFindNoCase() for use on older version of CF.

Do you know if it is possible to conditionally declare/include these functions based on this version technique you've shown here?

I tried wrapping a cfscript block in a cfif but i don't think that works.

@Howie,

While you can't wrap an entire CFFunction tag in conditionals, you can certainly wrap a CFInclude tag in conditionals.

Or, you could always define them with some less-than-intuitive naming like:

... and then have logic to re-map the function to a more appropriate name:

... Using a conditional include (or a conditional CFC invocation) is probably the best so you don't end up with anything unnecessary. But, it comes down to how you currently define your user-defined functions.

please give response ASAP. It is very importent to me.
can we disable admin console in the coldfusion Version: 6,1,0,63958

many thanks

Hey Ben, thanks for the simple things. You're always there when I am searching... :-)

On another note, the "selected" parameter on this type of AJAX form element does not work with CF8, only CF9 in my experience. Do you know a quick workaround to achieve a similar result in CF8?

<cfselect name="serviceID"
bind="cfc:cfc.timer.getServices()"
bindonload="true"
selected="#getTimerData.serviceID#">
</cfselect>

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