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• Ask Ben: Parsing Very Large XML Documents In ColdFusion

  Posted on May 6, 2013 at 12:40 PM

  Ben 2 the rescue! Grrrreat! This works like a charm on a 190MB large XML-file ;-) Thanx a million Ben for this insightful article and completely different take on parsing XML-documents. Now I just have to figure out how to extract the data into the database without doing the cumbersome VARIABLES.... read more »

• Learning ColdFusion 8: CFZip Part I - Zipping Files And Directories With CFZip

  Posted on May 6, 2013 at 12:38 PM

  Hi Ben, do you happen to know what the maximum number of files in a ZIP-archive and the maxiumum file-size for a ZIP-file created by CF8/CF9 are? Much appreciated!... read more »

• New ColdFusion CFMailParam "Remove" Attribute Makes Deleting Attachments Simple

  Posted on Jan 8, 2011 at 6:10 AM

  Just checked this with the Railo changelog: http://classic.railo.ch/en/index.cfm?treeID=235 As of Railo 3.1.2.011 (dev) and Railo 3.2.001 (stable) this is supported. My ticket has been resolved and implemented ;-) Yeah! That sure feels good, kinda like having contributed a little to t... read more »

• New ColdFusion CFMailParam "Remove" Attribute Makes Deleting Attachments Simple

  Posted on Jan 8, 2011 at 6:07 AM

  I think Railo now also supports this as of version 3.2+.... read more »

• A Book Apart: HTML5 For Web Designers By Jeremy Keith

  Posted on Sep 21, 2010 at 7:36 AM

  Hi Ben, Your code for autolinking links in comments works for most things but HTTPS-links (see above example). Could you fix this for me? Thanx!... read more »

• A Book Apart: HTML5 For Web Designers By Jeremy Keith

  Posted on Sep 21, 2010 at 7:34 AM

  We've just implemented Kroc Camen's Video for Everybody ( http://camendesign.com/code/video_for_everybody ) in our latest webshop: read more »

• Escaping Form Values - Understanding The ColdFusion htmlEditFormat() Life Cycle

  Posted on Sep 6, 2010 at 5:42 AM

  Also, when submitting form-input to CFMAIL do the below: <!--- sanitize input of CR and LF injection vulnerability (see page 17-24 in http://foundeo.com/security/presentations/cfunit... read more »

• Escaping Form Values - Understanding The ColdFusion htmlEditFormat() Life Cycle

  Posted on Sep 6, 2010 at 4:45 AM

  Just to state the obvious: NEVER rely solely on scriptprotect in neither Railo or Adobe CF. ALWAYS sanitize your input ;-)... read more »

• Escaping Form Values - Understanding The ColdFusion htmlEditFormat() Life Cycle

  Posted on Sep 6, 2010 at 4:43 AM

  Hi Ben, I usually also turn on scriptprotect in CF-machines. It ensures that script-tags are filtered as <invalidtag> when put into a database or displayed thru a form. Railo does this out of the box BTW. xmlFormat() is a lot better than htmlEditFormat(), as you also stated in t... read more »

• Parsing CSV Data With ColdFusion's CFHTTP Tag

  Posted on Apr 23, 2010 at 2:22 PM

  @Jason Fisher, I needed a way to get one standard list of countries available for many websites on different servers quickly. And I didn't want to fuss about with changing database tables. But your suggestion inspires me to create a country table in our CMS, with the country names available... read more »

• Parsing CSV Data With ColdFusion's CFHTTP Tag

  Posted on Apr 22, 2010 at 2:08 AM

  @Ben Well, yes and no, as it's on a shared server, more people could make use of it if they knew it existed ;-) But I put the struct in the application-scope, so it's only available in the website itself. If it was to be available to all apps on the server, I guess I should put it in the se... read more »

• Parsing CSV Data With ColdFusion's CFHTTP Tag

  Posted on Apr 20, 2010 at 2:45 AM

  I just implemented this on a website of ours, using it for reading in countries in the application scope and using that variable (querystruct) when creating a dropdown of countries in the different forms on the website. That way I only have to create the list of countries (with ID, short name and... read more »

• Using CFThread Inside A ColdFusion Query Loop

  Posted on Apr 9, 2010 at 4:44 PM

  Ben, This is so great ;-) So far away and still so close, working on similar stuff, me with a challenge, you with a solution or adaptation or information on the issue at hand. Thanx 4 the time you've put into this! My colleague and I are very greatful and hopefully we'll both of us see you... read more »

• Ask Ben: Processing Files With CFThread In ColdFusion

  Posted on Apr 9, 2010 at 9:19 AM

  @Ben, OK, I think I understand. It means that all application-scoped variables and all query-results need to be passed into the cfthread for it to be aware of them and be able to do something about it? Am I correct in stating that?... read more »

• Ask Ben: Processing Files With CFThread In ColdFusion

  Posted on Apr 9, 2010 at 9:09 AM

  Ben, How does the thread "know" about the variable photosDirectory which you created outside of the CFTHREAD?... read more »

• Ask Ben: Creating A PDF And Attaching It To An Email Using ColdFusion

  Posted on Apr 9, 2010 at 5:50 AM

  Ben, In the above example do you actually store the created PDF in memory or how do you go about it? I don't understand it quite, is it equal to storing it in the ram:// ? Or can you say that what Railo states in their documentation (read more »

• Ask Ben: Processing Files With CFThread In ColdFusion

  Posted on Apr 9, 2010 at 5:48 AM

  Ben, In the example you link to ( http://www.bennadel.com/blog/1700-Ask-Ben-Creating-A-PDF-And-Attaching-It-To-An-Email-Using-ColdFusion.htm ) do you actual... read more »

• New ColdFusion CFMailParam "Remove" Attribute Makes Deleting Attachments Simple

  Posted on Apr 8, 2010 at 9:53 AM

  @Ben What are the technical specifics behind this? How does ACF do this? Or is this just part of the tag-magic which we never should ask anything about and just use it? ;-)... read more »

• Ask Ben: Creating A PDF And Attaching It To An Email Using ColdFusion

  Posted on Apr 8, 2010 at 9:50 AM

  Hi Ben, Just read the Railo Wiki ( http://wiki.getrailo.org/wiki/3-1-Tags:CFMailParam ) and cannot seem to find a Remove or Delete attribute. So I guess I'm stuck with a Scheduled Task that runs once a night to c... read more »

• Ask Ben: Creating A PDF And Attaching It To An Email Using ColdFusion

  Posted on Apr 2, 2010 at 2:51 PM

  Hi Ben, Good article, I'm using it as a starting point for my endeavour into dynamically creating PDF's and attaching them to cfmails, all in a cfloop within a cfthread ;-) I'll be using the ram:// directly instead of a file from a filesystem (still not sure if Railo supports content-... read more »