I absolutely love Adobe ColdFusion. I have been using it since version 3 and fell head over heals the first day I saw how easy it was to create a search directory, or send an email, or just about anything the average web application developer could want back in those days. It has matured tremendously [...]
19 Aug, 2008
Posted by: Donnie Bachan In: ColdFusion
Paypal has been a headache for me ever since I’ve started using the API. I certainly hope that I’m not stupid and this is really easy and I’m just too daft to get this working easily but I’ve had to struggle with lack of documentation especially using ColdFusion 8. My woes started with the fact [...]
This iteration of ColdFusion is absolutely wonderful. Now anyone can AJAX and look like a DHTML guru with just a few lines of code. A previous post outlined the problem of not being able to refresh the CFWindow content. CF8 uses the EXT js library as of version 1.1.1 (I think) which by default does [...]
I was going crazy trying to figure out why my href in the cfgridcolumn tag was not working with the new CFGrid in html mode. Apparently the appendKey attribute of the CFGrid tag is set to TRUE by default and this forces the href attribute to be a valid url. If you change the appendKey [...]
Recently I came across the situation where I wanted to refresh a cfwindow with a source tag that was bound to a hidden form field. When the value of the form field changed I wanted the window information to be reloaded, however since the value was being changed via javascript the onChange event was not [...]