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Chapter 3: ColdFusion Functions
StructFind
Description
Determines the value associated with a key in a structure.
Returns
The value associated with a key in a structure; if structure does not exist, throws an exception.
Category
Structure functions
Function syntax
StructFind(structure, key)
See also
Structure functions
; “Structure functions” in Chapter 5, “Using Arrays and Structures,” in
ColdFusion MX Developer’s Guide
Parameters
Usage
A structure’s keys are unordered.
Example
This file is identical to addemployee.cfm, which is called by StructNew,
StructClear, and StructDelete. It adds employees. Employee information
is passed through the employee structure (EMPINFO attribute). In UNIX,
you must also add the Emp_ID.
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376 chapter 2: coldfusion tags cfscript description encloses a code block that contains cfscript statements. Category application framework tags , other tags syntax cfscript code here see also cfinvoke , cfmodule , createobject ; chapter 6, “extending coldfusion pages with cfml scripting” in coldfus...
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Cfscript 377 you cannot use the elseif construct within a cfscript tag. You can use code such as the following: else if ( condition ) { ... } exception handling with the cfscript tag to handle exceptions with this tag, use try and catch statements, which are equivalent to the cftry and cfcatch tags....
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378 chapter 2: coldfusion tags consuming web services with the cfscript tag the following example shows how to consume a web service with the cfscript tag. You use the createobject function to connect to the web service. Ws = createobject("webservice", "http://www.Xmethods.Net/sd/2001/babelfishservi...
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Cfsearch 379 cfsearch description searches one or more verity collections. A collection must be created and indexed before this tag can return search results. A collection can be created in these ways: • with the cfcollection tag • in the coldfusion mx administrator • using a native verity indexing ...
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380 chapter 2: coldfusion tags see also cfcollection , cfexecute , cfindex , cfobject , cfreport , cfwddx history coldfusion mx 7: • added category , categorytree , status , suggestions , contextpassages , contextbytes , contexthighlightbegin , contexthighlightend , and previouscriteria attributes. ...
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Cfsearch 381 category optional a list of categories, separated by commas, to which the search is limited. If specified, and the collection does not have categories enabled, coldfusion throws an exception. Categorytree optional the location in a hierarchical category tree at which to start the search...
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382 chapter 2: coldfusion tags usage the cfsearch tag returns a query object whose columns you can reference in a cfoutput tag. For example, the following code specifies a search for the exact terms "filming" or "filmed": name = "mysearch" collection = "mycollection" criteria = '`film{ing,ed}`' type...
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Cfsearch 383 in this example, the single-quotation mark ( ' ) and backtick ( ` ) characters are used as delimiters; for more information, see chapter 25, “using verity search expressions” in coldfusion mx developer’s guide. To optimize search performance, always specify the maxrows attribute, settin...
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384 chapter 2: coldfusion tags status structure keys to permit application users to search verity collections for nonstandard strings, words, or characters (for example, "ab23.45.67" or "--->") that would otherwise cause an error, you can create a text file that lists these elements and defines thei...
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Cfsearch 385 title=#name.Title# score=#name.Score# custom1=#name.Custom1# custom2=#name.Custom2# summary=#name.Summary# recordcount=#name.Recordcount# currentrow=#name.Currentrow# columnlist=#name.Columnlist# recordssearched=#name.Recordssearched# name = "snippets" collection = "snippets" criteria =...
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386 chapter 2: coldfusion tags currentrow=#book.Currentrow# columnlist=#book.Columnlist# recordssearched=#book.Recordssearched#.
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Cfselect 387 cfselect description constructs a drop-down list box form control. Used within a cfform tag. You can populate the list from a query, or by using the html option tag. Category forms tags syntax name = "name" label = "label" style = "style specification" size = "integer" required = "yes" ...
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388 chapter 2: coldfusion tags • added on -prefixed attributes. • added enabled , group , height , label , queryposition , tooltip , visible , and width attributes. Attributes the following table lists attributes that coldfusion uses directly. The tag also supports all html select tag attributes tha...
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Cfselect 389 display optional; all value of value attribute query column to use for the display label of each list element. Used with the query attribute. Group optional; html and xml query column to use to group the items in the drop-down list into a two-level hierarchical list. Queryposition optio...
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390 chapter 2: coldfusion tags note: attributes that are marked as flash only are not handled by the skins provided with coldfusion mx. They are, however, included in the generated xml. Usage this tag requires an end tag and can include html option and optgroup child tags. To ensure that a selected ...
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Cfselect 391 show the selected names. ---> #name# email: #email# select emp_id, email, phone, department, firstname, lastname, firstname +' ' +lastname as name from getallemployees where emp_id in (#form.Employeeid#) #firstname# #lastname# email: #email# name = "employeeid" size = "15" multiple="yes...
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392 chapter 2: coldfusion tags cfservlet description this tag is deprecated. Executes a java servlet on a jrun engine. To access servlets that run on the same server as coldfusion, use code such as the following, in which path specifies a servlet, jsp, or anything else: getpagecontext().Include(path...
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Cfservletparam 393 cfservletparam description this tag is deprecated. A child tag of the cfservlet tag. Passes data to a servlet. Each cfservletparam tag within the cfservlet block passes a separate item of data to the servlet. To access servlets that run on the same server as coldfusion, use code s...
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394 chapter 2: coldfusion tags cfset description sets a value in coldfusion. Used to create a variable, if it does not exist, and assign it a value. Also used to call functions. Category variable manipulation tags syntax var variable_name = expression > see also cfcookie , cfparam , cfregistry , cfs...
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Cfset 395 dynamic variable names in this example, the variable name is itself a variable: function local variables the var keyword specifies that the variable being defined is only available inside the body of a function that you define using the cffunction tag. The variable value that is set in one...
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396 chapter 2: coldfusion tags example select * from messages cfset sets and reassigns values to local or global variables within a page. For example, the variable numrecords has been declared on this page to hold the number of records returned from query (#numrecords#). In addition, cfset can be us...
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Cfsetting 397 cfsetting description controls aspects of page processing, such as the output of html code in pages. Category page processing tags , variable manipulation tags syntax enablecfoutputonly = "yes" or "no" showdebugoutput = "yes" or "no" requesttimeout = "value in seconds" > see also cfcac...
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398 chapter 2: coldfusion tags usage the cfsetting requesttimeout attribute replaces the use of requesttimeout within a url. To enforce a page timeout, detect the url variable and use code such as the following to change the page timeout: you can use this tag to manage whitespace in coldfusion outpu...
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Cfsilent 399 cfsilent description suppresses output produced by cfml within a tag’s scope. Category data output tags , page processing tags syntax ... See also cfcache , cfflush , cfheader , cfhtmlhead , cfinclude , cfsetting ; chapter 9, “writing and calling user-defined functions,” in coldfusion m...
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400 chapter 2: coldfusion tags cfslider description puts a slider control, for selecting a numeric value from a range, in a coldfusion form. The slider moves over the slider groove. As the user moves the slider, the current value displays. Used within a cfform tag. Not supported with flash forms. Ca...
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Cfslider 401 attributes attribute req/opt default description name required name of cfslider control. Label optional label to display with control; for example, "volume" this displays: "volume %value%" to reference the value, use "%value%" . If %% is omitted, slider value displays directly after lab...
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402 chapter 2: coldfusion tags usage this tag requires the client to download a java applet. Using this tag may be slightly slower than using an html form element to display the same information. Also, if the client does not have an up-to-date java plugin installed, the system might also have to dow...
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Cfslider 403 if the following conditions are true, a user’s selection from query data that populates this tag’s options continues to display after the user submits the form: • the cfform preservedata attribute is set to " yes ". • the cfform action attribute posts to the same page as the form itself...
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404 chapter 2: coldfusion tags cfstoredproc description executes a stored procedure in a server database. It specifies database connection information and identifies the stored procedure. Category database manipulation tags syntax procedure = "procedure name" datasource = "ds_name" username = "usern...
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Cfstoredproc 405 usage use this tag to call a database stored procedure. Within this tag, you code cfprocresult and cfprocparam tags as follows: • cfprocresult if the stored procedure returns one or more result sets, code one cfprocresult tag per result set. • cfprocparam if the stored procedure use...
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406 chapter 2: coldfusion tags value = "1" dbvarname = @param1> variable = foo dbvarname = @param2> ---> value = "1" dbvarname = @param1> variable = foo dbvarname = @param2> ---> variable = foo dbvarname = @param2> --->.
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Cfswitch 407 cfswitch description evaluates a passed expression and passes control to the cfcase tag that matches the expression result. You can, optionally, code a cfdefaultcase tag, which receives control if there is no matching cfcase tag value. Category flow-control tags syntax expression = "exp...
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408 chapter 2: coldfusion tags example select emp_id, firstname, lastname, email, phone, department from employees each time the case is fulfilled, the specific information is printed; if the case is not fulfilled, the default case is output #firstname# #lastname# is in sales #firstname# #lastname# ...
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Cftable 409 cftable description builds a table in a coldfusion page. This tag renders data as preformatted text, or, with the htmltable attribute, in an html table. If you don't want to write html table tag code, or if your data can be presented as preformatted text, use this tag. Preformatted text ...
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410 chapter 2: coldfusion tags usage this tag aligns table data, sets column widths, and defines column heads. At least one cfcol tag is required within this tag. You must put cfcol and cftable tags adjacent in a page. The only tag that you can nest within this tag is the cfcol tag. You cannot nest ...
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412 chapter 2: coldfusion tags cftextarea description puts a multiline text entry box in a cfform tag and controls its display characteristics. Category forms tags syntax name = "name" label = "text" required = "yes" or "no" style = "style specification" validate = "data type" validateat= one or mor...
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Cftextarea 413 note: attributes that are marked as flash only are not handled by the skins provided with coldfusion mx. They are, however, included in the generated xml. Attribute req/opt; format default description name required; all name of the cftextinput control. Label optional; flash and xml la...
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414 chapter 2: coldfusion tags pattern required if validate = "regular_ expression" html and xml. Javascript regular expression pattern to validate input. Omit leading and trailing slashes. Coldfusion uses this attribute only if you specify regex in the validate attribute. For examples and syntax, s...
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Cftextarea 415 note: attributes that are marked as flash only are not handled by the skins provided with coldfusion mx. They are, however, included in the generated xml. Usage for this tag to work properly in html format. The browser must be javascript-enabled. If you put text in the tag body, the c...
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416 chapter 2: coldfusion tags bind="hello {username.Text}! Enter your comments here." /> example this example has two cftextarea controls. When you submit the form, coldfusion copies the text from the first control into the second. The onblur maxlength validation prevents you from entering more tha...
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Cftextinput 417 cftextinput description puts a single-line text entry box in a cfform tag and controls its display characteristics. This tag is deprecated, and is not supported in xml format forms. In its place, you should use a cfinput or cftextarea tag and use a cascading style sheet (css) to spec...
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418 chapter 2: coldfusion tags cfthrow description throws a developer-specified exception, which can be caught with a cfcatch tag that has any of the following type attribute options: • type = "custom_type" • type = "application" • type = "any" category exception handling tags , flow-control tags sy...
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Cfthrow 419 usage use this tag within a cftry block, to throw an error. The cfcatch block can access accompanying information, as follows: • message, with cfcatch.Message • detail, with cfcatch.Detail • error code, with cfcatch.Errorcode to get more information, use cfcatch.Tagcontext . This array s...
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420 chapter 2: coldfusion tags #cfcatch.Message# the contents of the tag stack are: index = i from = 1 to = #arraylen(cfcatch.Tagcontext)#> #i# #scurrent["id"]# (#scurrent["line"]#,#scurrent["column"]#) #scurrent["template"]# index = i from = 1 to = #arraylen(cfcatch.Tagcontext)#> #i# #scurrent["id"...
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Cftimer 421 cftimer description displays execution time for a specified section of cfml code. Coldfusion mx displays the timing information along with any output produced by the timed code. Note: to permit this tag to execute, you must enable the timer information option under debugging settings in ...
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422 chapter 2: coldfusion tags example1 ... Select * from employees #lastname#, #firstname# select * from courselist select * from parks select view > source to see timing information select *.
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Cftimer 423 from departments scroll down to cftimer times heading to see timing information ....
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424 chapter 2: coldfusion tags cftrace description displays and logs debugging data about the state of an application at the time the cftrace tag executes. Tracks runtime logic flow, variable values, and execution time. Displays output at the end of the request or in the debugging section at the end...
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Cftrace 425 usage you cannot put application code within this tag. (this avoids problems that can occur if you disable debugging.) this tag is useful for debugging cfml code during application development. You can display cftrace tag output in the following ways: • as a section in the debugging outp...
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426 chapter 2: coldfusion tags cftransaction description for enterprise database management systems that support transaction processing, instructs the database management system to treat multiple database operations as a single transaction. Provides database commit and rollback processing. See the d...
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Cftransaction 427 usage if you do not specify a value for the action attribute, automatic transaction processing proceeds as follows: • if the cfquery operations within the transaction block complete without an error, the transaction is committed. • if a cfquery tag generates an error within a cftra...
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428 chapter 2: coldfusion tags cftree description inserts a tree control in a form. Validates user selections. Used within a cfform tag block. You can use a coldfusion query to supply data to the tree. Category forms tags syntax format="applet", "flash", xml, or "object" required = "yes" or "no" del...
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Cftree 429 history coldfusion mx 7: • added the format attribute and support for generating flash and xml and object output. • added enabled , onchange , style , tooltip , and visible attributes (flash format only). Coldfusion mx: changed behavior: coldfusion renders a tree control regardless of whe...
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430 chapter 2: coldfusion tags appendkey optional; all yes • yes: if you use cftreeitem href attributes, coldfusion appends a cftreeitemkey query string variable with the value of the selected tree item to the cfform action url. • no: does not append the tree item value to the url. Highlighthref opt...
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Cftree 431 align optional; applet, object • top • left • bottom • baseline • texttop • absbottom • middle • absmiddle • right border optional; applet, object yes • yes: displays a border around the tree control. • no hscroll optional; applet, object yes • yes: permits horizontal scrolling. • no vscr...
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432 chapter 2: coldfusion tags note: all attributes are passed to the xml generated in xml format, but no coldfusion mx skin interprets cftree xml. Usage this tag must be in a cfform tag block. The applet format tree requires the client to download a java applet. Also, if the client does not have an...
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Cftree 433 the structure variable name is specified by the cftree name attribute. The top level of the structure has two types of entries: • attribute settings • a children array attribute settings the structure has top-level entries with the values of the following cftree attributes: children array...
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434 chapter 2: coldfusion tags from courselist c, departments d where d.Dept_id = c.Dept_id order by d.Dept_name, c.Corname, c.Corlevel query="getcourses" value="dept_name,course_id" display="dept_name,corlabel" queryasroot="no" expand="yes,no"> the following example creates a tree that shows the ba...
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Cftree 435 parent = "#department#" expand="false" img="cd" href="#cgi.Script_name#?User_id=#emp_id#"> parent = "#lastname#, #firstname#" img="remote"> display = "contact information" parent = "#lastname#, #firstname#" expand = "false"> parent = "#department#" expand="false" img="cd" href="#cgi.Scrip...
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436 chapter 2: coldfusion tags cftreeitem description populates a form tree control, created with the cftree tag, with one or more elements. Category forms tags syntax value = "text" display = "text" parent = "parent_name" img = "filename" imgopen = "filename" href = "url" target = "url_target" quer...
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Cftreeitem 437 img optional; applet, object folder image name, filename, or file url for tree item icon. The following values are provided: • cd • computer • document • element • folder • floppy • fixed • remote you can also specify a custom image. To do so, include path and file extension; for exam...
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438 chapter 2: coldfusion tags usage this tag requires the client to download a java applet. Downloading an applet takes time; therefore, using this tag might be slightly slower than using an html form element or the cfinput tag to get the same information. For this tag to work properly. The browser...
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Cftreeitem 439 you requested information on #url.Cftreeitemkey#; user id #url.User_id# font = "arial narrow" highlighthref="no" hscroll="no"> display = "#lastname#, #firstname#" parent = "#department#" expand="no" href="#cgi.Script_name#?User_id=#emp_id#"> parent = "#lastname#, #firstname#"> display...
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440 chapter 2: coldfusion tags cftry description used with one or more cfcatch tags. Together, they catch and process exceptions in coldfusion pages. Exceptions are events that disrupt the normal flow of instructions in a coldfusion page, such as failed database operations, missing include files, an...
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Cftry 441 #i# #scurrent["id"]# (#scurrent["line"]#,#scurrent["column"]#) #scurrent["template"]#.
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442 chapter 2: coldfusion tags cfupdate description updates records in a data source from data in a coldfusion form or form scope. Category database manipulation tags syntax datasource = "ds_name" tablename = "table_name" tableowner = "name" tablequalifier = "qualifier" username = "username" passwor...
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Cfupdate 443 example select * from employees select * from employees where emp_id=#url.Id# #phonequery.Firstname# #phonequery.Lastname# password optional overrides the password value specified in odbc setup. Formfields optional (all on form, except keys) comma-delimited list of form fields to update...
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444 chapter 2: coldfusion tags cfwddx description serializes and deserializes cfml data structures to the xml-based wddx format. The wddx is an xml vocabulary for describing complex data structures in a standard, generic way. Implementing it lets you use the http protocol to such information among a...
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Cfwddx 445 usage coldfusion preserves the case of column names cases in javascript. The wddx2js and cfml2js actions create a wddxrecordset javascript object when they encounter a recordset java object. The serialized javascript code requires a wddx.Js file. This tag performs the following conversion...
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446 chapter 2: coldfusion tags #message_id# #thread_id# #username# serializing cfml data... Resulting wddx packet is: deserializing wddx packet... The recordset data is:... #message_id# #thread_id# #username#.
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Cfxml 447 cfxml description creates a coldfusion xml document object that contains the markup in the tag body. This tag can include xml and cfml tags. Coldfusion processes the cfml code in the tag body, and then assigns the resulting text to an xml document object variable, which is always stored in...
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448 chapter 2: coldfusion tags to change the declaration to specify another encoding, use the replace function. To specify the encoding of the text that is returned to a browser or other application, use the cfcontent tag. The following example illustrates this process: belgian waffles our famous be...
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449 chapter 3 coldfusion functions this chapter lists and categorizes coldfusion markup language (cfml) functions. Contents function list. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449 functions by category . . . . . . ....
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450 chapter 3: coldfusion functions arrayprepend getsoapresponseheader queryaddrow arrayresize gettempdirectory querynew arrayset gettempfile querysetcell arraysort gettickcount quotedvaluelist arraysum gettimezoneinfo rand arrayswap gettoken randomize arraytolist hash randrange asc hour refind asin...
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Function list 451 createtimespan isxmlelem structcopy createuuid isxmlnode structcount dateadd isxmlroot structdelete datecompare javacast structfind dateconvert jsstringformat structfindkey datediff lcase structfindvalue dateformat left structget datepart len structinsert day listappend structisemp...
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452 chapter 3: coldfusion functions functions by category the following tables list functions by their category or purpose. Array functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452 conversion functions . . . . . . . . ....
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Functions by category 453 conversion functions date and time functions decision functions arraydeleteat arraymin arraysort listtoarray arrayinsertat arraynew arraysum arraytolist hash toscript xmlformat binarydecode lcase tostring xmlparse binaryencode listtoarray urldecode xmltransform charsetdecod...
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454 chapter 3: coldfusion functions display and formatting functions dynamic evaluation functions extensibility functions full-text search functions history coldfusion mx 6.1: these functions are deprecated. They might not work, and might cause errors, in a future release. International functions li...
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Functions by category 455 mathematical functions other functions query functions security functions string functions history coldfusion mx: coldfusion now supports the java ucs-2 representation of unicode character values 0–65535. (earlier releases supported ascii values.) compare left listgetat lis...
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456 chapter 3: coldfusion functions string-processing functions process any of these characters (including ascii 0 (nul) characters), and continue counting subsequent characters of the string, if any. (in earlier releases, some string-processing functions processed the ascii 0 (nul) character, but d...
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Function changes since coldfusion 5 457 xml functions function changes since coldfusion 5 the following tables list functions, parameters and values that have changed since coldfusion 5.0 and indicate the specific release in which the change was made. New functions, parameters, and values. . . . . ....
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458 chapter 3: coldfusion functions getauthuser all coldfusion mx getcontextroot all coldfusion mx 7 getencoding all coldfusion mx getlocaledisplayname coldfusion mx 7 getmetadata all coldfusion mx getpagecontext all coldfusion mx getprofilesections all coldfusion mx getsoaprequest all coldfusion mx...
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Function changes since coldfusion 5 459 deprecated functions, parameters, and values the following functions, parameters, and values are deprecated. Do not use them in coldfusion applications. They might not work, and might cause an error, in releases later than coldfusion mx. Toscript all coldfusio...
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460 chapter 3: coldfusion functions obsolete functions, parameters, and values the following functions, parameters, and values are obsolete. Do not use them in coldfusion applications. They do not work in releases later than coldfusion 5. Function parameter or value obsolete as of this coldfusion re...
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Abs 461 abs description absolute-value function. The absolute value of a number is the number without its sign. Returns the absolute value of a number. Category mathematical functions function syntax abs(number ) see also sgn parameters example the absolute value of the following numbers: 1,3,-4,-3....
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462 chapter 3: coldfusion functions acos description arccosine function. The arccosine is the angle whose cosine is number. Returns the arccosine, in radians, of a number. Category mathematical functions function syntax acos(number) see also cos , sin , asin , tan , atn , pi parameters usage the ran...
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Addsoaprequestheader 463 addsoaprequestheader description adds a soap header to a web service request before making the request. Returns nothing. Category xml functions history coldfusion mx 7: added this function. Function syntax addsoaprequestheader(webservice, namespace, name, value [, mustunders...
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464 chapter 3: coldfusion functions // create the web service object. Ws = createobject("webservice", "http://localhost/soapheaders/ headerservice.Cfc?Wsdl"); // set the username header as a string. Addsoaprequestheader(ws, "http://mynamespace/", "username", "tom", false); // set the password header...
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Addsoapresponseheader 465 addsoapresponseheader description adds a soap response header to a web service response. Call only from within a cfc web service function that is processing a request as a soap web service. Returns nothing category xml functions history coldfusion mx 7: added this function....
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466 chapter 3: coldfusion functions save the following code as headerservice.Cfc in a folder called soapheaders under your web root. Test its operation, and specifically the operation of the addsoapresponseheader function, by executing the examples that invoke this web service. For example, see the ...
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Arrayappend 467 arrayappend description appends an array element to an array. Returns true, on successful completion. Category array functions function syntax arrayappend(array, value) see also arrayprepend ; “adding elements to an array” in chapter 5, “using arrays and structures,” in coldfusion mx...
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468 chapter 3: coldfusion functions arrayavg description calculates the average of the values in an array. Returns number. If the array parameter value is an empty array, returns zero. Category array functions , mathematical functions function syntax arrayavg(array) see also arraysum ; “basic array ...
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Arrayavg 469 the average of the numbers that you entered is #arrayavg(mynumberarray)#. Try again. You must enter at least two numeric values..
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470 chapter 3: coldfusion functions arrayclear description deletes the data in an array. Returns true, on successful completion. Category array functions function syntax arrayclear(array) see also arraydeleteat ; “functions for xml object management” in chapter 35, “using xml and wddx,” in coldfusio...
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Arraydeleteat 471 arraydeleteat description deletes an element from an array. When an element is deleted, coldfusion recalculates index positions. For example, in an array that contains the months of the year, deleting the element at position 5 removes the entry for may. After this, to delete the en...
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472 chapter 3: coldfusion functions #daysarray[1][1]# #daysarray[1][2]# #daysarray[2][1]# #daysarray[2][2]# #daysarray[3][1]# #daysarray[3][2]# we delete this element of the array: #arraydeleteat(daysarray,2)# this is what the array looks like after delete: #daysarray[1][1]# #daysarray[1][2]# #daysa...
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Arrayinsertat 473 arrayinsertat description inserts a value into an array. Array elements whose indexes are equal to or greater than the new position are incremented by one. The array length increases by one. Returns true, on successful completion. Category array functions function syntax arrayinser...
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474 chapter 3: coldfusion functions add an element before position 3: #arrayinsertat(daysarray,3,"wednesday")# now output the array as a list: #arraytolist(daysarray)#.
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Arrayisempty 475 arrayisempty description determines whether an array is empty of data elements. Returns true, if the array is empty; false, otherwise. Category array functions function syntax arrayisempty(array) see also arraylen , “functions for xml object management” in chapter 35, “using xml and...
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476 chapter 3: coldfusion functions arraylen description determines the number of elements in an array. Returns the number of elements in an array. Category array functions function syntax arraylen(array) see also arrayisempty ; “functions for xml object management” in chapter 35, “using xml and wdd...
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Arraymax 477 arraymax description array maximum function. Returns the largest numeric value in an array. If the array parameter value is an empty array, returns zero. Category array functions function syntax arraymax(array) parameters example this example uses arraymax to find the largest number in ...
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478 chapter 3: coldfusion functions arraymin description array minimum function. Returns the smallest numeric value in an array. If the array parameter value is an empty array, returns zero. Category array functions function syntax arraymin(array) parameters example this example uses arraymin to fin...
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Arraynew 479 arraynew description creates an array of 1–3 dimensions. Index array elements with square brackets: [ ]. Coldfusion arrays expand dynamically as data is added. Returns an array category array functions function syntax arraynew(dimension) parameters example is this an array? #isarray(myn...
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480 chapter 3: coldfusion functions arrayprepend description inserts an array element at the beginning of an array. Returns true, on successful completion. Category array functions function syntax arrayprepend(array, value) see also arrayappend ; “adding elements to an array” in chapter 5, “using ar...
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Arrayresize 481 arrayresize description resets an array to a specified minimum number of elements. This can improve performance, if used to size an array to its expected maximum. For more than 500 elements, use arrayresize immediately after using the arraynew tag. Coldfusion arrays expand dynamicall...
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482 chapter 3: coldfusion functions arrayset description in a one-dimensional array, sets the elements in a specified index range to a value. Useful for initializing an array after a call to arraynew . Returns true, on successful completion. Category array functions function syntax arrayset(array, s...
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Arraysort 483 arraysort description sorts array elements numerically or alphanumerically. Returns true, if sort is successful; false, otherwise. Category array functions , list functions function syntax arraysort(array, sort_type [, sort_order ]) history coldfusion mx: • changed thrown exceptions: t...
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484 chapter 3: coldfusion functions throws if an array element is other than a simple element, this function throws an arraysortsimplevalueexception error. If sort_type is numeric and an array element is not numeric, this function throws a valuenotnumeric error. Example select firstname, lastname fr...
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Arraysum 485 arraysum description array sum function. Returns the sum of values in an array. If the array parameter value is an empty array, returns zero. Category array functions , mathematical functions function syntax arraysum(array) parameters example this example uses arraysum to add two number...
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486 chapter 3: coldfusion functions arrayswap description swaps array values of an array at specified positions. This function is more efficient than multiple cfset tags. Returns true, on successful completion. Category array functions function syntax arrayswap(array, position1, position2) see also ...
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Arraytolist 487 arraytolist description converts a one-dimensional array to a list. Returns delimited list, as a string. Category array functions , conversion functions , list functions function syntax arraytolist(array [, delimiter ]) parameters example select firstname, lastname from employees the...
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488 chapter 3: coldfusion functions asc description determines the value of a character. Returns the value of the first character of a string; if string is empty, returns zero. Category string functions function syntax asc(string) see also chr history coldfusion mx: changed unicode support: coldfusi...
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Asin 489 asin description determines the arcsine of a number. The arcsine is the angle whose sine is number. Returns the arcsine, in radians, of a number. Category mathematical functions function syntax asin(number) see also sin , cos , acos , tan , atn , pi parameters usage the range of the result ...
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490 chapter 3: coldfusion functions value must be between 1 and -1,inclusive. Enter a number to get its arcsine in radians and degrees..
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Atn 491 atn description arctangent function. The arctangent is the angle whose tangent is number. Returns the arctangent, in radians, of a number. Category mathematical functions function syntax atn(number) see also atn , sin , asin , cos , acos , pi parameters usage the range of the result is - π /...
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492 chapter 3: coldfusion functions authenticatedcontext description this function is obsolete. Use the newer security tools; see “conversion functions” on page 453 and chapter 16, “securing applications” in coldfusion mx developer’s guide. History coldfusion mx: this function is obsolete. It does n...
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Authenticateduser 493 authenticateduser description this function is obsolete. Use the newer security tools; see “conversion functions” on page 453 and chapter 16, “securing applications” in coldfusion mx developer’s guide. History coldfusion mx: this function is obsolete. It does not work in coldfu...
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494 chapter 3: coldfusion functions binarydecode description converts a string to a binary object. Used to convert binary data that has been encoded into string format back into binary data. Returns a binary object. Category conversion functions , string functions function syntax binarydecode(string...
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Binarydecode 495 example the following example reads a gif file as binary data, converts it to a binary-encoded string, converts the binary-encoded data back to binary data and writes the result to a file. It displays the encoded string and the image in the output file. File="c:\cfusionmx7\wwwroot\c...
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496 chapter 3: coldfusion functions binaryencode description converts binary data to a string. Returns an encoded string representing the binary data. Category conversion functions , string functions function syntax binaryencode(binarydata, encoding) see also binarydecode , charsetencode , charsetde...
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Binaryencode 497 • isbinary for checking variables for binary format • len for determining the length of a binary object example the following example reads a gif file as binary data, converts it to a binary-encoded string, converts the binary-encoded data back to binary data, and writes the result ...
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498 chapter 3: coldfusion functions bitand description performs a bitwise logical and operation. Returns the bitwise and of two long integers. Category mathematical functions function syntax bitand(number1, number2) see also bitnot , bitor , bitxor parameters usage bit functions operate on 32-bit si...
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Bitmaskclear 499 bitmaskclear description performs a bitwise mask clear operation. Returns a number, bitwise cleared, with length bits beginning at start. Category mathematical functions function syntax bitmaskclear(number, start, length) see also bitmaskread , bitmaskset parameters usage bit functi...
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500 chapter 3: coldfusion functions bitmaskread description performs a bitwise mask read operation. Returns an integer, created from length bits of number, beginning at start. Category mathematical functions function syntax bitmaskread(number, start, length) see also bitmaskclear , bitmaskset parame...
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Bitmaskset 501 bitmaskset description performs a bitwise mask set operation. Returns a number, bitwise masked with length bits of mask beginning at start. Category mathematical functions function syntax bitmaskset(number, mask, start, length) see also bitmaskclear , bitmaskread parameters usage bit ...
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502 chapter 3: coldfusion functions bitnot description performs a bitwise logical not operation. Returns a number; the bitwise not of a long integer. Category mathematical functions function syntax bitnot(number) see also bitand , bitor , bitxor parameters usage bit functions operate on 32-bit signe...
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Bitor 503 bitor description performs a bitwise logical or operation. Returns a number; the bitwise or of two long integers. Category mathematical functions function syntax bitor(number1, number2) see also bitand , bitnot , bitxor parameters usage bit functions operate on 32-bit signed integers, in t...
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504 chapter 3: coldfusion functions bitshln description performs a bitwise shift-left, no-rotation operation. Returns a number, bitwise shifted without rotation to the left by count bits. Category mathematical functions function syntax bitshln(number, count) see also bitshrn parameters usage bit fun...
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Bitshrn 505 bitshrn description performs a bitwise shift-right, no-rotation operation. Returns a number, bitwise shifted, without rotation, to the right by count bits. Category mathematical functions function syntax bitshrn(number, count) see also bitshln parameters usage bit functions operate on 32...
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506 chapter 3: coldfusion functions bitxor description performs a bitwise logical xor operation. Returns bitwise xor of two long integers. Category mathematical functions function syntax bitxor(number1, number2) see also bitand , bitnot , bitor parameters usage bit functions operate on 32-bit signed...
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Ceiling 507 ceiling description determines the closest integer that is greater than a specified number. Returns the closest integer that is greater than a given number. Category mathematical functions function syntax ceiling(number) see also int , fix , round parameters example the ceiling of 3.4 is...
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508 chapter 3: coldfusion functions charsetdecode description converts a string to a binary representation. Returns a binary object that represents the string. Category conversion functions , string functions function syntax charsetdecode(string, encoding) see also binarydecode , binaryencode , char...
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Charsetdecode 509 example the following example uses the charsetdecode function to convert a string from a form to a binary object, and uses the charsetencode function to convert it back to the original value. You can change the character encoding that coldfusion uses for the conversion. Notice that...
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510 chapter 3: coldfusion functions the following four characters are not in all character encodings: ½àç÷.
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Charsetencode 511 charsetencode description uses the specified encoding to convert binary data to a string. Returns a string representation of the binary object. Category conversion functions , string functions function syntax charsetencode(binaryobject, encoding) see also binarydecode , binaryencod...
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512 chapter 3: coldfusion functions example the following example uses the charsetdecode function to convert a string from a form to a binary object, and uses the charsetencode function to convert it back to the original value. You can change the character encoding that coldfusion uses for the conve...
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Charsetencode 513 the following four characters are not in all character encodings: ½àç÷.
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514 chapter 3: coldfusion functions chr converts a numeric value to a ucs-2 character. Returns a character with the specified ucs-2 character code. Category string functions function syntax chr(number) see also asc history coldfusion mx: changed unicode support: coldfusion supports the java ucs-2 re...
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Chr 515 maxlength="5" >.
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516 chapter 3: coldfusion functions cjustify description centers a string in a field length. Returns string, center-justified by adding spaces before or after the input parameter. If length is less than the length of the input parameter string, the string is returned unchanged. Category display and ...
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Compare 517 compare description performs a case-sensitive comparison of two strings. Returns • -1, if string1 is less than string2 • 0, if string1 is equal to string2 • 1, if string1 is greater than string2 category string functions function syntax compare(string1, string2) see also comparenocase , ...
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Comparenocase 519 comparenocase description performs a case-insensitive comparison of two strings. Returns an indicator of the difference: • a negative number, if string1 is less than string2 • 0, if string1 is equal to string2 • a positive number, if string1 is greater than string2 category string ...
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Cos 521 cos description calculates the cosine of an angle that is entered in radians. Returns a number; the cosine of the angle. Category mathematical functions function syntax cos(number) see also acos , sin , asin , tan , atn , pi parameters usage the range of the result is -1 to 1. To convert deg...
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522 chapter 3: coldfusion functions enter an angle in degrees to get its cosine:.
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Createdate 523 createdate description creates a date/time object. Returns a date/time value. Category date and time functions function syntax createdate(year, month, day) see also createdatetime , createodbcdate ; “date-time functions and queries when odbc is not supported” in chapter 3, “using cold...
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524 chapter 3: coldfusion functions #dateformat(createdate(form.Year, form.Month, form.Day), "mmm-dd- yyyy")# #dateformat(createdatetime(form.Year, form.Month, form.Day, 12,13,0))# #dateformat(createodbcdate(yourdate), "mmmm d, yyyy")# #dateformat(createodbcdatetime(yourdate), "d/m/yy")# enter the y...
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Createdatetime 525 createdatetime description creates a date-time object. Returns a date/time value. Category date and time functions function syntax createdatetime(year, month, day, hour, minute, second) see also createdate , createtime , createodbcdatetime , now ; “date-time functions and queries ...
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526 chapter 3: coldfusion functions the same value can be formatted with dateformat: #dateformat(createdate(form.Year, form.Month, form.Day), "mmm-dd-yyyy")# #dateformat(createdatetime(form.Year, form.Month, form.Day, form.Hour, form.Minute, form.Second))# #dateformat(createodbcdate(yourdate), "mmmm...
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Createobject 527 createobject description creates a coldfusion object, of a specified type. Returns an object, of the specified type. Note: you can enable and disable this function in the coldfusion administrator, coldfusion basic security, tag restrictions page. Category extensibility functions his...
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528 chapter 3: coldfusion functions createobject: com object description the createobject function can create a component object model (com) object. To create a com object, you must provide this information: • the object’s program id or filename • the methods and properties available to the object t...
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Createobject 529 usage the following example creates the windows collaborative data objects (cdo) for nts newmail object to send mail. You would use this code within a cfscript tag. Mailer = createobject("com", "cdonts.Newmail");.
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530 chapter 3: coldfusion functions createobject: component object description the createobject function can create an instance of a coldfusion component (cfc) object. Returns a component object. Function syntax createobject (type, component-name) see also chapter 10, “building and using coldfusion ...
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Createobject 531 createobject: corba object description the createobject function can call a method on a corba object. The object must be defined and registered for use. Returns a handle to a corba interface. Function syntax createobject (type, context, class, locale) see also chapter 38, “integrati...
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532 chapter 3: coldfusion functions coldfusion enterprise supports corba through the dynamic invocation interface (dii). To use this function with corba objects, you must provide the name of the file that contains a string version of the ior, or the object’s naming context in the naming service. You...
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Createobject 533 createobject: java or ejb object description the createobject function can create a java object, and, by extension, an ejb object. Returns a java object. Function syntax createobject (type, class) parameters usage any java class available in the class path that is specified in the c...
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534 chapter 3: coldfusion functions createobject: web service object description this function can create a web service object. Returns a web service object. Function syntax createobject (type, urltowsdl [, portname ]) parameters usage you can use the createobject function to create a web service. E...
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Createodbcdate 535 createodbcdate description creates an odbc date object. Returns a date object, in normalized odbc date format. Category date and time functions function syntax createodbcdate(date) see also createdate , createodbcdatetime parameters usage this function does not parse or validate v...
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536 chapter 3: coldfusion functions #dateformat(createdatetime(form.Year, form.Month, form.Day, form.Hour, form.Minute, form.Second))# #dateformat(createodbcdate(yourdate), "mmmm d, yyyy")# #dateformat(createodbcdatetime(yourdate), "d/m/yy")# enter the year, month and day, as integers: year required...
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Createodbcdatetime 537 createodbcdatetime description creates an odbc date-time object. Returns a date-time object, in odbc timestamp format. Category date and time functions function syntax createodbcdatetime(date) see also createdatetime , createodbcdate , createodbctime , now ; “evaluation and ty...
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538 chapter 3: coldfusion functions #dateformat(createodbcdate(yourdate), "mmmm d, yyyy")# #dateformat(createodbcdatetime(yourdate), "d/m/yy")# enter a year, month and day, as integers: year type="text" name="year" value="1998" validate="integer" required="yes"> month type="text" name="month" value=...
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Createodbctime 539 createodbctime description creates an odbc time object. Returns a time object, in odbc timestamp format. Category date and time functions function syntax createodbctime(date) see also createodbcdatetime , createtime , “evaluation and type conversion issues” in chapter 3, “using co...
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540 chapter 3: coldfusion functions createtime description creates a time variable. Returns a time variable. Category date and time functions function syntax createtime(hour, minute, second) see also createodbctime , createdatetime ; “evaluation and type conversion issues” in chapter 3, “using coldf...
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Createtime 541 message="you must enter a value for seconds (0-59)" validate="integer" required="yes">.
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542 chapter 3: coldfusion functions createtimespan description creates a date/time object that defines a time period. You can add or subtract it from other date- time objects and use it with the cachedwithin attribute of cfquery . Returns a date-time object. Category date and time functions function...
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Createtimespan 543 cachedwithin = "#createtimespan(0, 6, 0, 0)#"> select parkname, region, state from parks order by parkname, state park name region state maxrows = "#maxrows#"> #getparks.Currentrow# #parkname# #region# #state# maxrows = "#maxrows#"> #getparks.Currentrow# #parkname# #region# #state...
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544 chapter 3: coldfusion functions createuuid description creates a universally unique identifier (uuid). A uuid is a 35-character string representation of a unique 128-bit integer. Returns a coldfusion format uuid, in the format xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx , where x is a hexadecimal digit ...
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Dateadd 545 dateadd description adds units of time to a date. Returns a date/time object. Category date and time functions function syntax dateadd("datepart", number, "date") see also dateconvert , datepart , createtimespan history coldfusion mx 6.1: added the datepart character l or l to represent ...
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546 chapter 3: coldfusion functions select username, subject, posted from messages this example uses dateadd to determine when a message in the database will expire. Currently, messages older than #value# years quarters months days of year weekdays weeks hours minutes seconds years are expired. Colo...
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Dateadd 547 years months days weeks hours minutes seconds.
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548 chapter 3: coldfusion functions datecompare description performs a full date/time comparison of two dates. Returns • -1, if date1 is earlier than date2 • 0, if date1 is equal to date2 • 1, if date1 is later than date2 category date and time functions function syntax datecompare("date1", "date2" ...
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Datecompare 549 #timeformat(form.Date2)# (date 2) the dates are not equal #timeformat(form.Date1)# to #dateformat(form.Date2)# #timeformat(form.Date2)# (date 2) the dates are equal! #timeformat(form.Date1)# than #dateformat(form.Date2)# #timeformat(form.Date2)# (date 2) the dates are not equal date ...
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Dateconvert 551 dateconvert description converts local time to coordinated universal time (utc), or utc to local time. The function uses the daylight savings settings in the executing computer to compute daylight savings time, if required. Returns utc- or local-formatted time object. Category date a...
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552 chapter 3: coldfusion functions your date and time value, converted to coordinated universal time (utc): #yourutc#. Your utc date and time, converted back to local date and time: #dateconvert("utc2local", yourutc)#. Type the date and time, and press enter to see the conversion. Enter year, month...
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Datediff 553 datediff description determines the integer number of units by which date1 is less than date2. Returns a number of units, of type datepart. Category date and time functions function syntax datediff("datepart", "date1", "date2") see also dateadd , datepart , createtimespan history coldfu...
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554 chapter 3: coldfusion functions enclose string constant dates in quotation marks. If the text contains only numbers (such 1932), and is not surrounded by quotation marks, coldfusion interprets it as a date/time object, resulting in an incorrect value. Example this example uses datediff to determ...
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Datediff 555 please enter two valid date/time values, formatted like this: #dateformat(now())# date 1 #dateformat(now())# cfoutput>"> date 2 #dateformat(now())# cfoutput>"> what kind of unit to show difference? Years quarters months days of year days weekdays weeks hours minutes seconds ..
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556 chapter 3: coldfusion functions dateformat description formats a date value using u.S. Date formats. For international date support, use lsdateformat . Returns a text string representing the date formatted according to the mask. If no mask is specified, returns the value in dd-mmm-yy format. Cat...
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Dateformat 557 usage when passing a date/time object as a string, you must enclose it in quotation marks. Otherwise, it is interpreted as a numeric representation of a date/time object. Note: you can pass the createdate function or now function as the date parameter of this function; for example: #d...
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558 chapter 3: coldfusion functions datepart description extracts a part from a date value. Returns part of a date, as an integer. Category date and time functions function syntax datepart("datepart", "date") see also dateadd , dateconvert history coldfusion mx 6.1: added the datepart character l or...
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560 chapter 3: coldfusion functions day description determines the day of the month, in a date. Returns the ordinal for the day of the month, ranging from 1 to 31. Category date and time functions function syntax day("date") see also dayofweek , dayofweekasstring , dayofyear , daysinmonth , daysinye...
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Dayofweek 561 dayofweek description determines the day of the week, in a date. Returns the ordinal for the day of the week, as an integer in the range 1 (sunday) to 7 (saturday). Category date and time functions function syntax dayofweek("date") see also day , dayofweekasstring , dayofyear , daysinm...
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562 chapter 3: coldfusion functions dayofweekasstring description determines the day of the week, in a date, as a string function. Returns the day of the week, as a string in the current locale, that corresponds to day_of_week. Category date and time functions , string functions function syntax dayo...
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Dayofyear 563 dayofyear description determines the day of the year, in a date. Returns the ordinal value of day of the year, as an integer. Category date and time functions function syntax dayofyear("date") see also day , dayofweek , dayofweekasstring , daysinmonth , daysinyear , firstdayofmonth par...
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564 chapter 3: coldfusion functions daysinmonth description determines the number of days in a month. Returns the number of days in the month in date. Category date and time functions function syntax daysinmonth("date") see also day , dayofweek , dayofweekasstring , dayofyear , daysinyear , firstday...
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Daysinyear 565 daysinyear description determines the number of days in a year. Returns the number of days in a year. Category date and time functions function syntax daysinyear("date") see also day , dayofweek , dayofweekasstring , dayofyear , daysinmonth , daysinyear , firstdayofmonth , isleapyear ...
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566 chapter 3: coldfusion functions de description escapes any double-quotation marks in the parameter and wraps the result in double-quotation marks. Returns parameter, surrounded by double-quotation marks, with any inner double-quotation marks escaped. Category dynamic evaluation functions functio...
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De 567 the following example shows how you can use the de function and number signs together, and shows how the function works with an iif function: the expression is #myresult# coldfusion processes this code as follows: 1. Coldfusion sets the variables var1 and var2 to be the strings blue and green...
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568 chapter 3: coldfusion functions try a simple expression, such as "2+2". #cfcatch.Message#.
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Decimalformat 569 decimalformat description converts a number to a decimal-formatted string. Returns a number as a string formatted with two decimal places and a thousands separator. Category display and formatting functions function syntax decimalformat(number) see also dollarformat , numberformat ...
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570 chapter 3: coldfusion functions decrementvalue description decrements the integer part of a number. Returns integer part of number, decremented by one. Category mathematical functions function syntax decrementvalue(number) see also incrementvalue parameters example returns the integer part of a ...
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Decrypt 571 decrypt description decrypts a string that is encrypted using a standard encryption technique, including strings encrypted by the encrypt function. Returns an unencrypted string. Category security functions , string functions function syntax decrypt(encrypted_string, key[, algorithm[, en...
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572 chapter 3: coldfusion functions usage this function uses a symmetric key-based algorithm, in which the same key is used to encrypt and decrypt a string. The parameter values must match the values used to encode string. The security of the encrypted string depends on maintaining the secrecy of th...
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Decrypt 573 select the algorithm cfmx_compat aes des desede input your key (used for cfmx_compat encryption only) enter string to encrypt this string will be encrypted (you can replace it with more typing)..
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574 chapter 3: coldfusion functions deleteclientvariable description deletes a client variable. (to test for the existence of a variable, use isdefined .) returns true, if the variable is successfully deleted; false, otherwise. Category other functions function syntax deleteclientvariable("name") se...
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Directoryexists 575 directoryexists description determines whether a directory exists. Returns yes, if the specified directory exists; no, otherwise. Category system functions function syntax directoryexists(absolute_path) see also fileexists parameters example your directory exists. Directory name:...
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576 chapter 3: coldfusion functions dollarformat description formats a string in u.S. Format. (for other currencies, use lscurrencyformat or lseurocurrencyformat .) returns a number as a string, formatted with two decimal places, thousands separator, and dollar sign. If number is negative, the retur...
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Duplicate 577 duplicate description returns a clone, also known as a deep copy, of a variable. There is no reference to the original variable. Returns a clone of a variable. Category structure functions , system functions function syntax duplicate(variable_name) see also structcopy , other structure...
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578 chapter 3: coldfusion functions encrypt description encrypts a string using a specific algorithm and encoding method. Returns string; can be much longer than the original string. Category security functions , string functions function syntax encrypt(string, key[, algorithm[, encoding]])) see als...
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Encrypt 579 usage this function uses a symmetric key-based algorithm, in which the same key is used to encrypt and decrypt a string. The security of the encrypted string depends on maintaining the secrecy of the key. For all algorithms except the default algorithm, coldfusion mx 7 uses the java cryp...
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580 chapter 3: coldfusion functions select the encoding uu base64 hex select the algorithm cfmx_compat aes des desede input your key (used for cfmx_compat encryption only) enter string to encrypt this string will be encrypted (you can replace it with more typing)..
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Evaluate 581 evaluate description evaluates one or more string expressions, dynamically, from left to right. (the results of an evaluation on the left can have meaning in an expression to the right.) returns the result of evaluating the rightmost expression. Returns an object; the result of the eval...
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582 chapter 3: coldfusion functions exp description calculates the exponent whose base is e that represents number. The constant e equals 2.71828182845904, the base of the natural logarithm. This function is the inverse of log , the natural logarithm of number. Returns the constant e, raised to the ...
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Expandpath 583 expandpath description creates an absolute, platform-appropriate path that is equivalent to the value of relative_path , appended to the base path. This function (despite its name) can accept an absolute or relative path in the relative_path parameter the base path is the currently ex...
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584 chapter 3: coldfusion functions example name="mydirectory" sort="name asc, size desc"> text="#name#"> text="#size#"> please enter a file name enter the name of a file in this directory name="mydirectory" sort="name asc, size desc"> text="#name#"> text="#size#"> please enter a file name text="#na...
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Fileexists 585 fileexists description determines whether a file exists. Returns yes, if the file specified in the parameter exists; no, otherwise. Category system functions , decision functions function syntax fileexists(absolute_path) see also directoryexists , expandpath , gettemplatepath paramete...
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586 chapter 3: coldfusion functions find description finds the first occurrence of a substring in a string, from a specified start position. The search is case-sensitive. Returns a number; the position of substring in string; or 0, if substring is not in string. Category string functions function sy...
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Findnocase 587 findnocase description finds the first occurrence of a substring in a string, from a specified start position. If substring is not in string, returns zero. The search is case-insensitive. Returns the position of substring in string; or 0, if substring is not in string. Category string...
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588 chapter 3: coldfusion functions findoneof description finds the first occurrence of any one of a set of characters in a string, from a specified start position. The search is case-sensitive. Returns the position of the first member of set found in string; or 0, if no member of set is found in st...
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Firstdayofmonth 589 firstdayofmonth description determines the ordinal (day number, in the year) of the first day of the month in which a given date falls. Returns a number corresponding to a day-number in a year. Category date and time functions function syntax firstdayofmonth(date) see also day , ...
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590 chapter 3: coldfusion functions fix description converts a real number to an integer. Returns if number is greater than or equal to 0, the closest integer less than number. If number is less than 0, the closest integer greater than number. Category mathematical functions function syntax fix(numb...
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Formatbasen 591 formatbasen description converts number to a string, in the base specified by radix. Returns string that represents number, in the base radix. Category display and formatting functions , mathematical functions , string functions function syntax formatbasen(number, radix) see also inp...
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592 chapter 3: coldfusion functions generatesecretkey description gets a secure key value for use in the encrypt function. Returns a string containing the encryption key. Category security functions , string functions function syntax generatesecretkey(algorithm) see also decrypt , encrypt history co...
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Generatesecretkey 593 example the following example encrypts and decrypts a text string. It lets you specify the encryption algorithm and encoding technique. It also has a field for a key seed to use with the cfmx_compat algorithm. For all other algorithms, it uses the generatesecretkey function to ...
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594 chapter 3: coldfusion functions desede input your key (used for cfmx_compat encryption only) enter string to encrypt this string will be encrypted (you can replace it with more typing)..
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Getauthuser 595 getauthuser description gets the name of an authenticated user. Returns the name of an authenticated user. Category security functions function syntax getauthuser() see also isuserinrole , cflogin , cfloginuser ; chapter 16, “securing applications” in coldfusion mx developer’s guide ...
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596 chapter 3: coldfusion functions getbasetagdata description used within a custom tag. Finds calling (ancestor) tag by name and accesses its data. Returns an object that contains data (variables, scopes, and so on) from an ancestor tag. If there is no ancestor by the specified name, or if the ance...
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Getbasetaglist 597 getbasetaglist description gets ancestor tag names, starting with the parent tag. Returns a comma-delimited list of uppercase ancestor tag names, as a string. The first list element is the current tag. If the current tag is nested, the next element is the parent tag. If the functi...
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598 chapter 3: coldfusion functions getbasetemplatepath description gets the absolute path of an application’s base page. Returns the absolute path of the application base page, as a string. Category other functions , system functions function syntax getbasetemplatepath() see also getcurrenttemplate...
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Getclientvariableslist 599 getclientvariableslist description finds the client variables to which a page has write access. Returns comma-delimited list of non-read-only client variables, as a string. Category list functions , other functions function syntax getclientvariableslist() see also deletecl...
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600 chapter 3: coldfusion functions getcontextroot description returns path to the j2ee server context root for the current request. Returns the path from the web root to the context root for the current page. The path starts with a forward slash character (/) but does not end with a forward slash c...
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Getcurrenttemplatepath 601 getcurrenttemplatepath description gets the path of the page that calls this function. Returns the absolute path of the page that contains the call to this function, as a string. Category system functions function syntax getcurrenttemplatepath() see also getbasetemplatepat...
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602 chapter 3: coldfusion functions getdirectoryfrompath description extracts a directory from an absolute path. Returns absolute path, without the filename. The last character is a forward or backward slash, depending on the operating system. Category system functions function syntax getdirectoryfr...
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Getdirectoryfrompath 603 (try expandpath.Cfm).
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604 chapter 3: coldfusion functions getencoding description returns the encoding (character set) of the form or url scope. Returns string; the character encoding of the specified scope. Category international functions , system functions function syntax getencoding(scope_name) see also setencoding ,...
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Getencoding 605 writeoutput("the encoding is " & theencoding);.
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606 chapter 3: coldfusion functions getexception description used with the cftry and cfcatch tags. Retrieves a java exception object from a java object. Returns any java exception object raised by a previous method call on the java object. Category system functions syntax getexception(object) parame...
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Getfilefrompath 607 getfilefrompath description extracts a filename from an absolute path. Returns filename, as a string. Category system functions function syntax getfilefrompath(path) see also expandpath , getcurrenttemplatepath parameters example the current directory is: #getdirectoryfrompath(th...
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608 chapter 3: coldfusion functions getfunctionlist description displays a list of the functions that are available in coldfusion. Returns a structure of functions. Category system functions function syntax getfunctionlist() example getfunctionlist()> #structcount(flist)# functions #key#.
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Getgatewayhelper 609 getgatewayhelper description gets a java gatewayhelper object that provides methods and properties for use with a coldfusion event gateway. Returns a java gatewayhelper object. Category extensibility functions function syntax getgatewayhelper(gatewayid) see also sendgatewaymessa...
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610 chapter 3: coldfusion functions example if an event gateway’s helper class includes an addbuddy method that takes a single string parameter, you could use the following code to get the gatewayhelper object and add a buddy to the buddies list: myhelper = getgatewayhelper(mygatewayid); status = my...
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Gethttprequestdata 611 gethttprequestdata description makes http request headers and body available to cfml pages. Useful for capturing soap request data, which can be delivered in an http header. Returns a coldfusion structure. Category system functions function syntax gethttprequestdata() returns ...
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612 chapter 3: coldfusion functions http_content --- #x.Content#.
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Gethttptimestring 613 gethttptimestring description gets the current time, in the universal time code (utc). Returns the time, as a string, according to the http standard described in rfc 1123 and its underlying rfc, 822. This format is commonly used in internet protocols, including http. Category d...
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614 chapter 3: coldfusion functions getk2serverdoccount description this function is deprecated. Returns the number of collection metadata items stored in verity collections. Category full-text search functions , query functions function syntax getk2serverdoccount() see also getk2serverdoccountlimit...
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Getk2serverdoccountlimit 615 getk2serverdoccountlimit description this function is deprecated. Returns number of collection metadata items that the k2 server permits, as an integer category full-text search functions , query functions function syntax getk2serverdoccountlimit() see also getk2serverdo...
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616 chapter 3: coldfusion functions getlocale description gets the current coldfusion mx geographic/language locale value. To set the default display format of date, time, number, and currency values in a coldfusion application session, you use the setlocale function. Returns the current locale valu...
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Getlocale 617 for more information, see “locales” in chapter 17, “developing globalized applications,” in coldfusion mx developer’s guide. Example initial locale's coldfusion name: #getlocale()# changing locale to #form.Mylocale# new locale: #getlocale()# #i#.
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618 chapter 3: coldfusion functions getlocaledisplayname description gets a locale value and displays the name in a manner that is appropriate to a specific locale. By default, gets the current locale in the current locale’s language. Returns the localized display name of the locale, in the language...
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Getlocaledisplayname 619 new locale's coldfusion name: #newlocale# new locale's display name in current locale: #getlocaledisplayname()# new locale's display name in old locale: #getlocaledisplayname(newlocale, oldlocale)# new locale's display name in en_us: #getlocaledisplayname(newlocale, "en_us")...
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620 chapter 3: coldfusion functions getmetadata description gets metadata (such as the methods, properties, and parameters of a component) associated with an object that is deployed on the coldfusion server. Returns structured metadata information: for coldfusion components (cfcs) and user defined f...
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Getmetadata 621 the following table lists the data returned by the function for supported object types: object field description component a structure containing the following fields: displayname value of the cfcomponent tag displayname attribute, if any. Extends metadata for the component’s ancesto...
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622 chapter 3: coldfusion functions note: use the this scope to access component metadata inside the cfc. The this scope is available at runtime in the component body and in the cfc methods. It is used to read and write variables that are present during the life of the component. For more informatio...
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Getmetadata 623 select * from employees #employeemeta[i].Name# #employeemeta[i].Typename# #employeemeta[i].Iscasesensitive#.
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624 chapter 3: coldfusion functions getmetricdata description gets server performance metrics. Returns coldfusion structure that contains metric data, depending on the mode value. Category system functions function syntax getmetricdata(mode) history coldfusion mx: deprecated the cachepops parameter....
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Getmetricdata 625 example current perfmonitor data is: instancename:#pmdata.Instancename# pagehits:#pmdata.Pagehits# reqqueued: #pmdata.Reqqueued# dbhits: #pmdata.Dbhits# reqrunning: #pmdata.Reqrunning# reqtimedout: #pmdata.Reqtimedout# bytesin: #pmdata.Bytesin# bytesout: #pmdata.Bytesout# avgqueuet...
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626 chapter 3: coldfusion functions getpagecontext description gets the current coldfusion mx pagecontext object that provides access to page attributes and configuration, request, and response objects. Returns the current coldfusion mx java pagecontext java object. Category system functions functio...
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Getprofilesections 627 getprofilesections description gets all the sections of an initialization file. An initialization file assigns values to configuration variables, also known as entries, that are set when the system boots, the operating system comes up, or an application starts. An initializati...
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628 chapter 3: coldfusion functions getprofilestring description gets an initialization file entry. An initialization file assigns values to configuration variables, also known as entries, that are set when the system boots, the operating system comes up, or an application starts. An initialization ...
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630 chapter 3: coldfusion functions getsoaprequest description returns an xml object that contains the entire soap request. Usually called from within a web service cfc. Returns an xml object that contains the entire soap request. Category xml functions history coldfusion mx 7: added this function. ...
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Getsoaprequest 631 different than shown here. Note, too, that getsoaprequest is called from the client here, whereas often it would be called from within the web service cfc. ---> ws = createobject("webservice", "http://localhost/soapheaders/headerservice.Cfc?Wsdl"); ws.Echo_me("hello world"); req =...
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632 chapter 3: coldfusion functions getsoaprequestheader description obtains a soap request header. Call only from within a cfc web service function that is processing a request as a soap web service. Returns a soap request header. Category xml functions history coldfusion mx 7: added this function....
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Getsoaprequestheader 633 access="remote" output="false" returntype="string" displayname="echo test" hint="header test"> "true")> as xml: " & xmlusername> "true")> as xml: " & xmlpassword> "authorized value", false)> access="remote" output="false" returntype="string" displayname="echo test" hint="hea...
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634 chapter 3: coldfusion functions getsoapresponse description returns an xml object that contains the entire soap response after invoking a web service. Returns an xml object that contains the entire soap response. Category xml functions history coldfusion mx 7: added this function. Function synta...
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Getsoapresponseheader 635 getsoapresponseheader description returns a soap response header. Call this function from within code that is invoking a web service after making a web service request. Returns a soap response header. Category xml functions history coldfusion mx 7: added this function. Func...
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636 chapter 3: coldfusion functions execute the following example to see how the getsoapresponseheader function operates: // create the web service object ws = createobject("webservice", "http://localhost/soapheaders/ headerservice.Cfc?Wsdl"); // set the username header as a string addsoaprequesthea...
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Gettempdirectory 637 gettempdirectory description gets the path of the directory that coldfusion uses for temporary files. The directory depends on the account under which coldfusion is running and other factors. Before using this function in an application, test to determine the directory it return...
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638 chapter 3: coldfusion functions gettempfile description creates a temporary file in a directory whose name starts with (at most) the first three characters of prefix. Returns name of a temporary file, as a string. Category system functions function syntax gettempfile(dir, prefix) see also gettem...
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Gettemplatepath 639 gettemplatepath description this function is deprecated. Use the getbasetemplatepath function instead. Gets the absolute path of an application’s base page. History coldfusion mx: deprecated this function. It might not work, and it might cause an error, in later releases..
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640 chapter 3: coldfusion functions gettickcount description returns the current value of an internal millisecond timer. Returns a string representation of the system time, in milliseconds. Category date and time functions , system functions function syntax gettickcount() usage this function is usef...
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Gettimezoneinfo 641 gettimezoneinfo description gets local time zone information for the computer on which it is called, relative to universal time coordinated (utc). Utc is the mean solar time of the meridian of greenwich, england, used as the basis for calculating standard time throughout the worl...
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642 chapter 3: coldfusion functions gettoken description determines whether a token of the list in the delimiters parameter is present in a string. Returns the token found at position index of the string, as a string. If index is greater than the number of tokens in the string, returns an empty stri...
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Gettoken 643 #mystring# the output is as follows: four, ,five, nine,zero:; nine,ten:, eleven:;twelve:;thirteen, ,four the gettoken function recognizes explicit spaces, tabs, or newline characters as the parameter delimiters (to specify a space character, the code is chr(32) ; a tab character, chr(9)...
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644 chapter 3: coldfusion functions the following is a call against mystring2 : gettoken(mystring2, 2) is : #gettoken(mystring2, 2)# the output is as follows: gettoken(mystring2, 2) is : ,five,nine,zero:; the function finds the second delimiter, and returns the substring just before it that is betwe...
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Hash 645 hash description converts a variable-length string to a fixed-length string that can act as a “fingerprint” or unique identifier for the original string. It is not possible to convert the hash result back to the source string. Returns a string. Category conversion functions , security funct...
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646 chapter 3: coldfusion functions usage the result of this function is useful for comparison and validation. For example, you can store the hash of a password in a database without exposing the password. You can check the validity of the password by hashing the entered password and comparing the r...
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Hash 647 user id: password:.
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648 chapter 3: coldfusion functions hour description gets the current hour of the day. Returns ordinal value of the hour, in the range 0 - 23. Category date and time functions function syntax hour(date) see also datepart , minute , second parameters usage when passing a date/time value as a string, ...
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Htmlcodeformat 649 htmlcodeformat description replaces special characters in a string with their html-escaped equivalents and inserts and tags at the beginning and end of the string. Returns html-escaped string string, enclosed in and tags. Return characters are removed; line feed characters are pre...
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650 chapter 3: coldfusion functions example & this is another previous line was blank!!!"> #teststring# #htmlcodeformat(teststring)# #htmleditformat(teststring)#.
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Htmleditformat 651 htmleditformat description replaces special characters in a string with their html-escaped equivalents. Returns html-escaped string string. Return characters are removed; line feed characters are preserved. Characters with special meanings in html are converted to html character e...
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652 chapter 3: coldfusion functions the only difference between this function and htmlcodeformat is that htmlcodeformat surrounds the text in an html pre tag. Example & this is another previous line was blank!!!"> #teststring# #htmlcodeformat(teststring)# #htmleditformat(teststring)#.
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Iif 653 iif description evaluates a boolean conditional dynamic expression. Depending on whether the expression is true or false, dynamically evaluates one of two string expressions and returns the result. This function is convenient for incorporating a cfif tag in-line in html. For general conditio...
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654 chapter 3: coldfusion functions note: if you use number signs (#) in string_expression1 or string_expression2, coldfusion evaluates the part of the expression in number signs first. If you misuse the number signs, you can cause unexpected results from the iif function. For example, if you use nu...
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Iif 655 #iif( hour(now()) gte 12, de("it is afternoon or evening"), de("it is morning"))#.
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656 chapter 3: coldfusion functions incrementvalue description adds one to an integer. Returns the integer part of number, incremented by one. Category mathematical functions function syntax incrementvalue(number) see also decrementvalue parameters example returns the integer part of a number increm...
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Inputbasen 657 inputbasen description converts string, using the base specified by radix, to an integer. Returns a number in the range 2-36, as a string. Category mathematical functions function syntax inputbasen(string, radix) see also formatbasen parameters example formatbasen converts a number to...
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658 chapter 3: coldfusion functions insert description inserts a substring in a string after a specified character position. If position = 0 , prefixes the substring to the string. Returns a string. Category string functions function syntax insert(substring, string, position) see also removechars , ...
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Int 659 int description calculates the closest integer that is smaller than number. For example, it returns 3 for int(3.3) and for int(3.7) ; it returns -4 for int(-3.3) and for int(-3.7 ). Returns an integer, as a string. Category mathematical functions function syntax int(number) see also ceiling ...
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660 chapter 3: coldfusion functions isarray description determines whether a value is an array. Returns true, if value is an array, or a query column object. Category array functions , decision functions function syntax isarray(value [, number ]) see also array functions ; “modifying a coldfusion xm...
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Isauthenticated 661 isauthenticated description this function is obsolete. Use the newer security tools; see “conversion functions” on page 453 and chapter 16, “securing applications” in coldfusion mx developer’s guide. History coldfusion mx: this function is obsolete. It does not work in coldfusion...
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662 chapter 3: coldfusion functions isauthorized description this function is obsolete. Use the newer security tools; see “conversion functions” on page 453 and chapter 16, “securing applications” in coldfusion mx developer’s guide history coldfusion mx: this function is obsolete. It does not work i...
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Isbinary 663 isbinary description determines whether a value is stored as binary data. Returns true, if the value is binary; false, otherwise. Category decision functions function syntax isbinary(value) see also tobinary , tobase64 , isnumeric , yesnoformat parameters example the following string is...
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Isboolean 665 isboolean description determines whether a value can be converted to boolean returns true, if the parameter can be converted to boolean; false, otherwise. Category decision functions function syntax isboolean(value) see also isnumeric , isvalid , yesnoformat parameters example isboolea...
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666 chapter 3: coldfusion functions iscustomfunction description determines whether a name represents a custom function. Returns true, if name can be called as a custom function; false, otherwise. Category decision functions function syntax iscustomfunction(name) parameters usage the iscustomfunctio...
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Iscustomfunction 667 iscustomfunction(mytestcfcobject.Testfunc)> mytestcfcobject.Testfunc is a function. Iscustomfunction(mytestcfcobject.Testfunc)> mytestcfcobject.Testfunc is a function..
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668 chapter 3: coldfusion functions isdate description determines whether a string or java object can be converted to a date/time value. Returns true, if string can be converted to a date/time value; false, otherwise. Coldfusion converts the boolean return value to its string equivalent, "yes" or "n...
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Isdebugmode 669 isdebugmode description determines whether debugging output is enabled. Returns true, if debugging mode is set in the coldfusion administrator; false if debugging mode is disabled. Category decision functions function syntax isdebugmode() see also cfsetting description if debugging o...
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670 chapter 3: coldfusion functions isdefined description evaluates a string value to determine whether the variable named in it exists. This function is an alternative to the parameterexists function, which is deprecated. Returns true, if the variable is found, or, for a structure, if the specified...
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Isdefined 671 during the first time through this template, the variable "form.Mystring" has not yet been defined, so we do not try to evaluate it..
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672 chapter 3: coldfusion functions isk2serverabroker description this function is deprecated. Returns true, if k2broker is in configured with coldfusion; false, otherwise. Category decision functions , full-text search functions , query functions function syntax isk2serverabroker() see also getk2se...
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Isk2serverdoccountexceeded 673 isk2serverdoccountexceeded description this function is deprecated. Returns true, if the document count limit is exceeded; false, otherwise. Category decision functions , full-text search functions , query functions function syntax isk2serverdoccountexceeded() see also...
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674 chapter 3: coldfusion functions isk2serveronline description this function is deprecated because the k2server is always running when coldfusion is running. Returns true, if the k2server is available to perform a search; false, otherwise. Category decision functions , full-text search functions ,...
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Isleapyear 675 isleapyear description determines whether a year is a leap year. Returns true, if year is a leap year; false, otherwise. Category date and time functions , decision functions function syntax isleapyear(year) see also daysinyear parameters example isleapyear(form.Thetestvalue)> year le...
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676 chapter 3: coldfusion functions isnumeric description determines whether a string can be converted to a numeric value. Supports numbers in u.S. Number format. For other number support, use lsisnumeric . Returns true, if string can be converted to a number; false, otherwise. Category decision fun...
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Isnumericdate 677 isnumericdate description evaluates whether a real number is a valid representation of a date (date/time object). Returns true, if the parameter represents a valid date/time object; false, otherwise. Category date and time functions , decision functions function syntax isnumericdat...
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Isobject 679 isobject description determines whether a value is an object. Returns true, if the value represents a coldfusion object. False if the value is any other type of data, such as an integer, string, date, or struct. Category decision functions function syntax isobject(value) see also isdate...
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680 chapter 3: coldfusion functions returnvariable="mycolor"> the value of mycolor = #mycolor#.
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Isprotected 681 isprotected description this function is obsolete. Use the newer security tools; see “conversion functions” on page 453 and chapter 16, “securing applications,” in coldfusion mx developer’s guide history coldfusion mx: this function is obsolete. It does not work in coldfusion mx and ...
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682 chapter 3: coldfusion functions isquery description determines whether value is a query. Returns true, if value is a query. Category decision functions , query functions function syntax isquery(value) see also queryaddrow parameters example before the query is run, the value of getemployees is #...
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Issimplevalue 683 issimplevalue description determines the type of a value. Returns true, if value is a string, number, boolean, or date/time value; false, otherwise. Category decision functions function syntax issimplevalue(value) see also isvalid parameters example before the query is run, the val...
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684 chapter 3: coldfusion functions issoaprequest description determines whether a cfc is being called as a web service. Returns true if cfc is being called as a web service; false, otherwise. Category xml functions history coldfusion mx 7: added this function. Function syntax issoaprequest() see al...
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Issoaprequest 685 "true")> as xml: " & xmlusername> "true")> as xml: " & xmlpassword> "authorized value", false)> "true")> as xml: " & xmlusername> "true")> as xml: " & xmlpassword> "authorized value", false)> "true")> as xml: " & xmlpassword> "authorized value", false)> "authorized value", false)>.
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686 chapter 3: coldfusion functions isstruct description determines whether a variable is a structure. Returns true, if variable is a coldfusion structure or is a java object that implements the java.Lang.Map interface. The return value is false if the object in variable is a user-defined function (...
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Isstruct 687 ) employee add complete --->.
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688 chapter 3: coldfusion functions isuserinrole description determines whether an authenticated user belongs to the specified role. Returns true, if the authenticated user, belongs to the specified role; false, otherwise. Category security functions , decision functions function syntax isuserinrole...
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Isvalid 689 isvalid description tests whether a value meets a validation or data type rule. Returns true, if the value conforms to the rule; false, otherwise. Category decision functions function syntax isvalid(type, value) isvalid("range", value, min, max) isvalid("regex" or "regular_expression", v...
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690 chapter 3: coldfusion functions parameters usage the isvalid function lets you assure that validation is performed on the server. You can use the cfparam tag to perform equivalent validation. Parameter description type the valid format for the data; one of the following. For detailed information...
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Isvalid 691 example the following example checks whether a user has submitted a numeric id and a valid email address and phone number. If any of the submitted values does not meet the validation test, it displays an error message. And isvalid("telephone", form.Phoneno)> the email address and phone n...
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692 chapter 3: coldfusion functions iswddx description determines whether a value is a well-formed wddx packet. Returns true, if the value is a well-formed wddx packet; false, otherwise. Category decision functions , xml functions syntax iswddx(value) see also “using wddx” in chapter 35, “using xml ...
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Iswddx 693 " > #packet# iswddx() returns #iswddx(packet)#.
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694 chapter 3: coldfusion functions isxml description determines whether a string is well-formed xml text. Returns true, if the function parameter is a string that contains well-formed xml text; false, otherwise. Category decision functions , xml functions function syntax isxml(value) see also isxml...
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Isxml 695 1 15.95 ' > xmlstring1 contains the following text: #htmlcodeformat(xmlstring1)# is it well formed xml text? #isxml(xmlstring1)# xmlstring2 contains the following text: #htmlcodeformat(xmlstring2)# is it well formed xml text? #isxml(xmlstring2)#.
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696 chapter 3: coldfusion functions isxmlattribute description determines whether the function parameter is an xml document object model (dom) attribute node. Returns true, if the function argument is an xml attribute node; false, otherwise. Category decision functions , xml functions function synta...
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Isxmlattribute 697 1 15.95 node.Xmlobject.Order.Xmlattributes.Id: #isxmlattribute(xmlobject.Order.Xmlattributes.Id)# xmlobject.Order.Items: #isxmlattribute(xmlobject.Order.Items)# lastnames[1] returned by xmlsearch: #isxmlattribute(lastnames[1])#.
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698 chapter 3: coldfusion functions isxmldoc description determines whether the function parameter is a coldfusion xml document object. Returns true, if the function argument is an xml document object; false, otherwise. Category decision functions , xml functions function syntax isxmldoc(value) see ...
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Isxmlelem 699 isxmlelem description determines whether the function parameter is an xml document object element. Returns true, if the function argument is an xml document object element; false, otherwise. Category decision functions , xml functions function syntax isxmlelem(value) see also isxml , i...
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700 chapter 3: coldfusion functions isxmlnode description determines whether the function parameter is an xml document object node. Returns true, if the function argument is an xml document object node, including an element; false, otherwise. Category decision functions , xml functions function synt...
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Isxmlnode 701 1 15.95 xmlobject: #isxmlnode(xmlobject)# xmlobject.Order.Items: #isxmlnode(xmlobject.Order.Items)# xmlobject.Order.Xmlattributes.Id: #isxmlnode(xmlobject.Order.Xmlattributes.Id)# lastnames[1] returned by xmlsearch: #isxmlnode(lastnames[1])#.
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702 chapter 3: coldfusion functions isxmlroot description determines whether the function parameter is the root element of an xml document object. Returns true, if the function argument is the root object of an xml document object; false, otherwise. Category decision functions , xml functions functi...
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Javacast 703 javacast description converts the data type of a coldfusion variable to pass as an argument to an overloaded method of a java object. Use only for scalar and string arguments. Returns the variable, as type type. Category string functions function syntax javacast(type, variable) see also...
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704 chapter 3: coldfusion functions because there is not a one-to-one correspondence between internally stored coldfusion types and java scalar types, some conversions cannot be performed. Example the method foomethod in the class fooclass takes one overloaded argument. The fooclass class is defined...
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Jsstringformat 705 jsstringformat description escapes special javascript characters, such as single-quotation mark, double-quotation mark, and newline. Returns a string that is safe to use with javascript. Category string functions function syntax jsstringformat(string) parameters usage escapes spec...
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706 chapter 3: coldfusion functions lcase description converts the alphabetic characters in a string to lowercase. Returns a string, converted to lowercase. Category string functions function syntax lcase(string) see also ucase parameters example your text, #form.Sampletext#, returned in lowercase i...
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Left 707 left description returns the leftmost count characters in a string. Returns string; the first count characters in the string parameter. Category string functions function syntax left(string, count) see also right , mid , len parameters example your string #form.Mytext# only has #len(form.My...
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Len 709 len description determines the length of a string or binary object. Returns number; length of a string or a binary object. Category string functions function syntax len(string or binary object) see also tobinary , left , right , mid history coldfusion mx: changed unicode support: coldfusion ...
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710 chapter 3: coldfusion functions listappend description concatenates a list or element to a list. Returns a copy of the list , with value appended. If delimiter = "" , returns a copy of the list, unchanged. Category list functions function syntax listappend(list, value [, delimiters ]) see also l...
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Listappend 711 the original list: #temp# ....
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712 chapter 3: coldfusion functions listchangedelims description changes a list delimiter. Returns a copy of the list, with each delimiter character replaced by new_delimiter. Category list functions function syntax listchangedelims(list, new_delimiter [, delimiters ]) see also listfirst , listquali...
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Listcontains 713 listcontains description determines the index of the first list element that contains a specified substring. Returns index of the first list element that contains substring. If not found, returns zero. Category list functions function syntax listcontains(list, substring [, delimiter...
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714 chapter 3: coldfusion functions as "two", both listcontains and listfind find it, in the second element: listcontains: the string "two" is in element #listcontains(alist, "two")# of the list. Listfind: the string "two" is in element #listfind(alist, "two")# of the list..
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Listcontainsnocase 715 listcontainsnocase description determines the index of the first list element that contains a specified substring. Returns index of the first list element that contains substring, regardless of case. If not found, returns zero. Category list functions function syntax listconta...
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716 chapter 3: coldfusion functions listdeleteat description deletes an element from a list. Returns a copy of the list, without the specified element. Category list functions function syntax listdeleteat(list, position [, delimiters ]) see also listgetat , listsetat , listlen ; “lists” in chapter 3...
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Listdeleteat 717 listdeleteat(temp, "3")> the changed list: #temp2# this list element:#deleted_element# is no longer present at position three of the list..
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718 chapter 3: coldfusion functions listfind description determines the index of the first list element in which a specified value occurs. Case-sensitive. Returns index of the first list element that contains value, with matching case. If not found, returns zero. The search is case-sensitive. Catego...
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Listfind 719 select firstname, rtrim(lastname) as lname, phone, department from employees listfind(mylist, form.Mystring)> employee #listgetat(valuelist(searchemplastname.Firstname), temp)# #listgetat(valuelist(searchemplastname.Lname), temp)#, of the #listgetat(valuelist(searchemplastname.Departmen...
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720 chapter 3: coldfusion functions listfindnocase description determines the index of the first list element in which a specified value occurs. Returns index of the first list element that contains value. If not found, returns zero. The search is case- insensitive. Category list functions function ...
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Listfindnocase 721 select firstname, rtrim(lastname) as lname, phone, department from employees employee #listgetat(valuelist(searchemplastname.Firstname), temp)# #listgetat(valuelist(searchemplastname.Lname), temp)#, of the #listgetat(valuelist(searchemplastname.Department), temp)# department, can ...
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722 chapter 3: coldfusion functions listfirst description gets the first element of a list. Returns the first element of a list. If the list is empty, returns an empty string. Category list functions function syntax listfirst(list [, delimiters ]) see also listgetat , listlast , listqualify ; “lists...
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Listgetat 723 listgetat description gets a list element at a specified position. Returns index of the list element at position position. Category list functions function syntax listgetat(list, position [, delimiters ]) see also listfirst , listlast , listqualify , listsetat ; “lists” in chapter 3, “...
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724 chapter 3: coldfusion functions #listlen(temp)# users. Username #counter#: #listgetat(temp, counter)#.
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Listinsertat 725 listinsertat description inserts an element in a list. Returns a copy of the list , with value inserted at the specified position. Category list functions function syntax listinsertat(list, position, value [, delimiters ]) see also listdeleteat , listappend , listprepend , listsetat...
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726 chapter 3: coldfusion functions listlast description gets the last element of a list. Returns the last element of the list. Category list functions function syntax listlast(list [, delimiters ]) see also listgetat , listfirst ; “lists” in chapter 3, “using coldfusion variables,” in coldfusion mx...
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Listlast 727 before editing the list, it is: #valuelist(getmessageuser.Username)#. (users who posted more than once are listed more than once.) the first user in the list is: #listfirst(temp)# the rest of the list is: #listrest(temp)#. (users who posted more than once are listed more than once.) the...
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728 chapter 3: coldfusion functions listlen description determines the number of elements in a list. Integer; the number of elements in a list. Category list functions function syntax listlen(list [, delimiters ]) see also listappend , listdeleteat , listinsertat , listprepend ; “lists” in chapter 3...
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Listlen 729 #listlen(temp)# users. Username #counter#: #listgetat(temp, counter)#.
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730 chapter 3: coldfusion functions listprepend description inserts an element at the beginning of a list. Returns a copy of the list , with value inserted at the first position. Category list functions function syntax listprepend(list, value [, delimiters ]) see also listappend , listinsertat , lis...
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Listqualify 731 listqualify description inserts a string at the beginning and end of list elements. Returns a copy of the list, with qualifier before and after the specified element(s). Category list functions function syntax listqualify(list, qualifier [, delimiters ] [, elements ]) see also “lists...
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732 chapter 3: coldfusion functions the contents of the unqualified list are as follows: #mylist# listqualify(mylist,"'",",","char")> the contents of the qualified list are as follows: #qualifiedlist1# listqualify(mylist,""",",","char")> the contents of the second qualified list are: #qualifiedlist2...
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Listrest 733 listrest description gets a list, without its first element. Returns a copy of list, without the first element. If list has one element, returns an empty list. Category list functions function syntax listrest(list [, delimiters ]) see also listfirst , listgetat , listlast ; “lists” in c...
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734 chapter 3: coldfusion functions listsetat description replaces the contents of a list element. Returns a copy of a list, with a new value assigned to the element at a specified position. Category list functions function syntax listsetat(list, position, value [, delimiters ]) see also listdeletea...
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Listsetat 735 subjects posted in messages. Listsetat(temp, 2, "i changed this subject", ",")> (#counter#) subject: #listgetat(temptoo, counter)# note that element 2, "#changedelement#", has been altered to "i changed this subject" using listsetat..
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736 chapter 3: coldfusion functions listsort description sorts list elements according to a sort type and sort order. Returns a copy of a list, sorted. Category list functions function syntax listsort(list, sort_type [, sort_order] [, delimiters ]) see also “lists” in chapter 3, “using coldfusion va...
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Listsort 737 usage coldfusion ignores empty list elements; thus, the list "a,b,c,,,d" has four elements. Example select username, subject, posted from messages here is the unsorted list. #mylist# here is the list sorted alphabetically: #sortedlist# here is a numeric list that is to be sorted in desc...
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738 chapter 3: coldfusion functions listtoarray description copies the elements of a list to an array. Returns an array category array functions , conversion functions , list functions function syntax listtoarray(list [, delimiters ]) see also arraytolist ; chapter 5, “using arrays and structures,” ...
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Listvaluecount 739 listvaluecount description counts instances of a specified value in a list. The search is case-sensitive. Returns the number of instances of value in the list. Category list functions , string functions function syntax listvaluecount(list, value [, delimiters ]) see also listvalue...
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740 chapter 3: coldfusion functions sales h3> there is only one person in #form.Departmentname#. There is only one person in #form.Departmentname#. There are #numberindepartment# people in #form.Departmentname#. There are #numberindepartment# people in #form.Departmentname#..
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Listvaluecountnocase 741 listvaluecountnocase description counts instances of a specified value in a list. The search is case-insensitive. Returns the number of instances of value in the list. Category list functions function syntax listvaluecountnocase(list, value [, delimiters ]) see also listvalu...
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742 chapter 3: coldfusion functions sales form.Departmentname)> there are no employees in #form.Departmentname# form.Departmentname)> cfoutput> there is only one person in #form.Departmentname#. There is only one person in #form.Departmentname#. There are #numberindepartment# people in #form.Departm...
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Ljustify 743 ljustify description left justifies characters in a string of a specified length. Returns a copy of a string, left-justified. Category display and formatting functions , string functions function syntax ljustify(string, length) see also cjustify , rjustify parameters example ljustify(fo...
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744 chapter 3: coldfusion functions log description calculates the natural logarithm of a number. Natural logarithms are based on the constant e (2.71828182845904). Returns the natural logarithm of a number. Category mathematical functions function syntax log(number) see also exp , log10 parameters ...
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Log10 745 log10 description calculates the logarithm of number, to base 10. Returns number; the logarithm of number, to base 10. Category mathematical functions function syntax log10(number) see also exp , log parameters example your number, #form.Number# #form.Number# raised to the e power: #exp(fo...
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746 chapter 3: coldfusion functions lscurrencyformat description formats a number in a locale-specific currency format. For countries that use the euro, the result depends on the jvm. Returns a formatted currency value. Category display and formatting functions , international functions function syn...
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Lscurrencyformat 747 currency output the following table shows sample currency output. For locales that use euro, the local and international columns contains two entries. The first is entry is the result with a sun the 1.4.1- compliant jvm, the second entry is the result with a 1.3.1-compliant jvm....
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748 chapter 3: coldfusion functions note: coldfusion maps spanish (modern) to the spanish (standard) format. To set the default display format of date, time, number, and currency values, use the setlocale function. Example lscurrencyformat returns a currency value using the locale convention. Defaul...
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Lsdateformat 749 lsdateformat description formats the date part of a date/time value in a locale-specific format. Returns a formatted date/time value. If no mask is specified, the value is formatted according to the locale setting of the client computer. Category date and time functions , display an...
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750 chapter 3: coldfusion functions parameters usage this function uses java standard locale formatting rules on all platforms. When passing date/time value as a string, enclose it in quotation marks. Otherwise, it is interpreted as a number representation of a date/time object. To calculate a diffe...
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752 chapter 3: coldfusion functions lseurocurrencyformat description formats a number in a locale-specific currency format. Returns a formatted currency value. For countries in the euro currency zone, the function uses the locale’s rule’s for formatting currency in euros. Category display and format...
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Lseurocurrencyformat 753 currency output the following table shows examples of currency output: note: coldfusion uses the spanish (standard) formats for spanish (modern) and spanish (standard). Locale type = local type = international type = none chinese (china) ¥100,000.00 cny100,000.00 100,000.00 ...
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754 chapter 3: coldfusion functions the following example shows how the function formats negative values. The format includes a negative sign before the value, or parentheses around the value, according to the formatting rules of the current locale. Example lseurocurrencyformat returns a currency va...
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Lsiscurrency 755 lsiscurrency description determines whether a string is a valid representation of a currency amount in the current locale. Returns true, if the parameter is formatted as a valid currency amount, including the appropriate currency indicator. The return value is true for amounts in th...
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756 chapter 3: coldfusion functions is the value "#form.Myvalue#" a proper currency value for #getlocale()#? Answer: #lsiscurrency(form.Myvalue)# select a locale for which you would like to check a currency value:.
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Lsisdate 757 lsisdate description determines whether a string is a valid representation of a date/time value in the current locale. Returns true, if the string can be formatted as a date/time value in the current locale; false, otherwise. Category date and time functions , display and formatting fun...
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758 chapter 3: coldfusion functions is the value "#form.Myvalue#" a proper date value for #getlocale()#? Answer: #lsisdate(form.Myvalue)# select a locale for which you would like to check a date value:.
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Lsisnumeric 759 lsisnumeric description determines whether a string is a valid representation of a number in the current locale. Returns true, if the string represents a number the current locale; false, otherwise. Category decision functions , international functions , string functions function syn...
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760 chapter 3: coldfusion functions lsnumberformat description formats a number in a locale-specific format. Returns a formatted number. • if no mask is specified, it returns the number formatted as an integer • if no mask is specified, truncates the decimal part; for example, it truncates 34.57 to ...
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Lsnumberformat 761 note: if you do not specify a sign for the mask, positive and negative numbers do not align in columns. To put a plus sign or space before positive numbers and a minus sign before negative numbers, use the plus or hyphen mask character, respectively. Usage this function uses java ...
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762 chapter 3: coldfusion functions an underscore determines whether the code is placed in the far or near position. Most code characters’ effect is determined by the field in which they are located. This example shows how to specify where to put parentheses to display negative numbers: to set the d...
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Lsparsecurrency 763 lsparsecurrency description converts a locale-specific currency string into a formatted number. Attempts conversion by comparing the string with each the three supported currency formats (none, local, international) and using the first that matches. Returns a formatted number (st...
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764 chapter 3: coldfusion functions for a list of the locale-specific formats used to parse the currency, see lscurrencyformat . Example lsparsecurrency coverts a locale-specific currency string to a number. Attempts conversion through each of the three default currency formats. Index = "locale" del...
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Lsparsedatetime 765 lsparsedatetime description converts a string that is a valid date/time representation in the current locale into a date/time object. Returns a date/time object. Category date and time functions , display and formatting functions , international functions , string functions funct...
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766 chapter 3: coldfusion functions valid dates are in the range 100 ad–9999 ad. Two digit years in the range 00-29 are interpreted as being 2000-2029. Two digit years in the range 30-99 are interpreted as being 1930-1999 this function corrects for differences between the current time zone and any t...
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Lsparseeurocurrency 767 lsparseeurocurrency description formats a locale-specific currency string as a number. Attempts conversion through each of the default currency formats (none, local, international). Ensures correct handling of euro currency for euro zone countries. Returns a formatted number ...
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768 chapter 3: coldfusion functions current locale: #locale# value in local currency: #localcurrency# parsed using lsparseeurocurrency: #lsparseeurocurrency(localcurrency)# value with international currency formatting: #intlcurrency# parsed using lsparseeurocurrency: #lsparseeurocurrency(intlcurrenc...
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Lsparsenumber 769 lsparsenumber description converts a string that is a valid numeric representation in the current locale into a formatted number. Returns a formatted number that matches the value of the string. Category international functions , string functions function syntax lsparsenumber(strin...
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770 chapter 3: coldfusion functions #lsnumberformat(1234.5678, "+_________.___")# #lsnumberformat(1234.5678, "-_________.___")# the actual number: #lsparsenumber(lsnumberformat(1234.5678, "_________"))#.
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Lstimeformat 771 lstimeformat description formats the time part of a date/time string into a string in a locale-specific format. Returns a string representing the time value. Category date and time functions , display and formatting functions , international functions function syntax lstimeformat(ti...
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772 chapter 3: coldfusion functions parameters usage this function uses java standard locale formatting rules on all platforms. When passing date/time value as a string, enclose it in quotation marks. Otherwise, it is interpreted as a number representation of a date/time object. To calculate a diffe...
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Lstimeformat 773 #locale# #lstimeformat(now())# #lstimeformat(now(), ‘hh:mm:ss’)# #lstimeformat(now(), ‘hh:mm:sst’)# #lstimeformat(now(), ‘hh:mm:sstt’)# #lstimeformat(now(), ‘hh:mm:ss’)# #locale# #lstimeformat(now())# #lstimeformat(now(), ‘hh:mm:ss’)# #lstimeformat(now(), ‘hh:mm:sst’)# #lstimeformat...
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774 chapter 3: coldfusion functions ltrim description removes leading spaces from a string. Returns a copy of the string, without leading spaces. Category display and formatting functions , string functions function syntax ltrim(string) see also rtrim , tobase64 parameters example your string:"#form...
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Max 775 max description determines the greater of two numbers. Returns the greater of two numbers. Category mathematical functions function syntax max(number1, number2) see also min parameters example the maximum of the two numbers is #max(form.Mynum1, form.Mynum2)# the minimum of the two numbers is...
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776 chapter 3: coldfusion functions mid description extracts a substring from a string. Returns a string; the set of characters from string, beginning at start, of length count. Category string functions function syntax mid(string, start, count) see also left , len , right parameters example your st...
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Mid 777 type in some text enter a starting position (from the beginning of the entered text) how many characters do you want to show? 1 3 5 7 9.
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778 chapter 3: coldfusion functions min description determines the lesser of two numbers. Returns the lesser of two numbers. Category mathematical functions function syntax min(number1, number2) see also max parameters example the maximum of the two numbers is #max(form.Mynum1, form.Mynum2)# the min...
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Minute 779 minute description extracts the minute value from a date/time object. Returns the ordinal value of the minute, in the range 0–59. Category date and time functions function syntax minute(date) see also datepart , hash , second parameters usage when passing a date/time value as a string, yo...
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780 chapter 3: coldfusion functions month description extracts the month value from a date/time object. Returns the ordinal value of the month, in the range 1 (january) – 12 (december). Category date and time functions function syntax month(date) see also datepart , monthasstring , quarter parameter...
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Monthasstring 781 monthasstring description determines the name of the month that corresponds to month_number. Returns a string; the name of the specified month, in the current locale. Category date and time functions , string functions function syntax monthasstring(month_number) see also datepart ,...
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782 chapter 3: coldfusion functions now description gets the current date and time of the computer running the coldfusion server. The return value can be passed as a parameter to date functions such as daysinyear or firstdayofmonth . Returns a date/time object; the current date and time of the compu...
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Numberformat 783 numberformat description creates a custom-formatted number value. Supports the numeric formatting used in the u.S. For international number formatting, see lsnumberformat . Returns a formatted number value: • if no mask is specified, returns the value as an integer with a thousands ...
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784 chapter 3: coldfusion functions note: if you do not specify a sign for the mask, positive and negative numbers do not align in columns. To put a plus sign or space before positive numbers and a minus sign before negative numbers, use the plus or minus sign, respectively. Usage this function uses...
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Numberformat 785 when converting from string to double, to prevent rounding errors, this function adds a rounding factor of 1.5543122344752e-014 to the converted number. For example, without adding the rounding factor, converting the string value 1.275 to double with two digits of precision results ...
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786 chapter 3: coldfusion functions paragraphformat description replaces characters in a string: • single newline characters (cr/lf sequences) with spaces • double newline characters with html paragraph tags ( ) returns a copy of the string, with characters converted. Category display and formatting...
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Parameterexists 787 parameterexists description this function is deprecated. Use the isdefined function. Determines whether a parameter exists. Coldfusion does not evaluate the argument. History coldfusion mx: deprecated this function. It might not work, and might cause an error, in later releases..
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788 chapter 3: coldfusion functions parsedatetime description parses a date/time string according to the english (u.S.) locale conventions. (to format a date/ time string for other locales, use the lsparsedatetime function.) returns a date/time object category date and time functions , display and f...
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Parsedatetime 789 valid date enter an expression, and discover if it can be evaluated to a date value. #timeformat(now())#">.
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790 chapter 3: coldfusion functions pi description gets the mathematical constant π , accurate to 15 digits. Returns the number 3.14159265358979. Category mathematical functions function syntax pi() see also asin , cos , sin , tan example the pi function returns the number #numberformat(pi(), "_.___...
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Preservesinglequotes 791 preservesinglequotes description prevents coldfusion from automatically escaping single-quotation mark characters that are contained in a variable. Coldfusion does not evaluate the argument. Returns (none) category other functions function syntax preservesinglequotes(variabl...
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792 chapter 3: coldfusion functions you code this function correctly as follows: (#preservesinglequotes(list0)#)"> this function ensures that coldfusion evaluates the code as follows: '1', '2', '3' example preservesinglequotes examplethis is a useful function for creating lists of information to ret...
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Quarter 793 quarter description calculates the quarter of the year in which a date falls. Returns an integer, 1–4. Category date and time functions function syntax quarter(date) see also datepart , month parameters usage when passing a date/time value as a string, you must enclose it in quotation ma...
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794 chapter 3: coldfusion functions queryaddcolumn description adds a column to a query and populates its rows with the contents of a one-dimensional array. Pads query columns, if necessary, to ensure that all columns have the same number of rows. Returns the number of the column that was added. Cat...
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Queryaddcolumn 795 usage you can add columns to query objects, such as queries retrieved with the cfquery tag or queries created with the querynew function. You cannot use the queryaddcolumn function on a cached query. This function is useful for generating a query object from the arrays of output p...
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Queryaddrow 797 queryaddrow description adds a specified number of empty rows to a query. Returns the number of rows in the query category query functions function syntax queryaddrow(query [, number ]) see also queryaddcolumn , queryaddrow , querysetcell , querynew ; “creating a record set with a fu...
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798 chapter 3: coldfusion functions querynew description creates an empty query (query object). Returns an empty query with a set of named columns, or an empty query. Category query functions function syntax querynew(columnlist [, columntypelist]) history coldfusion mx 7: added columntypelist parame...
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Querynew 799 example the following example uses the querynew function to create an empty query with three columns. It populates two rows of the query and displays the contents of the query object and its metadata. Applications", 2)> the query object contents applications", 2)> #name# #time# #advance...
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800 chapter 3: coldfusion functions querysetcell description sets a cell to a value. If no row number is specified, the cell on the last row is set. Returns true, if successful; false, otherwise. Category query functions function syntax querysetcell(query, column_name, value [, row_number ]) see als...
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Quotedvaluelist 801 quotedvaluelist description gets the values of each record returned from an executed query. Coldfusion does not evaluate the arguments. Returns a delimited list of the values of each record returned from an executed query. Each value is enclosed in single-quotation marks. Categor...
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802 chapter 3: coldfusion functions rand description generates a pseudo-random number. Returns a pseudo-random decimal number, in the range 0 – 1. Category mathematical functions , security functions function syntax rand([algorithm]) history coldfusion mx 7: added the algorithm parameter. See also r...
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Randomize 803 randomize description seeds the pseudo-random number generator with an integer number, ensuring repeatable number patterns. Returns a pseudo-random decimal number, in the range 0–1. Category mathematical functions , security functions function syntax randomize(number[, algorithm]) hist...
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804 chapter 3: coldfusion functions example the following example calls the randomize function to seed the random number generator and generates 10 random numbers. To show the effect of the seed, submit the form with the same value multiple times. Seed value is #form.Myrandomint# random number retur...
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Randrange 805 randrange description generates a pseudo-random integer in the range between two specified numbers. Returns a pseudo-random integer. Category mathematical functions , security functions function syntax randrange(number1, number2[, algorithm]) history coldfusion mx 7: added the algorith...
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806 chapter 3: coldfusion functions example the following example contains a form that requires random number range values, and lets you optionally specify a random number seed value. It uses cfform controls and attributes to specify a default range, ensure that the range fields have values, and val...
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Refind 807 refind description uses a regular expression (re) to search a string for a pattern. The search is case sensitive. For more information on regular expressions, including escape sequences, anchors, and modifiers, see chapter 7, “using regular expressions in functions,” in coldfusion mx deve...
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808 chapter 3: coldfusion functions usage this function finds the first occurrence of a regular expression in a string. To find the second and subsequent instances of the expression or of subexpressions in it, you call this function more than once, each time with a different start position. To deter...
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Refind 809 the first call to refind to search this string is: refind("[a-za-z]+",teststring,1,"true") this function returns a structure that contains two arrays: pos and len. To create this structure you can use a cfset statement, for example: the number of elements in each array: #arraylen(st.Pos)#...
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810 chapter 3: coldfusion functions refindnocase description uses a regular expression (re) to search a string for a pattern, starting from a specified position. The search is case-insensitive. For more information on regular expressions, including escape sequences, anchors, and modifiers, see chapt...
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Refindnocase 811 usage this function finds the first occurrence of a regular expression in a string. To find the second and subsequent instances of the expression or of subexpressions in it, you call this function more than once, each time with a different start position. To determine the next start...
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812 chapter 3: coldfusion functions the first call to refindnocase to search this string is: refindnocase("[[:alpha:]]+",teststring,1,"true") this function returns a structure that contains two arrays: pos and len. To create this structure you can use a cfset statement, for example: the number of el...
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Releasecomobject 813 releasecomobject description releases a com object and frees up resources that it used. Returns nothing. Category extensibility functions function syntax releasecomobject(objectname) see also createobject , cfobject history coldfusion mx 6.1: added this function. Parameters usag...
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814 chapter 3: coldfusion functions removechars description removes characters from a string. Returns a copy of the string, with count characters removed from the specified start position. If no characters are found, returns zero. Category string functions function syntax removechars(string, start, ...
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Repeatstring 815 repeatstring description creates a string that contains a specified number of repetitions of the specified string. Returns a string. Category string functions function syntax repeatstring(string, count) see also cjustify , ljustify , rjustify parameters example repeatstring returns ...
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816 chapter 3: coldfusion functions replace description replaces occurrences of substring1 in a string with substring2, in a specified scope. The search is case-sensitive. Returns the string, after making replacements. Category string functions function syntax replace(string, substring1, substring2 ...
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Replacelist 817 replacelist description replaces occurrences of the elements from a delimited list in a string with corresponding elements from another delimited list. The search is case-sensitive. Returns a copy of the string, after making replacements. Category list functions , string functions fu...
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818 chapter 3: coldfusion functions #replacelist(stringtoreplace,"dog,brown,fox,black", "cow,black,ferret,white")#.
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Replacenocase 819 replacenocase description replaces occurrences of substring1 with substring2, in the specified scope. The search is case- insensitive. Returns a copy of the string, after making replacements. Category string functions function syntax replacenocase(string, substring1, substring2 [, ...
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820 chapter 3: coldfusion functions rereplace description uses a regular expression (re) to search a string for a string pattern and replace it with another. The search is case-sensitive. Returns if the scope parameter is set to one , returns a string with the first occurrence of the regular express...
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Rereplace 821 usage for details on using regular expressions, see chapter 7, “using regular expressions in functions,” in coldfusion mx developer’s guide. Example the rereplace function returns string with a regular expression replaced with substring in the specified scope. Case-sensitive search. Re...
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822 chapter 3: coldfusion functions rereplacenocase description uses a regular expression to search a string for a string pattern and replace it with another. The search is case-insensitive. Returns • if scope = "one" : returns a string with the first occurrence of the regular expression replaced by...
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824 chapter 3: coldfusion functions reverse description reverses the order of items, such as the characters in a string, the digits in a number, or the elements in an array. Returns a copy of string, with the characters in reverse order. Category string functions function syntax reverse(string) see ...
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Right 825 right description gets a specified number of characters from a string, beginning at the right. Returns the specified number of characters from the end (or right side) of the specified string. Returns • if the length of the string is greater than or equal to count , the rightmost count char...
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826 chapter 3: coldfusion functions please enter a string of more than 0 (zero) characters. Type in some text how many characters from the right do you want to show? 1 3 5 7 9.
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Rjustify 827 rjustify description right justifies characters of a string. Returns a copy of a string, right-justified in the specified field length. Category display and formatting functions , string functions function syntax rjustify(string, length) see also cjustify , ljustify parameters example r...
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828 chapter 3: coldfusion functions round description rounds a number to the closest integer that is larger than the input parameter. Returns an integer. Category mathematical functions function syntax round(number) see also ceiling , fix , int parameters usage use this function to round a number. T...
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Rtrim 829 rtrim description removes spaces from the end of a string. Returns a copy of string, after removing trailing spaces. Category string functions function syntax rtrim(string) see also ltrim , trim parameters example your string:"#form.Mytext#" your string:"#rtrim(form.Mytext)#" (right trimme...
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830 chapter 3: coldfusion functions second description extracts the ordinal for the second from a date/time object. Returns an integer in the range 0–59. Category date and time functions function syntax second(date) see also datepart , hash , minute parameters usage when passing a date/time object a...
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Sendgatewaymessage 831 sendgatewaymessage description sends an outgoing message through a coldfusion mx event gateway. Returns string. The value returned depends on the gateway type. Category extensibility functions function syntax sendgatewaymessage(gatewayid, data) see also getgatewayhelper ; “im ...
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832 chapter 3: coldfusion functions example the following example uses an instance of the cfml gateway to log messages asynchronously to a file. To use this example, you must configure an instance of the cfml gateway with the name “asynch logger” in the coldfusion mx administrator. This gateway inst...
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Setencoding 833 setencoding description sets the character encoding (character set) of form and url scope variable values; used when the character encoding of the input to a form, or the character encoding of a url, is not in utf-8 encoding. Returns none category international functions , system fun...
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834 chapter 3: coldfusion functions usage use this function when the character encoding of the input to a form or the character encoding of a url is not in utf-8 encoding. For example, traditional chinese characters are often in big5 encoding. This function resets url and form variables, so you shou...
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Setlocale 835 setlocale description sets the country/language locale for coldfusion processing and the page returned to the client. The locale value determines the default format of date, time, number, and currency values, according to language and regional conventions. Returns the locale value prio...
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836 chapter 3: coldfusion functions coldfusion determines the locale value as follows: • by default, coldfusion uses the jvm locale, and the default jvm locale is the operating system locale. You can set jvm locale value explicitly in coldfusion mx in the coldfusion administrator java and jvm settin...
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Setprofilestring 837 setprofilestring description sets the value of a profile entry in an initialization file. Returns an empty string, upon successful execution; otherwise, an error message. Category system functions function syntax setprofilestring(inipath, section, entry, value) see also getprofi...
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838 chapter 3: coldfusion functions timeout value should be greater than zero in order to provide time for user response. The timeout value in your initialization file is already #mytimeout#. Timeout is set to: #timeout#. Default directory is: #default#. Value = "c:\myboot.Ini">.
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Setvariable 839 setvariable description this function is no longer required in well-formed coldfusion pages. Sets a variable in the name parameter to the value of the value parameter. Returns the new value of the variable. Category dynamic evaluation functions function syntax setvariable(name, value...
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840 chapter 3: coldfusion functions your variable, #varname# the value of #varname# is #varnamevalue#.
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Sgn 841 sgn description determines the sign of a number. Returns • 1, if number is positive. • 0, if number is 0. • -1, if number is negative. Category mathematical functions function syntax sgn(number) see also abs parameters example sgn determines the sign of a number. Returns 1 if number is posit...
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842 chapter 3: coldfusion functions sin description calculates the sine of an angle that is entered in radians. Returns a number; the sine of the angle. Category mathematical functions function syntax sin(number) see also asin , cos , acos , tan , atn , pi parameters usage the range of the result is...
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Sin 843 enter an angle in degrees to get its sine:.
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844 chapter 3: coldfusion functions spanexcluding description gets characters from a string , from the beginning to a character that is in a specified set of characters. The search is case-sensitive. Returns a string; characters from string , from the beginning to a character that is in set. Categor...
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Spanincluding 845 spanincluding description gets characters from a string , from the beginning to a character that is not in a specified set of characters. The search is case-sensitive. Returns a string; characters from string , from the beginning to a character that is not in set. Category string f...
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846 chapter 3: coldfusion functions sqr description calculates the square root of a number. Returns number; square root of number. Category mathematical functions function syntax sqr(number) see also abs parameters usage the value in number must be greater than or equal to 0. Example returns the squ...
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Stripcr 847 stripcr description deletes return characters from a string. Returns a copy of string, after removing return characters. Category display and formatting functions , string functions function syntax stripcr(string) see also paragraphformat parameters usage useful for preformatted (between...
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848 chapter 3: coldfusion functions structappend description appends one structure to another. Returns true, upon successful completion; false, otherwise. Category structure functions function syntax structappend(struct1, struct2, overwriteflag) see also structure functions ; “modifying a coldfusion...
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Structappend 849 the person struct before the append call: #myitem# the person struct after the append call: #myitem#.
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850 chapter 3: coldfusion functions structclear description removes all data from a structure. Returns true, on successful execution; false, otherwise. Category structure functions function syntax structclear(structure) see also structure functions ; “modifying a coldfusion xml object” in chapter 35...
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Structclear 851 structinsert(employee, "lastname", form.Lastname); structinsert(employee, "email", form.Email); structinsert(employee, "phone", form.Phone); structinsert(employee, "department", form.Department); structclear(employee);.
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852 chapter 3: coldfusion functions structcopy description copies a structure. Copies top-level keys, values, and arrays in the structure by value; copies nested structures by reference. Returns a copy of a structure, with the same keys and values; if structure does not exist, throws an exception. C...
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Structcopy 853 the following table shows how variables are assigned: example // this script creates a structure that structcopy copies by value. // create elements. S = structnew(); s.Array = arraynew(2); // assign simple values to original top-level structure fields. S.Number = 99; s.String = "hell...
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854 chapter 3: coldfusion functions modified original values // simple values s.Number = #s.Number# s.String = #s.String# // array value s.Array[1][1] = #s.Array[1][1]# s.Array[1][2] = #s.Array[1][2]# copied structure values should be the same as the original. // simple values copied.Number = #copie...
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Structcopy 855 s.Nested.Number = 100; s.Nested.String = "hello tommy (modified)"; s.Nested.Array[1][1] = "one one (modified)"; s.Nested.Array[1][2] = "one two (modified)"; modified original values // simple values s.Nested.Number = #s.Nested.Number# s.Nested.String = #s.Nested.String# // array value...
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856 chapter 3: coldfusion functions structcount description counts the keys in a structure. Returns a number; if structure does not exist, throws an exception. Category structure functions function syntax structcount(structure) see also structure functions ; “modifying a coldfusion xml object” in ch...
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Structcount 857 employee add complete #structcount(attributes.Empinfo)# columns added. --->.
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858 chapter 3: coldfusion functions structdelete description removes an element from a structure. Returns boolean value. The value depends on the indicatenotexisting parameter value. Category structure functions function syntax structdelete(structure, key [, indicatenotexisting ]) see also structure...
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Structdelete 859 structinsert(employee, "phone", phone); structinsert(employee, "department", department); before deletion, employee structure looks like this: did i delete the field "#form.Field#"? The code indicates: #rc# the structure now looks like this: select the field to be deleted: first nam...
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860 chapter 3: coldfusion functions structfind description determines the value associated with a key in a structure. Returns the value associated with a key in a structure; if structure does not exist, throws an exception. Category structure functions function syntax structfind(structure, key) see ...
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Structfind 861 employee add complete --->.
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862 chapter 3: coldfusion functions structfindkey description searches recursively through a substructure of nested arrays, structures, and other elements, for structures whose values match the search key in the value parameter. Returns an array that contains structures with values that match value....
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Structfindvalue 863 structfindvalue description searches recursively through a substructure of nested arrays, structures, and other elements for structures with values that match the search key in the value parameter. Returns an array that contains structures with values that match the search key va...
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864 chapter 3: coldfusion functions structget description gets a structure(s) from a specified path. Returns an alias to the variable in the pathdesired parameter. If necessary, structget creates structures or arrays to make pathdesired a valid variable "path." category structure functions function ...
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Structget 865 dog.Myscope.Test.Foo is not defined #dog.Myscope.Test.Foo# #request.Myscope[1].Test.Foo# #request.Myscope[1].Test[2].Foo#.
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866 chapter 3: coldfusion functions structinsert description inserts a key-value pair into a structure. Returns true, upon successful completion. If structure does not exist, or if key exists and allowoverwrite = "false" , coldfusion throws an exception. Category structure functions function syntax ...
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Structinsert 867 structinsert(employee, "lastname", form.Lastname); structinsert(employee, "email", form.Email); structinsert(employee, "phone", form.Phone); structinsert(employee, "department", form.Department); first name is #structfind(employee, "firstname")# last name is #structfind(employee, "l...
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868 chapter 3: coldfusion functions structisempty description determines whether a structure contains data. Returns true, if structure is empty; if structure does not exist, coldfusion throws an exception. Category decision functions , structure functions function syntax structisempty(structure) see...
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Structisempty 869 employee add complete.
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870 chapter 3: coldfusion functions structkeyarray description finds the keys in a coldfusion structure. Returns an array of keys; if structure does not exist, coldfusion throws an exception. Category structure functions function syntax structkeyarray(structure) see also structure functions ; “modif...
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Structkeyarray 871 value = "" hspace = "30" maxlength = "30"> value = "" hspace = "30" maxlength = "30"> value = "" hspace = "30" maxlength = "30"> value = "" hspace = "20" maxlength = "20"> value = "" hspace = "30" maxlength = "30"> value = "ok"> key#i# is #keystostruct[i]# value#i# is #employee[ke...
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872 chapter 3: coldfusion functions structkeyexists description determines whether a specific key is present in a structure. Returns true, if key is in structure; if structure does not exist, coldfusion throws an exception. Category decision functions , structure functions function syntax structkeye...
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Structkeylist 873 structkeylist description extracts keys from a coldfusion structure. Returns a list of keys; if structure does not exist, coldfusion throws an exception. Category structure functions function syntax structkeylist(structure [, delimiter]) see also structure functions ; “modifying a ...
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874 chapter 3: coldfusion functions this example uses structnew function to create structure "employee" that supplies employee information. The fields are filled with the contents of the following form. After you enter employee information into structure, example uses structkeylist function to list ...
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Structnew 875 structnew description creates a structure. Returns a structure. Category structure functions function syntax structnew() see also structure functions ; “structure functions” in chapter 5, “using arrays and structures,” in coldfusion mx developer’s guide parameters none example please f...
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876 chapter 3: coldfusion functions structsort description returns a sorted array of the top level keys in a structure. Sorts using alphabetic or numeric sorting, and can sort based on the values of any structure element. Returns an array of top-level key names (strings), sorted by the value of the ...
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Structsort 877 employee = structnew() ; employee["salary"] = salary ; // employee.Salary = salary ; employees["employee#i#"] = employee ; departments["department#i#"] = structnew() ; departments["department#i#"].Boss = employee ; } list of employees based on the salary (text search): 1) #arraytolist...
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878 chapter 3: coldfusion functions structupdate description updates a key with a value. Returns true, on successful execution; if the structure does not exist, coldfusion throws an error. Category structure functions function syntax structupdate(structure, key, value) see also structure functions ;...
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Tan 879 tan description calculates the tangent of an angle that is entered in radians. Returns a number; the tangent of an angle. Category mathematical functions function syntax tan(number) see also atn , cos , acos , sin , asin , pi parameters usage to convert degrees to radians, multiply degrees b...
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880 chapter 3: coldfusion functions enter an angle in degrees to get its tangent:.
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Timeformat 881 timeformat description formats a time value using u.S. English time formatting conventions. Returns a custom-formatted time value. If no mask is specified, returns a time value using the hh:mm tt format. For international time formatting, see lstimeformat . Category date and time func...
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882 chapter 3: coldfusion functions parameters usage when passing a date/time value as a string, you must enclose it in quotation marks. Otherwise, it is interpreted as a number representation of a date/time object. Database query results for date and time values can vary in sequence and formatting ...
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Timeformat 883 timeformat function. For example: dateformat(now(), "yyyy-mm-dd")#t#timeformat(now(), "hh:mm:ss") produces: #dateformat(now(), "yyyy-mm-dd")#t#timeformat(now(), "hh:mm:ss")# cfoutput>.
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884 chapter 3: coldfusion functions tobase64 description calculates the base64 representation of a string or binary object. The base64 format uses printable characters, allowing binary data to be sent in forms and e-mail, and stored in a database or file. Returns the base64 representation of a strin...
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Tobase64 885 usage macromedia recommends that you use the binaryencode function to convert binary data to base64-encoded data in all new applications. The following string is the concatenation of all characters (32 to 255) from the ascii table. #chardata# tobase64(chardata)> tobase64(binarydata)>.
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886 chapter 3: coldfusion functions tobinary description calculates the binary representation of base64-encoded data. Returns the binary representation of base64-encoded data. Category conversion functions , string functions function syntax tobinary(string_in_base64 or binary_value) see also • binar...
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Tobinary 887 tobinary(data64)> representation of string data..
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888 chapter 3: coldfusion functions toscript description creates a javascript or actionscript expression that assigns the value of a coldfusion variable to a javascript or actionscript variable. This function can convert coldfusion strings, numbers, arrays, structures, and queries to javascript or a...
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Toscript 889 usage to use a coldfusion variable in javascript or actionscript, the toscript function must be in a cfoutput region and be surrounded by number signs (#). For example, the following code uses the toscript function to convert a coldfusion variable to a javascript variable: var #toscript...
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890 chapter 3: coldfusion functions an actionscript-style array does not require you to include the wddx.Js file, and creates a variable that you can use in actionscript on a flash format form, for example, in an onchange attribute. If the outputformat parameter is false, setting asformat to true ca...
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Toscript 891 { document.Write("myarray[" + i + "]: " + jsarray[i] + ""); } this section converts the following query object to both wddx format and actionscript type javascript objects. Select firstname,lastname from employee where firstname = 'john' the query in coldfusion javascript generated by t...
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892 chapter 3: coldfusion functions tostring description converts a value to a string. Returns a string. Category conversion functions , string functions function syntax tostring(value[, encoding]) see also tobase64 , tobinary , charsetencode ; chapter 35, “using xml and wddx,” in coldfusion mx deve...
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Tostring 893 parameters usage this function can convert simple values and binary values that do not contain byte zero. If this function cannot convert a value, it throws an exception. This function can also convert an xml document object to a string xml representation. Macromedia recommends that you...
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894 chapter 3: coldfusion functions tostring(databinary)> the following is the string representation of the binary data. #datastring#.
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Trim 895 trim description removes leading and trailing spaces from a string. Returns a copy of string, after removing leading and trailing spaces. Category string functions function syntax trim(string) see also ltrim , rtrim parameters example your string:"#form.Mytext#" your string:"#trim(form.Myte...
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896 chapter 3: coldfusion functions ucase description converts the alphabetic characters in a string to uppercase. Returns a copy of a string, converted to uppercase. Category string functions function syntax ucase(string) see also lcase parameters example your text, #form.Sampletext#, returned in u...
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Urldecode 897 urldecode description decodes a url-encoded string. Returns a copy of a string, decoded. Category conversion functions , other functions , string functions function syntax urldecode(urlencodedstring[, charset]) see also urlencodedformat ; “tags and functions for globalizing” in chapter...
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898 chapter 3: coldfusion functions usage url encoding formats some characters with a percent sign and the two-character hexadecimal representation of the character. For example, a character whose code is 129 is encoded as %81 . A space is encoded with a plus sign. Query strings in http are always u...
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Urlencodedformat 899 urlencodedformat description generates a url-encoded string. For example, it replaces spaces with %20 , and non- alphanumeric characters with equivalent hexadecimal escape sequences. Passes arbitrary strings within a url (coldfusion automatically decodes url parameters that are ...
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900 chapter 3: coldfusion functions usage url encoding formats some characters with a percent sign and the two-character hexadecimal representation of the character. For example, a character whose code is 129 is encoded as %81 . A space is encoded with a plus sign. Query strings in http are always u...
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Urlsessionformat 901 urlsessionformat description depending on whether a client computer accepts cookies, this function does the following: • if the client does not accept cookies: automatically appends all required client identification information to a url • if the client accepts cookies: does not...
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902 chapter 3: coldfusion functions val description converts numeric characters that occur at the beginning of a string to a number. Returns a number. If conversion fails, returns zero. Category conversion functions , string functions function syntax val(string) see also isnumeric parameters usage t...
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Val 903 value = "is the beginning numeric?" name = "">.
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904 chapter 3: coldfusion functions valuelist description inserts a delimiter between each value in an executed query. Coldfusion does not evaluate the arguments. Returns a delimited list of the values of each record returned from an executed query. Category list functions , query functions function...
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Week 905 week description from a date/time object, determines the week number within the year. Returns an integer in the range 1–53; the ordinal of the week, within the year. Category date and time functions function syntax week(date) see also datepart parameters usage when passing date as a string,...
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906 chapter 3: coldfusion functions wrap description wraps text so that each line has a specified maximum number of characters. Returns string containing the wrapped text. Category string functions function syntax wrap(string, limit[, strip]) see also cfmail history coldfusion mx 6.1: added this fun...
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Writeoutput 907 writeoutput description appends text to the page-output stream. This function writes to the page-output stream regardless of conditions established by the cfsetting tag. Category other functions , system functions function syntax writeoutput(string ) parameters usage within the cfque...
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908 chapter 3: coldfusion functions xmlchildpos description gets the position of a child element within an xml document object. Returns the position, in an xmlchildren array, of the nth child that has the specified name. Category xml functions function syntax xmlchildpos(elem, childname, n) see also...
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Xmlchildpos 909 laura ingalls elempos=xmlchildpos(xmlobject.Employee.Name[1], "status", 2); arraydeleteat(xmlobject.Employee.Name[1].Xmlchildren, elempos);.
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910 chapter 3: coldfusion functions xmlelemnew description creates an xml document object element. Returns an xml document object element. Category xml functions function syntax xmlelemnew(xmlobj[, namespace], childname) see also cfxml , isxmlelem , xmlchildpos , xmlformat , xmlnew , xmlparse ; chap...
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Xmlelemnew 911 else mydoc.Myroot.Xmltext = "the value of testvar is false."; for (i = 1; i lte 4; i = i + 1) { mydoc.Myroot.Xmlchildren[i] = xmlelemnew(mydoc,"childnode"); mydoc.Myroot.Xmlchildren[i].Xmltext = "this is child node " & i &"."; }.
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912 chapter 3: coldfusion functions xmlformat description escapes special xml characters in a string so that the string can be used as text in xml. Returns a copy of the string parameter that is safe to use as text in xml. Category string functions , xml functions function syntax xmlformat(string) s...
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Xmlformat 913 #"> #xmlformat("body of element with , "" and & goes here.")#.
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914 chapter 3: coldfusion functions xmlgetnodetype description determines the type of an xml document object node. Returns a string identifying the xml node type. The following values are valid: if the argument is not a document object node, the function generates an error. Category xml functions fu...
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Xmlgetnodetype 915 imported from france 1 15.95 xmlobject: #xmlgetnodetype(xmlobject)# xmlobject.Order: #xmlgetnodetype(xmlobject.Order)# now check the types of all the nodes in the xmlobject.Order.Items.Item element’s xmlnodes array. Note the many apparently empty text nodes generated by whitespace...
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916 chapter 3: coldfusion functions xmlnew description creates an xml document object. Returns an empty xml document object. Category xml functions function syntax xmlnew([casesensitive]) see also cfxml , isxmldoc , tostring , xmlformat , xmlparse , xmlvalidate ; chapter 35, “using xml and wddx” in ...
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Xmlnew 917 example the following example creates and displays a coldfusion document object: mydoc = xmlnew(); mydoc.Xmlroot = xmlelemnew(mydoc,"myroot"); if (testvar is true) mydoc.Myroot.Xmltext = "the value of testvar is true."; else mydoc.Myroot.Xmltext = "the value of testvar is false."; for (i ...
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918 chapter 3: coldfusion functions xmlparse description converts xml text into an xml document object. Returns an xml document object. Category conversion functions , xml functions function syntax xmlparse(xmltext [[, casesensitive ], validator]) see also cfxml , isxml , tostring , xmlformat , xmln...
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Xmlparse 919 the casesensitive parameter value determines whether identifiers whose characters are of varying case, but are otherwise the same, refer to different components; for example: • if true, the element or attribute names “name” and “name” refer to different elements or attributes. • if fals...
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920 chapter 3: coldfusion functions standard paint thinner 3 8.95 the custorder.Dtd file is as follows: id cdata #required> firstname cdata #required lastname cdata #required accountnum cdata #required> id cdata #required> the cfml file is as follows. It uses a filename for the xml file and a url fo...
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Xmlsearch 921 xmlsearch description uses an xpath language expression to search an xml document object. Returns an array of xml object nodes that match the search criteria. Category xml functions function syntax xmlsearch(xmldoc, xpathstring) see also cfxml , isxml , xmlchildpos , xmlparse , xmltran...
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922 chapter 3: coldfusion functions laura ingalls the cfml file contains the following lines: myxmldoc = xmlparse("c:\cfusionmx7\wwwroot\examples\employeesimple.Xml"); selectedelements = xmlsearch(myxmldoc, "/employee/name/last"); for (i = 1; i lte arraylen(selectedelements); i = i + 1) writeoutput(...
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Xmltransform 923 xmltransform description applies an extensible stylesheet language transformation (xslt) to xml. The xml can be in string format or an xml document object. Returns a string containing the results of applying the xslt to the xml. Category conversion functions , xml functions function...
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924 chapter 3: coldfusion functions if the xslt code contains include statements with relative paths, coldfusion resolves them relative to the location of the xslt file, or for an xsl string, the location of the current coldfusion page. Example the following example converts an xml document that rep...
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Xmltransform 925 the cfml file has the following lines: variable="xmltrans"> #xmltransform(xmldoc, xmltrans)# variable="xmltrans"> #xmltransform(xmldoc, xmltrans)#.
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926 chapter 3: coldfusion functions xmlvalidate description uses a document type definition (dtd) or xml schema to validate an xml text document or an xml document object. Returns the following validation structure: category xml functions function syntax xmlvalidate(xmldoc[, validator]) see also cfx...
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Xmlvalidate 927 usage if you specify a relative url or filename in a parameter, coldfusion uses the directory (or, for urls, the virtual directory) that contains the current coldfusion page as the path root. The validato r parameter specifies a dtd or schema to use to validate the document. If you o...
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928 chapter 3: coldfusion functions the custorder.Xsd file is as follows: elementformdefault="qualified"> elementformdefault="qualified"> the cfml file is as follows. It uses a filename for the xml file and a url for the schema. The xml and url paths must be absolute. Myresults=xmlvalidate("c:\cfusi...
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Xmlvalidate 929 did custorder.Xml validate against custorder.Xsd? #results.Status# dump of myresults structure returned by xmlvalidate.
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930 chapter 3: coldfusion functions year description from a date/time object, gets the year value. Returns the year value of date. Category date and time functions function syntax year(date) see also datepart , isleapyear parameters usage when passing a date as a string, enclose it in quotation mark...
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Yesnoformat 931 yesnoformat description evaluates a number or boolean value. Returns yes, for a nonzero value; no for zero, false , and no boolean values, and an empty string ( "") . Category decision functions , display and formatting functions function syntax yesnoformat(value) see also isbinary ,...
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932 chapter 3: coldfusion functions.
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933 chapter 4 coldfusion mx flash form style reference this chapter describes the styles that you can specify in macromedia coldfusion mx 7 forms tags when you display the form or form element in flash format. Contents styles valid for all controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
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934 chapter 4: coldfusion mx flash form style reference styles valid for all controls the following styles are valid for all coldfusion flash format form tags except for cfformitem tags with the following type attributes, which do not take style attributes: • html • space • text these styles do not ...
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Styles valid for all controls 935 dropshadow n format: boolean; controls the visibility of the component's drop shadow. The default value is false. This style must be used with borderstyle="solid". For drop shadows to appear on containers, set backgroundcolor or backgroundimage. Otherwise, since the...
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936 chapter 4: coldfusion mx flash form style reference styles for cfform the following styles apply to the cfform tag: styles for cfformgroup with horizontal or vertical type atributes the following styles apply to the cfformgroup tag with type attributes horizontal or vertical : themecolor y forma...
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Styles for box-style cfformgroup elements 937 styles for box-style cfformgroup elements the following styles apply to the cfformgroup tag with the following type attributes. Some types have additional attributes, which are listed in the following sections. • hbox • vbox • hdividedbox • vdividedbox •...
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938 chapter 4: coldfusion mx flash form style reference styles specific to cfformgroup with panel type attribute the following additional styles apply to the cfformgroup tag with type="panel" : styles for cfformgroup with accordion type attribute the following styles apply to the cfformgroup tag wit...
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Styles for cfformitem with hrule or vrule type attributes 939 styles for cfformgroup with tabnavigator type attribute the following styles apply to the cfformgroup tag with the type="tabnavigator" : styles for cfformitem with hrule or vrule type attributes the following styles apply to the formitem ...
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940 chapter 4: coldfusion mx flash form style reference styles for cfinput with radiobutton, checkbox, button, image, or submit type attributes the following styles apply cfinput tags with the following type attribute values: • button • checkbox • image • radiobutton • submit in some cases, a style ...
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Styles for cfselect with size attribute value of 1 941 styles for cftextarea tag and cfinput with text, password, or hidden type attributes the following style applies to the following tags and tag-attribute combinations: • textarea • cfinput type="hidden" • cfinput type="password" • cfinput type="t...
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942 chapter 4: coldfusion mx flash form style reference styles for cfselect with size attribute value greater than 1 the following styles apply to the cfselect tag when the size attribute is greater than 1; that is, if the control is a list box that displays two or more options at a time: styles for...
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Styles for the cftree tag 943 styles for the cfgrid tag the following styles apply to the cfgrid tag: styles for the cftree tag the following styles apply to the cftree tag: style inh description horizontalalign n horizontal alignment of children in the container. The default value is left. Possible...
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944 chapter 4: coldfusion mx flash form style reference.
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945 chapter 5 application.Cfc reference this chapter describes the methods that you implement in application.Cfc to handle macromedia coldfusion mx 7 application events. It also describes the variables that you set in the cfc to configure application characteristics. Contents application variables ....
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946 chapter 5: application.Cfc reference the following table briefly describes the variables that you can set to control the application behavior. For more details, see the cfapplication tag. Method summary the following table briefly describes the application event methods that you can implement in...
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Method summary 947 all parameters to these methods are positional. You can use any names for these parameters. When a request executes, coldfusion mx runs the cfc methods in the following order: 1. Onapplicationstart (if not run before for this application) 2. Onsessionstart (if not run before for t...
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948 chapter 5: application.Cfc reference onapplicationend description runs when an application times out or the server is shutting down. Syntax ... See also onapplicationstart , method summary , “managing the application with application.Cfc” in chapter 13, “designing and optimizing a coldfusion app...
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Onapplicationstart 949 onapplicationstart description runs when coldfusion mx receives the first request for a page in the application. Syntax ... Boolean> see also onapplicationend , method summary , “managing the application with application.Cfc” in chapter 13, “designing and optimizing a coldfusi...
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950 chapter 5: application.Cfc reference this application encountered an error please contact support. Text="cfdocexamples db not available. Message: #cfcatch.Message# detail: #cfcatch.Detail# native error: #cfcatch.Nativeerrorcode#" > application.Availableresources=0; application.Counter1=1; text="...
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Onerror 951 onerror description runs when an uncaught exception occurs in the application. Syntax ... See also method summary , “handling errors in application.Cfc” in coldfusion mx developer’s guide parameters coldfusion mx passes the following parameters to the method: returns this method does not...
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952 chapter 5: application.Cfc reference if an exception occurs while processing the onerror method, or if the onerror method uses a cfthrow tag, the coldfusion mx standard error handling mechanisms handle the exception. These mechanisms include: any error handlers specified by cferror tags in the a...
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Onrequest 953 onrequest description runs when a request starts, after the onrequeststart event handler. If you implement this method, it must explicitly call the requested page to process it. Syntax ... ... See also onrequeststart , onrequestend , method summary , “managing requests in application.C...
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954 chapter 5: application.Cfc reference • code in this method that precedes the call to the target page can perform the same functions as the onrequeststart method, and shares the variables scope with the target page. • code in this method that follows the call to the target page can perform the sa...
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Onrequestend 955 onrequestend description runs at the end of a request, after all other cfml code. Syntax ... See also onrequeststart , onrequest , method summary , “managing requests in application.Cfc” in coldfusion mx developer’s guide parameters coldfusion mx passes the following parameters to t...
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956 chapter 5: application.Cfc reference a very simple authuserfooter.Cfm page consists of the following code: a very simple noauthuserfooter.Cfm page consists of the following code: to test this example, implement code for logging in a user, or try the example with and without the following line in...
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Onrequeststart 957 onrequeststart description runs when a request starts. Syntax ... Boolean> see also onrequest , onrequestend , method summary , “managing requests in application.Cfc” in coldfusion mx developer’s guide parameters coldfusion mx passes the following parameters to the method: returns...
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958 chapter 5: application.Cfc reference if ((hour(now()) gt 1) and (hour(now()) lt 3)) { writeoutput("the system is undergoing periodic maintenance. Please return after 3:00 am eastern time."); return false; } else { this.Start=now(); return true; }.
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Onsessionend 959 onsessionend description runs when a session ends. Syntax ... See also onsessionstart , method summary , “managing sessions in application.Cfc” in coldfusion mx developer’s guide parameters coldfusion mx passes the following parameters to the method: returns this method does not ret...
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960 chapter 5: application.Cfc reference • you must use the applicationscope parameter to access the application scope. You cannot reference the application scope directly; for example, use arguments.Applicationscope.Myvariable, not application.Myvariable. Use a named lock when you reference variabl...
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Onsessionstart 961 onsessionstart description runs when a session starts. Syntax ... See also onsessionend , method summary , “managing sessions in application.Cfc” in coldfusion mx developer’s guide returns this method does not return a value; do not use the cfreturn tag. Usage this method is usefu...
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962 chapter 5: application.Cfc reference.
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963 chapter 6 coldfusion mx event gateway reference this chapter describes the java interfaces available for building macromedia coldfusion mx 7 custom cfxs in java. Contents gateway development interfaces and classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 963 cf...
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964 chapter 6: coldfusion mx event gateway reference gateway interface coldfusion.Eventgateway.Gateway interface for implementing coldfusion mx event gateways. A class that implements this interface defines a coldfusion mx event gateway type that you can use in coldfusion mx applications. The class ...
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Gateway interface 965 constructor description instantiates a gateway. Category event gateway development syntax public void gatewayname() public void gatewayname(string id) public void gatewayname(string id, string configfile) see also setgatewayid , “class constructor” in chapter 45, “creating cust...
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966 chapter 6: coldfusion mx event gateway reference getgatewayid description returns the gateway id that identifies the gateway instance. Category event gateway development syntax public string getgatewayid() see also setgatewayid , “providing gateway class service and information routines” in chap...
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Gateway interface 967 gethelper description returns an instance of the gatewayhelper class, if any for the gateway type. Category event gateway development syntax public gatewayhelper gethelper() see also gatewayhelper interface ; “providing gateway class service and information routines” in chapter...
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968 chapter 6: coldfusion mx event gateway reference getstatus description returns the gateway status. Category event gateway development syntax public int getstatus() see also “providing gateway class service and information routines” in chapter 45, “creating custom event gateways” in coldfusion mx...
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Gateway interface 969 outgoingmessage description sends a message from coldfusion to a message receiver. Category event gateway development syntax public string outgoingmessage(coldfusion.Eventgateway.Cfevent message) see also “responding to a coldfusion function or listener cfc” in chapter 45, “cre...
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970 chapter 6: coldfusion mx event gateway reference retcode="failed"; } } else if (data.Get("originatorid") != null && message != null) { socketserverthread st = ((socketserverthread)socketregistry.Get(data.Get("originatorid"))); if(st != null) st.Writeoutput(message); else { log.Error("cannot send...
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Gateway interface 971 restart description stops a gateway if it is running and starts it up. Category event gateway development syntax public void restart() see also start , stop usage in most cases, you implement this method as a call to the stop method followed by a start method, but you may be ab...
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972 chapter 6: coldfusion mx event gateway reference setcfclisteners description sets the array of listener cfcs that the gateway sends messages to. Category event gateway development syntax public void setcfclisteners(string[] listeners) see also constructor , getgatewayid , setcfcpath , “providing...
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Gateway interface 973 setgatewayid description sets the gateway id that uniquely identifies the gateway instance. Category event gateway development syntax public void setgatewayid(string id) see also constructor , getgatewayid , “providing gateway class service and information routines” in chapter ...
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974 chapter 6: coldfusion mx event gateway reference start description starts a gateway running. Category event gateway development syntax public void start() see also restart , stop , “the start method” in chapter 45, “creating custom event gateways” in coldfusion mx developer’s guide usage start a...
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Gateway interface 975 stop description stops a gateway if it is running. Category event gateway development syntax public void stop() see also restart , start , “the stop method” in chapter 45, “creating custom event gateways” in coldfusion mx developer’s guide usage stops a gateway by performing an...
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976 chapter 6: coldfusion mx event gateway reference gatewayhelper interface coldfusion.Eventgateway.Gatewayhelper coldfusion mx includes a coldfusion.Eventgateway.Gatewayhelper java marker interface, with no methods. Implement this interface to define a class that provides gateway-specific utility ...
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Gatewayservices class 977 gatewayservices class coldfusion.Eventgateway.Gatewayservices the gateway class uses the coldfusion.Eventgateway.Gatewayservices class to interact with the coldfusion event gateway services. This class has the following methods: signature description gatewayservices getgate...
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978 chapter 6: coldfusion mx event gateway reference getgatewayservices description static method that returns the gatewayservices object. Gateway code can call this method at any time, if required. Category event gateway development syntax gatewayservices getgatewayservices() see also “gatewayservi...
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Gatewayservices class 979 addevent description sends a cfevent instance to coldfusion for dispatching to a listener cfc. Category event gateway development syntax boolean addevent(cfevent msg) see also getmaxqueuesize , getmaxqueuesize , “responding to incoming messages” in chapter 45, “creating cus...
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980 chapter 6: coldfusion mx event gateway reference getlogger description returns a coldfusion logger object that the event gateway can use to log information in a file. Category event gateway development syntax coldfusion.Eventgateway.Logger getlogger([string logfile]) see also logger class , “log...
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Gatewayservices class 981 getmaxqueuesize description returns the maximum size of the coldfusion event queue, as set in the coldfusion mx administrator. Category event gateway development syntax int getmaxqueuesize() see also addevent , getqueuesize returns the integer maximum number of messages tha...
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982 chapter 6: coldfusion mx event gateway reference getqueuesize description returns the current size of the coldfusion event queue that handles all messages for all gateways. Category event gateway development syntax int getqueuesize() see also addevent , getmaxqueuesize returns the integer number...
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Cfevent class 983 cfevent class coldfusion.Gateway.Cfevent the gateway class sends and receives cfevent instances to communicate with the coldfusion listener cfc or application. The cfevent instances correspond to cfml cfevent structure s that coldfusion application listener cfc methods receive and ...
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984 chapter 6: coldfusion mx event gateway reference cfevent description cfevent constructor. Category event gateway development syntax cfevent(string gatewayid) see also getgatewayid , “cfml cfevent structure” on page 1004 , “cfevent class” in chapter 45, “creating custom event gateways” in coldfus...
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Cfevent class 985 getcfcmethod description gets the name of the cfc method that processes the message. Category event gateway development syntax string getcfcmethod() see also getcfcpath , getcfctimeout , setcfcmethod , “cfml cfevent structure” on page 1004 , “cfevent class” in chapter 45, “creating...
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986 chapter 6: coldfusion mx event gateway reference getcfcpath description gets the path to the listener cfc that processes this message. Category event gateway development syntax string getcfcpath() see also getcfcmethod , getcfctimeout , setcfcpath , “cfml cfevent structure” on page 1004 , “cfeve...
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Cfevent class 987 getcfctimeout description gets the time-out, in seconds, for the listener cfc to process the event request. Category event gateway development syntax string getcfctimeout() see also getcfcmethod , getcfcpath , setcfctimeout , “cfml cfevent structure” on page 1004 , “cfevent class” ...
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988 chapter 6: coldfusion mx event gateway reference getdata description returns the data map that contains the message contents and other gateway-specific information. Category event gateway development syntax map getdata() see also setdata , “cfml cfevent structure” on page 1004 , “cfevent class” ...
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Cfevent class 989 getgatewayid description returns the gateway id field of the cfevent object. Category event gateway development syntax string getgatewayid(cfevent event) see also cfevent , “cfml cfevent structure” on page 1004 , “cfevent class” in chapter 45, “creating custom event gateways” in co...
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990 chapter 6: coldfusion mx event gateway reference getgatewaytype description returns the gateway type field of the cfevent object. Category event gateway development syntax string getgatewaytype() see also setgatewaytype , “cfml cfevent structure” on page 1004 , “cfevent class” in chapter 45, “cr...
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Cfevent class 991 getoriginatorid description identifies the originator of an incoming message. Some gateway types also use this field for the destination of an outgoing message. Category event gateway development syntax string getoriginatorid() see also setoriginatorid , “cfml cfevent structure” on...
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992 chapter 6: coldfusion mx event gateway reference setcfcmethod description sets the name of the cfc method that will processes an incoming message. Category event gateway development syntax void setcfcmethod(string method) see also getcfcmethod , setcfcpath , setcfctimeout , “cfml cfevent structu...
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Cfevent class 993 setcfcpath description specifies the listener cfc that will process this event. Category event gateway development syntax void setcfcpath(string path) see also getcfcpath , setcfcmethod , setcfctimeout , “cfevent class” in chapter 45, “creating custom event gateways” in coldfusion ...
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994 chapter 6: coldfusion mx event gateway reference setcfctimeout description sets the time-out, in seconds, during which the listener cfc must process the event request and return before coldfusion gateway services terminates the request. Category event gateway development syntax void setcftimeout...
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Cfevent class 995 setdata description adds the gateway-specific data, including any message contents, as a java map to the cfevent object category event gateway development syntax void setdata(map data) see also getdata , “cfml cfevent structure” on page 1004 , “cfevent class” in chapter 45, “creati...
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996 chapter 6: coldfusion mx event gateway reference setgatewaytype description identifies the type of event gateway. Category event gateway development syntax void setgatewaytype(string gatewaytype) see also parameters getgatewaytype , “cfml cfevent structure” on page 1004 , “cfevent class” in chap...
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Cfevent class 997 setoriginatorid description identifies the originator of an incoming message. Category event gateway development syntax void setoriginatorid(string originatorid) see also getoriginatorid , “cfml cfevent structure” on page 1004 , “cfevent class” in chapter 45, “creating custom event...
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998 chapter 6: coldfusion mx event gateway reference logger class coldfusion.Eventgateway.Logger note: this class is in the coldfusion.Log package, not the coldfusion.Eventgateway package, which contains all other event gateway-related interfaces and classes. The logger class logs messages to a file...
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Logger class 999 debug description writes a log entry with a debugging severity to the coldfusion mx logger. The entry includes the severity, thread id, date, time, and a text message. Category event gateway development syntax debug(string message) debug(throwable th) debug(string message, throwable...
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1000 chapter 6: coldfusion mx event gateway reference error description writes a log entry with an error severity to the coldfusion mx logger. The entry includes the severity, thread id, date, time, and a text message. Category event gateway development syntax error(string message) error(throwable t...
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Logger class 1001 fatal description writes a log entry with a fatal severity to the coldfusion mx logger. The entry includes the severity, thread id, date, time, and a text message. Category event gateway development syntax fatal(string message) fatal(throwable th) fatal(string message, throwable th...
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1002 chapter 6: coldfusion mx event gateway reference info description writes a log entry with an information severity to the coldfusion mx logger. The entry includes the severity, thread id, date, time, and a text message. Category event gateway development syntax info(string message) info(throwabl...
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Logger class 1003 warn description writes a log entry with a warning severity to the coldfusion mx logger. The entry includes the severity, thread id, date, time, and a text message. Category event gateway development syntax warn(string message) warn(throwable th) warn(string message, throwable th) ...
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1004 chapter 6: coldfusion mx event gateway reference cfml cfevent structure the cfml listener cfc methods receive messages in the form of a cfevent structure that corresponds to the cfevent class that gateway developers use. This structure has the following fields. Some of the fields might not be u...
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Im gateway cfc incoming message methods 1005 im gateway cfc incoming message methods you write the following cfc methods to handle incoming messages from an xmpp or lotus sametime instant messaging gateway. Note: the method names assume a default gateway configuration. Coldfusion lets you change the...
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1006 chapter 6: coldfusion mx event gateway reference onaddbuddyrequest description handles incoming requests for users to add the gateway user name as one of their buddies. Syntax onaddbuddyrequest(cfevent) see also onincomingmessage , onaddbuddyresponse , onbuddystatus , onimservermessage paramete...
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Im gateway cfc incoming message methods 1007 example the following example searches for the requested buddy’s name in a data source and, if it finds a unique entry, adds the buddy and updates the buddy’s status information in an application scope buddystatus structure. If it doesn’t find the name, i...
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Im gateway cfc incoming message methods 1009 onaddbuddyresponse description handles incoming responses from other users to requests from the gateway to be added to their buddy lists. Also receives requests from buddies to have you remove them from your buddy list. Syntax onaddbuddyresponse(cfevent) ...
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1010 chapter 6: coldfusion mx event gateway reference application.Buddystatus[#cfevent.Data.Sender#]=structnew(); } //set the buddy status information to indicate buddy was added. Application.Buddystatus[#cfevent.Data.Sender#].Status= "buddy accepted us"; application.Buddystatus[#cfevent.Data.Sender...
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Im gateway cfc incoming message methods 1011 onbuddystatus description handles incoming messages indicating online status (presence) changes of users on the gateway’s buddy list. Syntax onbuddystatus(cfevent) see also onincomingmessage , onaddbuddyrequest , onaddbuddyresponse , onimservermessage par...
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1012 chapter 6: coldfusion mx event gateway reference example the following example keeps an application scope structure up-to-date with a buddy’s status. It also uses the gatewayhelper object getbuddystatus method to get the buddy’s custom away message, if any. Text="in onbuddystatus, sender is #cf...
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Im gateway cfc incoming message methods 1013 onimservermessage description handles incoming error and status messages from the im server. Syntax onimservermessage(cfevent) see also onincomingmessage , onaddbuddyrequest , onaddbuddyresponse , onbuddystatus parameters this method must take one paramet...
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1014 chapter 6: coldfusion mx event gateway reference onincomingmessage description handles incoming instant messages from other users. Optionally returns a response to the message sender. Syntax onincomingmessage(cfevent) see also onaddbuddyrequest , onaddbuddyresponse , onbuddystatus , onimserverm...
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1016 chapter 6: coldfusion mx event gateway reference im gateway message sending commands you use the sendgatewaymessage cfml function or the return value of a cfc listener method to send outgoing messages. The coldfusion mx 7 im gateway accepts the following outgoing message commands: the message s...
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Im gateway gatewayhelper class methods 1017 im gateway gatewayhelper class methods the gatewayhelper class returned by the cfml getgatewayhelper function includes the following methods: addbuddy getdenylist getstatusasstring removedeny adddeny getname getstatustimestamp removepermit addpermit getnic...
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1018 chapter 6: coldfusion mx event gateway reference addbuddy description adds a buddy to the buddy list for the gateway user id and asks to have the im server send messages with the buddy’s online presence state to the gateway. Syntax boolean = addbuddy(name, nickname, group) see also getbuddyinfo...
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Im gateway gatewayhelper class methods 1019 adddeny description tells the im server to add the specified user to the deny list for the gateway’s user id. If the gateway’s permit mode value is deny_some, the specified user cannot receive messages on the gateway’s presence state. Syntax boolean = addd...
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1020 chapter 6: coldfusion mx event gateway reference addpermit description tells the im server to add the specified user to the permit list for the gateway’s user id. If the gateway’s permit mode is permit_some, the specified user receive messages on the gateway’s presence state. Syntax boolean = a...
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Im gateway gatewayhelper class methods 1021 getbuddyinfo description gets information about the specified user from the buddy list, deny list, and permit list. Syntax array = getbuddyinfo(name) see also addbuddy , getbuddylist , removebuddy , “using the gatewayhelper object” in chapter 43, “using th...
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1022 chapter 6: coldfusion mx event gateway reference example see “gatewayhelper example”, in chapter 43, “using the instant messaging event gateways” in coldfusion mx developer’s guide, which uses all gatewayhelper class methods. For an example of using this method to get the buddy custom away mess...
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Im gateway gatewayhelper class methods 1023 getbuddylist description gets the buddy list for the gateway’s user id. Syntax array = getbuddylist() see also addbuddy , getbuddyinfo , removebuddy , “using the gatewayhelper object” in chapter 43, “using the instant messaging event gateways” in coldfusio...
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1024 chapter 6: coldfusion mx event gateway reference getcustomawaymessage description returns the gateway’s custom away message if it has been set by the gatewayhelper object setstatus method. Syntax string = getcustomawaymessage() see also getstatusasstring , getstatustimestamp , isonline , setsta...
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Im gateway gatewayhelper class methods 1025 getdenylist description returns the list of users that the im server has been told not to send state information about the gateway, if the permit mode is set to deny_some. Syntax array = getdenylist() see also adddeny , addpermit , getpermitlist , getpermi...
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1026 chapter 6: coldfusion mx event gateway reference getname description returns the gateway's user name. Syntax string = getname() see also getprotocolname , numberofmessagesreceived , numberofmessagessent , setnickname , “using the gatewayhelper object” in chapter 43, “using the instant messaging...
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Im gateway gatewayhelper class methods 1027 getnickname description returns the gateway’s nickname (display name), if it has been set using the gatewayhelper object setnickname method. Syntax string = getnickname() see also getname , getprotocolname , numberofmessagesreceived , numberofmessagessent ...
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1028 chapter 6: coldfusion mx event gateway reference getpermitlist description returns the list of users that the im server has been told to send state information about the gateway. Syntax array = getpermitlist() see also adddeny , addpermit , getdenylist , getpermitmode , removedeny , removepermi...
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Im gateway gatewayhelper class methods 1029 getpermitmode description gets the gateway’s permit mode from the im server. The permit mode determines whether all users can get the gateway’s online state information, or whether the server uses a permit list or a deny list to control which users get sta...
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1030 chapter 6: coldfusion mx event gateway reference getprotocolname description gets the name of the gateway’s instant messaging protocol. Syntax string = getprotocolname() see also getname , getnickname , numberofmessagesreceived , numberofmessagessent , setnickname , “using the gatewayhelper obj...
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Im gateway gatewayhelper class methods 1031 getstatusasstring description gets the online status of the gateway as a text string. Syntax string = getstatusasstring() see also getcustomawaymessage , getstatustimestamp , isonline , setstatus , “using the gatewayhelper object” in chapter 43, “using the...
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1032 chapter 6: coldfusion mx event gateway reference getstatustimestamp description gets the date and time that the gateway changed its online status. Syntax date-time object = getstatustimestamp() see also getcustomawaymessage , getstatusasstring , isonline , setstatus , “using the gatewayhelper o...
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Im gateway gatewayhelper class methods 1033 isonline description determines whether the gateway is connected to the instant messaging server. Syntax boolean = isonline() see also getcustomawaymessage , getstatusasstring , getstatustimestamp , setstatus , “using the gatewayhelper object” in chapter 4...
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1034 chapter 6: coldfusion mx event gateway reference numberofmessagesreceived description gets the number of messages received by the gateway since it was started. Syntax integer = numberofmessagesreceived() see also getname , getnickname , getprotocolname , numberofmessagessent , setnickname , “us...
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Im gateway gatewayhelper class methods 1035 numberofmessagessent description gets the number of messages sent by the gateway since it was started. Syntax integer = numberofmessagessent() see also getname , getnickname , getprotocolname , numberofmessagesreceived , setnickname , “using the gatewayhel...
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1036 chapter 6: coldfusion mx event gateway reference removebuddy description removes an id from a group in the buddy list for the gateway and tells the im server not to send the gateway messages with the buddy’s online presence state. Syntax boolean = removebuddy(name, group) see also addbuddy , ge...
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Im gateway gatewayhelper class methods 1037 removedeny description removes an id from a group in the deny list for the gateway. If the gateway’s permit mode is deny_some, the specified user can receive messages on the gateway’s presence state. Syntax boolean = removedeny(name, group) see also addden...
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1038 chapter 6: coldfusion mx event gateway reference removepermit description removes an id from a group in the permit list for the gateway. If the gateway’s permit mode is permit_some, the specified user cannot receive messages on the gateway's presence state. Syntax boolean = removepermit(name, g...
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Im gateway gatewayhelper class methods 1039 setnickname description sets the gateway’s nickname (display name). Syntax boolean = setnickname(name) see also getname , getnickname , getprotocolname , numberofmessagesreceived , numberofmessagessent , “using the gatewayhelper object” in chapter 43, “usi...
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1040 chapter 6: coldfusion mx event gateway reference setpermitmode description sets the gateway’s permit mode on the im server. The permit mode determines whether all users can get the gateway's online state information, or whether the server uses a permit list or a deny list to control which users...
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Im gateway gatewayhelper class methods 1041 setstatus description sets the online presence status of the gateway, including any custom away message. Syntax boolean = setstatus(status, customawaymsg) see also getcustomawaymessage , getstatusasstring , getstatustimestamp , isonline , “using the gatewa...
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1042 chapter 6: coldfusion mx event gateway reference sms gateway cfevent structure and commands this section describes the detailed contents of the following structures that you use in the sms gateway listener cfcs and cfml sendgatewaymessage functions: • sms gateway incoming message cfevent struct...
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Sms gateway incoming message cfevent structure 1043 sms gateway incoming message cfevent structure the sms gateway puts the following information in a cfevent instance that it sends to the cfc listener method: field value originatorid contents of the pdu source_addr field, the address of the device ...
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1044 chapter 6: coldfusion mx event gateway reference for more information on the meanings of some of these fields and how to handle incoming sms messages an sms gateway listener cfc method, see “handling incoming messages” in chapter 44, “using the sms event gateway” in coldfusion mx developer’s gu...
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Sms gateway message sending commands 1045 sms gateway message sending commands coldfusion applications that use gateways of the short message service (sms) type can send the following commands to the event gateway in an outgoing message: • submit command • submitmulti command • data command.
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1046 chapter 6: coldfusion mx event gateway reference submit command to send a message to a single destination address in an smpp submit_sm pdu, the structure that you used in the data parameter of a sendgatewaymessage function or the return variable of the cfc listener method has the following fiel...
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Sms gateway message sending commands 1047 example the following example onincomingmessage method of a listener cfc uses the submit command to echo incoming sms messages to the message originator:.
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1048 chapter 6: coldfusion mx event gateway reference submitmulti command to send a single text message to multiple recipients using an smpp submit_multi pdu, the data parameter of a sendgatewaymessage function or the return variable of the cfc listener method usually has the following fields. For m...
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Sms gateway message sending commands 1049 example the following example onincomingmessage method sends a response that echoes an incoming message to the originator address, and sends a copy of the response to a second address:.
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1050 chapter 6: coldfusion mx event gateway reference data command to send binary data to a single destination address in an smpp data_sm pdu, the data parameter of a sendgatewaymessage function or the return variable of the cfc listener method must have the following fields. For more information ab...
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Sms gateway message sending commands 1051 example the following example onincomingmessage method converts an incoming message to binary data, and sends the binary version of the message back to the originator address:.
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1052 chapter 6: coldfusion mx event gateway reference cfml event gateway sendgatewaymessage data parameter the coldfusion cfml gateway type enables you to invoke cfc methods asynchronously. The structure that you use in the sendgatewaymessage function data parameter can include two types of fields: ...
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Cfml event gateway sendgatewaymessage data parameter 1053 the cfc method uses the originatorid and the message, file, and type fields of the cfevent parameter’s data field to specify the log file and message. If (not isdefined("cfevent.Data.File")) { cfevent.Data.File="defaulteventlog"; } if (not is...
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1055 chapter 7 coldfusion c++ cfx reference this chapter describes the macromedia coldfusion mx 7 cfxapi classes and methods. Contents c++ class overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1055 deprecated class methods. . ....
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1056 chapter 7: coldfusion c++ cfx reference deprecated class methods the following cfxapi classes and methods are deprecated. They do not work, and might cause an error, in later releases. Ccfxexception class an abstract class that represents an exception thrown during processing of a coldfusion ex...
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Ccfxexception class 1057 ccfxexception::geterror description provides basic user output for exceptions that occur during processing. Ccfxexception::getdiagnostics description provides detailed user output for exception that occur during processing. Example this code block shows how geterror and getd...
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1058 chapter 7: coldfusion c++ cfx reference ccfxquery class an abstract class that represents a query used or created by a coldfusion extension (cfx). Queries contain one or more columns of data that extend over a varying number of rows. Class methods ccfxquery::addrow syntax int ccfxquery::addrow(...
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Ccfxquery class 1059 example the following example shows the addition of two rows to a three-column ('city', 'state', and 'zip') query: // first row int irow ; irow = pquery->addrow() ; pquery->setdata( irow, icity, "minneapolis" ) ; pquery->setdata( irow, istate, "mn" ) ; pquery->setdata( irow, izi...
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1060 chapter 7: coldfusion c++ cfx reference ccfxquery::getdata syntax lpcstr ccfxquery::getdata(int irow, int icolumn) description gets a data element from a row and column of a query. Row and column indexes begin with 1. You can determine the number of rows in a query by calling ccfxquery::getrowc...
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Ccfxquery class 1061 example the following example retrieves the name of a query and writes it back to the user: ccfxquery* pquery = prequest->getquery() ; prequest->write( "the query name is: " ) ; prequest->write( pquery->getname() ) ; ccfxquery::getrowcount syntax int ccfxquery::getrowcount(void)...
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1062 chapter 7: coldfusion c++ cfx reference example the following example shows the addition of two rows to a three-column ('city', 'state', and 'zip') query: // first row int irow ; irow = pquery->addrow() ; pquery->setdata( icity, irow, "minneapolis" ) ; pquery->setdata( istate, irow, "mn" ) ; pq...
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Ccfxrequest class 1063 ccfxrequest::addquery syntax ccfxquery* ccfxrequest::addquery(lpcstr lpszname, ccfxstringset* pcolumns) description adds a query to the calling template. The query can be accessed by cfml tags (for example, cfoutput or cftable ) within the template. After calling addquery , th...
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1064 chapter 7: coldfusion c++ cfx reference example the following example adds a query named 'people' to the calling template. The query has two columns ('firstname' and 'lastname') and two rows: // create a string set and add the column names to it ccfxstringset* pcolumns = prequest->createstrings...
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Ccfxrequest class 1065 ccfxrequest::createstringset syntax ccfxstringset* ccfxrequest::createstringset(void) description allocates and returns an instance. Always use this function to create string sets, as opposed to directly using the new operator. Returns returns an object of ccfxstringset class ...
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1066 chapter 7: coldfusion c++ cfx reference returns returns the value of the attribute passed to the tag. If no attribute of that name was passed to the tag, an empty string is returned. Parameters example the following example retrieves an attribute named destination and writes its value back to t...
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Ccfxrequest class 1067 ccfxrequest::getcustomdata syntax lpvoid ccfxrequest::getcustomdata(void) description gets the custom (tag specific) data for the request. This method is typically used from within subroutines of a tag implementation to extract tag data from a request. Returns returns a pointe...
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1068 chapter 7: coldfusion c++ cfx reference example the following example retrieves the query that was passed to the tag. If no query was passed, an exception is thrown: ccfxquery* pquery = prequest->getquery() ; if ( pquery == null ) { prequest->throwexception( "missing query parameter", "you must...
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Ccfxrequest class 1069 ccfxrequest::setcustomdata syntax void ccfxrequest::setcustomdata(lpvoid lpvdata) description sets custom (tag specific) data to carry with the request. Use this function to store request specific data to pass to procedures within your custom tag implementation. Parameters exa...
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1070 chapter 7: coldfusion c++ cfx reference example the following example sets the value of a variable named 'messagesent' based on the success of an operation performed by the custom tag: bool bmessagesent; ...Attempt to send the message... If ( bmessagesent == true ) { prequest->setvariable( "mes...
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Ccfxrequest class 1071 ccfxrequest::write syntax void ccfxrequest::write(lpcstr lpszoutput) description writes text output back to the user. Parameters example the following example creates a buffer to hold an output string, fills the buffer with data, and writes the output back to the user: char bu...
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1072 chapter 7: coldfusion c++ cfx reference ccfxstringset class abstract class that represents a set of ordered strings. Strings can be added to a set and can be retrieved by a numeric index (index values for strings are 1-based). To create a string set, use ccfxrequest::createstringset . Class met...
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Ccfxstringset class 1073 description gets the number of strings in a string set. The value can be used with ccfxstringset::getstring to iterate over the strings in the set (recall that the index values for strings in the list begin at 1). Returns returns the number of strings contained in the string...
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1074 chapter 7: coldfusion c++ cfx reference ccfxstringset::getstring syntax lpcstr ccfxstringset::getstring(int iindex) description retrieves the string located at the passed index (index values are 1-based). Returns returns the string located at the passed index. Parameters example the following e...
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1075 chapter 8 coldfusion java cfx reference this chapter describes the java interfaces available for building macromedia coldfusion mx 7 custom cfxs in java. Contents class libraries overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10...
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1076 chapter 8: coldfusion java cfx reference custom tag interface public abstract interface customtag interface for implementing custom tags. Classes that implement this interface can be specified in the class attribute of the java cfx tag. For example, in a class mycustomtag, which implements this...
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Query interface 1077 parameters query interface public abstract interface query interface to a query used or created by a custom tag. A query contains tabular data organized by named columns and rows. Methods addrow description adds a row to a query. Call this method to append a row to a query. Retu...
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1078 chapter 8: coldfusion java cfx reference int icity = 1, istate = 2, izip = 3 ; // first row int irow = query.Addrow() ; query.Setdata( irow, icity, "minneapolis" ) ; query.Setdata( irow, istate, "mn" ) ; query.Setdata( irow, izip, "55345" ) ; // second row irow = query.Addrow() ; query.Setdata(...
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Query interface 1079 getcolumns description returns an array of strings containing the names of the columns in the query. Category query interface syntax public string[] getcolumns() example the following example retrieves the array of columns, then iterates over the list, writing each column name b...
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1080 chapter 8: coldfusion java cfx reference parameters example the following example iterates over the rows of a query and writes the data back to the user in a simple, space-delimited format: int irow, icol ; int nnumcols = query.Getcolumns().Length ; int nnumrows = query.Getrowcount() ; for ( ir...
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Query interface 1081 example the following example retrieves the number of rows in a query and writes it back to the user: query query = request.Getquery() ; int rows = query.Getrowcount() ; response.Write( "the number of rows in the query is " + integer.Tostring(rows) ) ; setdata description sets a...
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1082 chapter 8: coldfusion java cfx reference query.Setdata( irow, icity, "st. Paul" ) ; query.Setdata( irow, istate, "mn" ) ; query.Setdata( irow, izip, "55105" ) ; request interface public abstract interface request interface to a request made to a customtag. The interface includes methods for ret...
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Request interface 1083 example the following example checks whether the user passed an attribute named destination to the tag; if not, it throws an exception: if ( ! Request.Attributeexists("destination") ) { throw new exception( "missing destination parameter", "you must pass a destination paramete...
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1084 chapter 8: coldfusion java cfx reference syntax public string getattribute(string name) see also attributeexists , getattributelist , getintattribute , getattribute parameters example the following example retrieves an attribute named destination and writes its value back to the user: string st...
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Request interface 1085 getintattribute description retrieves the value of the passed attribute as an integer. Returns -1 if the attribute does not exist. Use attributeexists to test whether an attribute was passed to the tag. Use getintattribute(string,int) to return a default value rather than thro...
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1086 chapter 8: coldfusion java cfx reference syntax public query getquery() example the following example retrieves a query that was passed to a tag. If no query was passed, an exception is thrown: query query = request.Getquery() ; if ( query == null ) { throw new exception( "missing query paramet...
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Response interface 1087 response interface public abstract interface response interface to response generated from a custom tag. This interface includes methods for writing output, generating queries, and setting variables in the calling page. Methods addquery description adds a query to the calling...
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1088 chapter 8: coldfusion java cfx reference int ifirstname = 1, ilastname = 2 ; // create a query which contains these columns query query = response.Addquery( "people", columns ) ; // add data to the query int irow = query.Addrow() ; query.Setdata( irow, ifirstname, "john" ) ; query.Setdata( irow...
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Response interface 1089 write description outputs text back to the user. Category response interface syntax public void write(string output) parameters example the following example outputs the value of the destination attribute: response.Write( "destination = " + request.Getattribute("destination")...
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1090 chapter 8: coldfusion java cfx reference debugging classes reference the constructors and methods supported by the debugrequest , debugresponse , and debugquery classes are as follows. These classes also support the other methods of the request , response , and query interfaces, respectively. D...
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1091 chapter 9 wddx javascript objects this chapter provides information about javascript objects and functions used to wddx in a macromedia coldfusion mx 7 application. Contents javascript object overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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1092 chapter 9: wddx javascript objects wddxserializer object the wddxserializer object includes functions that serialize any javascript data structure. For more information on using this object, see “using wddx” in chapter 35, “using xml and wddx” in coldfusion mx developer’s guide. Functions the o...
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Wddxserializer object 1093 if (wddxpacket != null) { formfield.Value = wddxpacket; } else { alert("couldn't serialize data"); } } serializevariable description serializes a property of a structure. If an object is not a string, number, array, boolean, or date, wddxserializer treats it as a structure...
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1094 chapter 9: wddx javascript objects serializevalue description recursively serializes eligible data in a passed instance. Eligible data includes: • string • number • boolean • date • array • recordset • any javascript object this function serializes null values as empty strings. Syntax object.Se...
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Wddxrecordset object 1095 write description appends data to a serialized data stream. Syntax object.Write( str ) parameters return value returns an updated serialized data stream as a string. Usage this is an internal function; you do not typically call it. Example this example is from the wddxseria...
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1096 chapter 9: wddx javascript objects returns html table of the wddxrecordset object data. Usage convenient for debugging and testing record sets. The boolean parameter escapestrings determines whether & characters in string values are escaped as & in html. Example select message_id, thread_id, us...
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Wddxrecordset object 1097 usage adds a column to every row of the wddx record set. Initially the new column’s values are set to null. Example this example calls the addcolumn function: // create a new record set rs = new wddxrecordset(); // add a new column rs.Addcolumn("newcolumn"); // extend the r...
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1098 chapter 9: wddx javascript objects // extend the record set by 3 rows rs.Addrows(3); // set an element in the first row // newvalue is a previously defined variable rs.Setfield(0, "newcolumn", newvalue); getfield description returns the element in the specified row/column position. Syntax objec...
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Wddxrecordset object 1099 parameters return value integer. Returns the number of rows in the wddxrecordset instance. Usage call this function before a looping construct to determine the number of rows in a record set. Example this example calls the getrowcount function: function dumpwddxrecordset(r)...
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1100 chapter 9: wddx javascript objects // add a new column rs.Addcolumn("newcolumn"); // extend the record set by 3 rows rs.Addrows(3); // set an element in the first row // newvalue is a previously defined variable rs.Setfield(0, "newcolumn", newvalue); wddxserialize description serializes a recor...
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1101 chapter 10 coldfusion actionscript functions this chapter explains the syntax and usage of the two macromedia coldfusion mx 7 server-side actionscript functions, cf.Query and cf.Http . Contents cf.Query . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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1102 chapter 10: coldfusion actionscript functions cf.Query description performs queries against coldfusion data sources. Return value returns a recordset object. Syntax cf.Query ({ datasource:"data source name", sql:"sql stmts", username:"username", password:"password", maxrows:number, timeout:mill...
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Cf.Query 1103 you can manipulate the record set returned by the cf.Query function using methods in the recordset actionscript class. The following are some of the methods available in the recordset class: • recordset.Getcolumnnames • recordset.Getlength • recordset.Getitemat • recordset.Getitemid • ...
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1104 chapter 10: coldfusion actionscript functions cf.Http description executes http post and get operations on files. (post operations upload mime file types to a server, or post cookie, formfield, url, file, or cgi variables directly to a server.) return value returns an object containing properti...
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Cf.Http 1105 usage you can write the cf.Http function using named arguments or positional arguments. You can invoke all supported arguments using the named argument style, as follows: cf.Http({method:"method", url:"url", username:"username", password:"password", resolveurl:"yes or no", params:arrayv...
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1106 chapter 10: coldfusion actionscript functions cf.Http(method, url, username, password); cf.Http(method, url, params, username, password); note: do not use curly braces {} with positional arguments. The following parameters can only be passed as an array of objects in the params argument in the ...
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Cf.Http 1107 you access these attributes using the get function: function basicget() { url = "http://localhost:8100/"; // invoke with just the url. This is an http get. Result = cf.Http(url); return result.Get("filecontent"); } note: for more information on using server-side actionscript, see chapte...
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1108 chapter 10: coldfusion actionscript functions { url = "http://localhost:8100/"; // invoke with just the url. This is an http get. Result = cf.Http(url); return result.Get("filecontent"); } // example showing simple array created to pass params arguments function postwithparams() { // set up the...