I am severely new to ColdFusion... I have searched for help on this statement and have found a bunch of material, but still don't understand what is going on. All of the parts of this statement make sense, but when I put them all together, it's confusing... the ColdFusion 8: IsDefined("URL.variable) and is not"" thread is the closest, but I still don't understand. This is the 1st statement in the index.cfm file of my application. It's not throwing an error, I just want to understand how it works. Thank you.
I have yet to be able to successfully post code here, so here is a link to a text version of the index.cfm.
Edit:
The code below should be the relevant sections related to URL.openFile
<cfif isdefined("URL.openFile")>
<cfquery name="getFile" datasource="xxxxxxxx">
SELECT filename, filename2, filecontent, filesize
FROM Help_FooterInfo
WHERE Help_id=5 and Section='Registration'
</cfquery>
<cfset sproot=#getDirectoryFromPath(getTemplatePath())#>
<cfset newDest = #sproot#&"temp\">
<cfoutput query="getFile">
<cfheader name="Content-Disposition" value="attachment; filename=#getfile.FileName2#">
<cfcontent type="application/msword" variable="#getfile.filecontent#">
</cfoutput>
</cfif>
...
<cfquery name="getRegistration" datasource="xxxxxxxx">
select * from help_footerinfo where help_id=5
</cfquery>
....
<cfoutput>#getRegistration.Content#</cfoutput><br>
<a href="<cfif #getRegistration.filename2# neq "">index.cfm?openfile=Yes</cfif>" target="_blank">
<u><cfoutput>#getRegistration.FileName#</cfoutput></u>
</a>
The error message I am receiving (see comment below): ORA-00942: table or view does not exist (ColdFusion application)
This:
<cfif IsDefined("URL.variable") and URL.variable is not "" >
means, "If url.variable actually exists and is not an empty string".
A better alternative for isDefined("URL.variable") is StructKeyExists(url,"variable").
Other alternatives for is not "" include len(trim(url.variable)) gt 0, and isNumeric(url.variable).
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I am trying to write an if statement in Coldfusion 16 to check to see if it can connect to the database or that it exists. If it can connect to the database then show the page otherwise show down for maintenance. How should I just check to make sure the database is up? Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
<cfquery name="DBUP" datasource="datasource">
SELECT ID
FROM dbo.Entry
</cfquery>
<cfif DBUP>
Show Page
<cfelse>
Show Down For Maintenance
</cfif>
You shouldn't directly put a error message or file in a catch statement. We should check one more condition ie) Error code is 0 or not. Imagine in some time the developer may give wrong query like undefined column or missing syntax etc... In that time also the catch will executed. So as per the requirement we have to check the datasource exists or not. If we want to check all type of issue means we no need of the error code conditions.
<cftry>
<cfset showPage = true>
<cfquery name="DBUP" datasource="datasource">
SELECT ID FROM dbo.Entry
</cfquery>
<cfcatch type="database">
<!--- The error code 0 is mentioned Datasource could not be found/exits. --->
<cfif cfcatch.cause.errorcode eq 0 >
<cfset showPage = false >
<!--- Data source does not exists --->
</cfif>
</cfcatch>
</cftry>
Based on showPage value do you business logic here
....
....
....
You will need to add it in Application.cfc onRequest method probably.
<cftry>
<cfquery name="DBUP" datasource="datasource">
SELECT ID
FROM dbo.Entry
</cfquery>
<cfcatch type="any">
Show DOwn For Maintenance
<!---everything optional below this line--->
<!---can show some custom message--->
<cfinclude template="errorMsg.cfm">
<!---stop the processing further--->
<cfabort>
</cfcatch>
</cftry>
Is there a way to exclude certain items by filetype in a list in Coldfusion?
Background: I just integrated a compression tool into an existing application and ran into the problem of the person's prior code would automatically grab the file from the upload destination on the server and push it to the Network Attached Storage. The aim now is to stop their NAS migration code from moving all files to the NAS, only those which are not PDF's. What I want to do is loop through their variable that stores the names of the files uploaded, and exclude the pdf's from the list then pass the list onto the NAS code, so all non pdf's are moved and all pdf's uploaded remain on the server. Working with their code is a challenge as no one commented or documented anything and I've been trying several approaches.
<cffile action="upload" destination= "c:\uploads\" result="myfiles" nameconflict="makeunique" >
<cfset fileSys = CreateObject('component','cfc.FileManagement')>
<cfif Len(get.realec_transactionid)>
<cfset internalOnly=1 >
</cfif>
**This line below is what I want to loop through and exclude file names
with pdf extensions **
<cfset uploadedfilenames='#myfiles.clientFile#' >
<CFSET a_insert_time = #TimeFormat(Now(), "HH:mm:ss")#>
<CFSET a_insert_date = #DateFormat(Now(), "mm-dd-yyyy")#>
**This line calls their method from another cfc that has all the file
migration methods.**
<cfset new_file_name = #fileSys.MoveFromUploads(uploadedfilenames)#>
**Once it moves the file to the NAS, it inserts the file info into the
DB table here**
<cfquery name="addFile" datasource="#request.dsn#">
INSERT INTO upload_many (title_id, fileDate, filetime, fileupload)
VALUES('#get.title_id#', '#dateTimeStamp#', '#a_insert_time#', '#new_file_name#')
</cfquery>
<cfelse>
<cffile action="upload" destination= #ExpandPath("./uploaded_files/zip.txt")# nameconflict="overwrite" >
</cfif>
Update 6/18
Trying the recommended code helps with the issue of sorting out filetypes when tested outside of the application, but anytime its integrated into the application to operate on the variable uploadedfilenames the rest of the application fails and the multi-file upload module just throws a status 500 error and no errors are reported in the CF logs. I've found that simply trying to run a cfloop on another variable not related to anything in the code still causes it to error.
As per my understanding, you want to filter-out file names with a specific file type/extension (ex: pdf) from the main list uploadedfilenames. This is one of the easiest ways:
<cfset lFileNames = "C:\myfiles\proj\icon-img-12.png,C:\myfiles\proj\sample-file.ppt,C:\myfiles\proj\fin-doc1.docx,C:\myfiles\proj\fin-doc2.pdf,C:\myfiles\proj\invoice-temp.docx,C:\myfiles\proj\invoice-final.pdf" />
<cfset lResultList = "" />
<cfset fileExtToExclude = "pdf" />
<cfloop list="#lFileNames#" index="fileItem" delimiters=",">
<cfif ListLast(ListLast(fileItem,'\'),'.') NEQ fileExtToExclude>
<cfset lResultList = ListAppend(lResultList,"#fileItem#") />
</cfif>
</cfloop>
Using only List Function provided by ColdFusion this is easily done, you can test and try the code here. I would recommend you to wrap this code around a function for easy handling. Another way to do it would be to use some complex regular expression on the list (if you're looking for a more general solution, outside the context of ColdFusion).
Now, applying the solution to your problem:
<cfset uploadedfilenames='#myfiles.clientFile#' >
<cfset lResultList = "" />
<cfset fileExtToExclude = "pdf" />
<cfloop list="#uploadedfilenames#" index="fileItem" delimiters=",">
<cfif ListLast(ListLast(fileItem,'\'),'.') NEQ fileExtToExclude>
<cfset lResultList = ListAppend(lResultList,fileItem) />
</cfif>
</cfloop>
<cfset uploadedfilenames = lResultList />
<!--- rest of your code continues --->
The result list lResultList is copied to the original variable uploadedfilenames.
I hope I'm not misunderstanding the question, but why don't you just wrap all of that in an if-statement that reads the full file name? Whether the files are coming one by one or through a delimited list, it should be easy to work around.
<cfif !listContains(ListName, '.pdf')>
OR
<cfif FileName does not contain '.pdf'>
then
all the code you posted
I am using Coldfusion 8 and I am trying to serve a file of 15mo with cf_content. The problem is that the download freezes randomly. At the moment, I only tried locally, therefore the network is not the problem. I have tried with smaller files and freezes happen less often. I have no idea of the root of the problem. Here is my coldfusion code:
<cfheader name="Content-Disposition" value="attachment; filename=test.zip">
<cfcontent type="application/zip" file="C:\Test.zip" deletefile="no">
I tried to download the file with Chrome, IE and with a piece of java code to download the file (freeze on the read method after some iteration).
Do you have any idea of how I can easily stream a file using Coldfusion? Maybe it is possible using a Java Custom tags but how to write bytes to page as the custom tag write method of the Response object only allows to write a String?
I did this for a client. I am gathering a number of documents and zipping them for download. Rather than stream them, I save the zip file on the server:
<cfzip action="zip" file="#expandpath('/data/briefcase/')##session.order_id#.zip" source="#expandpath('/data/briefcase/')##session.order_id#" overwrite="yes" storepath="no">
Then I provide the user a link to download the file. That way, if it fails, they can always try again.
I then wrote a scheduled task that runs every day and delete any zip files more than 24 hours old.
<cfdirectory action="list" directory="#expandpath('/data/briefcase/')#" name="filelist" >
<cfquery name="filter_file" dbtype="query" >
SELECT * from filelist WHERE datelastmodified < #dateadd("h", -48, now())# AND type = 'File'
</cfquery>
<cfquery name="filter_dir" dbtype="query" >
SELECT * from filelist WHERE datelastmodified < #dateadd("h", -48, now())# AND type = 'Dir'
</cfquery>
<cfset path = expandpath('/data/briefcase/')>
<cfoutput query="filter_file">
<cfif fileexists('#directory#/#name#')>
<cffile action="delete" file="#directory#/#name#" >
</cfif>
</cfoutput>
<cfoutput query="filter_dir">
<cfif directoryexists('#directory#/#name#')>
<cfdirectory action="delete" directory="#directory#/#name#" recurse="true" >
</cfif>
</cfoutput>
See if helps to prepend your code with:
<cfheader name="Content-Length" value="#GetFileInfo('C:\Test.zip').size#">
That tells the browser how much data to expect.
I'm looking to use "vanity" URLs to redirect to a login page, with a company logo on it.
The URL would be something like: companyname.domain.com
First, I need to query the requested URL to see if "companyname" exists, then either
serve the custom login page if it exists -OR-
show an error page if it doesn't.
The true destination will actually be something like www.domain.com/folder/. But again, I need to display the "vanity" URL throughout the whole application. Example:
companyname.domain.com/clients/?id=somevariable&...
I know I can probably figure it out by trial and error over some period of time. But being a self-taught CF-er, I thought to gain some advice on the "right way" to go about this task.
This is how I ended up doing what I was looking for. Thanks for all the input.
First I added a DNS A record to the domain.com zone like this: * site-ip-address-here
<cfscript>
siteDomainName = cgi.http_host;
if (ListLen(siteDomainName, '.') gt 2) {
siteDomainName = ListFirst(siteDomainName,'.');
}
</cfscript>
<cfif siteDomainName NEQ "www">
<cfquery name="qUrl" datasource="#dsn#">
SELECT id, pre
FROM table
WHERE pre = <cfqueryparam value="#siteDomainName#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar">
</cfquery>
<cfif qUrl.recordCount GT 0>
<cflocation url="/folder/" addtoken="false">
<cfelse>
<cflocation url="http://www.domain.com/error.cfm" addtoken="false">
</cfif>
</cfif>
If anyone has any comments on how it could've been done better, I'm always looking to learn something new.
I have a coldfusion web site I need to change. Have no idea or experience with this environment (I do know ASP.NET). All I need to do is to write a condition based on the referral value (the URL) of the page, and redirect to another page in some cases.
Can anyone give me an example of the syntax that would perform this?
All of the other examples would work...also if you're looking to redirect based on a referral from an external site, you may want to check CGI.HTTP_REFERER. Check out the CGI scope for several other options.
<cfif reFindNoCase('[myRegex]',cgi.http_referer)>
<cflocation url="my_new_url">
</cfif>
...my example uses a regex search (reFind() or reFindNoCase()) to check the referring URL...but you could also check it as a list with / as a delimiter (using listContainsNoCase()) depending on what you're looking for.
Lets assume your the URL variable you are basing this on is called goOn (http://yoursite.com?goOn=yes) then the following code would work:
<cfif structKeyExists(url, "goOn") AND url.goOn eq "yes">
<cflocation url="the_new_url" addtoken="false">
</cfif>
Nothing will happen after the cflocation.
There is a CGI variable scope in ColdFusion that holds information on the incoming request. Try the following:
<cfif CGI.SCRIPT_NAME EQ 'index.cfm'>
<cflocation url="where you want it to redirect" />
</cfif>
To see what else is available within the CGI scope, check out the following:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/Expressions_8.html#2679705
Haven't done coldfusion in a little while but:
<cfif some_condition_based_on_your_url>
<cflocation url="http://where_your_referrals_go">
</cfif>
<!--- continue processing for non-redirects --->
A dynamic version.
<cfif isdefined("somecondition")>
<cfset urlDestination = "someurl">
<cfelseif isdefined("somecondition")>
<cfset urlDestination = "someurl">
.
.
.
<cfelse>
<cfset urlDestination = "someurl">
</cfif>
<cflocation url = urlDestination>