2018 - August I Love Lucee

JoyMiller · August 2, 2018, 1:55am

Seen something interesting in the Lucee or CFML community this month? Post it here!

lucy-ape

As always I love Lucee is a quick review of Lucee and CFML happenings in general!

https://lucee.daemonite.io/t/2018-july-i-love-lucee/4098

JoyMiller · August 6, 2018, 7:48pm

This video shows you how you can use the tag retry in Lucee.

github.com

lucee/Example-Code/blob/master/ReTry/example03-try-catch-retry.cfm

<cfscript>
path="test.txt";


try {
	dump(fileRead(path));
}
catch(e) {
	if(!fileExists(path)) {
		fileWrite(path,"content of the file");
		retry;
	}
	echo(e);
}

if(fileExists(path)) fileDelete(path);

</cfscript>

modius · August 7, 2018, 12:11am

Using AWS Rekognition In CFML

h/t https://twitter.com/brian_klaas

Zackster · August 7, 2018, 9:49am

Using PDFBox with ColdFusion

This post started as an investigation of how best to extract text from a PDF; it then turned into an exploration of PDFBox, lead me down the rabbit hole of PDF sanitization, and ultimately resulted in developing pdfbox.cfc.

h/t @mjclemente

JoyMiller · August 8, 2018, 9:40pm

The new website at https://lucee.org is live!

We still have plans to add a few additional features, but phase 1 looks great! A huge THANK YOU to Inge Haverkamp of Toomba and Dom Watson of Pixl8 for all of their dedication and time on this project!

modius · August 12, 2018, 12:51am

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/JamoCA/7fcaf312b72cf5c66acc54e4432eb3c0

maskCC.cfm

<cfscript>
/* maskCC - identify credit cards in a text string and mask them.
   by James Moberg 8/9/2018
   https://gamesover2600.tumblr.com/post/176823552659/mask-credit-card-numbers-using-coldfusion
   Gist: https://gist.github.com/JamoCA/7fcaf312b72cf5c66acc54e4432eb3c0
   Also posted on StackOverflow for discussion: https://stackoverflow.com/a/51777454/693068
*/
function maskCC(textFragment){
	var response = Javacast("string", arguments.textFragment);
	var temp = {};

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h/t @Jamo

modius · August 12, 2018, 12:55am

Improving the world… one typo at a time…

h/t @markdrew

modius · August 13, 2018, 7:46am

I think I might have mentioned this before, but the CFML track looking great these days:

They’re looking for students and mentors alike if you have a bit of spare time on your hands

Another wonderful contribution to CFML from Brad Wood @bdw429s

modius · August 14, 2018, 7:02am

h/t @bdw429s

modius · August 24, 2018, 4:44am

A couple more updates on this great series for AWS Rekognition:

h/t https://twitter.com/brian_klaas

animeshdutta · August 25, 2018, 3:09am

interesting

JoyMiller · August 27, 2018, 6:13pm

Check out the latest Lucee tutorial on query return types:

This Video shows how you can use the different possible return types of the tag cfquery, next to “query” (resultset) the tag also supports “array” and “struct” as return types.

JoyMiller · August 27, 2018, 7:51pm

https://blog.debtdecimator.com/debt-decimator-and-lucee

Debt Decimator would not exist without Lucee.

Building web applications is getting easier every day. Yet with all the various options available, this open-source CFML engine was hard to ignore. And, much to the chagrin of CF’s critics, the reports of its <CFDEMISE> have been greatly exaggerated.

h/t https://twitter.com/DebtDecimator

JoyMiller · August 27, 2018, 7:53pm

CF Camp Tickets are now available!

modius · August 28, 2018, 2:47am

Love hearing Lucee success stories! Makes me want to write up a few of our own greenfield projects that are built on Lucee for many of the same reasons.

modius · August 28, 2018, 2:52am

This one is definitely my favourite… and I had no idea:

github.com

lucee/Example-Code/blob/master/Query-returntype/example02-array.cfm


<cfscript>

query name="arr" datasource="test" returntype="array" {
	echo("
		select lastname,firstname from person
	");
}
dump(arr);
</cfscript>

Always seem to be converting queries into structs. Will have to start working with this straight away!

JoyMiller · August 30, 2018, 9:32pm

Please do write up your success stories! We’ll feature them in the newsletter!