Best of Talk (2/14/03)

 
May 09, 2003
by Dina Hess

Title: Best Way to Enter Currency Format
Date: 02/14/03      10 Posts
Summary: How do you deal with currency from form to database to display? Here's a brief overview of the process:
  1. Choose a numeric datatype on the back-end.
  2. Strip off the dollar sign and comma(s) using Replace() or REReplace().
  3. Validate that the result is a number.
  4. Insert the number into the database.
  5. Select the number from the database.
  6. Output the number wrapped in DollarFormat().
 
Title: CF - PHP Comparisons?
Date: 02/14/03      20 Posts
Summary: Which is best, CF or PHP? PHP provides better low-level functionality, makes use of classes, and boasts many third-party libraries and modules. CF, on the other hand, provides better high-level functionality, makes use of components, and boasts many third-party custom tags and UDFs. One big plus for CFMX is its ability to access the full set of Java APIs. There's also some discussion on the upcoming release of BlueDragon for .NET.
 
Title: Developer Edition IP Address
Date: 02/14/03      24 Posts
Summary: Since the CFMX Developer Edition is available to only one external IP address, how would you reset it so you can demo a site to a client? Stop CFMX service, delete the IP address in CF_ROOT/lib/license.properties, then restart CFMX service. Shell script included. For future consideration, you may want to invest in MM's DevNet subscription server license.
 
Title: Highlighting Search Keyword Problem
Date: 02/14/03      13 Posts
Summary: Need to highlight search terms in your text display? Just pull the document's text into a variable (use CFHTTP, if necessary) to manipulate search term styles with ReplaceNoCase().
 
Title: Internationalization Theme
Date: 02/14/03      23 Posts
Summary: When Macromedia solicits topics for their upcoming internationalization and globalization theme on DevNet, developers respond with suggestions like: "The Purpose and Use of Character Sets," "Storage Best Practices for Multi-lingual Content," "Search Engine Implications for Multi-lingual Sites," and "Database Functionality for XML Handling." A spirited discussion on database standards versus vendor implementations wraps up this thread.
 
Title: Linux CF Editor
Date: 02/14/03      13 Posts
Summary: Looking for a Linux text editor similar to CF Studio? Recommendations include Quanta, JEdit, and vim...to name a few.
 

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