What's New in the Tag Gallery

May 14, 2001

CFX_GIF 1.00: The cfx_gif custom tag resizes gif images dynamically. Generated images are cached intelligently.
KRules 1.0 Business Rules Engine for ColdFusion: KRules is a (US patent pending) business rules engine for ColdFusion that enables you to extend the functionality of your existing applications with new rules and procedures.
Let's take the example of an online shop, where you want to introduce a new discount or display rule. With KRules you can use English to determine that all buyers from zip code X or city Y will get a 10% discount on product Z, or if any customer buys a Nokia phone, offer him/her Nokia accessories.
CF_SlideInMenu - Version 1.1 Now With More Options: This lets you integrate into your site a cool little DHTML menu bar that automatically slides open from the left edge of the screen as you move the mouse over it. The script is courtesy of Dynamic Drive - I've just written a CF wrapper for it and made it ULTRA simple to build your menus. Version 1.1 adds new functionality, giving you complete control of colors, positioning, fonts, etc.
CF-Talk Archiver: CF-Talk Archiver is a ColdFusion application for retrieving CF-Talk email messages and storing them in a database for indexing. If you do not have an account with the CF-Talk mailing list this application will not function as intended. Ensure you have a verified account before installing and configuring CF-Talk Archiver.
CF_DataForm V 1.0: CF_DataForm Automatically create dynamic data driven forms, with a built-in CFML action handler with virtually no coding!
AKMIN'S WAP CHAT SERVER: Akmin Technologies' Wap Chat Server allows any Wap phone user to chat online with other WAP phone users. It uses optimized methods and algorithms to work faster. The highlights of WAP chat are Chat Rooms, Search Friends, Invite Friends for chat and private one-to-one chat.
CF_BaltimoreWeather: Based on my application CF_NOAAWeather,This Custom Tag draws data from the National Weather Service for Baltimore, Maryland. Unlike data from Weather.com and Accuweather.com, the National Weather service maintains this data for free public use. This version includes F to C Temperature conversion (((F-32)*5)/9).
CF_PROTECTEDSESSION: This drop-in password protection for CF-based Sites is scalable for any type of use.
Link Fusion 2.0 Commercial: Link Fusion is a complete link categorizing application. It supports unlimited links,categories and sub categories.
File Delete: File Delete: <cf_filedelete> FileDelete.cfm
Usage: Takes a directory name as a string and a file name as a string, and looks for the file in the directory. Deletes the file if found. Returns FileDelete + ID as "T" or "F" Note: This tag can not delete 'Read Only' files.
CF Guest Book: A fully dynamic Guest Book giving you the ability to make it look and feel like a part of your site. Such features as an on / off switch, dynamic datasource control, custom title, logo, control panel, redirection of viewers when Guest Book is off, and all password protected for admin use area.
CFX_JSpellCheck: CFX_JSpellCheck allows ColdFusion developers to build custom front ends (or use the supplied front end) for checking spelling in web applications. The Spell Checker allows you to Pass in a word, or paragraph of words, and it will check the spelling of all the words, and return a data structure of misspelled words, and their suggestions.
Link Fusion 2.0 Non-Commercial: Link Fusion is a complete link categorizing application. It supports unlimited links,categories and sub categories.
Simple content editing solution: This editor is designed to be simple to use. Any person with basic word processing skills can edit the web site created with this tool. To edit, a user is only required to have a hosting account with coldfusion for the site and IE 5.0 or greater. A user has the ability to create new files on the site as well as edit them with a Word-like tool bar.
Intranet Management Module -- Advanced Version: The Intranet Management System provides an structured system for creating an Intranet site among different departments. It includes a means to link or upload files and link them into this structure. For added security you can also control access to each file.
CF_ImageSlideShow: Lets you create a DHTML image slideshow that scrolls upwards, pausing between images. The images do NOT have to be of the same dimensions. You can also make each image hyperlinked, should you wish. Up to nine images are supported in your scrolling slideshow.
Macromedia Flash / SQL Component Kit: The FlashSQL component kit is a collection of client side ActionScript objects, and server side tags that work together to allow users to execute SQL database queries from within Flash 5, and then manipulate the results of the query within Flash 5 through a Java like ResultSet object.
The kit includes both ColdFusion and JSP custom tags, as well as PHP code that allows you to use these languages as the server side level of the architecture. In addition, this document describes what is necessary in order to use other middleware languages such as ASP and Perl as the server side part of this architecture.
CFX_DynamicImage: CFX_DynamicImage is a very useful tool for dynamic image construction and online image processing. It draws different graphic objects such as text, lines and rectangles in a source GIF/JPG/PNG/BMP... file and saves it to a new destination file. This version provides different fonts, font sizes and format for text, as well as other effects such as lines, (round)rectangles, circles, ellipses, polygons, polylines, etc.
CF_RIPEMD_160: Produces a 160-bit condensed representation of a message (attributes.msg) called a message digest (caller.msg_digest) using the RIPEMD-160 hash function as specified in http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~bosselae/ripemd160.html.
CF_FramesRequired: This javascript/ColdFusion tag checks to see that all the frames that should be loaded are loaded. It receives a comma-delimited list of required frames. The list of frame names are case sensitive and correspond exactly with what is declared in the frameset. If all required frames are not loaded, the tag redirects the user to an appropriate URL.
ListSortByLen: ListSortByLen will take a list (assumes comma-delimitted) of strings and sorts them based on their length. Can sort either ascending or descending. Uses the bubble sort alogrithm for sorting, and as such, is not recommended for sorting very large lists.

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