Archive for category ColdFusion

ColdFusion Sentence Case

Posted by me in ColdFusion on March 18th, 2010

I wanted to normalize text entered by users so that I could collect stats. So I SQL’d something like this…
select count(1) as total, upper(nvl(resp,’NO RESPONSE’)) as resp from forms.form_field_resp where ffid=#id# group by upper(nvl(resp,’NO RESPONSE’)) order by total desc
But I didn’t want to display the text in all CAPS BECAUSE THAT’S PRETTY DANG ANNOYING. So [...]

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Oracle Function to Create CFQuery

Posted by me in ColdFusion, Oracle on March 10th, 2009

Rather than creating insert and update queries in ColdFusion against an Oracle database, this function can generate the code for you. I haven’t added cfqueryparam to check the datatypes, but that would be ideal at helping prevent SQL Injection attacks.

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Oracle Function to Create CFForm

Posted by me in ColdFusion, Oracle on March 10th, 2009

If you use table and column comments, you can create an Oracle function that will create insert and update forms for you complete with table formatting and data type form fields that are limited to the number of chars in a column.

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