BlogCFC 4 Released

After much too much time, I'm happy to announce the release of BlogCFC 4.0. With this release come numerous new features since the last official release. A short list of updates includes trackback support, search stats, layout improvements, bug fixes, etc. Also I'm happy to announce the launch of the BlogCFC project page. This is the page to go to download the latest bits.

BlogCFC is now in use at close to 100 blogs - something I never imagined when I first starting working on this project. I'm happy it has been so useful to folks, and I hope this new version exceeds my user's expectations. Of course, as with most of my releases, you can probably expect a .01 release shortly. ;)

So - this time, instead of shamelessly pointing people to my wishlist (hey - don't stop on my account of course!), I'll point folks who want to show their appreciation to yet another "Free Ipod Nano" site. (Which does work - as I got an Ipod last year. Which might make you wonder why I'm asking for a Nano - but why ask why?)

Enjoy.

Comments (18) Nov 10, 2005 3:37 PM Views: 2586

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I will test now. Thanks Ray.
# Posted By O?uz Demirkap? | 11/10/05 3:47 PM
Ack - now I'm scared. ;)
# Posted By Raymond Camden | 11/10/05 3:48 PM
Ray, I have an error msg on print as following.

11/11/05 12:09 AM
Script Name:    /blogcfc/print.cfm?id=7C6CFD18-913A-7E96-5F26371C8853774D
Browser:    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051025 Firefox/1.5
Referer:    http://localhost/blogcfc/index.cfm
Message:    Element ROOTURL is undefined in REQUEST.
Type:    coldfusion.runtime.CfErrorWrapper

Is that a local problem on my local or a general error on blog software? What do you think?
# Posted By O?uz Demirkap? | 11/10/05 5:11 PM
You didn't copy a file right. Request.ROOTURL used to be the variable name, not it is Application.rooturl. I double checked source and it is in there right.
# Posted By Raymond Camden | 11/10/05 5:17 PM
Ok. I will check it again.

A new bug: When there is a Unicode entry title and when I click this title to see details of entry I get error "Sorry
There are no blog entries available that match your criteria."
# Posted By O?uz Demirkap? | 11/10/05 5:25 PM
Can you give me a URL? FYI, I'm fixing to post yet another update, but it is Access only, so you can ignore.
# Posted By Raymond Camden | 11/10/05 5:29 PM
I have on my local but I can put on a server. I will organize this.
# Posted By O?uz Demirkap? | 11/10/05 5:32 PM
Hmm now there is a strange situation.

I made a fresh installation on a clean domain and you can reach test page via following link.

http://coldfusion.name/blogcfc/

The bug that I let you know about Unicode entry title is not on this server but on my local.

When I compare local and server there is just one difference, webserver. On my local I have Apache 2.x but on server IIS 6. A strange situation.
# Posted By O?uz Demirkap? | 11/10/05 5:48 PM
Ray, did timezone offsets make it into 4.0?
# Posted By johnb | 11/11/05 4:56 AM
johnb: Yes
# Posted By Raymond Camden | 11/11/05 6:10 AM
Found the request.rootUrl bug in line 40 of print.cfm in my download of blog cfc 4 aswell, it's an easy fix (change it to application.rooturl).

Nice work ray, bit of mucking about upgrading from 3.7 but all good now.
# Posted By Doug Cain | 11/11/05 7:30 AM
Ahah! Will have an updated zip in a few minutes.
# Posted By Raymond Camden | 11/11/05 7:41 AM
I just installed 3.9 about two weeks ago.. so I'm new to blogCFC. How do i go about installing 4.0 without losing all my entries and layout work that i have already done? I didnt see any upgrade instructions anywhere..

Thanks for the help

TOM
# Posted By Tom Kamnikar | 11/11/05 9:00 AM
Hi Ray,

Thanks for all your work on Blog 4.0

Just getting started, with your BLOG 4.0. I installed everything using defaults and got it up and running then decided to try to set it up for multiple Blogs, I changes the Blog Field in the DataBase from "default" to "Somethingelse". then I changed the application.cfm blogname to "Somethingelse" deloded the blog and recieved and error message
"somethingelse" isn't registered as a valid blog.
I thought I followed the posted instructions put now I'm stuck as to what I should check next

addition info MSAccess Database Coldfusion 6.1 Host
# Posted By Randy Everhart | 11/11/05 5:43 PM
You must edit the ini file to add a section for [SomethingElse].
# Posted By Raymond Camden | 11/12/05 8:21 AM
Thanks Raymond,

I got it working, it's been a learning process...

Thank You for again, super application

Randy Everhart
# Posted By Randy everhart | 11/12/05 2:14 PM
>>>>
Just getting started, with your BLOG 4.0. I installed everything using defaults and got it up and running then decided to try to set it up for multiple Blogs, I changes the Blog Field in the DataBase from "default" to "Somethingelse". then I changed the application.cfm blogname to "Somethingelse" deloded the blog and recieved and error message
"somethingelse" isn't registered as a valid blog.
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just wondering how u set up multiple blogs - by adding more folders under the `client` folder?
i am having the same problem with version 4
# Posted By erik | 10/13/06 5:09 AM
You don't add more folders under the client folder - rather you have one client folder per blog.

I would _highly_ recommend however that you upgrade to the latest release.
# Posted By Raymond Camden | 10/13/06 6:23 AM
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