Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog: Minor BlogCFC Update

Minor BlogCFC Update

Welcome to BlogCFC 3.5.4. Since the last version was 3.5.2, you may be wondering, what happaned to 3.5.3? Well, it was sitting on my hard drive and never got uploaded. Imagine that.

So, what has changed:

a) The bug with double escaping of < chars in comments has been fixed.

b) I know use ParagraphFormat2 in comment postings. This makes them a lot more readable if you post code.

c) I did not include the stats page yet. It's still written in pure SQL and not CFC method calls.

As always, if you like, feed my greedy desire and visit my wish list. Recently I've gotten three very cool purchases from it, and to be honest, it is what spurred me to get off my rear and get some updates done. (Yes, I can be bought for video games. I'm cheap. ;)

This entry was posted on Thursday, March 10, 2005 at 5:06 PM. It was filed in the following categories: BlogCFC. It has been viewed 1,157 times and has 13 comments.

TweetBacks

Comments

[Add Comment] [Subscribe to Comments]

Comment 1 written by Matt Woodward on 10 March 2005, at 7:16 PM

Thanks for the new version Ray--are there just a couple of key files that changed, or are changes scattered throughout the code? I didn't see a list of just the files that had changed (sorry if I missed it), which would be handy for installing over 3.5.2 as opposed to overwriting everything if that isn't really necessary.
Comment 2 written by Jeff Coughlin on 10 March 2005, at 7:30 PM

I've been using ParagraphFormat2 in all of my recent apps. The funny thing is, I was actually adding it to your blog code today (no lie). Now I wont need to bother :).
Comment 3 written by Brian Kotek on 10 March 2005, at 9:04 PM

Ray, the download has a whole bunch of extra Subversion stuff in it. Did you mean for all that to be there?
Comment 4 written by Raymond Camden on 11 March 2005, at 7:36 AM

Ick. Ok, I'll fix that. I also found one more small little bug I need to tweak. The emails that go to blog owners have the unsubscribe metachar in them. They should be stripped.
Comment 5 written by johnb on 11 March 2005, at 8:39 AM

you just enjoy that game ;) let me know when it arrives!
Comment 6 written by Crit on 13 March 2005, at 10:56 AM

Just curious. if you setup a blog for the first time..or anytime, i guess you want to do a post to two categories that are not previously used... is this possible? I attempted to separate them with a "," but it threw an error on the front end.. i had to fix it in the database..
Comment 7 written by Ray Camden on 14 March 2005, at 8:53 AM

You would need to assign it to one cat. Make a new entry for the second cat. Edit the old entry to assign the other cat. Then delete the other entry.

If you think this sucks, let me know and I'll add support for "N" categories in the new cat field.
Comment 8 written by O?uz Demirkap? on 14 March 2005, at 4:09 PM

Thanks for better Unicode support.

Just one not that stats.cfm does not work on MySQL 4.x. You can get a working copy via http://demirkapi.net/stats.rar

I have seen there is no language support files in new version anymore but if anybody would need Turkish support for blog I can let language file.
Comment 9 written by O?uz Demirkap? on 14 March 2005, at 4:12 PM

UPPS! My name is wrong again here :)

I think you have MSSQL as DB and there is still problem for double byte chars.

Here is the solution:
http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/in...

I do not have any Unicode problem on MySQL 4.x.
Comment 10 written by Ray Camden on 14 March 2005, at 5:51 PM

stats.cfm is not included as of yet.
Comment 11 written by Matt Woodward on 19 March 2005, at 5:27 PM

Minor issue I'm seeing--I haven't dug into it yet but I thought I'd ask before I did. I was testing the unsubscribe functionality but the email I received didn't have a comment ID in the URL, so when I went to the URL it threw an error. Any obvious thing I should check or is it a personal problem for me with my setup? ;-)
Comment 12 written by Raymond Camden on 20 March 2005, at 5:22 PM

This seems to be a bug. I'm wroking on 3.6 right now (shhhhh) and will ensure it is working correctly.
Comment 13 written by Raymond Camden on 20 March 2005, at 5:29 PM

Oh, I see the issue. When I send the email out to people in the thread, the unsub link has two tokens. It has your email address, and the UUID of one of your comments in the thread. This makes a secure link, disallowing you from unsubbing someone else from the thread.

However, as an admin, you ALWAYS get the email. So for a post where you have NOT commented, the commentID portion will be blank. What I'm going to do is simply make it so that the email that is sent to you has "Not Available" for the unsub link, since obviously you can't unsub from your own blog.