Rob Brooks-Bilson
Tech, Photography, Stuff
ColdFusion Popular with Pirates?
June 26, 2007
Just how popular is ColdFusion? At least in Shanghai, China, it's popular enough to make it to a market for fake/pirated goods. A co-worker and I were browsing through the market last night when he spotted several copies of ColdFusion, along with the other expected Adobe products.
I should have taken a picture, but that might not been the best move given the subject matter.
New Priority Attribute for CFMAIL in ColdFusion 8/Scorpio
June 12, 2007
I haven't seen this one mentioned anywhere in the huge number of ColdFusion 8/Scorpio posts that have been popping up lately. It's a relatively minor addition to the cfmail tag for setting message priority. In ColdFusion 6.x/7.x, if you wanted to set message priority, you needed to use a separate cfmailparam tag like so:
1<cfmail
2 from="me"
3 to="you"
4 subject="Q1 Numbers">
5
6<cfmailparam name="priority" value="high">
7
8I need you to take a look at this quarter's numbers ASAP!
9</cfmail>
2 from="me"
3 to="you"
4 subject="Q1 Numbers">
5
6<cfmailparam name="priority" value="high">
7
8I need you to take a look at this quarter's numbers ASAP!
9</cfmail>
In ColdFusion 8, the same email can be written like this:
1<cfmail
2 from="me"
3 to="you"
4 subject="Q1 Numbers"
5 priority="high">
6I need you to take a look at this quarter's numbers ASAP!
7</cfmail>
2 from="me"
3 to="you"
4 subject="Q1 Numbers"
5 priority="high">
6I need you to take a look at this quarter's numbers ASAP!
7</cfmail>
The priority attribute is optional and can contain an integer (1-5 with 1 being the highest priority) or string value (highest|urgent, high, normal, low, and lowest|non-urgent).
This isn't huge, I know, but it's just one more way ColdFusion 8 makes even little things easier than ever before.
