How to use Tinyurl.com dynamically
aCoder -
Your solution would work only if I have a field that collects URLs only, however, my field is a textarea, the visitors are allowed to put text in this field, but at times, they paste URLs too within the text – that is the issue I am facing with.
If there is a long URL berried within the text, how do I shorten it or worse case scenario, how do I prevent/strip...
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How to use Tinyurl.com dynamically
I have a feedback Form from which my visitors send their views. At times, I see very long URLs get submitted via my Form and get entered into my database. But, when displaying the URL, my page gets distorted..
Is there a way I can script this so I can automatically convert this long URL to a small url using TinyURLcom for instance - like what Twitter does..
i.e. I want to shorten this long URL automatically before it... -
Saving Values using an alternative to Sessions
I am saving a value ID using sessions on this feedback Form, but at times, if the visitor takes too long to type a a feedback, the session times out and the user received an error message.
Please note, my session is set to 20 mn on the application.cfm , I do not want to increase its value because of other issues that might arise.
I'd like to use an alternative way to sessions to save the Value ID - I am sure there is... -
Find a Country based on an IP Addr. Reply to Thread
acoder - Thanks for the reply!
My objective is not to display the IP on the same page, but rather, to retrieve a country name based on an IP@. Please note, I do have the IP address saved in my database, but I don't have its country name where it originated from.
Currently, when I receive an IP for a particular user, I manually search its country name...Leave a comment:
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Find a Country based on an IP Addr.
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I used this code on the link below to trap IP addresses, it worked very nicely.
http://www.scandicweb.com/coldfusion...tutorial45.cfm
Here is a sample output of my report: (note: I removed the real data in purpose)
Tracking_Client _Address: 999.99.99.99
Tracking_Client _Host: www.xyz.com
Tracking_Referr er: http://www.xyz.com/myfeedback.cfm?ID=531... -
Embed tag turns to InvalidTag
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I have a CF Form that uploads news articles, at times, I like to paste Youtube Videos with my articles. I noticed that on one server, it works fine, but on a different hosting company, my Youtube videos don't work. After I checked the database, I can see that the youTube code did get uploaded, but the Embed tag turned to InvalidTag - Please see my youtube video script below.
Does anyone know what is causing... -
Thank you so much acoder, it worked.
However, I am still struggling to limit the number of files to be uploaded. As you can see, at the begening of the code I pasted, you should see:
But this only displays 5 Forms from which a user can select the 5 files to upload. Once these 5 files are uploaded, he/she can keep uploading more files.Code:<cfset REQUEST.FileCount = 5 />
Instead, I'd...Leave a comment:
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Multiple files upload while updating DB
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ATTN Bytes Admin: My apologies, I am new to your Forum, I posted this thread on other place by accident, I tried to delete it but I couldn't, please delete the other one when you have a chance. Thank you.
Back to my thread:
I saw this code (pls see link below or code is pasted blow as well) that does mupltiple files upload. It works fine, but I...Leave a comment:
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Multiple files upload while updating DB
Greetings -
I saw somewhat similar code (pls see link below) that does mupltiple files upload. It works fine, but I wanted to populate the database with the same files that are uploaded to mydirectory, but for some reason, I am getting different file names on the database.
Here is the full code: please do serach on kewword "database" to see where I added my database code - that where I need help with....
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