It's new though? Or at least it started giving us problems only recently

I wasn't able to find anything more. You can use

form.hasOwnProperty("when")

.

Charlie Arehart is going to show us hidden gems of FusionReactor at the next Mid-Michigan CFUG meeting tonight at 7:00 pm eastern time. Charlie will move quickly through dozens of tips which can help developers or managers of apps, whether deployed on BoxLang, CF, Lucee, or any Java platform. Note his talk will cover the on-premises version and not the separate FR cloud product. Meeting URL: https://tinyurl.com/3xxnm9jv A recording will be available on our group’s YouTube channel in a few days at https://youtube.com/@cfml

Hi everyone, Into the Box 2025 Live Version tickets are out!: We’ll livestream the entire conference via Zoom on May 1–2, and the early bird online ticket is just $199 until April 16th. Tickets are limited this year; we will keep you posted on availability. Register at https://ITB_Virtual_2025.eventbrite.com This is what you’ll get with your online ticket purchase: 1. ✅ Live access to all sessions (May 1-2) - Workshops not available online 2. ✅ Lifetime access to the recordings on CFCast 3. ✅ 50% off a BoxLang+ License 4. ✅ Live chat + Q&A with speakers If you're into modern BoxLang and CFML development, this is the best way to stay in the loop and grow with the community. The BoxLang Stable release will be announced at ITB2025, so you cannot miss it! Review agenda at: https://www.intothebox.org We’d love to see you there! ⚡️

Charlie Arehart 's presentation to Mid-Michigan CFUG on hidden gems of FusionReactor.

i'm working on a legacy app that uses cfform - i see that CF creates

_CF_checkfoo

functions for JS handlers and injects them into script tags... what would cause those functions to not get injected? I'm no longer seeing them after a lot of changes to the server and I'm not sure which change caused it

Hi All. Anyone done the ACF update today (for CF 2021)? Any surprises, problems, etc.? We'd like to do it quickly but don't want to accidentally step on any landmines.

A little late to the game, but I've added ACF 2025 to TryCF.com Try it here

What do you do when users enter multi-paragraph text that they want to have displayed like that? We used to use htmlEditFormat() then a function of our own that basically replaces newlines with br. When I replaced htmlEditFormat() with encodeForHTML() recently, that broke because encodeForHTML() filters out newlines, which htmlEditFormat() doesn't. So we need to encode special characters like <> etc, and other trickier riskier stuff that encodeForHTML() handles better, but also have a way to render multiple paragraphs like that's what they are. Thoughts?

Why not take in chr(13) + chr(10), and store those locally. When you go to render, you can do a ReReplace(var,"\n","<br>"); on your display code...

Spreadsheet CFML 4.7.0 just released, matching the new spreadsheet functionality in ACF2025.

What's the state of the art in finding unvar-ed variables in CFCs? I'm not talking about unSCOPED, just vars presumably intended to be local, but missing

var foo = ""

or

local.foo

, so they leak into the shared

variables

scope of the CFC.

I'm happily using the Simplicity Spreadsheet.cfc but when formatting the first row as a yellow-backgrounded bold row, I only can get the last two columns to accept the format. commonFormat = { bold: true, fgcolor: "yellow" }; apptReportSpreadsheet.FormatCellRange(spObj,commonFormat,1,1,1,6); This results in only the sixth column receiving the format.

Is there some process inside the CF engine which is automatically converting an apostrophe into &pos; without our input? Is CFQUERYPARAM doing this? Is the Global Script Protection doing this? Does a CF Function do this? OR is the SQL Server doing this? Legacy CF11 code, O'Malley in the string becomes O'Malley in the table. Can't find where. Sad.

Just throwing this out there. Has anyone ever tried to convert outlook msg files to PDFs using native CF? I realize there may be a solution that involves add on java libraries though. I haven't had much luck in my research and even co-pilot doubts it. Any help would be well...helpful.

I've got a current hotfix issue. Both our production and staging are ACF2021. I updated both (cmd prompt java command) to the latest hotfix today, and we've lost the PDF service. In talking with charlie, the first thing we noticed is that jetty-ipaccess.xml was missing, as was the entire jetty/etc/extra folder. I then tried a couple 2023 ACFs and the same thing. When verifying the PDF service from CFAdmin we get:

Apr 24, 2025 16:33:53 PM Error [http-nio-8501-exec-8] - Connect to 127.0.0.1:8993 [/127.0.0.1] failed: Connection refused: connect <http://127.0.0.1:8993/PDFgServlet/verify>
Apr 24, 2025 16:33:53 PM Error [http-nio-8501-exec-8] - Connection verification failed.
Apr 24, 2025 16:33:54 PM Error [http-nio-8501-exec-9] - Connect to 127.0.0.1:8993 [/127.0.0.1] failed: Connection refused: connect <http://127.0.0.1:8993/PDFgServlet/verify>

The ACF 2023 also needed the neo-document.xml edited to put in the

<var name='engine'>
  <string>PdfReactor</string>
</var>

So now I can get the PDF page to load in admin, but it gives the same connection refused error. So to recap, 4 servers - 2x ACF2021 and 2x ACF2023 (3 standard, 1 dev license) all had their PDF service seemingly broken by this update. Any ideas??

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Switch to Lucee? 😉

I just got a demo of someone using Figma (UI design) -->builder.io (to convert to code) --> https://lovable.dev/ (fuctional REACT code). They were give an elaborate prompt which containted the database schema, but the results were impressive - pretty workable code to build new modules quickly. Is anything doing something similar in CFML?

With Cursor you can build the same

The top LLMs can build very nice looking frontends in React. You can also ask it to do everything with vanilla js and vanilla css

With elaborate and detailed prompt I bet with Cursor you can do as good or better than what you saw

how do you view cursor vs replit...ive spent more time with replit...none w cursor

Cursor is not the only editor that can do that either

you can “vibe” code with either. Replit has made deployment easy. But Im pretty sure we can all deploy anywhere.

Hey @Daniel Mejia and @jgladnick. If you guys are engineers, please read this article about using no-code tools... https://blog.nordcraft.com/they-lied-to-you-building-software-is-really-hard Hope it helps

I was looking for a nice wrapper for Charts.js library and came across the one in ForgeBox for Preside CMS... It seems to lack the ColdBox modularization code, has anybody used it without Preside installed with ColdBox or vanilla CF? https://forgebox.io/view/preside-ext-chart-js

My Fusion Reactor "Weekly Report" was set up last Thursday. Today, "Weekly Report" the is arriving here once every 60 seconds. That doesn't seem right.