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Comment on Adventures in Mura — Customizing a Site by Clarke Bishop

Clarke Bishop — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:27:05 +0000

Exactly — That’s the way Mura is designed! This way, you can use the custom folder to override the original version.

Comment on Adventures in Mura — Customizing a Site by Clarke Bishop

Clarke Bishop — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:25:40 +0000

There’s a trick in Mura that will prevent Mura from overwriting your code during an upgrade. The trick is: Don’t customize the Default site. Instead, create a new site in the Mura admin and customize it. In the blog post, I mentioned creating a site called MySite for this very reason.

Mura uses eventHandler.cfc in the MySite/Includes folder, so the file won’t get overwritten. Of course, if Mura fixes a bug, it also won’t get updated. But, normally, this isn’t a problem.

Comment on Adventures in Mura — Customizing a Site by White Castle Lover

White Castle Lover — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:00:30 +0000

Wait a second! I just saved a copy of dsp_mailing_list_master.cfm into the custom folder, and Mura (5.2) detected and rendered that one instead of the original. So it seems that any code in the custom folder is run instead of the original code? Huh. Do you know why that is? Thanks.

Comment on Adventures in Mura — Customizing a Site by White Castle Lover

White Castle Lover — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:51:03 +0000

Thanks for the post. I’m having fun learning about Mura. Won’t an upgrade to Mura overwrite your custom code in the eventHandler.cfc file and cause your system to revert to the use of your original gallery? Thanks.

Comment on CFWheels Scaffolding Basics by Clarke Bishop

Clarke Bishop — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:35:54 +0000

I’ve just been adding some custom tags to the Splash CMS that runs on top of CFWheels.

As impressive as CFWheels and its documentation have become, I still didn’t realize how powerful CFWheels can be. It took me a while to figure out how to use ColdFusion custom tags effectively. But, on the Wheels side, every time I need a piece of data or a function to access the data, it was already there for me.

Its like CFWheels knew what I was going to want before I did. Amazing!

Comment on CFWheels Scaffolding Basics by Sam Singer

Sam Singer — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:37:19 +0000

@Raul Riera
Hello Raul,
I started using cfwheels more than 2 years ago. That’s when I experienced the seemingly stalled development and incomplete docs. Today it’s terrific! Coding is Good!

Comment on onError Handling for CFWheels and Splash CMS by Clarke Bishop

Clarke Bishop — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:55:51 +0000

Good point John! My approach is best for a site that’s ready for production and that has a clean, error-free, error page.

Comment on onError Handling for CFWheels and Splash CMS by John C. Bland II

John C. Bland II — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:51:07 +0000

Be careful redirecting back to an action. If you have an controller filters and an error exists in there, you could end up with a never ending loop (ultimately ending in a hard crash).

Just an fyi but great post.

Comment on Adventures in Mura — Customizing a Site by Michael Miller

Michael Miller — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:11:55 +0000

Thanks Clarke. I keep telling people around here that the first person to write a book on Mura will make a lot of money. Have to bookmark this.

Comment on CFWheels Scaffolding Basics by Chris Peters

Chris Peters — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:40:51 +0000

FYI, the PluginManager has been updated and can be downloaded here:
http://cfwheels.org/plugins/listing/8

I’ll be updating it again here soon too. The biggest thing that I want to add is a version comparison that shows an “Upgrade” link when an update is available.

Comment on What is a Web Application Server? by Keendra

Keendra — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:10:13 +0000

@Clarke Bishop Ah.. Thank you so much for your reply, now it’s all so clear to me. You have no idea how helpfull this was (have been chasing answers all day).

Comment on What is a Web Application Server? by Clarke Bishop

Clarke Bishop — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:30:29 +0000

The important thing to understand is that a pure web server ONLY grabs files and sends them along to the browser.

If you want the server to do something more like retrieve information from a database or do some processing, you need an application server. Fortunately, application servers have become very common and most people just assume that any web server has an application server built in. PHP, Ruby on Rails, ColdFusion, .Net, J2EE — These are all types of application servers.

You mentioned plugins. Well, a plugin is just a piece of code that runs in an application server. Without the application server, there wouldn’t be anything that could run the plugin’s code.

Javascript lets you script or program the browser, so it’s really not part of the server.

I hope this helps.

Comment on What is a Web Application Server? by Keendra

Keendra — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:03:47 +0000

Could you please explain to me what dynamic functionality is added with an application server that can’t be made by using for example javascripts or plugins? Can you give an example on what exacly this is used for?

Comment on CFWheels by Mike Henke

Mike Henke — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:27:52 +0000

Keep up the great work. I kinda stalled finishing up my series

Comment on CFWheels Scaffolding Basics by Clarke Bishop

Clarke Bishop — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:05:03 +0000

It’s probably just my ignorance of ColdBox showing up. Several of the examples I saw seemed to rely on Reactor & Coldspring.

From what I can tell ColdBox is very powerful — In fact, it was too much for me. CFWheels has been a great fit and I’ve been able to get down the MVC learning curve more easily.

Thanks for your clarification on ColdBox!

Comment on CFWheels Scaffolding Basics by Tony Garcia

Tony Garcia — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:54:12 +0000

I’m not sure why you say that you “really have to learn Transfer or Reactor and Coldspring at the same time” if you want to learn ColdBox. I’ve been using ColdBox for the last couple of years and haven’t done a single thing with Reactor or Transfer. Also, you COULD use ColdSpring but you don’t have to (specially with the built-in IOC, AOP, and remote proxying capabilities built in to ColdBox). I could understand that if ORM is one of your requirements why you made that statement (and why you chose CFWheels since it has ORM built in). But not everyone wants or needs ORM.
Of course, I’m happy for you that CFWheels is working out for you. But that statement about ColdBox was very misleading, IMHO.

Comment on CFWheels — Adding a new table with model, view, and controller by Clarke Bishop

Clarke Bishop — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:18:21 +0000

You know, I don’t like the way Rails does things because you end up having to learn a new SQL-like syntax. As long as you have to do that, you may as well just learn enough SQL to do things!

It would be cool to have a more visual way to specify your fields and field types that was right there inside CFWheels!

On the specs folder, I keep looking for a good way to specify and document my “has many” and “belongs to” associations. Maybe you have a good idea?

Comment on CFWheels — Adding a new table with model, view, and controller by Raul Riera

Raul Riera — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:36:24 +0000

I like the idea about the specs folder.. would love for Wheels to output the SQL file for me… maybe I will write a plugin for that or someone will

Comment on CFWheels Scaffolding Basics by Peter Amiri

Peter Amiri — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:29:30 +0000

Clarke,

When I got involved with the CFWheels project almost two years ago one of my goals was to take a Rails book and translate the examples in the book to Wheels. But of coarse life got in the way and that task is still on my to do list. I’m glad that someone else has picked up the baton and is running with it. Great job and keep the posts coming.

Comment on CFWheels Scaffolding Basics by Mike Henke

Mike Henke — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 01:09:47 +0000

I tried http://localhost/index.cfm/wheels/plugins?name=scaffold for my setup and it loaded fine but didn’t work when submitting.