[thelist] [OT] cfdecrypt, was: (Gift Culture)

[Daniel J. Cody]

Just to throw out a bit of a tangent here, but I have to say this is 
probably my 2nd or 3rd most used bookmark and I highly recommend it to 
begining-intermidate cold fusion programmers looking for advanced CF 
techniques.

The best example I can give for the usefullness of decrypting some CF 
tags is in CF's administration panel itself(the most grave of sins with 
some i'm sure). In my case, when I add members.evolt.org accounts, the 
most tedious part was adding datasources for the MySQL database 
*WE*(yes, we) provide. Every other part(from aliasing /~user to a nice 
/user, creating the actual users databsae, etc..) is fairly simple, and 
fairly automated. Adding CF datasources was dificult to automate though, 
  so I ended up decrypting the .cfm file that was responsible for that 
task to make it easier on myself(the MySQL datasource is the selected 
dropbox, the datasource name gets passed to the next page(to fill in the 
'database name', and the 'hostname' defaults to 'localhost' instead of 
127.0.0.1(be allaires default))) to add new accounts.

They were simple changes and easy to implement in this situation(nice 
commenting allaire!), and totally cut down on the time it took (w)me to 
add a new members.evolt.org account. :)

(this is my situation though were i've(er, *we've*, WE!) bought the 
product, and hence i feel it my right to improve on. with individual 
developers, it may be a different moral implecation which is outside 
this discussion. it may also be totally illegal based on an EUA(L) that 
i may have agreed to while installing a trial version of Blu's Clue's 
for my niece :)

tip forthcoming(2)

.djc.

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.jeff wrote:
> i've done plenty of giving already, but am prepared to do it again.
> 
> http://shrewm.net/cfd/