Jon Hartmann - BlogCFC

Tweaking BlogCFC: Theme Management

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 22:17:00 -0500

One of the really nice things about Wordpress is that it has a very easy to use admin for managing your blog's theme. Working with the design in BlogCFC is a pain: the design is integrated into the actual code for the blog. Further, the code for designs is strewn through a number of different folders (includes/, images/, tags/, includes/pods/, etc.), which makes it hard to fully update a design. I've made the necessary changes to make BlogCFC handle custom theming as easily as Wordpress: click more to see the details. [More]

BlogCFC Tweaks: Bug Fix for viewByCategory.cfm

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:15:00 -0500

I recently posted a blog entry with some code and instructions to allow drilling down into categories to view the posts in that category. Unfortunately, it had a bug. The meat of the viewByTemplate.cfm file should look like this:



	
	
	
	
	View" sort="false"/>

Notice the missing "querystring" attribute on the datatable module. If you don't remove that bit, clicking on a blog post link from the category view wont take you to that blog post at all. I've updated the code in the relevant zip.

Download the updated code.

BlogCFC Tweaks: View Entries By Category

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:29:00 -0500

With BlogCFC, there isn't an easy way to browse your entries by category. The closest you can get is to go to Entries put the category into the search. This actually wasn't too hard, once I figured out some of the more cryptic bits of some of the custom tags in BlogCFC. [More]

BlogCFC Tweaks: Easier Category Selection

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 05:30:00 -0500

I've talked about it before, but I find classic multi-selects in HTML to be really hard to use. You invariably have to end up putting some explanation text to let a user know how to select more then one, and its easy to clear your selections everything while trying to select an additional item. I put these ideas into practice in BlogCFC to help with category selection. I replaced the following code in admin/entry.cfm starting at line 391:

With this code:


	
		
			 checked="checked"/>#categoryName#

I also added the following code the admin style sheet ( /includes/admin.css ):


ul.multiselect {
	height: 100px; 
	width: 225px; 
	border: 1px solid silver; 
	list-style-type: none; 
	padding-left: 3px; 
	overflow: auto;
}
ul.multiselect li label {
	display: inline;
	padding-left: 2px;
}

That makes it a lot easier to keep track of categories without messing something up.

BlogCFC Tweaks: Post Releaser Scheduled Task

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:34:00 -0500

I've been slowly accumulating a few tweaks to BlogCFC that make my life a little easier. The first is a schedule task I created to help me with my problem of writing 10 posts one day, but then none for a week.



	SELECT TOP 1 id
	FROM tblBlogEntries
	WHERE blog = 'myblogname'
	AND released = 0
	ORDER BY posted ASC



	
		UPDATE tblBlogEntries
		SET released = 1,
			posted = GETDATE()
		WHERE id =

I set this up to run once a day, fairly early in the morning. With this setup, all I have to do is make sure that I mark my posts as not released, and they will be parceled out one at a time to help keep my blog fresh.

BlogCFC Broke

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:01:00 -0500

So, recently my install of the blog CFC client for this section broke and started kicking a really weird error. I tried fixing it by reinstalling the client, which failed... so I dumped a fresh org/... folder in as well, which caused me to have to update my database because my blog was out of date... Blarg. Now my old theme is gone for this site.

MachBlog

Sat, 12 May 2007 08:32:00 -0500

Seems some one beat me to the idea of a blog in Mach II. Check it out here.

BlahCFC

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:50:00 -0500

So, I've got BlogCFC setup and running fine... but I'm really confused by parts of it. It probably stems from being intended for a single blog setup, but this thing really is horrible at multi-blog setups. None of the blog info is held in the database, despite having one to handle blog entries and pages. [More]