Entries for month: February 2011
How to use cfmail with Godaddy using a try | catch
Posted by Joel Hill in on February 9, 2011
How to use cfmail with Godaddy using a try | catch
Free NFL Live Scores Feed Using ColdFusion Can be used for NBA, NCAA, NHL, GOLF Scores Feed
Posted by Joel Hill in ColdFusion on February 9, 2011
So once upon a time, I had an idea that it would be cool to run a little personal website that was only to be used by my friends. This website was to have a number of NFL football games that you could pick from and then if you guessed the most right, you win.
Sounds very simple right? WRONG! I ran into a HUGE roadblock. I first built the site so I could input the games that you could pick from manually, then after the games were over, I would have to input the scores manually. Seeing how this gets very annoying, I wanted to incorporate some live scoring.
ColdFusion Jquery Solution to PayPal Post To Blank Page
Posted by Joel Hill in ColdFusion on February 9, 2011
So I’ve been meaning to allow users to donate to my site using PayPal, and I wanted to keep track of who donated and for how much. It all seemed very complicated until Doug Boude came along and wrote this blog: http://www.dougboude.com/blog/1/2009/11/PayPal-IPN-Coldfusion-CFC.cfm
(Thanks Doug!). Doug wrote some very cool code which helps communicate with PayPal after someone pays or donates money to you.
The code works great, but it assumes that you have a record in already created in your database which then passes a unique id of the record you wish to update. PayPal takes that id and updates the table with the information of the transaction using IPN.
My problem existed when I tried to insert a record, THEN pass the id of that record to PayPal all within the push of 1 button.
When I used cfhttp to post to PayPal, it would post to a blank page. It would never actually make it to PayPal.
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