Coldfusion with Keith Diehl
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Using ColdFusion, the document summarizes how the author generated 600 Word documents from an SQL database in 3 steps: 1) Query the database to retrieve outline information, 2) Output the class info into a ColdFusion variable, 3) Write the variable content into individual Word documents and save them to a folder. ColdFusion allowed the author to automate a process that would have taken a week to do manually in just a few lines of code.
Coldfusion with Keith Diehl
- 1. How ColdFusion saved me from a week of grunt work Using SQL Server and Coldfusion to generate 600 Word Documents.
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- 4. Why ColdFusion? • Quick learning curve • Similar style to HTML with opening and closing tags • Supported by Adobe and frequently updated with new features • ColdFusion isn’t free but also not that expensive • Hosted ColdFusion accounts are about $30 a month • Free Developer Edition
- 5. Can you guess what this does? <cfloop index="i" from="1" to="10"> <cfoutput> <p> #i# </p> </cfoutput> </cfloop>
- 7. Can I get this outline as a Word Doc? Ummm… No.
- 9. <cfoutput> <h1>#database.h1#</h1> <h2>#database.h2#</h2> #database.classOutline# </cfoutput>
- 10. I need all of our outlines in Word … super.
- 11. Can ColdFusion come to my rescue? Yup!
- 12. Step 1: Get the info from the database <cfquery name="allOutlines" datasource="datasource" username="username" password="password"> SELECT ID, Name, Days, H1, ClassOutline, FileName FROM classroomTable ORDER BY Name </cfquery>
- 13. Step 2: Output class info into a variable <cfoutput query="allOutlines"> <cfsavecontent variable="myDocument"> <html xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word"> <!--- Head tag instructs Word to start up a certain way, specifically in print view. ---> <head> <xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Print</w:View> <w:SpellingState>Clean</w:SpellingState> <w:GrammarState>Clean</w:GrammarState> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:DoNotOptimizeForBrowser/> </w:WordDocument> </xml> </head>
- 14. Step 3: Write variable into Word Doc <body> <cfoutput> <h1>#allOutlines.Name#</h1> <p>#allOutlines.Days# <cfif allOutlines.Days GT "1">days<cfelse>day</cfif></p> #allOutlines.classOutline# </cfoutput> </body> </html> </cfsavecontent> <cfscript> FileWrite("Server:word-outlines#allOutlines.ID#-#allOutlines.FileName#.doc", "#myDocument#"); </cfscript> </cfoutput>
- 15. This is my lonely directory
- 16. my directory with lots of friends…
- 17. SUPER CODER!