QuackFuzed.com is the personal ColdFusion coding blog of Matt Quackenbush. It exists primarily as a place for the author to learn, and hopefully to assist others in learning and/or avoiding some of the same pitfalls and mistakes. (Quack certainly makes enough mistakes daily to make up for the entire ColdFusion community.)
I just released cfUniForm 4.1 on RIAForge. As far as cfUniForm is concerned, this is a minor release done for the specific purpose of updating cfUniForm with the latest release (1.4) of the Uni-Form markup and CSS spec. On the other hand, for those who have been seeking themed CSS with cfUniForm, you will be happy to know that this release is for that exact purpose.
jQuery's star rating plugin makes it simple to add a "Rate Me" interface to your application. Combine it with cfUniForm v4.0, and now it's ridiculously simple to add a star rating field (or ten) to any form.
One of the improvements in the latest cfUniForm release is a change in behavior for the 'pluginSetup' attribute on the field tag. Even though this change does not break any old code, I still wanted to write a brief explanation of what the change is, why I made it, and how to make use of it.
WOW! It has been a year already since cfUniForm v3.0 was released. I guess it's about time I made some serious upgrades, eh? Well, after a year of a few minor updates, I present to you cfUniForm v4.0, a major release with a number of new features and other updates to make it leaner and meaner.
I sometimes get asked questions like "hey, man, how can I right-align labels with cfUniForm?" or "how can I change colors?", etc. The answer is: override the CSS! That's the entire purpose of Cascading Style Sheets. Here's a quick example of how to override a couple of default behaviors with the Uni-Form specification (which is what cfUniForm is a wrapper for).
As noted in the cfUniForm documentation, Bob Silverberg's ValidateThis validation framework plays quite nicely with cfUniForm. However, there is one "gotcha" that I have been meaning to blog about for awhile now, but keep forgetting.
I have just released cfUniForm v3.5, which can be downloaded from the riaforge project page. This latest version includes a couple of minor bug fixes as well as a new 'enctype' attribute for your form tag, which allows you to create your own upload fields without relying on the built-in type="file" field.
Be sure to check out the new multiple uploads demo as well as the updated FAQs page.
A big "thank you!" goes to Byron Raines for providing the use case for the multiple uploads (one I had not thought of) as well as submitting a couple of patches for bugs (related to providing an ID for individual fields).
Wow. I have been so busy with things lately that I just realized that I forgot to release the latest version of cfUniForm. Well, that and I finally took a much needed vacation. :-)
This release contains a handful of minor bug fixes and a few new features, most of which are from new contributors to the library! So let's take a quick glance under the hood.
One of the questions that I have been asked repeatedly is
"Why does the cancel button still submit the form?"
Well, as of today, you have the option of changing that behavior.
Well, after several months of getting no love, cfUniForm has seen a flurry of activity in the last week. This evening I have released the latest and greatest, v3.2, which addresses a couple of bugs and adds a brand new enhancement.
