BlogCFC 4.0.1

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After a few bug fixes, I'm happy to announce a new version with actual new features in it - not just bug fixes. Here are the changes:

  • Fixed a bug with BlueDragon. BlueDragon has a render function, and since my CFC also had a method with the name, it didn't work. Simply changed it to renderEntry(). Hey New Atlanta, next time you add a feature, be sure it doesn't conflict with my blog ware! (Sorry, couldn't resiste. ;)
  • The last update had a fix for MySQL/MSACCESS and a date format issue. Paul Hasting wrote a nice update to take care of this and a few other things as well.
  • Ping support for Weblogs.com. Just use @weblogs in your ping list. Thanks to Rob Gonda.
  • Another idea by Rob - the layout file now shows meta tags for TITLE and KEYWORDS. The blog.ini file now has a blogkeywords value to allow you to set this.
  • Google Site Maps are officially supported.
  • Few small bug fixex (see release notes)
  • Word doc has been updated, and I'm now shipping a PDF version as well (which caused the zip to grow quite a bit :)

You can download the software at the project page.

As always, please let me know if you have any feedback. If you love it - don't forget my wish list (still no one has gotten the Nano, do you guys just not love me or something?) or my free IPod Nano referer thingy. Thanks!

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Archived Comments

Comment 1 by Dave Carabetta posted on 11/29/2005 at 7:27 AM

Hey Ray, small issue with the new release. print.cfm wasn't updated to reflect the changed render() to renderEntry() method. Once I did that, I was able to integrate your mods.

Comment 2 by Raymond Camden posted on 11/29/2005 at 7:35 AM

Fixed. :)

Comment 3 by Cole Barksdale posted on 11/29/2005 at 7:41 AM

Hi Ray.

I'm not sure if this is an issue on my end or BlogCFC. When I try to view blog entries either at the site or via an RSS reader, I get:

The requested URL //<year>/<date>/<entry alias> was not found on this server

Note the double slash marks in fron of <year>. I'm using 4.0 on this blog, but my other blogs use BlogCFC 3 and I have no issues with those.

Any ideas?

Comment 4 by Rob Gonda posted on 11/29/2005 at 7:59 AM

Ray,

Make sure you update the blog.zip with the renderEntry() issue. I just downloaded the file and it still applies render().

Cheers

-Rob

Comment 5 by Rob Gonda posted on 11/29/2005 at 8:01 AM

Ray,

Make sure you update the blog.zip with the renderEntry() issue. I just downloaded the file and it still applies render().

Cheers

-Rob

Comment 6 by Raymond Camden posted on 11/29/2005 at 8:04 AM

Rob, please check agtain. I just looked and I see it.

Comment 7 by Raymond Camden posted on 11/29/2005 at 8:04 AM

Cole, post your blog.ini file.

Comment 8 by Cole Barksdale posted on 11/29/2005 at 8:12 AM

[default]
dsn=[protected]
owneremail=[protected]
blogURL=http://www.maddisonbarksdal...
unsubscribeURL=http://www.maddisonbarksdal...
blogTitle=Maddison Barksdale
blogDescription=Blog of Maddison Barksdale
blogItemURLPrefix=mode=entry&entry=
blogDBType=MYSQL
locale=en_US
users=maddison
commentsFrom=
mailserver=mail.maddisonbarksdale.com
mailusername=[protected]
mailpassword=[protected]
pingurls=
offset=-1
allowtrackbacks=1
trackbackspamlist=phentermine,searchterra,bolobomb.com,date.inter.by,cialis,propecia,viagra,tramadol,searchear.biz,pills and tablets,abrevaonline,flomax,glucophag,best links for home,best earning,soma,spam.com,zyban,amoxil,best tablets,hoodia,prozac,testanchor,4allfree.com,lipitor,actonel,acidophilus

Hope this helps.

Thanks!

Cole

Comment 9 by Rob Gonda posted on 11/29/2005 at 8:18 AM

Ray,

It's there now. Thanks!

Cola,

Your blogURL is missing index.cfm. I missed it too :) ... the word document clearly states that it must be included for the SES to work.

cheers

-Rob

Comment 10 by Rob Gonda posted on 11/29/2005 at 8:19 AM

Cole,

My apologies ... didn't mean to misstype your name :)

Cheers

-Rob

Comment 11 by Raymond Camden posted on 11/29/2005 at 8:21 AM

Your blogurl is wrong. It needs to include the /index.cfm at the end.

Comment 12 by Cole Barksdale posted on 11/29/2005 at 8:21 AM

Wow, thanks Rob! I guess I skipped over that part. Anyway, thanks and don't worry about the mistyping. :)

Cole

Comment 13 by John posted on 12/3/2005 at 8:08 AM

Hi Ray,

Had V3 running well - installed 4.0.1 and keep getting the following error:

blogKeywords is not a valid property

Comment 14 by Raymond Camden posted on 12/3/2005 at 8:35 AM

It's in the release notes. :) You need a blogkeywords= property in your ini file.

Comment 15 by jeff gladnick posted on 12/9/2005 at 12:03 AM

My CF administrator debugging doesn't work for BlogCFC. It just seems to be "shut off" on this section only.

Any idea why this is happening?

Comment 16 by Raymond Camden posted on 12/9/2005 at 12:10 AM

BlogCFC uses a cfsetting to force debugging off. This is done as a security measure. You will need to edit application.cfm to allow debugging info to show up.