Category: ColdFusion

Installation Wide contentRenderer for MuraCMS

I have a fairly large Mura installation, with a good number of sites on it. I have some customizations that I'd like to be pushed out across all of the sites in my installation. For example, I've changed the way the dspPrimaryNav function works, so that I can prevent child pages from being displayed. Unfortunately, as flexible and customizable as Mura is, there is no good to make global changes to the `contentRenderer.cfc` without losing those changes everytime you perform an update to your core files.
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7 comments | Posted by Daniel Short on Mar 13, 2011 at 4:44 PM | Categories: ColdFusion - Mura CMS -

Calculate Next Billing Date

I had a need to figure out the next billing date after today, based on a known start date and billing interval. Here’s the function I came up with to make it happen.

<cffunction name="getNextBilling" access="public" output="false" returntype="date" >
    <cfargument 
        name="StartDate" 
        type="date" 
        required="true" 
        hint="The date the billing started" 
    />
    <cfargument 
        name="BillingInterval" 
        type="numeric" 
        required="true" 
        hint="The number of units for the billing. For example, 
            if something is billed every 90 days, this value will be 90" 
    />
    <cfargument 
        name="IntervalUnit" 
        type="string" 
        default="d" 
        required="false" 
        hint="The date part for the billing interval. This is the 
            CF datepart, such as 'd', 'm', 'yyyy', etc. The default is 'd'." 
    />

    <cfset var TimeFromStart = DateDiff(Arguments.IntervalUnit, StartDate, Now()) />

    <cfreturn DateAdd(Arguments.IntervalUnit, TimeFromStart + Arguments.BillingInterval - (TimeFromStart MOD Arguments.BillingInterval), Arguments.Startdate) />

</cffunction>

Let me know if you spot a problem with the solution, or have suggestions for improvement.

2 comments | Posted by Daniel Short on Dec 10, 2010 at 1:37 PM | Categories: ColdFusion -

Show in Finder in Eclipse

It's horribly annoying trying to find a file on your file system when it's buried folders deep in your project, on who knows which hard drive. In an effort to make this easier I scoured the interwebs for you, and found a solution.
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4 comments | Posted by Daniel Short on Dec 8, 2010 at 9:28 PM | Categories: ColdFusion -