For some time now the download link at the ColdFusion Cookbook has been down. I've been working with Adobe on a cfdocument bug that is now finally squashed. Now if you download the guide, which has 129 entries, you will find that I've added a table of contents as well as bookmarks. This will make the PDF much easier to work with. It still isn't quite as pretty as I would like, but it's readable.
I'd also like to encourage folks to check out the Cookbook. The site never really got the traffic I thought it deserved, but then again, I'm a bit biased. ;) I'm hoping to give the site a bit of attention this month, including getting the documentation links pointing to ColdFusion 8 help files, not ColdFusion 7.
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What a brilliant idea Ray! I had no idea the site existed though. Deserves to have more prominence in the community really.
Something like this - or an extension to it - covering OOP in Model-Glue would be fantastic as well. It's this kind of central resource of 'How Tos' in Coldfusion that will really help us developers.
Out of interest did you base the Codebase on BlogCFC and are you using an ISAPI filter to handle the URL's or is it running on Apache?
Ray, if you need help with getting all the links pointing to CF8 docs, let me know as I recently did that for my little project here http://cfdocs.anujgakhar.com
Cheers.
@James: Nope, it is a MOdel-Glue app. In fact, you can download the source. Search the blog - I released it ages ago.
@Anuj: If I remember right, last time I did use the community, so I'll probably do so again.
Sorry, what do you mean when you say you used the community? did you mean livedocs ?
I asked my readers to do the grunt work. :)
Hi Ray.
Can you say how you got the TOC working please? I thought it was broken, using the cfpdf tag.
Thanks.
It required a patch. I'm finding out now what I can say about it.
I was wondering if anybody out there knows anything new about a fix for the cfPDF Table of Contents bug. I want to rock some TOC's on my dynamically generated PDFs like the cookbook. Anything from Adobeland? :)
Scratch my last comment. I just discovered that as long as I have "bookmarks" enabled in my <cfdocument> tags and use <cfdocumentsection> tags when constructing my PDFs, the TOC bookmarks appear in the final PDF without even using the <TableOfContents /> DDX tag. I guess this won't work if you have pre-existing PDFs to merge, but if you're building them from scratch, it works like a charm. I'm a happy camper now! :)