Performance cfif vs cfswitch

With cfswitch code is more readable so no dought it should be
used.
But I am wondering if using cfswitch improves/affects
performance of website or no?
thanks

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presumably, which function you need to use depends on some
condition...
so you can just use a <cfif> or <cfswitch> block
to check the condition
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Translating months to Spanish equivalent

Hey all -
Simple yet elusive problem. I have a query looping over a
list of articles for one of my websites. Some of these articles are
in Spanish. Next to each article title is the date of the article.
I'm using a standard DateFormat to do this:
#dateformat(query.ArticleDate, "mmmm yyyy")#
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yyyy")# and replacing them with the Spanish equivalent?
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longboardfin wrote:
> That ArticleDate is a smalldatetime data type in my SQL
Server. Is there
> anyway to avoid a complex CFIF (or cfswitch) checking
the results of
> #dateformat(query.ArticleDate, "mmmm yyyy")# and
replacing them with the
> Spanish equivalent?
set the locale to your preferred locale, for example (cf7):
<cfset oldLocale=setLocale("es_ES")>
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password="#variables.password#"><cfloop index="i" from="1"
to="#ArrayLen(aSQL)#" step="1"><cfif IsSimpleValue(aSQL
)><cfset temp =
aSQL>#Trim(PreserveSingleQuotes(temp))#<cfelseif
IsStruct(aSQL
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)><cfswitch
expression="#aSQL.cfsqltype#"><cfcase
value="CF_SQL_BIT"><cfif aSQL
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putting it in a UDF...
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<cfif rates.B gte 2 or rates.D gte 2>
<cfif rates.A gte 2 and rates.B gte 2>
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<img src="images/A1.gif" width="94" height="29">
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<img src="images/C1.gif" width="94" height="29">
<cfelse>
<img src="images/B1.gif" width="94" height="29">
</cfif>
</cfif>
</cfif>
</cfif>
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</cffunction>
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the image isn't
displaying..... I tried <img
src="#classSort(foilCount.recordcount)#">
Is that not correct?
"Ian Skinner" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Steve Grosz wrote:
>> Ok, I got some code working on a page, and would
like to now see about
>> putting it in a UDF...
>>
>> The UDF right now looks like:
>>
>> <cffunction name="classSort" output="false">
>> <cfargument name="eventType" type="string"
required="yes">
>>
>> <cfset temp_var=1>
>> <cfloop list="arguments.eventType" delimiters=","
index="i">
>> <cfset full_var_temp_var=#i#>
>> <cfset temp_var=temp_var+1>
>> </cfloop>
>>
>> <cfswitch expression="full_var_1">
>> <cfcase value="f">
>> <cfif var_temp_2 gte 15>
>> <cfif rates.C gte 2>
>> <cfif rates.B gte 2 or rates.D gte 2>
>> <cfif rates.A gte 2 and rates.B gte 2>
>> <img src="images/A1.gif" width="94"
height="29">
>> <cfelseif rates.D gte 2 and rates.E gte 2>
>> <img src="images/C1.gif" width="94"
height="29">
>> <cfelse>
>> <img src="images/B1.gif" width="94"
height="29">
>> </cfif>
>> </cfif>
>> </cfif>
>> </cfif>
>> </cfcase>
>> </cfswitch>
>>
>> </cffunction>
>>
>> And I'd be passing arguments in the form of
functin(f,30)
>>
>> What I'm trying to do is get the image filename sent
back so I can
>> display it on the page.
>>
>> Am I on the right track here???
>
> Wow that is some obtuse logic there. I'm going to go
with that you know
> why you are doing all that looping at the beginning.
>
> The first thing I'm seeing is an incompatibility with
output="false" and
> <cfif...>...<img ...> logic.
>
> This code is attempting to output <img...> tags
but that is disallowed in
> the <cffunction...> tag. You either need to allow
output - which would
> also include all the white space in the function if
steps are not taken to
> control it. Or save the <img....> tag code into a
string variable and
> then return that variable at the end of the function
with a <cfreturn ...>
> tag.
>
>

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Greetings,
CF Ver: 8,0,1,195765
<cfajaximport tags="cflayout-tab,cfform,cftooltip">
DW CS5
<cflayoutarea source="resource_upload.cfm"
Form elements are:
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I have a form embedded in a tab of a <cflayout>. The form works fine
external to the <cflayout>. When I say it works fine, I mean that
when the form fields are evaluated for emptiness with <cfif>(s) all
processes as expected.
However, when I embed the form inside the <cflayout> the <cffile>
form field no longer evaluates properly for emptiness. Whether the
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I'm currently working on optimizing a report that takes about
2 minutes to load. The main reason is that it has sooo much data. I
noticed 2 things that i might be able to improve on...first there
are a ton of <cfif> statements and second there are so many
Query of Queries for each record. Basically I need help with these
2 things:
1) There are quite a few boolean fields. Currently the logic
is on the .cfm page meaning for a certain boolean field, we use
<cfif qryGetPipelines.pipebdw_is_me_tech_assistance eq
1>
Y
<cfelse>
N
</cfif>
My question is that would it better and more efficient if i
just use a CASE WHEN pipebdw_is_me_tech_assistance = 1
THEN....statement in the query and that way i don't have to do the
<cfif> on the .cfm page?
2) My second question is: let's say the report pulls up 400
records, i then loop through those records and display the
different fields and i also perform about 10 Query of Queries in
each loop to get fields that have more then 1 record. So bascially,
for each of the 400 records, i have 10 additional Query of Queries
and though it's only about 15 - 20 ms per query...when you add
multiply 10 * 400 it takes up quite a lot of time. Is there any
other way around this??
Thank you so much for all your help.
Anju

@Ian - Thanks for your help Ian and the answer to your
question is yes i do plan to put the CASE statement in the Sql
query, currently the logic is being done by using <cfif> on
the .cfm page.
@Dan - Thanks for your help as well. Can you please give me a
little more info as to what would be a more effiicient way then
looping through a query in order for me to display about 30 columns
(fields) of data for anywhere from 400 - 1000 records?
Thanks again for all your help

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I created a discussion board. Each entry displays the
preferences of the user who posted the entry, such as 'Allow
Private Messages', 'Allow Emails' etc. When looping through the
entries, I have to query the database to get the preferences for
each individual 'poster'. Because I thought it would increase
performance, I created a CFC method and call the Object into the
session scope. Then I initiate the method when looping through the
results and setting a variable in the THIS scope in the instance to
the query result value.
When comparing the two ways of doing it, there's a four-fold
increase in load time using the CFC, this doesn't seem right and I
suspect I am doing something wrong.
Below are the two different approaches, maybe someone can
help me:
Without CFC:
<cfoutput query="results">
<cfquery name=getPoster datasource="xxx">
select first_name
from users
where user_id = #results.user_id#
</cfquery>
</cfoutput>
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CFC Code:
<cfcomponent>
<cfset THIS.user_data_id = 0>
<cffunction name="getPosterPrefs" access="public"
returntype="query">
<cfargument name="user_data_id" required="yes"
type="numeric">
<cfquery name="getposter" datasource="xxx">
SELECT allow_pm, pm_ignore_list, show_email
FROM forum_user_data
WHERE user_data_id = #THIS.user_data_id#
</cfquery>
<cfreturn getPMprefs1>
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Well yes, all you did was move your query into a CFC that
must be
initiated for every user in your display. So you are still
doing each
and every query you where doing before, and on top of that
you are
creating an object around it. This is not going to improve
performance
in any way.
I'm probably not the one to help you improve this with OOD.
I'm not
that good at it myself. I'm still struggling with beans,
DAOs,
gateways, factories, and MVP designs and how you put them all
together
myself.
But at the most basic level, what you want to remove is the
individual
queries run sequentially, whether you use procedural or OOP
logic.
Ideally you would run one query that gets all the data for
all the users
you need to know about in one swoop and save this as long as
you need
it, so you don't have to do it again unnecessarily.

Adding an if / cfswitch statement to a query missing peramiters

Hello;
I'm trying to add a feature into a page I made. It has a lot going on, so I'll try and give you the basic function I'm trying to add.. and as little of the other logic as possible.
I want to add a dropdown menu to this page, I have 2 querys running it. one, runs the dropdown.. here is the code for that:
<CFQUERY name="cata" datasource="#APPLICATION.dataSource#" cachedwithin="#CreateTimeSpan(0, 6, 0, 0)#">
select subName, subID
FROM merchSubCat
ORDER BY subName
</CFQUERY>
<form Name="category" method="get" Action="wallProduct.cfm?id=#subID#">
<select name="CategoryID" size="1" class="selectstyle" onChange="category.submit();">
     <option value=""> --Select a Category-- </option>
         <CFOUTPUT query= "cata">
         <option value="#subID#">#subName#</option>
         </CFOUTPUT>
     </select></form>
ok, simple enough. It takes the info from my db and makes a little menu out of it. click on one of the selections, and it will pass a url.id to the same page. This query is the main query that runs the page. I need it to serve up the first set of records by default, and if you select from the drop down, the according records will be brough up. here is my query to add this feature.
<cfquery name="getMerch" datasource="#APPLICATION.dataSource#">
SELECT merchID, MerchName, MerchDescription, MerchPrice, MYFile, subID, CategoryID
FROM Merchandise
WHERE
<cfif isDefined ("#url.id#")>
<cfswitch expression="#url.id#">
<cfcase value="1">subID = 1</cfcase>
<cfcase value="2">subID = 2</cfcase>
<cfcase value="3">subID = 3</cfcase>
</cfswitch>
<cfelse>
subID = 1
</cfif>
</cfquery>
When my page loads, there is no ID in the url, and my code is not liking this and throwing an erro as such:
Element ID is undefined in URL.
The error occurred in C:\Websites\187914kg3\magWall\wallProduct.cfm: line 19
17 : FROM Merchandise
18 : WHERE
19 : <cfif isDefined ("#url.id#")>
20 : <cfswitch expression="#url.id#">
21 : <cfcase value="1">subID = 1</cfcase>
This is my problem, and I'm sure it's something silly I'm forgetting ehre. I've done this b4. How do I make this work so that by default, subID = 1 is shown when the page loads, and the others are shown when you use the dropdown menu.
I also spoke of other logic on this page. there is a next n button running this query, as well as a cfswitch to switch the order of the records, using the ORDERBY in my query. But I want to get this dropdown menu working before I add in all this other logic.
can anyone help me? I'm having a mental block on this problem.
thank you.

Ken, yours works nice. I thought of the cfparam afte
r I posted, but left the default blank, so it threw an error.
Now my problem is an error with my dropdown menu. It says sudID is undefined in the form variables for this select. here is the
error, and code.. I tried a few different approaches on this and right now, nothig is fixing it.
My error:
Variable SUBID is undefined.
The error occurred in C:\Websites\187914kg3\magWall\wallProduct.cfm: line 89
87 :           <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
88 :             <tr>
89 :               <td colspan="3" align="center" valign="top"><form Name="category" method="get" Action="wallProduct.cfm?ID=#subID#">
90 :       <select name="subID" size="1" class="selectstyle" onChange="category.submit();">
91 :      <option value=""> --Select a Category-- </option>
My code:
<CFQUERY name="cata" datasource="#APPLICATION.dataSource#">
select subName, subID
FROM merchSubCat
ORDER BY subName
</CFQUERY>
<form Name="category" method="get" Action="wallProduct.cfm?ID=#subID#">
<select name="subID" size="1" class="selectstyle" onChange="category.submit();">
     <option value=""> --Select a Category-- </option>
         <CFOUTPUT query= "cata">
         <option value="#subID#">#subName#</option>
         </CFOUTPUT>
     </select></form>
am I missing something here?

cfif structkeyexists(form, "btnSubmit") overridding

I have a form that submits to itself instead of an action page.
This is my submit button : <input type="submit" name="btnSubmit" style="width: 108px" value="Submit">
When the form is submitted, I check for the existence of the submit button and then do processing :
<cfif structkeyexists(form, "btnSubmit")>
<cftransaction>

<cfif isDefined("form.fieldnames") and mid(form.fieldnames,1,4) is "Del_">
<cfloop index="i" list="#form.fieldnames#" delimiters=",">
<cfset select_urdn_number = listlast(i,"_")>
I basically have rows of data and each row contains a checkbox and I process all the transactions simultaneously that are checked.
What is happening now is that it seems to be treating form.btnSubmit as a form variable and attempting to insert it into the table and it is blowing up.
When I did this using an action page, there was no need to check for form.btnSubmit and the inserts worked without any problems.
How can I get around this problems ?

... which values were checked with the checkboxes. For example, if the form contains 10 records/checkboxes and only 4 are checked, and table updated, how do I produce a report showing those four that were checked ?
To get a list of all of the the selected "urdn" values, create a list variable and append each #select_urdn_number# to the list inside your cfloop.
<cfif structkeyexists(form, "btnSubmit")>
     
     <cfset allUrdnNumbers = "">
     <cfloop index="currentField" list="#form.fieldnames#">
          <cfif mid(currentField,1,4) is "Del_">
              <cfset select_urdn_number = listlast(currentField,"_")>
              
              <cfset allUrdnNumbers = listAppend(allUrdnNumbers, select_urdn_number)>
              ... other code ...
          </cfif>
     </cfloop>
     ... Then use the list of numbers generate the reports ie #allUrdnNumbers#
</cfif>
But if that is all you need, the cfloop code is unecessary. If you give all of the checkboxes the same name, and set the "value" to the #urdn# number, you would already have a list. Without jumping through all of the hoops and loops (see my first response above).

Defining form recipients by CFSWITCH?

I am working with a form that has several check boxes on it. All of the check boxes have the same name so when the form processes I get a response like, check1,check2,check3 etc...
I want to set this up so that depending on what box(es) are checked different e-mail addresses will receive the form data.
I had tried using CFIF statements like with each checkbox individually named.
<cfif #FORM.check01# is "one">
<cfset emailRecip01="[email protected]">
</cfif>
<cfif #FORM.check02# is "two">
<cfset emailRecip02="[email protected]">
</cfif>
<cfif #FORM.check03# is "three">
<cfset emailRecip03="[email protected]">
</cfif>
<cfmail to="#emailRecip01# #emailRecip02# #emailRecip03#"
subject="Form Response"
from="[email protected]"
type="html">
This works fine if there is one address per checkbox, but I have two addresses and 11 check boxes.
Because of this I tried to use a CFSWITCH command and setup the following commands (shortened for this post).
<cfswitch expression="#FORM.checkBox#">
<cfcase value="one;two" delimiterters=";">
    <cfset eAddress1="[email protected]">
    </cfcase>
    <cfcase value="three" delimiters=";">
    <cfset eAddress2="[email protected]">
    </cfcase>
    <cfdefaultcase>
    <cfset eAddress1="[email protected]">
    <cfset eAddress2="">
    </cfdefaultcase>
</cfswitch>
<cfmail to="#eAddress1# #eAddress2#"
subject="Form Response"
from="[email protected]"
type="html">
I am only receiving e-mails at the <cfdefaultcase> address. Why is this not working?
Thanks,
Jeremiah

Hi, I actually was able to find a solution based on both your suggestions. Instead of using listfind, I used list length and separated the check boxes into two groups, checkbox1 and checkbox2. Then I used CFSET to check the length of the string returned, delimited by commas. From this I was able to write conditional statements, code below.
<cfset listLength01 = ListLen("#FORM.checkBox1#", ",")>
<cfset listLength02 = ListLen("#FORM.checkBOx2#", ",")>
<cfif #listLength01# GREATER THAN "0">
<cfset emailRecip01="[email protected]">
</cfif>
<cfif #listLength02# GREATER THAN "0">
<cfset emailRecip02="[email protected]">
</cfif>
<cfif #listLength01# is "0" and #listLength02 is "0">
<cfset emailRecip01="[email protected]">
</cfif>
<cfmail to="#emailRecip01#,#emailRecip02#"
subject="Form response"
from="[email protected]"
type="html">
Thanks to both of you both of your help!
Jeremiah

cfif isDefined("url.Message")

does any one know what this <cfif
isDefined("url.Message")> is used for?

It checks for the Message URL parameter.
If it is found, it will perform the code within the
<cfif></cfif> block.
If it is not found, it won't do anything.
http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/7/htmldocs/00000274.htm#1100123
http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/7/htmldocs/00000520.htm#1106482
Ken Ford
Adobe Community Expert
Fordwebs, LLC
http://www.fordwebs.com
"Coldfusionstudent" <[email protected]>
wrote in message news:f2283r$6e0$[email protected]..
> does any one know what this <cfif
isDefined("url.Message")> is used for?

Quote Report - Performance

I have created a quote report with narratives around the opportunity, opportunity-product, and account information. The report contains a pivot table.
I'm getting very hit or miss performance results on the report. Sometimes the report runs faster for all opportunities compared to when its prompted with an opty id from a web link.
Any thoughts? There doesn't seem to be one column that makes a difference.
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Hi Shaik,
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IS NOT NULL and performance

I have a performance issue with a query - it would be something like -
select col1,col2, sum(col3), get_val(col_4)
from table1
where
get_val(col_4) is not null
group by col1,col2, get_val(col_4)
I have simplified this but it is something similar. This works great - performance is great. Now I commented out the where clause as I needed to populate null values - and that's it the query does not retrieve the resultset - it keeps running forever. With the where clause it comes back in 60 seconds. There is only one row out of 560 rows that has null value for col_4 which i need to display.
Any help is appreciated.

The only difference I notice between the two sqls is HASH(UNIQUE) -
with IS NOT NULL in where clause -
SELECT STATEMENT     ALL_ROWS     1598     1     209
HASH(UNIQUE)          1598     1     209
HASH(GROUP BY)          1598     1     209
When is not null is removed from the where clause -
SELECT STATEMENT     ALL_ROWS     1598     1     206
HASH(GROUP BY)          1598     1     206
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