Using ASP within Cold Fusion

[silicongelica]

How do I imbed ASP code into my CFM pages? Is there a special trick to it? I looked at cfobject but this isn't a com component, it's an asp page.. uhm... confused...

 

[DarkMan]

I've never tried it, but it seems that you should be able to write a separate ASP template, then call it from the CF page via CFHTTP... DarkMan

 

[silicongelica]

I'm going to try that today, I'll let you know if it does the trick. A girl has to do something when CFML won't write images stored as binary data onto the page!! ASP does it in a snap! Hello Allaire, fix this!

 

[DarkMan]

Let me know if it does. It may help me with some stuff I'm grappling with.. DarkMan

 

[silicongelica]

Well, I got it working, but the answer for me wasn't <cfhttp, it was simply calling the ASP template like so:
<img src=&quot;BinaryWrite.asp?image_id=#image_id#&quot;>
Cfhttp would have worked as well, but the Asp page is in the same directory as my .cfm pages, and cfhttp just gave me Connection errors. Problem is solved partially- now I just need to figure out how to make it give me multiple photos. I'm also having a rediculous Cfoutput problem.... Oh the trials and tribulations of the newbie programmer...
Thank you for your help!

 

[iza]

how did you solve the problem ??

 

[GunJack]

If I understand what you're trying to do, I believe the CF code to do the same is :

<img src=&quot;Img.cfm&quot;>

Where Img.cfm contains

<CFCONTENT TYPE=&quot;image/gif&quot; DELETEFILE=&quot;NO&quot; FILE=&quot;d:\test.gif&quot;>

 

[silicongelica]

Exactly, except for my purposes it was an ASP page being called to display the images, which in my case are stored BLOBs in SQL. The ASP page basically just instantiates a connection to the DB and uses the WriteBinary function.
Good stuff.