ColdFusion Archives - Andrew Dixon

Using Argon2 in Lucee CFML

Andrew Dixon — Sat, 19 Sep 2020 13:25:27 +0000

A couple of months ago I wrote about password hashing in CFML (if you haven’t read that, I would suggest reading it before reading this) and in the post, I mentioned that Argon2 as being the currently recommended algorithm for password hashing but that, at the time of writing, neither Adobe ColdFusion or Lucee natively …

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Password Hashing in CFML

Andrew Dixon — Tue, 12 May 2020 19:45:13 +0000

As we all know, or at least should know, if you are storing passwords in a database, they should only ever be stored as hashes and NEVER as plain text or using reversible encryption. What is hashing? By hashing the password, you are not storing the original password, only a calculated representation of the password, …

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Looping over dates in CFML

Andrew Dixon — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 17:24:06 +0000

A question came up on the CFML Slack a couple of days ago where someone was asking about looping over a date range, e.g. from 1st August 2018 to today. He suggested he was going to “do it the old fashioned way using DateDiffs and DateAdds” so he could do it with “regular numbers”. In …

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Looping over arrays in Lucee CFML

Andrew Dixon — Sat, 03 Nov 2018 11:23:46 +0000

I’ve been back to doing some coding in CFML this week and working on a project that has been worked on by several different people and I happened to notice several different ways had been used to loop over arrays in various different parts of the code, one of which I must admit I had …

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