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Jellyhead
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December 1, 2018
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Help with finding fonts in struct

  • December 1, 2018
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Hi everyone - this is silly, I know, but...

I'm a designer who can code a bit, and I have issues with font management on my system (I have about 2,000-odd fonts).

so, Cleverdix here decides to quickly write his own ColdFusion font manager, easy peasy.  Import all the font families into a database, add my own delimiters (such as "oh yeah" and "Crap" and  'handwritten") so that when I look for a font, I can run a query, and find the fonts I'm looking for.  Heaven!  Got the database set up, works like a charm.

Except, of course, it does not, because coldfusion doe snot want to render the fonts.

Do a bit of digging, and I find this gem:

<cfset adminObj = createObject("Component", "cfide.adminapi.administrator")>

<cfset adminObj.login("password", "user")>

<cfset rtService = createObject("component", "cfide.adminapi.runtime")>

<cfset fonts = rtService.getFonts()>

Ta-dah! absolutely brilliant - I now have a struct with all my fonts...  within a struct residing in a struct residing in a struct...  4 nested structs, and now I'm as lost as a Polar Bear in Australia.

Questions:

How do I get the "second key" and the third key, etc, so that I can loop over them and insert them into my database?

with my limited knowledge, I can get the 1st struct key, which returns me "systemfonts" and "userfonts" - as useless as a snooker table on a canie.  I know what the hell that second key is, and the third one, so that I can list all the variables in a way that makes sense to me.

Basic desired outcome is a database that looks sort-of like this:

rowid | font family | font-face | postscript name | path

When I can import the family, face and postscript into my database, I'll be happy as an ant at a picnic.

thank you - thank you - I'll email you a sixpack for your effort.

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BKBK
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BKBKCommunity Expert
Community Expert
December 1, 2018

Hi Jellyhead​,

Here's an idea:

<cfscript>

adminObj = createObject("Component", "cfide.adminapi.administrator");

adminObj.login("password", "user");

rtService = createObject("component", "cfide.adminapi.runtime");

fonts = rtService.getFonts();

/*writedump(fonts);*/

/* In the database, create a table named 'fonts', using SQL similar to the following (MySQL)*/

/*

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS 'fonts';

CREATE TABLE 'fonts' (

  'id' int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,

  'isSystemFont' tinyint(1) DEFAULT NULL,

  'familyName' varchar(100) DEFAULT NULL,

  'fontName' varchar(100) DEFAULT NULL,

  'description' varchar(100) DEFAULT NULL,

  'fontType' varchar(30) DEFAULT NULL,

  'location' varchar(100) DEFAULT NULL,

  'psname' varchar(100) DEFAULT NULL,

  PRIMARY KEY ('id')

)

*/

/* Create an array corresponding to each column in the database table */

isSystemFont=[];

familyname=[];

fontname=[];

description=[];

fontType=[];

location=[];

psname=[];

rowNumber=1;

for (group in fonts) {

    for (famName in fonts[group]) {

        for (font in fonts[group][famName]) {

            for (fontProperty in fonts[group][famName][font]) {

                switch(fontProperty) {

                    case "description":

                    description[rowNumber]=fonts[group][famName][font][fontProperty];

                    break;

                    case "fonttype":

                    fonttype[rowNumber]=fonts[group][famName][font][fontProperty];

                    break;

                    case "location":

                    location[rowNumber]=fonts[group][famName][font][fontProperty];

                    break;

                    case "psname":

                    psname[rowNumber]=fonts[group][famName][font][fontProperty];

                    break;

                }

            }

            if (group is "SYSTEMFONTS") {

                isSystemFont[rowNumber]=1;

            } else {

                isSystemFont[rowNumber]=0;

            }

            fontname[rowNumber]=font;

            familyname[rowNumber]=famName;

            rowNumber++;

        }

    }

}

/* Create the INSERT SQL string */

sql="insert into fonts (isSystemFont,

                        familyname,

                        fontname,

                        description,

                        fontType,

                        location,

                        psname) values ";

for (i=1; i <= arrayLen(description); i++) {

    if (i > 1) {

        sql=sql & ",";

    }

    /* Replace \ with /, as / is an escape character for some database brands */

    location=replace(location,"\","/","all");

    sql=sql & "          (#isSystemFont#,'#familyname#','#fontname#','#description#','#fontType#','#location#','#psname#')";

}

/* Insert the data into the database table */

sqlParams={};

queryExecute(sql, sqlParams, {datasource="myDSN"});

</cfscript>              

    J
    JellyheadAuthor
    Known Participant
    December 2, 2018

    I've not had time to test it yet, but yes - this is exactly it - thanks!

    BKBK
    Community Expert
    BKBKCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    December 5, 2018

    BKBK wrote:

    /* Replace \ with /, as / is an escape character for some database brands */

    Please read instead:

    /* Replace \ with /, as \ is an escape character for some database brands */

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