Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / July 2007

Try this
Set a string variable to "0,0,30,0"
cfset YourTime=CreatetimeSpan(#yourvariable#)
Loop through your variable with some if/else logic to display your timespan.

as was very rightly mentioned by BKBK in your other (very similar) post
in the getting started forum, createtimespan() function returns number
of DAYS

so the integer part of the value returned (left of the decimal point)
will be number of full days, which you could get with #listfirst(MyTime,
".")#

the decimal part (right of the decimal point) can be converted to hours
and minutes:
#listfirst(24*listlast(MyTime, "."), ".")# will give you hours, while
#60*listlast(24*listlast(MyTime, "."), ".")# will give you minutes
the integer part of the above value is number of hours, while 60*decimal
part of the above value is minutes

using conditional logic (cfif/cfelse) and formatting (i.e. numberforat()
function) with the above you can display the result in the format you want

keep in mind, though,  that on a server with a different locale set as
default, the decimal separator may not be a . [dot]

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Azadi Saryev
Sabai-dee.com
http://www.sabai-dee.com

Well you weren't as far off as you think :). Initially I was going to want to
do it so it dynamically figured if it should display as days, hours, minutes,
etc....but I decided that was good enough for the moment.

Also I do intend to allow the admin user to indicate the timeout value, but
not as you might think. Basically I have an /install/ folder which will
automatically launch if value on application.cfm

<cfparam name="application.install" default="FALSE">

Within that set of self contained pages, it will take them through a series of
questions and the end results will:

1. Test database connection.

2. Allow them to indicate whether they want to offer support or not (i.e. can
indicate a support email address and if so, then a support form shows within
the admin tools + sends out automated emails on any errors).

3. Allow them to indicate their own time out value.

Upon completion of all of these things, it will then either write to the
application.cfm OR if CFFILE is turned off, give them the code to copy and
paste into the application.cfm, save and upload...which in turn includes the
timeout variable.

I am extremely thorough on my applications and previously at bottom of the
page had it hard coded as "will time out in 30 minutes" but decided that should
be determined during install and dynamically show.

Have lots of work to do on that application before launch yet, so I didn't
want to waste too much time on that single item :). THanks again!