Important cf_stockGrabber Upgrade

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:37:00 -0400

If you're a user of any of previous versions of the cf_stockGrabber custom tag, there's an important upgrade you need to note. This morning, Yahoo changed the URL they use for the stock feed that the custom tag uses to get its information from finance.yahoo.com to download.finance.yahoo.com. You can either update the URL in the CFHTTP tag (within the custom tag), or download the latest version for ColdFusion MX: cf_stockGrabber 3.0.2

cf_stockGrabber Custom Tag Updated to 3.01

Fri, 21 Apr 2006 13:48:00 -0400

cf_stockGrabber, a custom tag I wrote way back in 1997 when custom tags were first introduced in ColdFusion still has a lot of users today. The tag uses cfhttp to query Yahoo with a list of ticker symbols and returns the results as a query object which can then be used in a variety of ways. There haven't been any changes to the tag since 2002. However, I've had several people contact me in the past week or so with problems related to certain ticker symbols. It turns out Yahoo made some changes to their feed which resulted in company names containing commas in certain instances. This in turn caused the tag to return an error as it was interpreting the comma as an extra delimiter and throwing the whole column count of the result set off. This was easily fixed by adding a set of double quotes to the TEXTQUALIFIER attribute of the cfhttp tag. I've updated the tag on the Macromedia/Adobe Exchange with the changes. Here's the link to the latest version of a zip containing the file on my site: cf_stockGrabber 3.01

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Important cf_stockGrabber Upgrade

cf_stockGrabber Custom Tag Updated to 3.01