On Tuesday, September 3, 2002, at 06:09 , Dave Watts wrote: > The CFPROPERTY tag is a bit confusing. I think it's used to define > metadata, > rather than what you'd think of as properties of an object. So, basically, > for your purposes it does nothing useful.
Correct. > To create publicly-accessible "properties", just declare variables within > your CFCOMPONENT body, before your CFFUNCTION tags, using the scope "this" > . Correct. > In general, though, you might want to avoid the creation of > publicly-accessible variables, and create "methods" using CFFUNCTION > instead, to manipulate internal variables. Agreed. Use the unnamed (private) scope and hand back copies of variables via getXxx() methods. Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
