It is certainly not a rule or a best practice to avoid directly
outputting from a CFC method. There are plenty of good reasons for doing
so and making blanket statements like yours only lead to confusion. For
example...
WriteOutput(someCFC.someMethod());
Where someMethod() returns a string of HTML as you specified is
significantly more expensive than the following.
someCFC.someMethod();
Where someMethod() directly outputs the HTML.
Matt Liotta
President & CEO
Montara Software, Inc.
http://www.montarasoftware.com/
888-408-0900 x901
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Raymond Camden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 12:05 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: CFC output
>
> You should not directly output from the method, but should instead
> return a string with your output. If you are generating a complex
> result, which it sounds like you are, you would probably want to use
> cfsavecontent...
>
> <cfsavecontent variable="result">
> <b>#title#</b><br>
> #foo#
> </cfsavecontent>
>
> <cfreturn result>
>
>
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> Raymond Camden, ColdFusion Jedi Master for Mindseye, Inc
>
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>
> "My ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is." - Yoda
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Cutter (CF_Talk) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 10:46 AM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: CFC output
> >
> >
> > Does anyone have an example of a CFComponent with a function that
> > returns HTML formatted output. Trying to write a function
> > that performs
> > a query based on specific arguments then outputs a select box
> > based upon
> > the query results as well as some of the other arguments. I'd like
to
> > make it a web service but not sure if possible.
> > (Documentation for this
> > stuff seems kinda limited on MM, though I might just be
> > looking in the
> > wrong places.)
> >
> >
>
>
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