I can' recall the exact reason either but I have heard also that it is extrememly bad form to use Application.cfm and OnRequestEnd.cfm to do any type of cfincludes ... I got reprimanded in an article I wrote for including header and footer files that way.
-----Original Message----- From: Bruce Sorge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 3:23 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: application.cfm vs. cfinclude But if he is already including it at the top of each page, and this is going to continue to be the case, then I do not see any reason why you could not do this. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Costas Piliotis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 4:19 PM Subject: RE: application.cfm vs. cfinclude > I remember forta strongly advising against it. Don't remember why, but he > suggested that all you have in it is the <cfapplication> tag. > > With includes, you have full control over when they are included or not. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Austin Govella [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 2:10 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: application.cfm vs. cfinclude > > > I use includes for the DTD at the top of every page. > > I was planning on using cfinclude to add the DTDs, but if the application. > cfm is automatically stuck at the top of every page, is there a reason why > it'd be bad to ask the it to add the DTD? > > I was thinking I'd save myself some small bit of server load if it only > processed te application.cfm, as opposed to processing application.cfm AND > a cfinclude. > > And then there's the footer and the onrequestend.cfm file... > > -- > Austin Govella > Grafofini > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting.
