> content within cffunction is displayed like normal content > by default. setting the output attribute to true will make > it execute as if the CFFUNCTION tag internally included a > CFOUTPUT. Setting output to false will make everything > be hidden, like using CFSILENT. > > The reason (i think) you get one space is that CF > compresses all runs of CF tags and interim whitespace > into a single space on the HTML stream. So, CFFUNCTION > is behaving in perfect consistency with the rest of CF, > although I think it should be treated as a special case, > and not output anything unless the output option is > explicitly set to true. 'course, it's too late for that, > since it'll undoubtedly break existing code.
Given that MX broke lots of CF5 code , in some cases without any meaningful purpose for doing so (the new Arguments class vs. the arguments array in CF5 being case in point), I don't see why that would be an issue for them. > Another case of CFMX's new functionality not > being throught all the way through (or at least > not through to the same conclusions). Hrm... Someone thought it through, because according to the documentation (I'm checking the livedocs) the output attribute is supposed to be ignored accept within a CFC. The only attributes that aren't supposed to be ignored outside of a CFC are name and returntype. http://livedocs.macromedia.com/cfmxdocs/CFML_Reference/Tags-pt145.jsp#285245 7 So it's either a functional bug, or it's a documentation bug, but it is a bug. :) Thanks for the info tho. > banreyb >> -----Original Message----- >> From: S. Isaac Dealey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 4:07 PM >> To: CF-Talk >> Subject: RE: CFMX UDF Output whitespace - possible bug >> >> >> If that were the case, it should have a big long string >> of >> carriage returns >> and spaces in front of the returned value ... Though I >> suppose I could try >> using <cfsilent> to test the theory... But content inside >> the <cffunction> >> shouldn't be output unless it's within a writeoutput() >> function. >> >> Is this a known bug? >> >> > Hi Isaac, >> >> > It's not a bug. It's that HTML markup inside a >> > <cffunction> is displayed >> > onscreen. Try this: >> >> > <cffunction name="test"> >> > Hello, >> > <cfreturn "Isaac"> >> > </cffunction> >> >> > <cfoutput>#test()#</cfoutput> >> >> >> >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: Raymond Camden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > Sent: Thursday, 6 March 2003 7:51 a.m. >> > To: CF-Talk >> > Subject: RE: CFMX UDF Output whitespace - possible bug >> >> > Can you show us the code? I'm not seeing that with this >> > example: >> >> > <cfscript> >> > function foo() { return 1; } >> > </cfscript> >> >> > <cfoutput> >> > |#foo()#| >> > </cfoutput> >> >> > ======================================================= >> > === >> > ============= >> > Raymond Camden, ColdFusion Jedi Master for Mindseye, >> > Inc >> > Member of Team Macromedia >> >> > Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > Blog : www.camdenfamily.com/morpheus/blog >> > Yahoo IM : morpheus >> >> > "My ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is." - >> > Yoda >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> From: S. Isaac Dealey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 1:29 PM >> >> To: CF-Talk >> >> Subject: CFMX UDF Output whitespace - possible bug >> >> >> >> >> >> I'm working on a client project running CF MX on Linux >> >> >> >> What seems to be happening is that any time we use a >> >> UDF >> >> in a >> >> cfoutput, like >> >> >> >> <cfoutput> >> >> <div>|#request.ffa.appname#|</div> >> >> <div>|#request.ff.alttext(1)#|</div> >> >> <div>|#left(request.ff.structtourl(attributes),1)#|</d >> >> iv> >> >> </cfoutput> >> >> >> >> We get an extra space character prepended to the >> >> string >> >> returned by the UDF, i.e. the previous snippet results >> >> in >> >> this output: >> >> >> >> |ourappname| >> >> | Edit| >> >> | m| >> >> >> >> Has anyone seen anything like this before? It seems to >> >> be >> >> a >> >> new development, because I'm pretty sure I was using >> >> UDF's in >> >> cfoutput for url variables without problems last week. >> >> >> >> I've got this diagnostic info: >> >> >> >> SERVER_SOFTWARE=Apache/1.3.23 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) >> >> mod_ssl/2.8.7 OpenSSL/0.9.6b DAV/1.0.3 PHP/4.0.6 >> >> mod_perl/1.26 >> >> >> >> not sure where that's from -- a coworker handed it to >> >> me... >> >> >> >> a dump of the server variables looks like this: >> >> >> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> > ~~~ >> > ~~~~~~~~~~~| >> > 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. 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