I think with a lot of features of CF such as cfform, cftable, and cfinsert they're handy until you want to do something a little different then you have to start from scratch, and rewrite what you've already got. Many developers eventually become frustrated with these tags and either use lower level tags such as cfquery or roll their own custom tag solutions, or use third party, customisable products.
I think the number one reason people abandon cfform is that they need server side validation of the data. Fundamentally, server side validation is generally the primary focus. Client side should be an after thought -- it's a usability and maybe performance enhancement rather than an app security issue. I note CF provides some server side validation using form field name suffixes and I think supplementary fields. I don't know if anybody at uses this -- well, I don't, but I guess that's not really statistics. But I think if you're still getting good value out of these tags then go for it. Change comes from within. ;-) I think the primary reason they are provided in CFMX is because they have been provided in previous versions. One would like to hope that if MACR were adding form tags to CFMX from scratch they'd provide something more sophisticated. Matthew Walker Electric Sheep Web http://www.electricsheep.co.nz/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Angel Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 1:49 AM Subject: RE: CFForm madness. 0_0 > What's so horrible about using CFFORM for simple validation for a field > that's either required/not required?? > > Isn't that why it is included in CFMX? > > -Gel > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > the fact you are using cfform is sheer madness! > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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 Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
