then put CFOUTPUT tags around every block of content, whether it's
doing dynamic evaluation or not. So everything that the client sees
is surroinded by CFOUTPUT tags, which are directly in the file that
generates the content.
Pretty much every file looks like this, optionally with either the
processing or the CFOUTPUT block missing.
<!--- do some processing --->
<cfoutput>
<table ... >
...
</table>
</cfoutput>
The only think you have to watch out for is if you need to use
CFOUTPUT for a query loop (for grouping). Then you have to break your
big CFOUTPUT block into a "before" and "after" section, with the
"middle" section being the CFOUTPUT QUERY=".." GROUP="..". Kind of
messy when you've got conditionals in the mix as well, but I've found
that needing CFOUTPUT for looping is a very rare occurance, and
actually happens more frequently in processing code, rather than
display code. Just make sure that you wrap with CFSILENT if you're
using CFOUTPUT for processing without display, or you'll get a bunch
of whitespace.
cheers,
barneyb
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 22:30:20 -0400, Tony Weeg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i have a custom tag (ive really only used one like 2 other times) but anyway
> where does one put cfoutputs when using a custom tag in the most elegant way?
>
> i basically have an applciation
> that is a custom tag for the layout, and the guts are made up of a
> bunch of cfincludes with a master page that has a bunch of cfcases and
> blah blah blah...it started out as a 5000 line .cfm template, and i
> wanted to break it up, and get
> it modularized, reuse some code, etc.. its all good, but in the
> original app i had a cfoutput around the entire template...now, that
> aint jiving...whats the most elegant way? inside all of the cfincluded
> templates since wrapping <cfoutput's> around the cfinclude tags isnt
> working either :)
>
> i know i must have learnt this nufangled reasoning at some point last
> year studying for the certification test, but its slipping my mind,
> thanks...if you can just point me in the right direction...
>
> :) me
>
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