Johnny, Once cffile has read the literal text of the file, leaving the raw code of the template in the variable, you can't render it without saving it to a file and then cfincluding the file. :) Circular, no?
But... cfsavecontent can be used for many, many different things... for instance: <cffunction name="dump" access="public"> <cfsavecontent variable="result"><cfdump var="#variables#" /></cfsavecontent> </cffunction> from within a CFC, this can be handy as a troubleshooting tool. There isn't anything else that works the way cfsavecontent does, with the possible exception of a cfhttp call to a purpose-built template and setting cfhttp.filecontent to a var... and that won't work in many cases. It's a handy tag. Laterz, J On 6/21/05, Johnny Le <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I noticed lately that a lot of people are using cfsavecontent instead of > cffile, like this: > > <cfsavecontent variable="content"> > <cfinclude template="pageToRead.cfm"> > </cfsavecontent> > > vs. > > <cffile action="read" file="c:\web\pageToRead.cfm" variable="content"/> > > I would think cffile is more intuitive than cfsavecontent, and it is only > one line to type. So are there real benefits to use cfsavecontent over > cffile? I heard that cffile is slower than cfsavecontent. Is that the only > reason? > > Johnny > > -- --------------- ------------------------------------- Buy SQLSurveyor! http://www.web-relevant.com/sqlsurveyor Never make your developers open Enterprise Manager again. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:210176 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
