Well, its the template that controls a boatload of editing functionality in my cms. Nothing top secret or especially brilliant in it but kinda on the proprietary side. You can look if you like after reading the following. I *know* I could shorten it up by separating out the action section at template top. I've got 1400 or so lines of the 2100 lines of code in that portion (which is loaded with tag and include calls as appropriate). Also, when I write code, I write vertically, by that I mean I do not write <cfmodule template="tags/groupmatch.cfm" ontopic="#client.thisEditMarker#" UserID="#client.contentProducer#"> I instead write it <cfmodule template="tags/groupmatch.cfm" ontopic="#client.thisEditMarker#" UserID="#client.contentProducer#"> and <!--- this is a comment. ---> I do put a very few tags on a single line (like cfparam) but not many. Same with html form fields (and there are a bunch of them there). That style adds a lot of lines to the count. And my SQL is along these lines: <cfquery username="#request.thisDBUserName#" password="#request.thisDBPassword#" datasource="#request.thisSiteDSN#"> UPDATE topics_groups SET topics_groups.ParentID= <cfqueryparam cfsqltype="CF_SQL_NUMERIC" value="#Val(client.thisParent)#" null="#YesNoFormat(not Len(client.thisParent))#"> WHERE topics_groups.ParentID= <cfqueryparam cfsqltype="CF_SQL_NUMERIC" value="#Val(client.thisEditMarker)#"> </cfquery> (no wisecracks about the use of client vars... gotta do that for backward compatibility in this particular app). Anyway that could be done in a LOT fewer lines, and as you can imagine an update of 20 fields is a couple of screenfuls. But I like writing it this way as part of a set of standards I always stick to, which to me are more readable. I bet if I broke all of the 14 actions into includes -- includes called in only one place in the app -- and switched to single-line tag calls I'd be within your 500-line limit. But I don't wanna :-)
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