Well, that's not entirely true. You're going to find quite a few tags and/or tag attributes that, while they can still be used, will act in a very different way in the later versions. For instance, I don't think that cfgrid will work correctly on the later versions with the code written to use it in 4.5. There are some attributes to some tags that will actually throw errors when an MX version encounters them.
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/tags-p18.htm#wp2462531 A bunch of those changes will actually throw an error and that's just the changes since CF5. There were a bunch of changes coming from 4.5 to 5 that caused code to need rewriting. I remember the code analysis tool doing a pretty good job at pointing these out and none were overly difficult to fix, but I'd be wary of saying that you shouldn't expect to need to rewrite some code. ***************** Ken Ferguson 214.636.6126 ***************** Jerry Johnson wrote: > the only major issue will be with variable scoping. Poorly scoped > variables in the past can cause issues (do you ever use a local > varaible called URL for example?) > > On 6/15/06, Rick Faircloth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Well, that's certainly good news. I was very concerned >> about having to recode all the websites I have built and still host on 4.5. >> >> Rick >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Robert Everland III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 1:30 PM >> To: CF-Talk >> Subject: Re: Sticking with CF... >> >> The administrator is just about exactly the same, minus some style sheet >> changes and new options. It hasn't changed much from the 3.0 days if not >> earlier. >> >> You should be able to run all of your existing code under CFMX 7 with little >> or no changes. All of the tags that have been deprecated still work. >> >> >> >> Bob >> >> >> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:243649 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
