Charles, As far as orginization goes, I really have not seen much that is as organized as fuesbox. It is not a object oriented process as much as a method of reusing your code to your benefit. I will not go into alot of the ins and outs, but will refer you to the site for that. Best of luck
http://www.fusebox.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Sheehan-Miles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 7:15 AM Subject: Messy messy messy code > Hi all, > > I¹m a relatively new coldfusion programmer (if I can call myself that) and > I¹ve been working on an application for about two years now which hosts > multiple websites under the same code base. The particular website is > determined by the host header name, and it works, so far as it goes. > > However, the app has grown dramatically, with the introduction of a lot of > new features, to the point where maintaining the code is a terrible > struggle. Currently it has about 500 templates, with snaky, messy code that > leads here and there, and whenever I introduce a change or fix it breaks > something else. Very procedural, etc, with something in excess of 100,000 > lines of code. > > I came to the conclusion that putting together the new version, I¹m > rewriting it from the ground up, using components as much as possible, but > I¹m new to thinking in object oriented terms, so I was hoping to bounce my > thinking off the list. In particular, I want to make the various functions > as portable as possible, so I can reuse them wherever possible, and so I can > routinely introduce new features. I¹m also concerned about performance < > with some of most recent changes to the app, a few of the hosted sites have > taken an exponential leap in traffic (one of the sites is now drawing > 20k > users/100,000 page views per day). > > There¹s a relatively small set of data, including the details of a > particular organization, their formatting options, stylesheets choices, > etc., which almost never change. My intent was to place those in an > application scoped cfc. > > In the past, I¹ve maintained user data in a members table, with associated > tables for custom fields (defined by the customer), donation histories, > online profiles, uploaded photos, etc. This was all keyed off client > variables, so logins were persistent. I¹m thinking to set up a session > scoped cfc to retrieve all of this data when someone visits or logs into the > site. New visitors, or those not logged in, would have null values here > until they logged in or registered. Does it make sense to instantiate this > object (call it member.cfc) in application cfm? I want to make sure the > values in this are available throughout the application. I¹m not sure what > kind of gotchas there are on session scoped components, though I¹ve been > doing a lot of reading on the topic. > > There¹s a set of data which changes on a daily basis < database of > congressional contacts, phone numbers, faxes, etc., staffers, etc. Does it > make sense to persist something like this in a component? The key factor is > that when a website visitor visits a page, the data is personalized < for > example, if we have their zip code, the app determines who their > representatives in Congress are and how they voted on specific legislation. > I¹m inclined to create the object in the application scope, then call the > various functions passing them the values for the members. > > The final set of data is the website content, which typically changes very > frequently, as website visitors post blogs and comments in addition to the > customer posted articles. Currently I cache most of these queries for time > periods between 2 and 10 minutes to reduce load on the server. I¹m not sure > of the impact of encapsulating all of this data into a persistent CFC. Do > caching rules still apply? For example, if I have a function ³listarticles² > in a persistent component, can I cache that query inside the CFC so that I > don¹t impact the database more than currently? In most of these cases, I > don¹t want the data to be around for the life of the object, both because it > changes, and because there are tens of thousands of articles and blogs and I > don¹t want to crush my web server. > > I hope all these apparently newbee questions aren¹t too vague. I¹m still > getting a handle on how to best do this, and wanted to hear some thoughts > from some of the folks here who are clearly more experienced at this. > > Finally < as I recode and test this, I¹m wondering if there are any good > tools out there which can give a view of what is going on inside the web > server in terms of persistent component < how much memory they are using, > etc. I¹ve used FusionReactor, but that seems to only address currently > running requests. > > Thanks, > > Charles > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:250895 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
