Denny, As a developer who has been developing coldfusion applications now for 11 years, let me say this. Although the onRequestStart and onRequestEnd in Application.cfc is a good method for very lazy programmers, or if you're header and footer information never changes, but consider this.
Custom Tag: If you developed a custom tag that could create the template required, you then have something that you could reuse in other sites by changing the style sheet, and minimise your work. But the biggest down side to the Application.cfc method you described, is you would never be able to introduce Ajax, or even webservices into your application or any form of Flex functionality. So think about how you want to expand your application first, or if you have to expand your application in the future and what problems you might have in doing this before deciding any solution to be the best. My advice would be to never use onRequestStart or onRequestEnd in that way to do header and footer processing. However if you would like to see an example of how one might use onRequestStart and end have a look at this. It has been constructed as a proof of concept, but it shows the power that you have and removing white space in this example is easy enough too. http://www.andyscott.id.au/index.cfm/2006/9/12/Proof-of-Concept Senior Coldfusion Developer Aegeon Pty. Ltd. www.aegeon.com.au Phone: +613 8676 4223 Mobile: 0404 998 273 -----Original Message----- From: Denny Valliant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 5 October 2006 8:26 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Headers and Footers On 10/3/06, Teddy Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you use Application.cfc, you can use the onRequest method to intercept > your page loads. I've used onRequestStart and onRequestEnd to add headers and footers, works quite well aside from the fact that you then need a variable when you don't want the header/footer, like for XML stuff for JS or whathaveyou. I don't like the <cfinclude> on each page much for the reason I don't like DW templates. I'd way rather have a <cfinclude> than a DW template though... you can be pretty sure a global find and replace will catch the whole bit you want. * Yeah, ModelGlue takes care of this stuff, and many other nifty issues, quite readily. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:255571 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
