One thing to keep in mind is that "best practice" is not always that. "Best practice " is not a one size fits all type thing. Use what works for your application. If you happen to need to break out of what has been deemed "best practice" than so be it. I recently built an app that is all built on CFCs and a lot of them contain presentation code. This is because the presentation was reused for different sections of the site.
--Dave www.dkferguson.com/BlogCFC >Richard > > >If that is what you are looking for, then what you are talking about would >be a custom tag. CFC's are only available during the call to one of it's >functions and cannot be <cfincluded> as a custom tag. There is nothing >stopping you from using the old way of combining logic and presentation >though in a regular cfm file. > > > > >Doug > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Richard Cooper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 3:42 AM >To: CF-Talk >Subject: bad cfc practice but why? > >Hi all, > >I've been using CFC's for a short while now and I'm really liking them. I >can really speed up developments now by reusing code. > >Thing is I know I'm not supposed to put any presentation stuff in them. But >say for example I had a poll cfc. I can run all of the actions through the >CFC fine, but why not add some optional basic html (i.e. form & results) so >that if wanted, the whole poll could be encapsulated within the one file and >in theory could be added to any site with just a couple of lines of code. If >the basic form & results didn't suit I could then go for a tailored option >for the sites that needed it but all would still be based on the one cfc. > >So would this a bad thing and why? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 The most significant release in over 10 years. Upgrade & see new features. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:272003 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
