Thanks Dominic, I really got thrown into components last year, because the project that I was on was built with components, and they had the headers, footers and common layout objects in components. So, I rolled with it.
I'm really making sure that my data layer is separated, as I start making more sense out of design patterns (Doug from Allagad did a fantastic presentation on this at the last TACFUG meeting) I'll revise my methodologies. What makes sense to me right now, is use components as much as possible where applicable, and separate out data, layout and "widgets". I stole the concept of act_ files (form actions) from Fusebox, and the unique content is loaded in cfm files... Probably more information than anyone wanted to know, but that's my current state of development. -- Scott Stewart ColdFusion Developer SSTWebworks 4405 Oakshyre Way Raleigh, NC. 27616 (919) 874-6229 (home) (703) 220-2835 (cell) -----Original Message----- From: Dominic Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 5:21 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CSS page calls and image calls from a CFC > > Why not? (asked looking for a legitimate reason, IE: x or y won't work > properly if you do) There's no solid reason *not* to, that I'm aware of, other than design choice. I have built a display framework like this in the past and after it launched I found that there was no real reason *to* put this kind of display logic in a cfc because regular templates and custom tags handle this perfectly (and were designed for this purpose). The design choice is in separating logic from display; components for logic, custom tags and coldfusion templates for display; clean. Having said that, having an object that is an 'html framework' doesn't present a particular problem if it is separated from business logic. Perhaps someone can chime in with solid disadvantages to the display cfc approach - for me, it is as simple as a) going with consensus b) making separation of logic and display very clear. I realised that changing framework isn't realistic halfway through (or more) a project and I'm *not* saying *DONT* do what you are doing" Just raising it as something to check out, if you weren't already aware, as you said you were starting to write apps using cfcs. I personally found using an MVC framework answered all the questions I had about creating apps utilizing cfcs. HTH Dominic -- Blog it up: http://fusion.dominicwatson.co.uk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:304637 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
