> why are you using a form validation CFC? No specific reason for using a CFC, except that I can put all my form validation routines into a single CFC easily enough.
My normal practice is to have a page submit back to itself (and even with a CFC or two involved, I still do that), but I've been trying to follow the basic reason it seems for using CFC's at all, which seems to be separating logic from presentation, the same way I'm now using stylesheets more extensively. I can certainly use a cfinclude, but then, unless I use some cfswitch to differentiate routines, I'll have to have a lot of cfincludes as opposed to just one CFC with various methods. Why does having a "form_validation.cfc" seem awkward? I'm considering taking the approach of making the appropriate email routines that follow validation routines, "children" (I think that's the term) of the validation routines so there's only one call from the calling page and then the data flows through the process of validation and emailing, then returns to the calling page only once. Thoughts on that? As far as using the variables scope in cfc's, I typically don't if the data in being used on in that specific cfc. I just use the arguments scope... less typing. More thoughts and perspectives? Thanks, Rick Mike Chabot wrote: > Taking a step back, why are you using a form validation CFC? Your goal > is that you want to validate a form then send an email. So the simple > way to do this is to post the form to itself, then at the top of the > page detect whether the page is posted to itself, run it through some > validation checks and then send the email. Why not just put the > validation code right in the page or in a cfinclude, or in a custom > tag, or in a UDF library. The concept of having a > "form_validation.cfc" seems awkward. Is there a specific reason that > you are doing this? > > To more specifically answer your question, avoid the variables scope > inside of a CFC if you can. You can use that, but it is generally > considered bad design and it can lead to problems that are hard to > troubleshoot. > > -Mike Chabot > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:314724 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
