Yeah...I find I can get tremendous leverage by creating "display methods"...such as if you have a Person object (cfc), you can have a method displayAsTableRow, displayAsDiv, displayFormDetail etc. You can really limit code repetition this way.
-- Josh -----Original Message----- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 6:18 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Calling functions with cfoutput > Custom tags, cfmodule and cfinclude all exist for good reason, they > are designed for modularising output. If you fully understand their > use, you most likely would not desire to use a function to modularise > your output though, of course, you are perfectly free to do so. > > While you are free to do what you will in any language, learning > established practice is far from trivial or ridiculous. Things are > usually done for good reason. It is a mistake to confuse conventions, no matter how common they are or how widely they're shared, with best practices. There is nothing inherently wrong with generating output from within a CFFUNCTION, and it has an OUTPUT attribute for exactly this reason. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:317996 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
