My whole outlook on converting scripts from one language to another is to look the front end and get an idea of what the application's purpose is and try to figure out exactly what the application is doing, then look at the backend and confirm your front end finding. Take notes! Then rewrite your new application in the way that you think that it should be written keeping in mind that you need to have the same end result as the old script. Or you could even make improvements!
I think translating the scripts directly from one language to another will usually result in an application that was written poorly. Languages work differently than another. I think the important thing is that the end results are the same. Paul Alkema AlkemaDesigns.com -----Original Message----- From: Glyn Jackson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 9:39 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: reverse engineer PHP to CF cool final is below... <cfparam name="reportName" default="" /> <cfset reportFile = expandPath("/Powerbase") & "/" & reportName & "." & reportID & "_sql" /> <cfswitch expression="#op#"> <cfcase value="load"> <cffile action="READ" file="#reportFile#" variable="ff" /> <cfoutput>#ff#</cfoutput> </cfcase> <cfcase value="save"> <cfoutput> <cfdump var="#form#"> <cfset qry = #form.queryToSave# /> <cffile action="WRITE" file="#reportFile#" output="#qry#" nameconflict="OVERWRITE" /> <cfoutput>#reportName#</cfoutput> saved ... </cfoutput> </cfcase> <cfcase value="list"> <cfdirectory action="LIST" directory="#expandPath('/Powerbase')#" name="files" /> <cfoutput> <ul class="treeview" id="treeview_#reportID#"> <li class="list">Saved sql files <ul> <cfloop query="files"> <cfif right(name, 4) is "_sql"> <li class="item">#listFirst(name, ".")#</li> </cfif> </cfloop> </ul> </li> </ul> </cfoutput> </cfcase> <cfdefaultcase> </cfdefaultcase> </cfswitch> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:332413 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
