Alright, that's the confirmation I needed to proceed. So, "use 'extends" it is!
Thanks, Rick On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Russ Michaels <[email protected]> wrote: > > if you use EXTENDS, then everything in the parent CFC is available tot he > child. > If you want libraries to use on multiple sites, then you would need to put > the components in a central location and then adding a mapping to them. > > > > On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Rick Faircloth <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > > Hi, all... > > > > I've been writing code for every project I've worked on for the last 10+ > > years. > > I did that purposefully to make myself work in a manner which would, > > hopefully, > > not cause me to rely on known practices because they were familiar and > > understood, but always strive to discover better ways of coding. > > > > Now, however, I'm trying to combine reusing code I've already written > with > > enhancing the reused code, instead of writing it from scratch each time. > > > > On my latest project I decided to take the dive and structure my code of > > HTML, > > CF, jQuery, and CSS in away that allows me to create resource libraries > > that I can build upon and reference from within new projects. > > > > I know *not* doing it this way sounds nuts to some of you. But, again, > see > > my > > first paragraph. There was a method to the madness of this approach. > > > > But, now I find myself (after days of trying to understand what I've > found > > on the > > Internet and in the CF docs to little avail) trying to get a working > > method for this > > approach. > > > > I started first by putting my initial components for the project *above* > > the website's > > root folder. I knew this was going to be problematic. I, of course, > > immediately > > got the error, "component cannot be found." > > > > Then, I read about "cfincluding" an application.cfc into an > application.cfm > > in the > > website root folder. For "kicks and giggles", not a real solution, > because > > this approach > > is fundamentally flawed, I put an application.cfm in the site root folder > > and > > used the relative path capability of <cfinclude> to pull in the > > application.cfc above > > the site web root and it's settings into the site's directory structure. > > Knowing that's > > not a solution, I continued to dig on the Internet. Nothing has clicked. > I > > think there > > are too many gaps in my understanding to make sense of everything I'm > > reading. > > > > So, I thought I'd just ask the brains that inhabit the world of CF-Talk > and > > ask > > for a simple explanation of how to go about accessing cfc's above a > website > > root, > > that allows those cfc's access to the variables set up in application.cfc > > when it > > resides inside the site root directory structure. > > > > I'm trying to get this to work in the manner that I access virtually > every > > cfc currently, > > which is through AJAX functionality in jQuery. I can access a mapped path > > created > > in application.cfc using AJAX in this manner: > > > > url: location.protocol + '//' + location.host + > > '/common/coldfusion/form-processing/contact.cfc?method=json' > > > > However, the "contact.cfc" has to reference variables setup in the > > application.cfc, > > which exists inside the website root. Unless I place the application.cfc > in > > the same > > folder as "contact.cfc", it doesn't work. > > > > So, how do I make the variables from application.cfc available to > > contact.cfc under > > such a scenario? Does the "extends" functionality of cfc's solve this? Is > > that what > > I need to understand and implement or do I need to look into something > > else? > > > > Clues? Breadcrumbs? > > > > Thanks for any feedback! > > > > Rick > > > > -- > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > "Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad > > reputation." Henry Kissinger > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:356047 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
