As you've said, Fuseboxing the site is a good way to break out queries,
making it easier to develop and maintain support for multiple RDBMSs.
It is also a good way to break out display files. Once that has been done,
groups of display files can be made into "themes" and applied fairly easily
to a site to change the look and feel without having to go to the code.
Though we don't develop in Fusebox, we do follow most of the same basic
ideas and much of our application design looks Fusebox like. We find that
we're generally more comfortable working on Fuseboxed source code than
non-Fuseboxed code. That said, most of the non-fuseboxed code we've seen has
been without an overriding structure or design principle.
Personally, I think Fusebox is an approachable and easily understood
methodology. However, even if you do not choose to use Fusebox, I'm
encouraged to see that you are approaching these problems from several
different angles and addressing them accordingly.
Benjamin S. Rogers
Web Developer, c4.net
Voice: (508) 240-0051
Fax: (508) 240-0057
-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Schreiber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 9:10 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Cold Fusion Forums
> Tony did you consult your current user base before making this move? And
if
> people don't want to use fusebox will you still have the older codebase
> available for download?
Not before, and I honestly wasn't sure that I was going to release it in
fusebox, but I felt that I'd try the "method" and see how it worked with
SMB. I figured I'd end up with two versions, not that I want that though.
As it stands now, if you want see the fusebox version in its current
state, it's at http://www.simplemessageboard.com/fusebox/ and it uses the
same database as the existing demo forum. I just finished 90% of the
rewriting links (and corresponding cfcase index structure), used the
cf_bodycontent method for header and footer and started moving a couple
queries to cfinclude. The latter will be helpful for the MySQL version.
If I have to maintain two versions, it won't really be that hard. My code
is pretty self-contained as it is (ie: one page per task) and is in neat
chunks that I can move easily...
But I've received 2 comments that said "don't do it" and 1 that said "do
it"... So, I don't know. If I complete the fusebox version, I'll probably
have it available as additional version, rather than a replacement. I'm
going to focus on finishing the language part - that's so much more a
pain...
Tony Schreiber, Senior Partner Man and Machine, Limited
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