>Working on a basic custom CMS system for a client and was wondering if
>anyone has a bright idea on how to convert any cfvars in the content to

A lot of other people have come up with some "interesting"
suggestions.

How about just writing the file to disk and including it?  Or
better... don't put it into the DB in the first place... write it to
file in the first instance and store the file path in the DB.  The
latter has the benefit of not forcing CF to recompile it on every
useage of it (which is quite aq performance hit).

As for my editorial input, I kind of aagree with the sentiment of
being cautious when doing this.  You *don't* want users to have to do
this sort of thing.  Firstly because of the worm-can-opening issue
that others have touched on, and secondly because it's just manky to
have users enter code to get results.  And for them to do it
correctly... no chance.

However that's not to say you can't have macros fo some description:
either the %user% suggesion that someone else had (which still gives
ownership of the task to the user, and they'll stuff it up), or things
that can be entered via a toolbar which insert a similar sort of
thing, but remain under your control.  Then these macros are swapped
out @ some point for their actual values, or the variables that hold
those values.

Adam
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Adam Cameron
Senior Application Developer
Straker Interactive

Ph: +64 9 3605034
Fx: +64 9 3605870
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