Re: [CFCDev] CFC question and HTML in cfc

[Matt Liotta]

There is nothing wrong with outputting HTML from a CFC. Mixing your 
presentation business logic is a bad idea, but just because a CFC is an 
object doesn't mean it can't be for presentation.

-Matt

On Jan 9, 2004, at 1:27 AM, Andrew Scott wrote:

Sean,

I really wasn't looking for a how too, more of a guide if it was ok or 
not.
I wrote the CFC's, but was looking at expaniding certain logic. In this
case, I wasn't sure if it was frowned upon and was looking if others 
had
considered putting HTML outputting like this into CFC's. In this case 
the
code to generate this displays to the browser as well as being able to
email, and I thought if I wrote this in a CFC instead of a custom tag I
could give the application maybe a bit more of an upgrade path in the 
future
rather than using custom tags.



Regards
Andrew Scott
Technical Consultant
NuSphere Pty Ltd
Level 2/33 Bank Street
South Melbourne, Victoria, 3205
Phone: 03 9686 0485  -  Fax: 03 9699 7976

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On Jan 7, 2004, at 7:57 PM, Andrew Scott wrote:
In regards to components and functions etc., I am looking at creating
a function to be generic to emails. Now should I create code in the
cfc to format the email or do an include for this.
Consider something like this (untested idea):

        <cffunction name="sendEmail" ..>
                <cfargument name="template" type="string" ..>
                ...
                <!--- put data in request.someStruct --->
                <cfsavecontent variable="body">
                <cfinclude template="/emails/#arguments.template#.cfm">
                </cfsavecontent>
                <!--- send email with #body# --->
        </cffunction>
Now the email formatting is all in a separate set of files and the CFC 
is
"clean". You'd need something more complex for both HTML and plain text
email, but the same principle applies.

Hope that helps?

Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/

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