Why are 5 and 6 considered a best practice?
5. Always have an init() method that acts as your constructor and returns "this" (unless you are building a web services/flash remoting
facade.)
I understand that using this approach you can call the init() method and create your instance w/ one cfinvoke tag. Why is this better than using the "psuedo-constructor" which will operationally do the same thing. ( Or even the BD cfconstructor tag )
6. Always (with rare exceptions) use OUTPUT="false" in your CFFUNCTION and CFCOMPONENT tags. Do not output directly to the buffer inside a CFC method -- instead return a string.
Why? Are there known performance issues?
As with in regular CFML pages, I consider a best practice to be to scope all your variables. With that said, would your optional / well worn best practice better be stated as "variables.instance.xx"?
At 11:38 PM 3/15/2004, you wrote:
I've noticed that many of the best practices talked about on this list are
not as widely known as I would have thought. What's worse, most of the
basic best practices related to CFCs are not well documented or are
documented in disparate places.
I'm trying to capture a concise list of CFC best practices that everyone
coding CFCs should be aware of (if not follow).
Perhaps some of y'all have comments/additions/criticisms, which I'd welcome:
http://www.dintenfass.com/cfcbestpractices/
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