[CFCDev] referencing a composite entities properties and methods (urgent, please help)

[jamie lawrence]

hi all,   I have chosen the worst weekend to need a quick answer! Oh well, please help i have a vehicle.cfc, which has a composite dao as one of its properties, the dao itself has a composite database cfc //vehicle cfc instance.type = 'car'; instance.dao = createobject('component','vehicledao'); //dao cfc instance.database = createobject('component','database'); CRUD methods //database cfc init (){ instance.dsn = 'mydsn'; instance.username = 'un'; instance.password = 'pw'; } my question is, how do i reference the properties of the database cfc, and the methods of the dao, from within the vehicle cfc it self, and from outside of the cfc from the controller Also, how do i reference the instance scope of the vehicle cfc, from within the vehicle dao. Does a composition like this all share the same variables (instance) scope? I realise that the above method also breaks encapsulation, so would i pass in objects to the init method of the vehicle cfc. Would this pass a reference to an object outside of vehicle cfc or would the whole object be passed into the vehicle cfc? Sorry to ask so many (probably simple) questions, i am reading a good oo book for php and trying to apply the principles to cf, favour composition over inheritance,   many thanks Jamo ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to cfcdev@cfczone.org with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' as the subject of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by CFXHosting (www.cfxhosting.com). An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/cfcdev@cfczone.org