Could someone point me in the right direction to find out exactly what xfa's
are ?
Thanx
Tim Price
-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Beard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 27 February 2001 11:24
To: Fusebox
Subject: Re: Why use url_files?
Hmm finally i can see a reason for these url files..
but maybe (moot point) a better prefix would be val_ as in validate?
I still like the idea of xfa's because they keep the navigation in the
index where it's easy to see.. and i don't have to pop open a bunch of url_
files to see where my spaghetti leads. Maybe we should consider cfmoduling
url files? <cfmodule template="url_checkOrder.cfm" xfa.fail="order.sucks">
At 08:06 AM 2/27/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Nat Papovich wrote:
> > But this can be easily overcome by checking for the existence of xfa's
in
> > the fuse before cflocationing, and only providing xfa's to fuses that
you
> > want to be able to cflocate out of:
> > <cfcase value="action2">
> > <cfinclude template="act_page1.cfm">
> > <cfinclude template="act_page2.cfm">
> > <cfset xfa1="blah">
> > <cfset xfa2="blah">
> > <cfinclude template="act_page3.cfm">
> > </cfcase>
>
>This is going to quickly get ugly. Sometimes your act files would need
>an xfa depending on the current data. Look at this:
>
><cfcase value="ViewOrder">
> <cfinclude template="qry_maxorder.cfm">
> <cfinclude template="qry_order.cfm">
> <cfinclude template="url_choosebilling.cfm">
> <cfinclude template="url_chooseshipping.cfm">
> <cfinclude template="act_calculateshipping.cfm">
> <cfset xfa="blah">
> <cfinclude template="dsp_vieworder.cfm">
></cfcase>
>
>Explanation of fuses:
>
><cfcase value="ViewOrder">
> <!--- a couple queries needed for the act/url/dsp files below --->
> <cfinclude template="qry_maxorder.cfm">
> <cfinclude template="qry_order.cfm">
>
> <!--- checks to see if the order requires a billing address
> checks to see if a user has already specified billing
address
> If this fails it redirects them to
> /members/addresses/index.cfm--->
> <cfinclude template="url_choosebilling.cfm">
>
> <!--- checks to see if the order requires a shipping address
> checks to see if a user has already specified shipping
> address
> If this fails it redirects them to
> /members/addresses/index.cfm--->
> <cfinclude template="url_chooseshipping.cfm">
>
> <!--- simply recalculates their shipping depending on the the
address
>they
> specified after returning from the url_chooseshipping.cfm
>redirection--->
> <cfinclude template="act_calculateshipping.cfm">
>
> <!--- displays the order, the xfa makes sense here--->
> <cfset xfa="blah">
> <cfinclude template="dsp_vieworder.cfm">
></cfcase>
>
>Could this be done with XFAs in act files? Sure, but your not going to
>reduce the files because url_choosebilling.cfm/url_chooseshipping.cfm
>get reused all over the place, so I would end up with this:
>
><cfcase value="ViewOrder">
> <cfinclude template="qry_maxorder.cfm">
> <cfinclude template="qry_order.cfm">
> <cfset xfa.billing="...">
> <cfinclude template="act_choosebilling.cfm">
> <cfset xfa.shipping="...">
> <cfinclude template="act_chooseshipping.cfm">
>
> <!--- uh oh, will this redirect or not??!!!! --->
> <cfinclude template="act_calculateshipping.cfm">
>
> <cfset xfa="blah">
> <cfinclude template="dsp_vieworder.cfm">
></cfcase>
>
>This is even more complicated code that does the same thing! Except you
>get screwed in the act_calculateshipping.cfm because you needed to set
>an xfa for act_choosebilling/act_chooseshipping but but not for
>act_calculateshipping.cfm.
>
>Sure, you could kludge your way around it, hell it probably wouldn't
>even be a problem because you'd name the XFAs different. But the
>reality is that act_calculateshipping.cfm is a calculation script (i
>know because i wrote it) which means that it's almost always going to
>end up being run in connection with some other script. There just isn't
>a need for ANY redirection in act_calculateshipping.cfm. So why put one
>in with an cfif statement around it when it's only going to get called
>from a mistake?
>
>I'm just not a big fan of redirection in act files. It makes reuse a
>pain in the neck when it doesn't need to be. URL files are easy to
>explain to a newbie, XFAs in act files are not.
>
>Steve Nelson
>Online Web Development Training:
>http://www.SecretAgents.com/training
>(804) 825-6093
>
>
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