I think y'all oughta leave the formurl2attributes alone. Its one of those
core components of Fusebox. I mean c'mon, folks, where is your sense of
tradition?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Toby Tremayne [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 6:41 PM
> To: Fusebox
> Subject: RE: Best Pracices with CF and Fusebox course
>
> oh god - if we drop the whole attributes thing.... I'm going to have to
> change a hell of a lot of code.... <sob>
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hal Helms [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, 23 March 2001 1:24 PM
> To: Fusebox
> Subject: RE: Best Pracices with CF and Fusebox course
>
>
> I'm not suggesting that everyone kill their attributes vars, but I am
> considering it for XFB. Consider this: these scopes are already available
> to
> custom tags:
>
> FORM, URL, CGI, COOKIES, REQUEST, SERVER, APPLICATION, SESSION, and CLIENT
>
> This means there's no reason to add form and URL vars to the attributes
> scope--they can already be seen by custom tags. But it gets worse. The tag
> doesn't really add the variables to the attributes scope, anyway. Instead,
> it just creates a variable with a dot in the name itself. Try looping over
> the attributes structure and you won't find them in it. That ability is
> going to be deprecated in future releases of CF (Neo for sure).
>
> The original idea behind the attributes was to allow circuits to be called
> as custom tags, but in XFB, circuits are nested so the idea of treating
> them
> as custom tags is kind of a moot point. The one positive aspect of
> FormURL2Attributes is that it prevents you from having to worry about the
> difference between form and URL vars--and I do like that, but I think
> we're
> paying a pretty high price for that.
>
> I haven't come to a decision on how I want to handle it and I'm certainly
> not telling anyone else what to do, but since you asked, those are my
> current thoughts.
>
> Hal Helms
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Emilio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 9:48 PM
> To: Fusebox
> Subject: RE: Best Pracices with CF and Fusebox course
>
>
> Hal, you can't drop a bomb like that and not follow up?!?
> Drop the attributes conversion? Perhaps some background on why you'd say
> that...
> Is it performance?
>
> Cheers,
> Emilio
>
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