There was a location survey a while ago on FuseWiki: http://www.meta-magic.com/cgi-bin/fusewiki?LocationSurvey
You might find it useful if you want to see who's in your area. Why not add yourself? Ant ----- Original Message ----- From: "Claudio Naldi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 2:56 PM Subject: RE: attributes.anything Hi chz, is that your name? Not everybody lives so far away, the fuseboxers are all over the world, Reagards Claudio Naldi Lugano (Switzerland) > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: luned�, 15. aprile 2002 15:45 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: attributes.anything > > > thanks lee, > this answers my question perfectly although I still will need > to do some > work until I correctly applied it. > > It's too sad that you fusebox gurus all (or most) live in > Australia or > the USA. I really would appreciate beeing able to visit one of hal, > steve, nat or your classes. > So if you ever think of coming to Switzerland: I'm sure I > could manage > to get a classroom and a handfull of students and of course I'd be > available for translation. > Since then I'm looking forward to the book (are there any > plans yet to > translate it?) > > > > Lee Borkman wrote: > > Hi chz, > > > > In Fusebox, and particularly in FB3, all input parameters > (form, url > > and > > attributes) are copied to the standard CF scope called > "attributes". > > After that, the form and url scopes are hardly ever > referenced. This > > means that your code normally won't know or care where the > inputs came > > from. This is a great aid to code re-use, meaning that > your code can be > > used in all kinds of circumstances, eg the code that > updates data in a > > database record could receive the data from an HTML form, > or passed as > > URL variables after some data validation, or the data could even be > > passed as attributes in a cfmodule call. You code won't care. > > > > So in general, when you see something called "attributes.xxx" in a > > Fusebox app, it's probably user input. > > > > Request-scoped variables, on the other hand, are global to any given > > HTTP request, and are thus available to all of your code, including > > custom tags and recursive cfmodule calls. In Fusebox, > request-scope is > > often used for holding fundamental application constants > (like the title > > of the app, or the datsource name). There is also some > thought that > > request-scope is less susceptible to user "tainting". > Nevertheless, > > most of the usual warnings about using global variables apply to > > request-scope. Their use is often seen to violate the > principles of > > encapsulation, etc. > > > > Does that make any sense? > > LeeBB > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > I'm about to build my first fusebox3 application. Since I > never did > > anything with fusebox and I didn't code in ColdFusion for > some years I > > feel like I have to start with very small steps again. > > > > In looking at the code of fbOpenForums (which I feel is > an excellent > > example to teach me some fusebox) I see act_login.cfm > setting variables > > like "attributes.loginMsg". > > > > Can someone explain to me the meaning of attributes? > > > > I think it has something to do with the scope af the > variable but is > > the > > > > use of it something fusebox specific or do I miss some > basics here? > > Propably in the same category belongs the question about > > request.queryPath. > > > > > > > > > ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?bUrFMa.bV0Kx9 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
