On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Elliott Sprehn<[email protected]> wrote:
...
> This is a job for... wait for it... Custom Tags! Huzzah. :)
>
> We encapsulate such things into widgets in the form of Custom Tags
> that are invoked inside the various views.
Sounds eerily like model renderers... ;-]
> I think people get very caught up trying to shoehorn everything into
> MG/{insert framework here} and forget that CF already solved their
> problem.
The problem of displaying data? J
I like custom tags because they have open and close logic, and you can
have child tags do stuff based on parent tags and whatnot. Powerful
mojo!
...
> The simplest solution is often the best one. cfhttp is your sledge
> hammer.
Fer sure! If you can get it through a request tho, generally, you can
get it without a request too ('cept for freaking ajax, neh? =]p)
If one does go the tag-based route, I'd recommend one actually use
CFCs and whatnot "behind" that custom tag, as it's not really a
repetition of code, and one might find one wants to do injection or
AOP or some-such... or, hey, Railo has CFC-based custom tags (does CF9
now too?), which are just plain bad-ass.
Whichever way one goes, there's one bit of advice I'm pushing like I'm
pushing version control: Tests! Tests are the bee's knees. The
cat's meow. Pure ambrosia, nectar of the gods.
--
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they burn.
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