what do i use cfscript for?

[peterb1985]

What do i use cfscript for?

I use coldfusion mx but have never used cfscript before. is there anything that cfscript does better than cftags or is it just preference.

 

[TruthInSatire]

cfscript is cool. You use it to create a user defined function.

here is a cool example of how to use it.

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funny thing. after i wrote it and posted this thread, i found almost the exact same thing in the CF developers exchange site. been there for a while. oh well

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[webmigit]

You can also use it for config setups.. I've seen that somtimes.. to emulate the look of the php config files..

Cfscript won't do anything for you that you can't do in code, so don't think your life depends on learning it, but yeah, as you get the time, learn it.

It basically gives developers of other languages a familiar playground.

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[krisbrixon]

Reasons I use cfscript:

1. To inialize, check, validate, and default a lot of incoming variables at once.
2. For UDFs.
3. If the code has a lot of ifs, loops, or arrays and very little cf tags.

The only real reason I use cfscript is to type less, and sometimes less characters on the screen makes the code seem a little easier to read.

Kris


Kris Brixon

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
--Robert Frost

 

[imstillatwork]

cfscript is supposed to be faster at proccessing large amounts of logic where little or no output is required. I generaly use ut if I have more then a 5 or 10 lines of code with no output.

I use it almost exclusivly while validating form data where there might be lots of ifs