{"id":394,"date":"2010-09-23T00:00:07","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T04:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erics-test-lab.com\/?p=394"},"modified":"2010-09-23T00:00:07","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T04:00:07","slug":"twelve-things-i-like-about-coldfusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/v2010\/2010\/09\/twelve-things-i-like-about-coldfusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Twelve Things I like about Coldfusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1) CFIF\/CFELSEIF\/CFELSE  logic &#8211; Being able to control actions\/output based on variables or values.<\/p>\n<p>2) CFEmail &#8211; I know it is a pain sometimes but dynamically outputting a message when an event occurs is a bonus.<\/p>\n<p>3) Bind &#8211; Binding to CFC&#8217;s or other data when a variable is changed or loses focus limiting additional choices. <\/p>\n<p>4) CFInclude &#8211; helps to modularize and reduces duplicate code in an app.<\/p>\n<p>5) CFDump &#8211;  Very useful for debugging what is passed via FORM or URL or other sources.<\/p>\n<p>6) CFScript &#8211; easy to use and understand for OOP.<\/p>\n<p>7) CFC&#8217;s &#8211; A tidy place to put all the functions you need for an app.<\/p>\n<p>8) isDefined() &#8211; Check to see if something is there before you apply logic.<\/p>\n<p>9) query.recordCount &#8211; allows me to reshape output\/logic\/messages depending results returned from queries.<\/p>\n<p>10) Arrays\/Structs\/Lists &#8211; Comes in very handy for managing groups of values\/variables, each has its own strengths and weaknesses.<\/p>\n<p>11) CFFORM, CFINPUT, CFSELECT &#8211; Far more useful than the standard form\/input\/select. Love the built in ajax and javascript functions. <\/p>\n<p>12) all the other seldom used stuff &#8211; Sooner or later it comes in handy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1) CFIF\/CFELSEIF\/CFELSE logic &#8211; Being able to control actions\/output based on variables or values. 2) CFEmail &#8211; I know it is a pain sometimes but dynamically outputting a message when an event occurs is a bonus. 3) Bind &#8211; Binding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/v2010\/2010\/09\/twelve-things-i-like-about-coldfusion\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coldfusion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/v2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/v2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/v2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/v2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/v2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/v2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/v2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/v2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esearing.com\/v2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}