Using ColdFusion Components
ColdFusion Components are used by other ColdFusion code, although rather than used, CFCs are said to be invoked. A special tag is used to invoke ColdFusion Components, and not surprisingly the tag is named <cfinvoke>. To invoke a ColdFusion Component you’ll need to specify several things:
The name of the CFC to be used.
The name of the method to be invoked (CFCs may contain multiple methods).
The name of a variable that should contain any returned data.
In addition, if the CFC method being invoked accepts arguments, those arguments are to be provided.
Listing 11.6 is a simple file named testcfc.cfm. As its name suggests, it tests the CFC file you just created.
Listing 11.6. testcfc.cfm—CFC Tester Step 1
<!--- Name: testcfc.cfm ... |
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