Fusebox: Developing ColdFusion® Applications

Section 4: for mURL2attributes

We call section 4 of the core the “formURL2attributes” section. Earlier in the chapter, we mentioned that Fusebox 3 doesn’t have custom tags unless you are running earlier versions of ColdFusion. Section 4 is one of the former tags that is now built into the core.

if (NOT fusebox.isCustomTag) {
  if (NOT isDefined("attributes")) {
      attributes=structNew(); 
  } 
  structAppend(attributes, url, "no"); 
  structAppend(attributes, form, "no"); 
} 
</cfscript> 

The Fusebox framework encourages the use of the attributes scope as the one user-input scope. This is the code that copies all form and URL variables to the attributes scope. By using one scope, you can call a Fusebox application in three different ways:

 • <a href="index.cfm?fuseaction=basket.show"> ...