Fusebox: Developing ColdFusion® Applications

Chapter 4. Handling a Fuseaction

“But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.”

——Toni Morrison

In Chapter 3, “The Fusebox Framework,” we got all the way to section 6 of the core file by discussing how it processes a request and how the Fusebox framework is created. We are tracking the URL request:

http://thirdwheelbikes.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=reviews.read&productID=1392 

We walked through ColdFusion’s processing of Application.cfm, the default page (index.cfm in our case), fbx_fusebox30_CF50.cfm, and fbx_circuits.cfm. We also covered some of the “overhead” that the Fusebox framework sets up, including the circuits ...