Popular Custom Tags

Although with the release of version 3 Fusebox needs no custom tags to operate, Fuseboxers have still found a few tags to be on our “must-have” list. These are tags that we make sure are on every ColdFusion server we use. Most of these tags are used in our example application, Third Wheel Bikes. All of these custom tags are available from fusebox.org.

<cf_reuseForm> to Reuse Forms

Frequently, we have fuseactions in our applications that display a form page that we reuse for creating a new record and editing an existing record. After all, why should we create two copies of essentially the same file? Here is a very small example form used for creating a new record:

 <form method="post" action="index.cfm?fuseaction=#xfa.submit#"> ...

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