Understanding ColdFusion's Debugging Tools

ColdFusion features several powerful reporting tools that can tell you much more about what's going on behind the scenes than its standard error messages can. When these tools are enabled, they cause your template pages to display some statistics at the bottom of the screen, as illustrated in Figure 21.13.

Figure 21.13. ColdFusion's debugging options may be set to display a detailed list of variable values and parameters at the end of a page's output.

In this example, you see a template page that worked just fine and returned some details about a database record. But note that following the first horizontal ...

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