Over the weekend, when I was working on my Dig Deep Fitness prototype, I thought of a neat little trick. I am sure that this has been done by many people, but it had never occurred to me. I was working with a ColdFusion custom tag in which I needed to replace the generated content of the tag. Normally, when I would do something of this nature, I would simply store the new content in a CFSaveContent tag buffer and then set that variable into the THISTAG.GeneratedContent variable:
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But this weekend, as I was writing a tag like that, it hit me! Why not just store the CFSaveContent buffer directly into the GeneratedContent of the tag? Why bother even going through an intermediary variable:
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Notice that the CFSaveContent tag is now storing its buffer directly into the THISTAG.GeneratedContent variable, which will, thereby, replace the content of the ColdFusion tag.
So, like I said, this is a really minor tip, but I think it has a big logical and visual impact on the layout of the ColdFusion custom tag. Thought I would share this with anyone who hadn't realized this shortcut yet.
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Another good tip Ben, thanks
Posted by Michael Sharman on Feb 19, 2008 at 2:14 AM
It will come in handy. Go Ben go. :)
Posted by phpnuke on Feb 26, 2008 at 9:17 PM