The CreateObject
function can create an instance of a ColdFusion component (CFC) object.
A component object.
CreateObject
(type, component-name)
Chapter 10, "Building and Using ColdFusion Components" in ColdFusion MX Developers Guide
Parameter | Description |
type |
Type of object to create.
|
component-name |
The CFC name; corresponds to the name of the file that defines the component; for example, use engineComp to specify the component defined in the engineComp.cfc file |
On UNIX systems, ColdFusion searches first for a file with a name that matches the specified component name, but is all lowercase. If it does not find the file, it looks for a file name that matches the component name exactly, with the identical character casing.
In the following example, the CFScript statements assign the tellTimeCFC
variable to the tellTime
component using the CreateObject
function. The CreateObject
function references the component in another directory. To invoke component methods, you use function syntax.
<b>Server's Local Time:</b> <cfscript> tellTimeCFC=CreateObject("component","appResources.components. tellTime"); tellTimeCFC.getLocalTime(); </cfscript> <br> <b>Calculated UTC Time:</b> <cfscript> tellTimeCFC.getUTCTime(); </cfscript>