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Ben Nadel at RIA Unleashed (Nov. 2009) with: Chris Lee and Geoff Bergey
Ben Nadel at RIA Unleashed (Nov. 2009) with: Chris Lee Geoff Bergey

CFModule Works With Non-CFM Files

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The other day, I was recoding some work that involved ColdFusion files being called using CFModule. I had gotten it to the point where the new code was in place, but was breaking. I had the old code stored as a .BAK file. I wanted to test to see if the new code was breaking or if the old code would have broken also, but I didn't want to rename any files to make this test happen. Just for fun, not so much thinking it would work, I tried to use the .BAK file directly into the CFModule tag as such:

<!--- Run BAK file using CFModule. --->
<cfmodule
	template="./tag.cfm.bak"
	/>

Much to my delight, this ran without a problem. Not much of a tip, but I think this is useful when you are debugging code and you want to compare one set of code to a backed up set of code.

Moral of the store: just as with CFInclude, CFModule does not care about file extensions.

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Reader Comments

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I suppose that's because everything is already running (and being parsed) by the CF engine. You could use any file extension and it'll probably work.

Of course everything operates as a 'custom tag' would, including doubling the output if you close the cfmodule etc

18 Comments

Off topic from the post, but possibly useful to the previous comment, I believe that Sean Corfield was working on a project to handle PHP files within Coldfusion using a java library. Might be work looking at if that's something you need.

6 Comments

I use that from time to time on .sql files, when i have a REALLY complicated SQL query.

It's easier to build it in an .sql file, let Query Analyzer check it for syntax/QA, then just have ColdFusion call the very same .sql file when it's ready for my app to use. Saves a bit of copy/paste work. :)

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