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April 05, 2005

6 Tags for ColdFusion beginners

The ColdFusion Developers Journal has an article called: CF Six Pack by Greg Cerveny which lists 6 tags new developers should be using.

I pretty much agree with all the tags on the list, except for cfsetting, I think if your a newbie, just enable whitespace suppression in the CF admin.

Here's the list:

I would have put cfdump much higher on the list as well. But it is a good article for beginners if they are not keen on those tags.

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On 04/05/2005 at 7:24:03 PM MDT Jennifer Larkin wrote:

I think maybe CFQuery and CFOutput should be on the list. CFQueryparam isn't going to do much good if you don't know cfquery. And without cfoutput, well, stuff would just suck.

On 04/05/2005 at 8:00:55 PM MDT Pete Freitag wrote:

I think the point of the list was for tags that beginners might not know. I guess it was assumed that cfquery, and cfoutput were in use. You can't really do much w/o using cfoutput.

On 04/06/2005 at 4:35:03 AM MDT Peter Boughton wrote:

cfsetting is useful for ShowDebugOutput and RequestTimeout, no?

On 04/06/2005 at 9:24:32 AM MDT Pete Freitag wrote:

cfsetting is useful, but for beginners not that important.

On 04/06/2005 at 12:55:13 PM MDT Yacoubean wrote:

I didn't think I was a 'beginner' (I've been a CF coder for over a year now), but I am only familiar with 4 of those tags, even though I do use CFCs, session management, and some other 'advanced' practices. Just goes to show I still have a lot to learn.

On 05/18/2005 at 4:23:18 PM MDT Greg Cerveny wrote:

Yeah, I meant the article to be about 5 tags for beginners, and wrote about 6 so that I could pick the best 5. The cfsetting would have been the one I would have cut out. Thanks for the feedback!