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February 07, 2006
Use CFSILENT
Here's my tip for the day. If you have a choice in using either the cfsilent tag, or cfsetting enablecfoutputonly="true" use cfsilent.
Here's why
- Easier to type
- Easier to read
- The
enablecfoutputonlygets very messy when used acrosscfincludes.
There are probably some cases where using enablecfoutputonly makes sense, but in most cases I think you will find that cfsilent works well, and yields much cleaner code.
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Comments
On 02/07/2006 at 12:47:36 PM MST Eric wrote:
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I've never had trouble using enableCFoutputOnly. I put it in one cfSetting tag in Application.cfm and enclose everything that has to render in cfOutput tags.
On 02/07/2006 at 12:55:13 PM MST Pete Freitag wrote:
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Eric a problem could arise if you want to use some third party code that assumed enablecfoutputonly was not on.
On 02/07/2006 at 1:39:46 PM MST Christopher Wigginton wrote:
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Ya should try trim filter.
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/cantrell/archives/2005/01/eliminate_coldf.cfm
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