I agree with Sean. IIF is slow and can ALWAYS be avoided. I'm very fond of using the following syntax as Sean pointed out, except that I use style sheet classes instead of arrays:
<cfset theMod = currentRow MOD 2> <td class="alternateRowColor#theMod#"> .. </td> IIF screws up the color coding of the editor and looks messy and is also difficult to immediately comprehend when scanning a page. It really has no place in well written code. +-----------------------------------------------+ Bryan Love Macromedia Certified Professional Internet Application Developer Database Analyst TeleCommunication Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] +-----------------------------------------------+ "...'If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace'..." - Thomas Paine, The American Crisis -----Original Message----- From: Sean A Corfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 11:00 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: iif usage On Sunday, September 8, 2002, at 09:33 , Joe Eugene wrote: > I dont agree with Sean or Dave... That doesn't surprise me Joe :) > i dont think IIF is necessary but its > a very useful function ... "IF USED PROPERLY" I didn't say it wasn't *useful* - I just said it was bad practice and could always be avoided. > Many of you guys dont agree.. but i personally prefer using IIF and i > use it only when necessary... a good example would be...table row colors. > .. It is NEVER necessary. You even admit that above! > i dont use the above for complex logic...write cfscript blocks of code... > i am not very fond of <cfif> contructs... But you can structure your code to be concise without iif(). Since you want alternating colors, you should see that rownum mod 2 will give alternating 1, 0, 1, 0 values. So you could construct a two-element array containing the colors you want - do this above the loop over the table rows - and then each row just accesses the appropriate element of the array. The main benefit of this approach is that it keeps the color specification separate from the row logic instead of being embedded in the table and it also scales easily to alternately through more colors or alternating on blocks of rows. And of course it doesn't use iif() which is a big plus in my book. If you want to use iif() instead of <cfif>, that's up to you. Just don't ask me for a job (or a reference)... :) Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists