All, Thank you for your responses to my inquiry.
As it turns out, the CFSCRIPT option is not viable because the point of the recursion was querying a database for records that represented subordinate records which might have subordinate records of their own. The cfmodule seems to take forever and therefore is not practical. In the end, I will have to change the design of the application. However, that is not necessarily a bad thing. However, it does make me appreciate the changes in CFMX. Again, thank you all for your responses. ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Mosh Teitelbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 15:45:57 -0400 >Or, you could rewrite the function without recursion. Just thought I'd >mention it as another alternative. > >-- >Mosh Teitelbaum >evoch, LLC >Tel: (301) 625-9191 >Fax: (301) 933-3651 >Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >WWW: http://www.evoch.com/ > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 2:23 PM >> To: CF-Talk >> Subject: RE: Recursion >> >> >> > I wrote this really neat recursive function using the >> > <cffunction> tag on my development system which is running >> > CFMX on WindowsXP Pro. When I ported to the operational host >> > (third party), I discovered that they were running a previous >> > version of CF (I do not know which) which does not support >> > the new tag. Does anybody know how to do recursion without >> > the <cffunction> tag? >> >> If your recursive function is relatively simple, you can probably write it >> as a CF 5-compliant user-defined function, using CFSCRIPT. >> CFSCRIPT is a tag >> in which you can write CF commands using a JavaScript-like language, which >> uses the same syntax and control flow structures as JavaScript, but uses >> CFML operators and expressions. You can't use CFML tags within a CFSCRIPT >> tag, though, and CFSCRIPT doesn't support all the things you can do with >> CFML tags, such as querying a database. Keep in mind that the host would >> have to be using CF 5 or higher for this to work. >> >> Alternatively, you could write a recursive custom tag. However, >> this is the >> least desirable alternative, as custom tags don't provide any built-in >> ability to return values (you can write that ability into your >> code, though) >> and they tend to negatively affect performance. Nevertheless, if you need >> recursion and you're using a version of CF prior to 5, that's the only way >> you can do it within CFML. >> >> Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software >> http://www.figleaf.com/ >> voice: (202) 797-5496 >> fax: (202) 797-5444 >> >> > ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm 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
