Hi, The answer is a definite "yes", you need to learn how to use CFCs. In fact, just as in David Gassner's tutorials, in my own ColdFusion books I introduce CFCs very early, and make them very usable and without adding complexity.
You are probably going to get quite a few responses to this message, and many may suggest that you adopt full blown frameworks and learn some object oriented basics. And while there is validity to those suggestions, you may want to start much simpler than that. If, initially, you do nothing more than tier your app so that all database access is via centralized CFC methods, and never in .cfm files directly, that alone will be a major step in the right direction. -- Ben -----Original Message----- From: Ali [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 10:38 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: CFC, YES OR NO Hi: I am using CF for while now but I have no other programing background. I used Lynda.com video tutorials to learn CF and some other online tutorials like EasyCFM.com. Several days efore I recieved two new CF8 tutorials from Lynda.com(Lynda.com ColdFusion 8 Essential Training | Lynda.com ColdFusion 8 Beyond the Basics) but I got confused completely! David Gassner the tutor has a complete plan to talks about many corners of CF but he starts using CFCs very soon at the middle of the first tutorial. He mentions you can never use CFCs and make all the application using simple CF tags but knowing CFCs helps you make it more reusable and manageable. I found CFCs VERY confusing for myself. I tried to learn it but I didn't get it completely. Maybe because I have no programing background with other languages other than HTML. What do you think? Should I learn it? Does it gradually become the core of CF programing to use CFCs? Please write me your opinions, knowledge and experiences about the subject. Thanks Benign ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:298328 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
