I, too, like the single letter prefixes for variables. Very neat and
traceable. I also believe in scoping them anytime they're being passed
between pages. I'm all for CFScript as long as everyone else is comfortable
with it (some folks do not regularly use it).
Also, it seems that this project could very well lend itself to being a case
study for best practices.
FWIW,
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Dinowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF_OpenSource" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 1:16 PM
Subject: Re: Next step
> Personally, I like to use single letter prefixes for my variables (see
post
> a few days back on the subject). I don't scope them in most cases but
> really should for the CGI related vars (url, form, cgi, cookie). I used to
> like CFPARAM for defining and data validation but found that writing my
own
> UDF in CFSCRIPT to handle it is actually faster. I also like using the
> request scope to hold temp values that will be overwritten or used
multiple
> times (like in loops) as I can clean it out using structclear(). I've got
a
> number of other practices that I use and suggest (some of which I havn't
> written up yet).
> I think we should section off what we want to do in each part, get the
best
> practices and ideas, compile them and then use them. Sections like:
> variable names
> data validation
> error handling
> when to use CFSCRIPT
> when to use UDF (and how)
> CFINCLUDE vs. CFMODULE - when for each
> how and what to pass to CFMODULES (no CGI passed as attributes)
> etc.
>
> At 12:58 PM 8/6/01, you wrote:
> > Ok now that I have just about everyone signed up on the list we
have
> >to come up with coding standards sheet. This should include, how
variables
> >are named, flow of the program, pretty much anything you can think of.
Can
> >anyone start suggesting some sheets they may have already come up with or
> >anything they would like to suggest?
> >
> >Robert Everland III
> >Dixon Ticonderoga
> >Web Developer Extraordinaire
> >
> >
>
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