Remember that fusebox started out as simply a collection of best practices
plus a framework (which was also a best practice).
At 04:57 PM 8/6/01, you wrote:
>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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