Stephen Lloyd

Seattle ColdFusion User Groups

• Facebook
• Adobe Groups

Thank you so much for taking the time out to meet at our inaugural Seattle ColdFusion User Group meeting. As promised, here is the link to the slide deck for our meeting: http://bit.ly/2uo0CHI.

• Test your Code Live using Online services
• Overview of various frameworks
• List of Resources

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/648674/how-do-you-decide-what-to-use-udf-or-custom-tag
• http://www.careerride.com/view.aspx?id=2382

• Multiple entry points are available for CFC
• CFC does support formalized parameter passing and validation mechanism
• Persistence is possible for CFC
• CFCs can be accessed as web services

• A single entry point is available for custom tags
• Custom tags does not support formalized parameter passing and validation mechanism
• Persistence is not possible for custom tags
• Custom tags are accessible locally and only by ColdFusion
  

Inside the script:
<cfscript>
  MyDump(thevariable);
</cfscript>

Outside the script:
<cffunction name="MyDump">
  <cfargument name="OBJ" required="yes">
  <cfdump var="#OBJ#"><cfabort>
</cffunction>

<cfset variables.myfile = "TA_H264_768kbit_Widescreen.mov" />
<cfset variables.filepath = ExpandPath('video\') & variables.myfile />

<cfswitch expression="#LCase(ListLast(variables.myfile, "."))#">
<cfcase value="avi">
<cfset variables.contentType = "video/x-msvideo" />
</cfcase>
<cfcase value="doc">
<cfset variables.contentType = "application/msword" />
</cfcase>
<cfcase value="exe">
<cfset variables.contentType = "application/octet-stream" />
</cfcase>
<cfcase value="gif">
<cfset variables.contentType = "image/gif" />
</cfcase>
<cfcase value="jpg,jpeg">
<cfset variables.contentType = "image/jpg" />
</cfcase>
<cfcase value="mp3">
<cfset variables.contentType = "audio/mpeg" />
</cfcase>
<cfcase value="mov">
<cfset variables.contentType = "video/quicktime" />
</cfcase>
<cfcase value="mpe,mpg,mpeg">
<cfset variables.contentType = "video/mpeg" />
</cfcase>
<cfcase value="pdf">
<cfset variables.contentType = "application/pdf" />
</cfcase>
<cfcase value="png">
<cfset variables.contentType = "image/png" />
</cfcase>
<cfcase value="ppt">
<cfset variables.contentType = "application/vnd.ms-powerpoint" />
</cfcase>
<cfcase value="wav">
<cfset variables.contentType = "audio/x-wav" />
</cfcase>
<cfcase value="xls">
<cfset variables.contentType = "application/vnd.ms-excel" />
</cfcase>
<cfcase value="zip">
<cfset variables.contentType = "application/zip" />
</cfcase>
<cfdefaultcase>
<cfset variables.contentType = "application/unknown" />
</cfdefaultcase>
</cfswitch>

<cfheader name="Content-disposition" value="attachment;filename=#variables.myfile#" />
<cfcontent type="#variables.contentType#" file="#variables.filepath#" />