Building Pages with a Page Object
- May 20, 2009 11:34 PM
- ColdFusion, Experiments, Frameworks
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I was reading through PHP and MySQL Web Development at the local bookstore the other night when I noticed that their example code for explaining object oriented concepts was a Page class that basically built a page based on its properties. While the concept of directly building the return code string by string is a little foreign to ColdFusion, I was very interested in the idea of an extensible Page object that could help me manage my applications. Read more to see what I came up with.
Like every other developer out there, I often find myself repeating the same kind of functionality over and over again, and like every other programmer (or at least a lot of you), I apply the DRY principal and abstract it away into a function for reuse. Recently though, I've noticed that its not just specific bits of code that I'm reusing, but patterns for performing actions, and I've wanted to start looking for better solutions.
I first got this error a few weeks back, and when it showed up again this week, I thought I should look into it and see how this could be happening, and I thought that I'd post the results here so that it might aid the next person trying to stitch together the details.
Yesterday I ran into an interesting issue with one of my applications that lead to an even more interesting discovery about how CF8 executes the {} notation for creating structures.