Re: CFMODULE vs CFINCLUDE

[Lee Borkman]

Okay, Mike, this is right at the heart of Fusebox... A Fusebox application has any number of "public" functions.  These are the kinds of things that people want to do with the application: display a form, show a report, edit some data, read an article.  We call these "Fuseactions", and when you call a Fusebox app, you ask for a specific Fuseaction, ie you tell it what you want it to do. Now, in order to perform the functions that users want it to perform, the Fusebox application probably needs to perform some smaller tasks that mean nothing to the user.  These "private" tasks (hidden from the user), are called "Fuses".  For example, to Show_A_Report, the application may first need to get some data from a database, then perform some calculations on that data, then display that data in a nicely formatted table.  Each of these three small (ie "low-level" tasks) would probably become a Fuse.  The piece of code that implements the Show_A_Report Fuseaction would use <cfinclude> to call each of these Fuses in turn, in order to perform the high-level task that the user has requested. Is that helping any? Have fun, LeeBB ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike   I am still a little confused as to what is a higher level and low-level function.   BTW your Portal is a great learning tool! ----- Original Message ----- From: Lee Borkman   Hi Mike,   Generally in Fusebox, we have a distinction between low-level, private, atomic functions (called Fuses) and higher-level, public functions (called FuseActions).    We use <cfinclude> to call the low-level Fuses, and <cfmodule> to call entire high-level FuseActions.   (There is also a new, quasi-proprietary, extension to the FB3 framework, called FuseQ, that's getting a fair bit of discussion at the moment.  It provides an alternative method for invoking entire FuseActions.  Watch this space to see if it becomes standardised.)   Does that make sense?   Thanks, LeeBB ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike   Hello All,   I was looking at some example fusebox apps and was looking at Lee's Portal example.  Can someone let me know why Lee uses CFMODULE to include the template instead of CFINCLUDE.  I noticed this in out_portal.cfm is there a benefit to using one over the other?   Thank you   Mike ==^================================================================ ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?bUrFMa.bV0Kx9 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================