Sys_Con ColdFusion Edge 2001
A Fast Track for ColdFusion Certification
International Web Services Conference & Expo East
September 23-26 in New York City

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Table of Contents

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Tips and Tricks to be Covered

Custom Tags: What they are, how they work

Why are they useful?

How are they different from subroutines and functions?

Similarity: Isolation of Variables

Likewise: Caller is also Blind

Passing Data To a Custom Tag

What Can Be Passed?

Passing a Variable to a Custom Tag

Passing a Structure

What Need NOT Be Passed?

Overriding the Isolation of Scope

Using “Caller.” to Return Data

Creating Return Codes

Passing Returncode Name on Call

Comparing Custom Tags to using CFInclude

CFINCLUDE vs. Custom Tags

Paired (Start and End) Tags

Passing Data Between Paired Tags

Double Execution of Paired Tags

Thistag.executionmode

Thistag.generatedcontent

Preventing display of the text between paired tags

Altering the text between tags

Formatting such text for display

My Textareaformat custom tag

Thistag.hasendtag

Summary

Resources

Questions and Answers

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