What are .cfc files ??? 1

[josel]

Howdy y'all!

Messing around with kalendar and for the first time, I come across (never noticed these before) CFML documents with the extension .cfc.

What are these documents for?

Thanks!

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[Sarky78]

CFC or ColdFusion Components were something that was introduced in CF MX. They are basically a file that allows you to create related functions/web services etc. all within one file, a cfc can be invoked using other tags such as cfinvoke or using the old favourite createobject

  <cfcomponent>
    <cffunction name="getData" access="public" returntype="query">
      <cfquery datasource="your_datasource" name="something">
        select a, b 
      </cfquery>

      <cfreturn something>

    </cffunction>
  </cfcomponent>

you can also call other cfc functions from other method if you so wish, by using <cfinvoke method="method_name" returnvariable="return_variable" />

With cfc's comes the possibility of using oo programming as well which is always a good thing

Hope this helps!

Tony