Comments on: Building, Extending and Calling ColdFusion Components

By: ColdFusion error: “Branch target offset too large for short” « Codes.Like.A.Girl

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:46:49 +0000

[...] This is a nice tutorial on CFCs and extending them if you are a bit rusty or if this concept is new. [...]

By: Christopher Vigliotti

Christopher Vigliotti — Mon, 18 May 2009 19:42:21 +0000

I’m not certain, but I don’t think that the above code will work in ColdFusion. If I’m missing something please post a link to a code sample somewhere. Note that I did use the term ” Psuedo-Constructor” in my post.

Also, thanks for your comments!

By: radekg

radekg — Mon, 18 May 2009 19:00:13 +0000

To make it more “constructor like” you should do:

cfcomponent
cfset init()
cffunction name=”init”

Constructor never returns any value.

By: Christopher Vigliotti

Christopher Vigliotti — Mon, 18 May 2009 02:29:06 +0000

Good question! In the above example there is no point…but in situations where you would want to set variables and/or perform some logic when you create a new instance of an object having an init() method can be helpful.

By: radekg

radekg — Sun, 17 May 2009 14:45:41 +0000

What is the point of an init() function if the result is exactly the same as without the init()?