Best Practices?

[mikeap]

I've been an ASP developer for ... swhoo, too long and so I'm used to doing
everything all in one page (the form, validation and then processing).

In CF, what's the best practice. Should I do everything in one page or should
I use individual pages?

[Dan Bracuk]

It doesn't matter. I'm an individual page type of guy myself.

[Andley Jandley]

>>In CF, what's the best practice. Should I do everything in one page or should
I use individual pages?

Depends, very small apps (simple feedback form and the like) just whack it all
one page if you like. But usually it?s best to break stuff up using different
templates (pages) that can potentially be reused. In larger apps it may be
worth using a more Model 2 like approach and have cfc?s handle business logic
and db persistence and your pages handle presentation only ? frameworks like
mach ii can help with this.

I don?t believe there are any real ?Best Practices? as such, just common sense
applied to each situation. I have seen Model 2 applied in situations where it
has caused more harm than good, for example (as in overkill solving nothing,
yet introducing harder to debug and longer to craft code)

[redevolve]

Originally posted by: Andley Jandley

>>In CF, what's the best practice. Should I do everything in one page or

should I use individual pages?

Depends, very small apps (simple feedback form and the like) just whack it all
one page if you like. But usually it?s best to break stuff up using different
templates (pages) that can potentially be reused. In larger apps it may be
worth using a more Model 2 like approach and have cfc?s handle business logic
and db persistence and your pages handle presentation only ? frameworks like
mach ii can help with this.

I don?t believe there are any real ?Best Practices? as such, just common sense
applied to each situation. I have seen Model 2 applied in situations where it
has caused more harm than good, for example (as in overkill solving nothing,
yet introducing harder to debug and longer to craft code)



Yes. For very large applications, I usually seperate them so that each module
can be reuse anywhere else.