Fusebox: Developing ColdFusion® Applications

Section 3: The FB_ Structure

This is the code that appears in section 3 of the core:

FB_=structNew(); 

This section certainly is short. Is it even worthy of an entire section to itself? Yes, it probably is because of the importance of this one line of code.

The FB_ structure created here is for use by the core file only—it is considered a “private” structure. The core file creates variables while it processes all the rest of the included files, and this structure is where all those variables are grouped together.

It is important that you never try to use this structure in your own code without a complete understanding of it. Also, do not try to create your own structure with the same name. The FB_ structure should be considered a reserved word ...