macromedia® Coldfusion® MX 7 Web Application Construction Kit

Chapter 22. Building User-Defined Functions

IN THIS CHAPTER

Thinking About Extending CFML 655

Functions Turn Input into Output 656

Building Your First UDF 656

Creating Libraries of Related UDFs 665

Creating General-Purpose UDFs 670

Sharing UDF Libraries with Others 675

This chapter will introduce you the brave new world of user-defined functions (UDFs), a feature that has received a complete overhaul in ColdFusion MX. You can now create your own functions to do just about anything you can think of. User-defined functions are easy to write and even easier to use. You use them just like ColdFusion's built-in functions.

Thinking About Extending CFML

Throughout this book, you have been learning how to use CFML's built-in tags and functions to produce dynamic ...