Comments on: ColdFusion Function: Display a US States pulldown menu http://www.webveteran.com/blog/index.php/web-coding/coldfusion/coldfusion-function-display-a-us-states-pulldown-menu/ Programming: coldfusion, php, javascript, sql, css, scriptaculous, seo Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:15:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dan Vega http://www.webveteran.com/blog/index.php/web-coding/coldfusion/coldfusion-function-display-a-us-states-pulldown-menu/comment-page-1/#comment-56 Dan Vega Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.webveteran.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/9/29/ColdFusion-Function-Display-a-US-States-pulldown-menu#comment-56 I am not a huge fan of using functions for presentation. I think wherever you can get away from it you should. I think a simple solution would be to just return the html needed. Another practice to get away from is trying to stuff a bunch of helper functions into a Util component. Try and abstract related functions into objects. You can see here that there would be some related form methods here. I also think you should get away from loading this "Util" component into session scope. Unless you need to store data that is related to the session this component would be a singleton and there for created only 1x. Just my 2 cents I am not a huge fan of using functions for presentation. I think wherever you can get away from it you should. I think a simple solution would be to just return the html needed. Another practice to get away from is trying to stuff a bunch of helper functions into a Util component. Try and abstract related functions into objects. You can see here that there would be some related form methods here. I also think you should get away from loading this "Util" component into session scope. Unless you need to store data that is related to the session this component would be a singleton and there for created only 1x.

Just my 2 cents

]]> By: Jules http://www.webveteran.com/blog/index.php/web-coding/coldfusion/coldfusion-function-display-a-us-states-pulldown-menu/comment-page-1/#comment-57 Jules Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.webveteran.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/9/29/ColdFusion-Function-Display-a-US-States-pulldown-menu#comment-57 Hi Dan, this was used for an admin - updating company and user records and such. Lots of use. But I understand your recommendation. Thanks for the post! Hi Dan, this was used for an admin – updating company and user records and such. Lots of use. But I understand your recommendation. Thanks for the post!

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