Coldfusion 8 has a few shortcuts when writing code, these may have appeared in ColdFusion 7, but I’ve jumped from 6.1 to 8 so you’ll have to excuse me if everyone knows this already. Think I’ll stick with long hand for backwards compatibility and for ease of reading for other developers but worth noting.
StructNew()
Before:
<cfset myStruct = StructNew() /> <cfset myStruct.foo1 = "A" /> <cfset myStruct.foo2 = "B" /> <cfset myStruct.foo3 = "C" />
CF8:
<cfset foo = {foo1='A', foo2='B', foo3='C'} />
ArrayNew()
Before:
<cfset foo = ArrayNew(1) /> <cfset ArrayAppend(myArray, "A") /> <cfset ArrayAppend(myArray, "B") /> <cfset ArrayAppend(myArray, "C") />
CF8:
<cfset foo = ['A','B','C'] />
Operators
Not
Before:
<cfif Not StructKeyExists(attributes, "myvar")>
CF8:
<cfif ! StructKeyExists(attributes, "myvar")>
IncrementValue
Before:
<cfset foo = foo+1 />
CF8:
<cfset foo++ />
Before:
<cfset foo = foo-1 />
CF8:
<cfset foo-- />
Mod
Before:
<cfif currentrow mod 2>class="alt"</cfif>
CF8:
<cfif currentrow % 2>class="alt"</cfif>
And
Before:
<cfif foo eq 1 And foobar eq 3>Hello World</cfif>
CF8:
<cfif foo eq 1 && foobar eq 3>Hello World</cfif>
OR
Before:
<cfif foo eq 1 OR foobar eq 3>Hello World</cfif>
CF8:
<cfif foo eq 1 || foobar eq 3>Hello World</cfif>
Concatenation
Before:
<cfset foo = "hello" /> <cfset foo = foo & " world" />
CF8:
<cfset foo = "hello" /> <cfset foo &= " world" />
