Adobe ColdFusion 8

cfobject: component object

Description

Creates an instance of a ColdFusion component (CFC) object.

Syntax

<cfobject 
    component = "component name"
    name = "instance name"
    type = "component">

Note: You can specify this tag's attributes in an attributeCollection attribute whose value is a structure. Specify the structure name in the attributeCollection attribute and use the tag's attribute names as structure keys.

See also

cfcollection, cfcomponent, cfexecute, cfindex, IsInstanceOf, cfreport, cfsearch, cfwddx; "Using ColdFusion components" in the ColdFusion Developer's Guide

Attributes

Attribute

Req/Opt

Default

Description

component

Required

 

Name of component to instantiate.

name

Required

 

String; name for the instantiated component. The name must not have a period as the first or last character.

type

Optional

component

The object type. You can omit this attribute or specify component. ColdFusion automatically sets the type to component.

Usage

When the cfobject tag creates an instance of the CFC, ColdFusion executes any constructor code in the CFC; that is, it runs code that is not in the method definitions.

On UNIX systems, ColdFusion searches first for a file with a name that matches the specified component name, but is all lowercase. If it does not find the file, it looks for a filename that matches the component name exactly, with the identical character casing.

Example

<!--- Separate instantiation and method invocation; --->
<!--- permits multiple invocations. --->
<cfobject 
    name="quoteService" 
    component="nasdaq.quote">
<cfinvoke 
    component="#quoteService#" 
    method="getLastTradePrice" 
    symbol="macr" 
    returnVariable="res">
<cfoutput>#res#</cfoutput><br>

<cfinvoke 
    component="#quoteService#" 
    method="getLastTradePrice" 
    symbol="mot" 
    returnVariable="res">
<cfoutput>#res#</cfoutput>