As promised readers, I am going to take my own learning experience and use it to explain ColdFusion TAGS and how one might make use of them. Of course you can get a really in depth view using the livedocs provided by Adobe. But I thought that perhaps sharing my experience outloud would actually benefit me as well as be helpful to others that are learning this excellent development language.

<CFABORT>

Let’s take a closer look at this handy little devil. This tag falls under the category of Flow Control and for good reason because that is exactly what the tag does. It stops the processing (or flow of), a ColdFusion page at the point that you place the tag in your code. The great thing is that it returns everything that was processed preceeding the tag. Therefore this is a handy tool to use to track down errors in your application.

It has a very simple syntax consisting of only one attribute.

So that’s it on this easy to use flow-control tag. Remember livedocs is a great reference tool visit it.

I used to be a good CF programmer. I was certified on all available training levels. Then I decided that a career change was in the best interest of my family so I moved away from coding. Fast forward 2 years and once again I was offered a position with my current firm which has required me to reacquaint myself with  ColdFusion and all of the companion technologies that help to create a pleasing user experience. I must say that it is like starting all over again, (yes I am whining). That said though, I thought that I would use the opportunity to do just that and start all over again. While doing that I realized that there are just as many people as ever out there that are looking for a great way to create dynamic content and know absolutely about ColdFusion. There are many popular choices like Ruby and PHP and of course .NET but for my money and the growing demand on speed to market there is only one clear cut choice and that is ColdFusion.

I am going to explore a new Coldfusion Tag at least once per week so stay tuned all you new CF’ers.