User Guide

304 Chapter 2: ColdFusion Tags

cfscript

Description

Encloses a code block that contains cfscript statements.

See also

cfinvoke, cfmodule, CreateObject,

Chapter 6, “Extending ColdFusion Pages with CFML

Scripting,” in Developing ColdFusion MX Applications

History

ColdFusion MX:

• Changed how to invoke component methods: this tag can now invoke component methods,

using the

createObject function

• Changed use of reserved words: you cannot use ColdFusion reserved words within this tag

• Added the try and catch statements.

Usage

Performs processing in CFScript. This tag uses ColdFusion functions, expressions, and operators.

You can read and write ColdFusion variables within this tag.

For a detailed description of the CFScript scripting language, including documentation of

CFScript statements and the CFScript equivalents of CFML tags, see Chapter 6, “Extending

ColdFusion Pages with CFML Scripting,” in Developing ColdFusion MX Applications

You can use this tag to enclose a series of assignment statements that would otherwise require

cfset statements.

Caution: If you code a cftry/cfcatch block within this tag using an exception’s Java class name, you

must provide the fully-qualified class name.

You cannot use some ColdFusion reserved words in this tag. You cannot put a user-defined

function whose name begins with any of these strings within this tag:

• cf

• cf_

• _cf

• coldfusion

• coldfusion_

• _coldfusion