<form> with CF expression

vovasvv wrote:
> The question arises, because I've read some "best practice" with some
> optimization ideas: don't use CFForm or don't use CFSET or CFOUTPUT.
> Thanks for your answers!!!
>

Firstly, if you don't use CFOUTPUT nothing is output and that is
probably not desirable. I suspect that the optimization idea was not to
*overuse* CFOUTPUT. I.E. don't do something like this:

<cfoutput>
<!--- 13000 lines of code ---->
</cfoutput>

But rather only put the <cfoutput> tags around content that is meant, ya
know, to be output.

Secondly, that advice sound very out of date and may be from the pre-MX
days of ColdFusion 4.x and 5. Since ColdFusion was ported to a Java
base in version 6.0, the <cfset...> advice is generally not true any
more as it usually generates the same Java byte code now.

"Best Practices" are a matter of opinion. My way is not necessarily the best, but the way I code is:

1. I use cfform/cfinput/cfselect with no reservations.
2. If I am going to set more than one variable, I use cfscript. If just one, I use cfset. The issue is code readablility and the amount of typing.
3. I use cfoutput when necessary.

It might be relevent to know that I code intranet applications and as such, don't have to worry about users disabling javascript of turning off cookies.