[thelist] RE: Cold Fusion question: URL with ?

[Judah McAuley]

At 10:14 AM 4/17/01 -0500, you wrote:

>The evolt site went through a similar URL string change in Feb. and wrote a
>great article on it
>
>evolt 404: The explanation
>http://lists.evolt.org/archive/Week-of-Mon-20010205/149988.html
>
>Thanks,
>Chris

Well, thanks for the praise.  However, what I wrote was predominantly about 
using the Missing Template Handler to run the site off of a single 
template.  It takes for granted that you are using a method like 
formurl2attributes to escape the query string.  The method I described is 
sort of the next insane step beyond that.  Using formurl2attributes (or the 
like) can be done without invoking the Missing Template Handler.

In order to make my post somewhat useful, I will also throw in my 
$.02:  After having worked with formurl2attributes for awhile, I've found 
that I don't especially like the fact that it grabs both URL and Form 
variables and shoves them both in an artificial scope 
(attributes).  Scoping your variables is one of the those things that you 
are supposed to religiously do and this tag makes you lazy from a 
development standpoint.  Instead, I prefer a method of parsing the URL and 
setting variables back to their original scope (url.x).  Form variables can 
be left alone because search engines don't submit forms.

Judah