IN THIS CHAPTER
Simple CFML Custom Tags: Back to Basics 529
Creating an Advanced Custom Tag 552
CFML
custom tags are useful for improving the reusability and maintainability of your code. These tags also give less-experienced developers a way to harness functionality that they are perhaps not yet capable of building themselves. Although simple custom tags can be powerful in their own right, the advanced custom tag architecture offers even more power and flexibility with the implementation of paired tags and nested parent-child tag families.
This chapter first briefly reviews the basics of simple CFML custom tags. Then we'll move on to the main topic: understanding and creating advanced custom tags.