thecrumb.com

ColdFusion 8 - List of New Functions?

I installed ColdFusion 8 at lunch today and have been trying to get some of my old apps up and running.

One issue I ran into immediately was:

The names of user-defined functions cannot be the same as built-in ColdFusion functions.
The name isInstanceOf is the name of a built-in ColdFusion function

It appears there are some new functions that conflict with existing functions I previously created.

So far I’ve run into:

isInstanceOf
isUserInAnyRole

Commenting out my functions allows things to work.

Has anyone stumbled across a concise list of new functions yet? If so leave a comment!

This entry was written by Jim, posted on May 30, 2007 at 12:29 pm.

Filed under Code, ColdFusion.

Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.

Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

5 Comments

Sam Farmer

Posted May 30, 2007 at 1:13 pm | Permalink

Go to
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/coldfusion8/
click on ‘Product Details’ and download the CFML Reference. Then go to page 877.
Nathan Strutz

Posted May 30, 2007 at 1:39 pm | Permalink

Why not try out getfunctionlist()? It will give you a list of all the functions CF knows about.
Jim

Posted May 30, 2007 at 2:13 pm | Permalink

Great info guys! Thanks! Too bad I have “work” to do so I can’t play!
Jared Rypka-Hauer

Posted May 30, 2007 at 3:59 pm | Permalink

I was gonna say what Nathan said…

You could also try cfdumping getPageContext().getPage() and you’ll see most functions available in all their Java glory.
Jim

Posted May 30, 2007 at 10:46 pm | Permalink

In this instance - Sam’s low-tech “RTFM” turned out to be the easiest. There is a nice chart of available functions and what CF release they were introduced.