CFDocs is a community maintained CFML reference tool available at cfdocs.org. It features:
All of the tag and function documentation are defined in JSON files under data/en/functionname.json function example tag example.
This makes the documentation super easy to edit and allows developers to run a local version of the site "out of the box" since no database setup is required.
The cfdocs.org site can run locally very easily thanks to CommandBox.
.env.example
and name it .env
. This contains required environment variables. learn morebox server start
from Command Prompt or Terminal in the root directory.CommandBox will start an embedded CFML server on port 8411, and you can browse to http://localhost:8411/ to view the docs.
If you don't want to go the CommandBox route you can simply download it and unzip it to a web root and try it out (requires CF10+ or Lucee 4.5+), but you will probably spend more time trying to get it working than the 1-2 minutes it will take to download and learn how to use CommandBox.
If you are interested in contributing going I suggest you fork it, see Adam Tuttle's guide: GitHub tip for your first pull request
If you are interested in helping you can just copy a tag or function and write up some documentation. The documentation doesn't need to be super wordy and should not be a copy of Adobe's documentation word for word.
CFDocs.org is meant to be a quick reference so keep it short and sweet. E.g. attribute names / function arguments and one two sentence descriptions.
We need help expanding existing tag and function documentation. Look through the reference pages till you find one needing more definitions or examples. Also see:
{
"name":"nameOfTagOrFunction",
"type":"function|tag",
"syntax":"Tag(arg)|<cftag attr=1>",
"member":"item.memberFunction([args])",
"script":"cftag(attr=1);",
"returns":"void",
"related":[
"tag",
"function"
],
"description":"A short description that describes what the tag or function does.",
"discouraged":"Only add this key if this tag/function is discouraged by the community. Displays a warning.",
"params":[
{"name":"funcArgNameOrTagAttributeName", "description":"What it does", "required":true, "default":"false", "type":"boolean", "values":[]}
],
"engines":{
"coldfusion":{"minimum_version":"10", "notes":"CF Specific Info Here", "docs":"http://learn.adobe.com/wiki/display/coldfusionen/function"},
"lucee":{"minimum_version":"4.5", "notes":"Lucee Specific Info Here", "docs":"https://docs.lucee.org/reference/functions/name.html"},
"railo":{"minimum_version":"4.1", "notes":"Railo Specific Here", "docs":"http://railodocs.org/index.cfm/function/sessionrotate"}
},
"links":[
{
"title":"Title of a blog entry that has good info about this.",
"description":"Description of the link",
"url":"http://www.example.com/a/b.cfm"
}
],
"examples":[
{
"title":"Name of the code example",
"description":"Description of the code example",
"code":"<cf_examplecodehere>",
"result":"The expected output of the code example",
"runnable":true
}
]
}
The name of the tag or function, use lowercase.
Either function
or tag
or listing
a listing is how categories are made, they simply contain a name
, description
, and a list of related
items.
The basic syntax of the tag or function
For tags, shows how the tag would be invoked from cfscript.
For functions, shows the available member function syntax.
The returntype of a function. Valid options are: any
, array
, binary
, boolean
, date
, function
, guid
, numeric
, query
, string
, uuid
, variableName
, void
, xml
. Default value is void
.
An array of tag or function names that are related to this item.
A short description of the item.
If this key exists and has content a warning is displayed stating that the tag or function is discouraged by the CFML community.
Array of structures containing information about the attributes of a tag, or arguments of a function.
CFML engine implementation specific info goes here, for example if it was added in CF10 and Railo 4.1 you can add that in minimum_version
if something was changed in CF11, you can add notes about what changed. The docs
key should point to a url for vendor documentation.
Use this to link to blog entries or other useful related content.
Show example code. It is very helpful to readers to use the result
to show the expected result of the code sample when applicable. This has to be JSON, so you can to do \n
for newline, double quotes must be escaped \"
. The runnable
is a boolean that determines if the Run Code button shows up next to the example.
We have an example JSON utility that can be used to create the JSON by filling out a form.
Please see the cfdocs contributor guide for frequently asked questions.
There are several CFML code editors that utilize the cfdocs repository to provide documentation within the editor.
Install the CFML Package for Sublime Text 3: https://packagecontrol.io/packages/CFML the plugin will provide inline documentation when hovering the mouse over a tag or function, or when or typing code.
Install the CFML Plugin from KamasamaK: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=KamasamaK.vscode-cfml
Requires the vim-shell plugin:
function! CFDocsSearch()
let wordUnderCursor = expand("<cword>")
execute 'Open https://cfdocs.org/' . wordUnderCursor
endfunction
command! -nargs=0 CFdocs :call CFDocsSearch()
Hit F1
when the cursor is on a tag or function to be taken to the cfdocs.org doc.