Question

I’m a bit new to ColdFusion (coming from Java/OOP world)

I have a custom tag that runs some things inside a cfscript and outputs a value. I’d like to have this custom tag (let’s call it A) call another custom tag (let’s call it B, a more general custom tag that has a sort of ‘static’ function) with a certain parameter.

How do I call B from within A?
How do I use the return value from B in A?

A’s code

<cfscript>
     //Call to other custom tag here?:
     //foo = [CUSTOMTAG param="stuff"];
     value = foo;
</cfscript>
<cfoutput>#value#</cfoutput>

Answer 1

Here’s what I ended up doing. In my “A” file (recall, A calls B):

<cfscript>
b = createObject("component","bName");
returnVal = b.method("paramInfo");
</cfscript>

In my “B” file

<cfcomponent displayname="bName">
<cffunction name="method" returntype="string" output="false">
<cfargument name="paramName" required="yes" type="string">
<cfscript>
 returnVal = paramName;
</cfscript>
<cfreturn returnVal>
</cffunction>
</cfcomponent>