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I’m starting some work on an existing ColdFusion application with no version control and what look like unused cfm files (test.cfm, test2.cfm etc.). I’d like to get a picture of what files are actually part of the application so I can get it into git or subversion in a manageable state.
How would you go about this? A regex and some methods to find and map cfinclude and cfcomponent tags? Is there some existing tool that does this?
Ben Nadel has a method to examine the live stack trace from a running template. It seems to me that you could easily plop this into your application and log the results to a database. Once you’ve done that, you’ve got a good idea of what’s in use and what’s not.
I think the easiest way, however, is to enable debugging (standard caveat here about development server, etc). The standard ColdFusion debugger will give you a complete list of every file used during the execution of a single page. ColdFire will do the same thing in a handy Firebug extension (click ColdFusion then click Exec Times).
It should be pointed out that the built-in debugger even shows you the files included from CFC calls, and the files included from within those calls as well. It is all inclusive.
Ben Nadel on Stack Traces
Ray Camden’s ColdFire
Sample of CF Debugging from a live page:
