Introducing CF Template

CF Template is a simple open source generator that makes it extremely easy for ColdFusion developers to leverage the power of the ColdFusion language to generate scripts in any language. Use it to create your ColdFusion scripts, XML files, PHP, Ant build files or your end user documentation! With CF Template you only need to remember two things: put “##” around generation time variables and put < < > > around generation time commands. Use those two rules and you get the entire power of the ColdFusion language for generating your templates. No new language or syntax to struggle with, and you have all of the familiar ColdFusion functions, the ability to use UDF’s and you can even make method calls – all in any combination of classic or cfscript formats!

Feel free to download the file (coming soon! ). I’ll be posting proper documentation, conceptual samples and some useful tools over the next few weeks. I’ll also provide additional tools we use. Soon I’ll post a generic iterator for easily generating collections of files. Shortly thereafter I’ll post “include” capabilities for generating complex classes where it is easier to generate the methods using separate templates and metadata and then to use directory structure conventions to include them at generation time into the class file

Everything is up and working in-house (we use them in our in-house application generator), but the scripts need a little refactoring before they’re ready to be shown in public. Right now most of the code smells like two week old fish!