Reserved words

The following list indicates words you must not use for ColdFusion variables, user-defined function names, or custom tag names. While some of these words can be used safely in some situations, you can prevent errors by avoiding them entirely.

Remember that ColdFusion is not case-sensitive. For example, all of the following are reserved words: IS, Is, iS, and is.

Comments are no longer accepted for ColdFusion MX 6.1. ColdFusion 8 is the current version.

Comments

mmyszewski@comcast.net said on Mar 9, 2004 at 7:45 AM :

There should be a link on this help page to a list of all the identifiers that a coder should not use, in a form that can be printed out and tacked on the wall for easy reference.

No screen name said on Mar 16, 2004 at 6:13 PM :

There should be a search either, which is too obviously required. Look over the Jave online API library, that is the BEST!

ggeinec said on Mar 19, 2004 at 6:15 AM :

I agree with mmyszewski above. I have spent 45 minutes trying to find a list of reserved words in CFMX 6.1 so I can address issues found by the Code Analyzer. When the Code Analyzer brings up this issue it should include a link to a list of all the CFML and SQL reserved words.

jrunrandy said on Mar 19, 2004 at 6:32 AM :

Thanks for the feedback. For what it's worth, the next few pages, which you can display by clicking the right arrow, have more detail on reserved words.

cmallaha said on Apr 8, 2004 at 2:02 PM :

It was worth it for me.

No screen name said on Dec 7, 2004 at 3:27 PM :

How about words like FileName which uses the word file appended to another word? Are veriable type names protected like: text?

jrunrandy said on Dec 8, 2004 at 4:58 AM :

Filename is fine.

maizie said on Dec 10, 2004 at 2:15 PM :

How about the word level? I'm having trouble with a sort on a field called level and wondering if that's why my sort won't work.
The table name is level, but with quotes.

No screen name said on Feb 24, 2005 at 6:40 AM :

Two Comments:
1) On the login page after I clicked "add comment" I get a javascript error. Macromedia may want to fix that. I have my IE 6 settings to display all javascript errors.
2) If the Webserver uses isAuthorized (iplanet 4.1/ ACL authentication) and you install MX, MX will not allow you to view pages. I suppose MX sees the isauthorized from Iplanet and throws an error. Could isAuthorized be considered a reserved word?

jrunrandy said on Feb 26, 2005 at 6:09 AM :

I don't know if I'd call it a reserved word, but it's definitely something we should document. I've entered doc bug 59876

No screen name said on Jun 2, 2005 at 7:30 AM :

I can't seem to find the list of operators anywhere... they are kinda important wouldn't you think?

jrunrandy said on Jun 28, 2005 at 12:24 PM :

Here you go: http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/expresa3.htm

Click the links of the right arrow to see them all.

I'm sorry it took so long for us to reply. In general, you will get a better and quicker answer by posting questions like this to the online forums: http://webforums.macromedia.com/.


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